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Published on 11/07/2025 – 15:36 GMT+2The Senegalese navy intercepted 201 West African migrants, authorities said on Wednesday, as the Atlantic Ocean crossing continues to be the most popular and deadliest migration route from Africa to Europe.The operation was carried out by Senegalese marines based in Foundiougne, in the Fatick region of western Senegal, the army said in a statement.Sixty-nine people were stopped on land, the statement said, while 132 others were intercepted aboard a small wooden boat in the Saloum delta on Tuesday evening.While migration to Europe has been steadily falling, the Atlantic Ocean crossing from West Africa to Spain’s…
By Euronews Published on 11/07/2025 – 14:56 GMT+2The United Kingdom is bolstering its tech workforce to develop artificial intelligence (AI) tools for government. And Meta is footing the $1 million (€854,000) bill.Through the new “Open-Source AI Fellowship,” 10 fellows will work with the UK government for one year to build AI tools for “high-security use cases” in the public sector, such as language translation for national security or using construction data to speed up approval processes to build more homes.The fellows could also work on “Humphrey,” a suite of AI-powered tools for civil servants to help them effectively deliver on minister…
Now, even before the Act has been fully implemented, the committee is reopening a debate on legislating against “harmful but legal” content. Earlier drafts of the Online Safety Act imposed a duty on platforms to tackle material deemed “legal but harmful” to adults, but these provisions were stripped out of the bill under the previous Conservative government amid concerns about freedom of speech, to the dismay of online safety campaigners. Committee chair and Labour MP Chi Onwurah insisted that the report’s call for the government to essentially return to the drawing board doesn’t mean reopening the same can of worms…
Lennart Monterlos, an 18-year-old Franco-German dual national who was cycling from Europe to Japan, has been detained in Iran, Tehran authorities confirmed on Thursday.In an interview with French newspaper Le Monde, Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi stated that the young man had been “detained for committing an offence,” without disclosing further details.He added that the country’s French embassy had been officially notified of the detention of the French citizen, who is from the eastern French city of Besançon.Pressed on the issue, the French Foreign Ministry stated that it was in contact with Iranian authorities regarding its citizen’s condition, as well…
Published on 11/07/2025 – 13:27 GMT+2The great American filmmaker Michael Mann will be honoured with the Lumière Award at the 17th edition of the Lumière Festival in Lyon this fall. The Institut Lumière praised Mann’s 40-year career marked by classics such as Manhunter, The Last of the Mohicans, Heat, The Insider and Collateral, as well as his direction of “screen legends” including Al Pacino, Robert De Niro and Daniel Day-Lewis. The Lumière Award honours a figure for their entire body of work and their connection to the history of cinema. Previous Lumière honorees include some of the biggest names in Hollywood, including Martin…
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Cash has become almost as scarce as food or fuel in the Gaza Strip, where Israeli shekels remain the primary currency but fresh notes have stopped arriving. Torn or worn banknotes are often refused by vendors, forcing people to pay to “repair” money, a service that costs up to 10 shekels per note.At a time of soaring inflation and unemployment, families are selling possessions to buy essentials. Inflation surged 230% in 2024 and unemployment topped 80%, leaving daily survival in Gaza increasingly dependent on physical cash, and the soaring cost of simply getting it.
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor and a foreign affairs columnist at POLITICO Europe. Has the penny finally dropped with U.S. President Donald Trump that Russia’s Vladimir Putin has no serious interest in peace talks and is in no hurry to halt his war on Ukraine? Is Trump’s bromance with the Russian leader, whom he described only last month as “very kind,” finally over? The mercurial Trump’s midweek comments certainly prompted a flood of speculation on the matter. “We get a lot of bullshit thrown at us by Putin, if you want to know the truth,” he said, indicating he’s finally…
An independent UN investigator and outspoken critic of Israel’s military operation in Gaza said on Thursday that “it was shocking” that the Trump administration had imposed sanctions on her but stood by her view on the war.Francesca Albanese said in an interview with the AP that the powerful were trying to silence her for speaking out for those with little to no power, “other than standing and hoping not to die, not to see their children slaughtered.””This is not a sign of power, it’s a sign of guilt,” the UN Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories said.The State Department’s…
Bitcoin has reached a new all-time high, trading at more than $118,000 (€100,000) on Friday. It followed an enthusiastic trading day on the US stock markets on Thursday, where the main index for tech companies, the Nasdaq, hit a record value.Interest in Bitcoin was fuelled by a bullish, optimistic trading outlook across risk assets and an appetite for investment in tech companies, such as Nvidia, which recently surged to a $4 trillion valuation. Bitcoin’s all-time high also comes days before what the US House of Representatives, one of Congress’ two chambers, has labelled as “Crypto Week”, starting on 14 July. This…