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No queues, no waiting, no staff. In Lisbon, this parapharmacy only contains the products for sale inside. There is no one to serve customers at this innovative pharma sector vendor, designed to allow pharmacists to focus on specialist duties, located in the Parque das Nações area. “More and more, we are investing in solutions that allow us to keep pharmacists and the professionals we have focused on the clinical side, and to reduce the time they spend on purely commercial tasks,” explained pharmacist Catarina Dias, who runs Pharma&Go. “It is a parapharmacy, and what we have tried to bring here…

At least 88 people died during the recent mass influx of migrants into Spain’s Ceuta enclave from Morocco, Spanish officials said on Monday, though Moroccan officials later presented a lower estimate. Most of the estimated 60,000 people who rushed into Spain’s north African territory, most by swimming, have returned to Morocco since the territory’s largest mass migrant crossing. “The latest figure that we have is 72,” the government’s delegate to Ceuta, Miguel Angel Perez Triano, told reporters, when asked about the number of fatalities. The previous toll was 67 deaths. Later on Sunday, Morocco’s interior ministry issued its own toll,…

Published on 03/08/2026 – 22:26 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump on Monday warned Iran had a “last chance” to sign a peace deal before “decapitation.” Speaking from the White House, Trump said Washington and Tehran had begun fresh negotiations despite Iran’s Foreign Ministry having earlier denied talks were taking place. “We’re talking. And we’re talking at the request of Iran, backed by Saudi Arabia, backed by UAE and backed by Qatar in particular,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “This is a last chance for them to sign a good document,” he added. Pressed for further details, the president…

With its blend of major museums, history-filled streets, renowned gastronomy and a vibrant cultural life, Madrid is becoming ever more attractive to travellers from around the world. The Spanish capital closed the first half of 2026 with record figures: international tourism generated €10.007 billion in spending, 11.4% more than in the same period a year earlier. For the City Council, these figures underline Madrid’s ability to attract visitors, talent and investment. The head of tourism, Almudena Maíllo, has pointed out that the sector’s growth has an impact that goes beyond the economic data, breathing new life into neighbourhoods, creating jobs…

AI chatbots risk spreading government restrictions on online speech, study says Ask Claude to make a pamphlet critical of US President Donald Trump or Britain’s King Charles III, and Anthropic’s chatbot will oblige. Prompt it to do the same for Thailand’s king or Iran’s supreme leader, and the AI model declines. That is a key finding from a Meta Oversight Board study released Thursday, showing that major AI systems — including those built in the US — are more likely to refuse to criticise restrictive leaders or governments. It raises concerns that the large language models powering chatbots and AI…

The groundwork for Tuesday’s meeting was set on Monday when EU ambassadors held talks that lasted around two and a half hours. The Spanish envoy gave Madrid’s account of the Ceuta crisis, during which more than 70 people died, and reprimanded some capitals for spreading disinformation, according to one of the diplomats. The ambassador was asked for verification of Madrid’s figures on returned migrants and for the situation to be closely monitored, two other diplomats said. Concerns were also raised that Spanish government policies may have been used by people-smugglers and gangs to encourage the events in Ceuta. “There’s a…

Five water-dropping planes and another five helicopters took off at first light on Monday to help hundreds of firefighters battling a major wildfire west of Athens, a day after a mid-air collision between two firefighting helicopters killed two crew members. The collision laid bare the danger at the most volatile front of Europe’s wildfire emergency. The two crew members, one Greek and one Danish national, died when their helicopter collided with another near the seaside area of Psatha while tackling the fire that started Friday morning. The blaze raged through pine forests and scrubland through the weekend, whipped by gale…

Published on 03/08/2026 – 9:38 GMT+2•Updated 12:46 Cuba’s power grid failed on Sunday, causing another nationwide blackout, a state energy company said in a social media post. As the lights suddenly turned off across the capital Havana, residents who were sat outside to get some respite from the summer heat audibly groaned en masse. Cuba has been suffering rolling power cuts due to ageing equipment and a US energy embargo that halted regular deliveries of fuel for power stations. State-run UNE said there was a “total disconnection” of the national electricity system, plunging the country, including the capital, into abrupt…

Conversations with artificial intelligence systems can become more than simple exchanges of messages. A study carried out by researchers at the INGENIO Institute, a joint centre of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) and the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV), together with the University of Cambridge, King’s College London and Aalto University, concludes that some people develop emotional relationships with these systems that evolve in ways similar to those between real-life human couples. The research is based on interviews with 17 people who were in romantic relationships with AI assistants such as ChatGPT, Replika and Character.AI. According to the authors,…

Authorities in Ceuta are struggling to cope with thousands of people that remain in the autonomous city following the mass arrival of migrants last week. Security forces estimate that around 73,500 people have already left the North African exclave and returned to Morocco, while local authorities say up to 5,000 remain in the Spanish territory, including 862 minors. The crisis has so far resulted in at least 88 confirmed deaths, according to Ceuta’s authorities, in addition to bodies recovered by Moroccan authorities in Moroccan waters. Juan Vivas, the president of Ceuta, estimates that between 3,000 and 5,000 migrants remain in…