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A French woman who was allegedly drugged by a diuretic by a former senior official in the Culture Ministry during a job interview has decried the slow pace of the justice system, saying, “It prolongs the trauma.” Ten years after her alleged assault, Sylvie Delezenne is now speaking out about her ordeal in a bid to “make things change”. She says she met former ministry official Christian Nègre for an interview for a post at the Culture Ministry in 2015. She travelled from Lille to Paris to attend the interview, with high hopes, saying the position was a perfect fit…

BRUXELLES — La Commission européenne a infligé vendredi une amende de 120 millions d’euros à X, le réseau social d’Elon Musk. Il s’agit de la toute première sanction prononcée en vertu du règlement européen sur les services numériques (DSA). Cette décision, qui risque d’exacerber les tensions avec les États-Unis, a d’ores et déjà suscité des critiques de la part de J.D. Vance. Le vice-président américain a ainsi jugé que cette amende était une sanction pour “absence de censure”. Le montant de l’amende est pourtant modéré par rapport aux sanctions infligées précédemment par Bruxelles aux entreprises technologiques.  Dans le cadre des…

Published on 05/12/2025 – 11:39 GMT+1 Google released its breakdown of the year’s top search trends, and topping the list – above Charlie Kirk, Pope Leo XIV, and Men’s Cricket scores – was its own Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot Gemini. The company’s “Year in Search” highlights search queries that saw a significant and sustained spike in traffic in 2025 compared to 2024. By those standards, and with a healthy dose of scepticism, the company’s top global trending search of the year was “Gemini,” followed by “India vs England” for men’s cricket, and “Charlie Kirk,” the US far-right influencer who was…

Virkkunen said that they estimated the size of the fine to be “proportionate” and said it was calculated considering “the nature of these infringements, their gravity in terms of affected EU users, and their duration.” Asked to clarify how the EU calculated the amount, a senior Commission official repeated the idea of proportionality and said that it cannot be “drilled down to a simple economic formula.”  Brussels has been under growing pressure from EU leaders, European Parliament lawmakers and digital rights groups to wrap up the investigation into X to show that it’s protecting its citizens online.  U.S. officials have…

The European Commission slapped a €120 million fine on Friday on Elon Musk’s social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, for the first time under its landmark Digital Services Act following a two-year investigation. At the centre of the probe is the blue checkmark, previously used to signal official accounts at no cost but now sold for €7 a month, which risks confusing users about the veracity of identities. Under the new X settings, an account with a checkmark may not signal a real user and could instead be a bot, the Commission said. As a result, it decided…

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Published on 05/12/2025 – 11:13 GMT+1 Penguins living off the coast of South Africa have likely “starved to death en masse” amid collapsing food supplies. A new study from the South African Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment and the University of Exeter found that between 2004 and 2011 around 62,000 African penguins died as a result of severe food shortages. Researchers warn that populations have declined in two of the most important breeding colonies of the species (Dassen Island and Robben Island), with around 95 per cent of the birds that bred in 2004 believed to have died…

Published on 05/12/2025 – 11:08 GMT+1 •Updated 11:36 A Cloudflare outage hit websites including Zoom, Canva, and Fortnite on Friday, just weeks after the internet services provider suffered another major outage. The incident has affected many online services, underscoring that much of the internet is dependent on IT infrastructure from a handful of providers. Downdetector, a website that shows services affected by internet outages, reported issues across the web, including Canva, Zoom, Fortnite, League of Legends, Anthropic’s Claude AI chatbot, and LinkedIn. Cloudflare said it is experiencing “internal service degradation” on Friday morning, with internet users reporting that they were…

That narrative is likely to resonate deeply among most of Europe’s far-right parties, whose electoral programs are primarily based on criticism of the EU, demands for curbs on migration from Muslim-majority and non-European nations, and a patriotic push to overturn their countries’ perceived declines.  The new security strategy offers a clear ideological alignment between U.S. President Donald Trump’s populist MAGA movement and Europe’s nationalist parties. The U.S. administration — which has developed increasingly closer ties with far-right parties in countries such as Germany and Spain — appears to hint it could help ideologically allied European parties. “America encourages its political…

Published on 05/12/2025 – 11:22 GMT+1 Europe will never go back to Russian energy after Moscow’s all-out war in Ukraine, Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen told Euronews’ flagship morning show Europe Today, adding that a new law to ban Russian oil is in the works and will be presented soon. Jørgensen described the EU27’s ban on Russian pipeline gas and liquefied natural gas (LNG) as a point of no return moment for the bloc during an exclusive interview with Euronews. “Even when there’s peace, we won’t buy Russian gas again. Our agreement will stand even after a peace agreement between Russia…