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From carbonara to tiramisù, many beloved Italian classics are relatively recent creations, not much older than the culinary “blasphemies” from across the pond, like chicken parmesan or Hawaiian pizza. Even more surprising is the extent of U.S. influence on contemporary Italian food itself. Pizza, for instance, only earned its red stripes when American pizza-makers began adding tomato sauce to the dough, in turn influencing pizzaioli back in Italy. And yet, some Italian politicians, like Minister of Agriculture Francesco Lollobrigida, have called for investigations into brands promoting supposedly misleadingly “Italian sounding” products, such as carbonara sauces using “inauthentic” ingredients like pancetta.…

Published on 06/01/2026 – 0:35 GMT+1 The evolution of artificial intelligence (AI) and its propelling advancements in robotics and autonomous driving are two of the key themes of the CES 2026 technology conference in Las Vegas this week. On Monday, chip giant Nvidia unveiled its autonomous driving plans, while Hyundai-owned Boston Dynamics publicly demonstrated its humanoid robot Atlas for the first time, marking it as no longer a prototype. Here are some of the key advancements unveiled by the companies. Hyundai said Atlas reduces repetitive human physical tasks such as carrying objects, which reduces human physical burden by performing higher-risk…

“In the greed for energy, the earth is being depleted, sucked dry, burned, ravaged, burned down, raped, destroyed,” the group, which is listed by Berlin’s intelligence services as a left-wing extremist organization, said in the letter. “The aim of the action is to cause significant damage to the gas industry and the greed for energy,” its authors wrote. The group has used similar means to communicate in the past, and Berlin police believed the letter to be genuine. With temperatures below freezing in the German capital, schools and kindergartens in the southern districts affected by the power outage remained closed…

“Based on their response we will undertake a swift assessment to determine whether there are potential compliance issues that warrant investigation,” the spokesperson said. X’s safety team said in a statement published over the weekend that the platform “take[s] action against illegal content on X, including Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), by removing it, permanently suspending accounts, and working with local governments and law enforcement as necessary. “Anyone using or prompting Grok to make illegal content will suffer the same consequences as if they upload illegal content.”

Under the EU’s voting rules, a so-called qualified majority — of 15 out of the bloc’s 27 member countries representing 65 percent of its population — would be needed to back the deal that has been in the works for a quarter century. Italy, with its large population, effectively holds the casting vote. If the Commission can offer reassurances on some money for farmers under the EU’s next seven-year budget, which runs from 2028 to 2034, that would help soften the impact of a proposed one-fifth reduction in the Common Agricultural Policy, under which the bloc distributes subsidies to farmers. The new…

Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen appeared to take Trump’s threats at face value, warning that such an attack would spell the end of NATO. “The American president should be taken seriously when he says he wants Greenland,” she said on Monday. “If the U.S. chooses to attack another NATO country militarily, then everything stops … including the security that has been established since the end of the second world war.”  Pressed repeatedly on what specific steps the EU could take to ward off Trump, the Commission demurred, saying only that it will “not stop defending” the principles of national sovereignty…

The head of Ukraine’s security service SBU Vasyl Maliuk resigned on Monday amid a major reshuffle of the government and the president’s office. Known as a mastermind of some of the most successful Ukrainian security operations, Maliuk will remain at the SBU and will focus on “asymmetric operations against Russia,” according to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Zelenskyy said he tasked Maliuk with making these operations “the strongest in the world”. “The necessary resources and political support are in place,” Zelenskyy stated amid a series of dismissals and appointments, reshuffling the deck in Kyiv. Maliuk was behind the country’s unprecedented Operation…

Trump has long pushed for the mineral-rich island, which is largely autonomous but part of Denmark and therefore belongs to the NATO military alliance, to join the U.S., calling it a strategic necessity and refusing to rule out using force or economic coercion.   “We need Greenland from a national security situation,” he told reporters on Air Force One on Sunday. “We will deal with Greenland in about two months. Let’s talk about Greenland in 20 days,” he added, without giving more information about what would happen then.   Trump’s latest remarks came after the U.S. launched strikes on Venezuela and arrested its leader, Nicolás Maduro. The dramatic raid has raised fears in Europe that Washington could feel emboldened to annex Greenland next, with leaders from the Nordic nations to the…

Denmark’s prime minister warned on Monday that any move by the United States to take Greenland by force would destroy 80 years of transatlantic security links, after President Donald Trump repeated his desire to annex the mineral-rich Arctic territory. Washington’s military intervention in Venezuela has reignited fears about Trump’s designs on the autonomous Danish territory, which has untapped rare earth deposits and could be a vital player as polar ice melts, opening up new shipping routes. “We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security and Denmark is not going to be able to do it,” the US leader said…

Last week, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Trump in Florida, with the Ukrainian leader pitching a 20-point peace plan that would see the U.S. provide security guarantees to Kyiv and the country’s eastern Donbas region turned into a free economic zone. On Tuesday, around 27 leaders, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte as well as the alliance’s top military officer, Gen. Alexus Grynkewich, will gather in the French capital in the so-called Coalition of the Willing format. Paris and London, co-leading the Coalition of the Willing, want to discuss and find common ground on five points, according to the Elysée official:…