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The European Union keeps simultaneously investing in new measures to support AI adoption among both individuals and enterprises, drafting new preparedness strategies, and issuing various new guidelines on the ethical use of AI. According to the Eurobarometer’s survey on the future needs for digital education, 64% of Europeans strongly agree and somewhat agree that by 2030, everyone will need to be AI-literate. Since 2021, the use of AI technologies has organically grown by 12.30% among European enterprises. Almost a third – 32.7% – of Europeans admit to having used AI tools. Stark differences in AI use across EU countries hint…
OTTAWA — Just when Canada thought it was getting its military house in order by finally meeting NATO spending targets, U.S. President Donald Trump’s designs on Greenland have exposed the vulnerability of the vast, underpopulated and undergunned Canadian Arctic. Trump’s Greenland threats have turned the Arctic from a distant, long-term concern into an urgent strategic test for Canada, exposing how a region long treated as remote is now entangled in disputes over shipping routes, sovereignty and alliance politics. Successive Canadian governments have long understood that melting polar ice has left the Arctic more accessible — and more vulnerable to Russian and Chinese…
Japan’s cherry blossom season is a notoriously popular time for tourists to visit and often sees prices spike. But 2026 might be one of the cheapest years in recent history to witness the famed sakura. The country has seen a sharp drop in tourist numbers from mainland China following the suggestions late last year by Japan’s prime minister, Sanae Takaichi, that her country could deploy its military if China attempted to invade Taiwan. It has triggered a decrease in the cost of flights and accommodation, which is expected to persist into March and April, when the cherry trees usually bloom.…
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By Euronews with AFP Published on 24/01/2026 – 17:35 GMT+1 •Updated 22:08 Federal immigration agents deployed in Minneapolis as part of a sweeping immigration crackdown shot and killed a 37-year-old man on Saturday, in what Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has called “another horrific shooting”. The man has been identified as Alex Pretti, a Minneapolis resident and intensive care unit nurse. The incident marks the second fatal shooting of a civilian in the city, coming three weeks after US citizen Renee Good was shot and killed by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. A video circulating online, which has been confirmed by authorities, showed…
Updated: 24/01/2026 – 23:43 GMT+1 Video captures a confrontation between federal officers and a 37-year-old man moments leading up to a fatal shooting in Minneapolis. The shooting came amid widespread daily protests in the Twin Cities since the Jan. 7 shooting of 37-year-old Renee Good. … More
Hundreds of people gathered around a growing makeshift memorial for Alex Pretti, the man shot and killed Saturday by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis. According to his family, Pretti worked as an intensive care nurse at a Department of Veterans Affairs hospital. Family members told the Associated Press that Pretti had taken part in protests following the killing of Renee Good, who was shot by a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer on January 7. In a statement, Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said federal officers were carrying out an operation as part of the administration’s immigration crackdown…
The document argues that Europe is economically and militarily capable of defending itself, noting that non-U.S. NATO members dwarf Russia in economic scale, and are therefore “strongly positioned to take primary responsibility for Europe’s conventional defense.” At the same time, the strategy places emphasis on Greenland, explicitly listing the Arctic island — alongside the Panama Canal — as terrain the U.S. must secure to protect its homeland interests. The Pentagon says it will provide the president with “credible options to guarantee U.S. military and commercial access to key terrain from the Arctic to South America, especially Greenland,” adding that “we…
The talks brought together senior military and intelligence officials from all three sides. Ukraine’s delegation included Defense Minister Rustem Umerov and military intelligence chief Kyrylo Budanov; Russia was represented by members of its armed forces and military intelligence; and the U.S. delegation included President Donald Trump’s envoy Steve Witkoff, Jared Kushner and senior White House advisers. Zelenskyy said the U.S. side raised possible formats for formalizing any future settlement, as well as the need for American monitoring and oversight of a potential ceasefire or peace process. “As a result of the meetings held over these days, all sides agreed to…
By Euronews with AFP Published on 24/01/2026 – 16:23 GMT+1 Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday voiced outrage after the release of Jacques Moretti, co-owner of a Swiss bar where 40 people lost their lives and 116 others were injured during New Year’s celebrations. In a statement, Meloni and her Foreign Minister Antonio Tajani said they asked Rome’s ambassador to Switzerland to contact regional public prosecutor Beatrice Pilloud and convey their “strong indignation” over the decision to free Jacques Moretti on bail. Italy has also recalled its ambassador to Switzerland to “determine what further measures to take”, the statement said. Ignazio Cassis,…