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German wholesaler and food retailer Metro AG lost operational control of its Russian subsidiary on Monday after Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree placing the business under temporary administration. The decree put Metro Cash and Carry’s Russian operations under the management of UK Torg RUS temporarily. The order, posted on a Russian government website on Monday, did not give a reason for the action. It follows similar moves against the Russian businesses of food company Nestlé and French retailer Auchan under a 2023 decree aimed at businesses associated with “unfriendly countries”. Temporary administration has also led to local owners…
Published on 29/09/2026 – 12:14 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump’s push to rebrand artificial intelligence as “super intelligence” or SI has sparked a flurry of requests for internet domains ending in “.si,” much to Slovenia’s surprise. “The word ‘artificial intelligence’ makes it sound fake,” Trump told the UN General Assembly last week, saying that SI “sounded much better”. He added the US would start using “the much more accurate term ‘super intelligence, SI'” for its official documents. It so happens that .si is the main suffix for Slovenia’s internet domain names registry, meant to denote a website originates from the…
Swift and seamless airport experiences may soon be on the horizon for Belgian travellers to the United States. Speaking at the Euronews Travel & Tourism Summit 2026 in Brussels, Bill White, Ambassador of the United States of America to Belgium, said that long queues at American airports will be a thing of the past for Belgian travellers. During his one-to-one discussion with summit host Jane Witherspoon, Ambassador White said that he received approval from President Donald Trump to move ahead with plans to grant Belgians access to the Global Entry programme – a development the ambassador said he is “very…
EU-Energiekommissar Dan Jørgensen schloss sich dieser Meinung an und erklärte am Dienstagmorgen in Dublin, er sei „erfreut“ über die öffentlichen Äußerungen von [US-Energieminister] Chris Wright, der erklärt hatte, ein Dieselverbot werde nicht funktionieren. Trump hatte vergangene Woche gedroht, die Ausfuhr von Diesel vorübergehend zu stoppen, da die Preise in den Vereinigten Staaten aufgrund des Krieges im Iran und der von Moskau verhängten Exportbeschränkungen nach ukrainischen Angriffen auf Raffinerien steigen. Ein solcher Schritt würde Schockwellen durch die europäischen Energiemärkte senden, da laut S&P Global Energy Diesel aus den USA mehr als 50 Prozent der Dieselimporte der EU und 10 Prozent des…
NATO chief Mark Rutte urged “calm” on Tuesday over Russia’s campaign of sabotage in Europe, saying it was failing to undercut support for Ukraine. His comments come after Estonia became the latest country to officially blame Russia for such an incident, saying Moscow’s “special services” had ordered an arson attack on a defence firm in August. “Russia continues its reckless campaign of hostile actions against NATO allies. It is trying to weaken our resolve and stop our support for Ukraine. But Russia is failing. It is failing on the battlefield in Ukraine and it is failing to undermine our unity…
By Euronews Persian Published on 29/09/2026 – 11:59 GMT+2 Any obstruction to Iran’s energy exports would have consequences for the entire region, Iran’s parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Tuesday, as the IRGC launched a public attack on US President Donald Trump and said it was preparing new weapons for the battlefield. “If Iran cannot sell its oil, no one in the region will sell oil, and if our security is not guaranteed, no infrastructure will be safe,” Ghalibaf said in an online parliamentary session, cautioning Washington against “miscalculations”. “The Iranian people must never be frightened by blockade and threats.…
Anthropic has told would-be shareholders that the technology it sells could threaten humanity itself. The warning appears in a long-awaited initial public offering prospectus shared with a small group of partners, according to people familiar with the filing cited by the Financial Times. The company behind the Claude chatbot dedicated almost a third of its lengthy S-1, the document companies file with the US Securities and Exchange Commission before listing, to risk factors. These include the possibility that increasingly advanced AI models could manipulate, blackmail or behave in other unpredictable ways as Anthropic’s own research has shown autonomous models sabotaging…
By Roselyne Min with AFP Published on 29/09/2026 – 10:52 GMT+2 Google said on Tuesday it had appealed EU measures announced in July requiring it to share data with rival search engines and give competing AI services greater access to Android, warning that the measures could put users’ privacy at risk. The company filed its appeal with the EU’s General Court in Luxembourg. “We’re appealing decisions that will force us to share people’s private search history without sufficient anonymisation and weaken vital security protections on Android,” said Oliver Bethell, Google’s senior director for competition. The European Commission said Google must begin sharing search…
Published on 29/09/2026 – 9:54 GMT+2 UK Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy has confirmed the UK’s national museums will remain free and open for all. Nandy confirmed universal free entry would be maintained for the 15 institutions sponsored directly by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) – institutions like the Tate, the National Portrait Gallery, National Museums Liverpool and the British Museum – which currently displays the Bayeux Tapestry. “Our museums are the places that light up the world,” Nandy said. “They remind of us our shared history and enable us to step outside the confines of our…