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Emissions from the use of Nvidia’s chips could be on par with those from burning coal sold by Russian state-owned company Russian Coal, according to a new report. The report estimates that operating Nvidia chips sold since 2022 could have generated the equivalent of between four and 21 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2025, depending on the electricity used to power them. It also says the US chipmaker’s supply chain emissions have risen by 725% since 2020, an increase of around 9.4 million tonnes. According to Greenpeace East Asia, one of the groups behind the report, “the increase was…
“The perpetrators acted by misleading and deceiving a Romanian businessmen … the members of the organized crime group aimed to obtain the financial guarantees deposited by the victim to access the respective credits,” a DIICOT press release noted. The group allegedly failed to deliver on its promises, and the victim lost “more than €1.1 million.” The former presidential candidate is already facing two other criminal cases: one over allegedly acting against Romania’s constitutional order by planning a violent coup, and another over allegedly promoting fascist ideology. Commenting on the earlier investigations, Georgescu protested his innocence and said the cases were…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 12:33 GMT+2 Russian drones blasted Ukraine’s southern city of Zaporizhzhia a day after Kyiv’s forces fired more than 1,000 at Russia, officials said on Monday. The war’s relentless daily attacks underscore the absence of any significant progress in diplomatic efforts to stop the fighting, more than four years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of its neighbour. There is no sign the war is abating as world leaders gather this week at the UN General Assembly. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expects to meet with US President Donald Trump at the annual event in New…
Thousands of people lined Mission Street in San Francisco, California, for the ‘King of the Street’ lowrider parade. Video opens with cars hopping and cruising with a wheel lifted off the ground. More than 300 hand-customised lowriders from across California took part. The parade celebrates Chicano craftsmanship and Latino identity. It comes two years after California lifted its ban on lowrider parades. One lowrider said the cars show hard work and offer young people a positive path. Another said more women are now building and driving their own cars.
For investors following Europe’s developed markets, Greece is back on the map. FTSE Russell’s reclassification of the Greek capital market from “advanced emerging” to “developed” took effect on Monday, marking another step in the country’s recovery from its sovereign debt crisis. Euronext Athens said the upgrade represented “a major international recognition of the significant progress and structural reforms implemented in recent years at the Athens Stock Exchange” and underscored the growing attractiveness of the Greek capital market to international investors. The change moved 62 Greek stocks out of FTSE’s emerging-market benchmarks and into its developed-market indices, according to Piraeus Securities.…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 12:15 GMT+2 Google has been fined €403 million by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) after a six-year investigation into how the tech giant tracked and stored users’ location data. The DPC, which acts as Google’s lead regulator in the EU, launched the inquiry in February 2020 following complaints from several European consumer rights groups, including BEUC. Investigators examined three Google features, including Web & App Activity, Location History and Location Accuracy, and covering the period from 25 May 2018 when the GDPR came into force to 4 February 2020. ‘Loss of control’ over personal data The…
“I have proposed measures against those facilitating these sham elections in occupied Ukrainian territories,” she added. Residents of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson — regions that the Kremlin unlawfully occupied after the 2022 assault started — also took part in the vote, with some reportedly coerced into doing so. The war in Ukraine featured heavily in the elections, which were marked by severe repression. Dissenting voices were all but silenced, and Yabloko — the country’s only openly anti-war party — was banned from fielding a national list of candidates in the State Duma. “A party that has not been represented…
Spain’s Minister for Youth and Children has defended the right of unaccompanied foreign minors to remain on Spanish territory if they so wish, after more than 70,000 people crossed into the Spanish enclave of Ceuta from Morocco. “I think most of them want to stay in Spain and they are going to stay, of course. There is a law that protects them,” Sira Rego told the Spanish radio network Cadena SER. Rego, a former member of the European Parliament for Izquierda Unida between 2019 and 2023, argued that Spain’s laws on minors apply equally to everyone, regardless of their origin.…
By Euronews Persian Published on 21/09/2026 – 12:32 GMT+2•Updated 12:34 A simultaneous exchange of threats between Washington and Tehran raised fears of a return to all-out hostilities in the Iran war ahead of the UN General Assembly in New York on Monday. Iran’s IRGC warned on Monday that the war with the US is not yet over and that it has prepared for a “long-term war” with weapons that have not yet been used, spokesman Hossein Mohebi said. Mohebi said Iran had upgraded its weapons capabilities during and before the war, and described the unused systems as “strategic” and to be…
Published on 21/09/2026 – 11:46 GMT+2 Volkswagen, Europe’s largest automaker, is no longer among the eurozone’s blue chips. Index provider Stoxx confirmed the change in its annual review at the start of September, and it came into force before trading began on Monday, with Finnish telecoms group Nokia returning to the index and French utility Engie joining. Dutch information-services group Wolters Kluwer was also dropped. The removal is mechanical rather than a judgement, as the index is weighted by free-float market value, and Volkswagen’s shrinking valuation no longer cleared the threshold. However, the consequences are real, as funds that track…