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A woman said to be the daughter of a French cryptocurrency boss narrowly avoided being kidnapped in Paris on Tuesday morning. According to Le Parisien newspaper, the woman, who was out walking with her partner and their young child, was attacked at just after 8am on a street in Paris’ 11th arrondissement.The French media said her partner managed to fend off the masked assailants who were trying to force the woman into a white van.A video of the attack, which was shared online, also showed passers-by helping the couple. One of them picked up a gun belonging to an assailant…
Gill said this is already showing in some “current conflicts.” Russia’s war in Ukraine has seen a massive uptake of drone attacks and Israel has been criticized for the way it has used artificial intelligence technologies to select targets for bombing in its offensive in Gaza. The United Nations is pushing for a global agreement on the regulation of autonomous weapons by next year. U.N. Secretary General António Guterres said Monday that “human control over the use of force is essential.” “We cannot delegate life-or-death decisions to machines,” Guterres said.
Head of the Crown Prosecution Service Special Crime and Counter Terrorism Division Frank Ferguson said: “Following a review of the evidence provided by the Metropolitan Police Service, we have authorised two counts of sexual assault against Patrick Spencer MP.” He added: “The Crown Prosecution Service reminds all concerned that criminal proceedings against this defendant are now active and that he has the right to a fair trial. “It is extremely important that there should be no reporting, commentary or sharing of information online which could in any way prejudice these proceedings.” The Groucho Club, a longstanding hotspot for celebrities in…
US President Donald Trump started a tour of major Gulf nations on Tuesday with a visit to Saudi Arabia, where he is seeking to secure hundreds of billions of dollars in investments from one of Washington’s most important partners in the Middle East. Trump was welcomed at the airport in the Saudi capital Riyadh by the country’s de facto ruler Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who is otherwise known as MBS. A bilateral meeting between the leaders was followed by a lunch at Riyadh’s royal court, which was attended by several high-profile US business executives, including BlackRock CEO Larry Fink…
Shares in Sixt had dropped by almost 4% on Tuesday as of around midday, after the mobility firm shared a mixed earnings report.The company posted a revenue of €858.1 million in the first quarter of 2025, an annual increase of 10%.Revenue in the German division remained stable over the year, coming in at €243.3m, while revenue growth in Europe as a whole was more promising. It rose 13.8% year-on-year to €296.5m.Despite softer losses, Sixt remains unprofitable, with earnings before taxes coming to -€17.6m, after a total of -€27.5m seen in the same period a year earlier.Consolidated net income after taxes…
Shell has been threatened with another round of legal action in the Netherlands for continuing to develop oil and gas projects around the world.In a letter sent to Shell today, NGO Milieudefensie accuses the company of breaching its legal duty of care under Dutch law by not dramatically reducing its investments in fossil fuels and not putting in place what it considers an adequate climate strategy for the coming decades. It plans to take Shell to court if these issues are not addressed.“We as a society can no longer accept that a company like Shell determines our future without us having…
The UK retailer Marks & Spencer confirmed on Tuesday that hackers stole its customers’ personal information during a cyberattack last month.The company said in a brief statement issued through the London Stock Exchange that an unspecified amount of customer information was taken in the data breach. Here is what we know and don’t know about the hacking, and how consumers who have been affected can protect their data. What was taken?The company said that names, addresses, phone numbers, and partial card information could have been accessed as part of the breach.It is unclear how many customers might have been affected, but the…
“If we look at the priorities” of the Commission, “there is so much,” she said. The Commission is working on a wide range of initiatives from making Europe an AI Continent and the best place to grow startups, to backing quantum computing, biotech and connectivity. Maydell said the EU should “identify the few big ideas that can propel our economic and industrial base,” suggesting a focus on two or three initiatives since “less is more.” “We have limited resources. There are various priorities. For us in this room, tech is the priority. In another room down the road, defense is…
Japan carmaker Nissan announced a recovery plan to create a “more resilient business that adapts quickly to market changes”, after the company reported a net loss of ¥671 billion (€4bn) for the fiscal year that just ended in March. This compares to the previous fiscal year’s net profit, which amounted to €2.6bn.The loss was mainly driven by slipping vehicle sales in China and other nations, and towering restructuring costs. Nissan Motor Corp. said it will reduce the number of its auto plants to 10 from 17, under the recovery plan. It did not say which plants were being closed but…
When asked whether the Commission was open to changing the AI Act, Gross said: “Our first focus, of course, will be to simplify the implementation to see what we need to do in order to make it easier for companies” and “nevertheless effective.” “For the time being, I can say we don’t really envisage to reopen for instance fundamentally the AI Act,” he said, but that “if anything happened, it would certainly be targeted.” He also confirmed a new code of practice for industry — a voluntary set of rules designed to provide guardrails for the riskiest AI models —…