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By Roselyne Min with AFP Published on 11/09/2026 – 10:46 GMT+2 OpenAI is calling for binding safety requirements on the most powerful artificial intelligence systems in the United States, marking a pivot for a company that has previously resisted tighter regulation. OpenAI’s chief global affairs officer Chris Lehane wrote in a statement on Wednesday that mandatory national rules should be based on what advanced AI models are capable of doing. “We’ve reached a new chapter in AI capabilities, and that demands a new chapter for AI policy. No company, industry, or government can meet this challenge alone. We need to meet this moment…
Indefatigable Italian rights activist and European heavyweight Emma Bonino died aged 78, her party Più Europa announced on Friday. A former European commissioner and member of the European Parliament, Bonino held a series of senior positions at home, serving as lawmaker, senator and two-time minister, in a career that straddled Brussels and Rome. For the EU, she was chief among the voices who helped establish the bloc as a defender of international human rights and became a passionate advocate for European federalism. For Italy, she was a radical liberal who refused to neatly fit into her country’s entrenched left-right divide,…
By Simon Ormiston & Euronews Published on 10/09/2026 – 20:53 GMT+2•Updated 11/09/2026 – 10:42 GMT+2 A coach overturned on a mountain road in the eastern Swiss canton of Graubünden this week, leaving five people dead and 40 injured, local police said on Friday. The crash took place on Thursday on a stretch of road linking the villages of Susch and Zernez, deep in the Engadine valley. “The Dutch coach was travelling from Zernez towards Susch at 4.45 pm. Near the village of Less, it veered off the road in a roadworks area and overturned. Of the 45 adults on board the coach, five…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 10:19 GMT+2 Two Azerbaijani sailors were killed when a tugboat was struck by drones in the Black Sea on Tuesday, in the latest attack on civilian shipping near the Ukrainian port of Odesa. The Somali-flagged tugboat TEDY, owned by Mert Marine Corporation, was first hit near Odesa before coming under two further drone attacks overnight as it sailed toward the Romanian port of Constanta. Azerbaijan’s Foreign Ministry confirmed the deaths of crew members Aslan Aliyev and Asim Gasimov. Two other Azerbaijani sailors, Imran Novruzov and Rauf Aliyev, were hospitalised in the Ukrainian city of Chornomorsk with…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 9:48 GMT+2•Updated 9:57 While the economies of its main European neighbours continue to grow, France stands out as an exception.After a start to the year marked by a 0.2% fall in its GDP in the first quarter and then flat activity in the second, the French economy is “slipping behind”, Insee warns. The statistics office, which until now had been forecasting GDP growth of 0.7%, has sharply downgraded its growth outlook for 2026, now capped at 0.4%. This contrasts with the situation in the main neighbouring economies. Over the first two quarters, Germany recorded growth of…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 9:28 GMT+2 It’s the fashion moment that grabbed headlines and gave the world the term “revenge dressing”. On 29 June 1994, Diana, Princess of Wales wore a black, fitted, off-the-shoulder dress to a fundraising dinner hosted by Vanity Fair for the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. As stunning as the head-turning garment was, it had symbolic weight, as Diana wore it the same night then-Prince Charles would reveal his infidelity with Camilla on TV. “Diana wore the dress in June 1994 to the Serpentine Gallery, the same night Prince Charles admitted his affair with Camilla Parker…
“It’s like Fight Club,” a senior Reform figure involved in selections joked. “The first rule of parliamentary assessment center is you don’t talk about parliamentary assessment center.” Reform organizers are all too aware that some of their most careless picks at the last election cost them dear, considering allegations of racism and offensive comments harmed the campaign. To repeat the slapdash approach of old could be fatal to Farage’s chances of ever becoming prime minister. The party has set up a new vetting process run by Paul Nuttall, the party’s deputy chairman, and candidate testers have already spent nearly 32…
Published on 11/09/2026 – 9:34 GMT+2 Russia launched 160 drones across Ukraine in overnight attacks, as well as one drone-launched cruise missile, according to Ukraine’s Armed Forces. Meanwhile, Ukraine reportedly struck the Russian oil refinery in Saratov. A drone attack in Kyiv’s Dniprovskyi district left eight people injured after one nine-storey residential building caught fire, leading to its evacuation, according to police. The injured include a 64-year-old man and a 57-year-old woman who were being treated for burn wounds, as well as a 23-year-old woman with shrapnel wounds, according to the State Emergency Service of Ukraine. Meanwhile, a young mother…
By Euronews Persian Published on 11/09/2026 – 9:10 GMT+2 Iran’s pharmaceutical sector is facing shortages of hundreds of medicines, a near-six-fold price hike for basic drugs and collapsing supply chains, as the war with the US enters its seventh month and the effects of sanctions and a naval blockade accumulate. The shortages include roughly 90 medicines classified as essential or life-saving, according to Iranian media. Hadi Ahmadi, spokesperson for the Iranian Pharmacists Association, told domestic media last week that around 400 of the scarce medicines are produced domestically — evidence that local manufacturing has not insulated the sector from disruption, because…
Tania Head was, according to her own account, one of 18 people who survived on the 78th floor of the South Tower of the World Trade Center, the area located above the point where the second plane struck on 11 September 2001. She said that a dying man handed her his wedding ring so she could return it to his widow, that a volunteer with his clothes on fire helped her down the stairs, and that she lost her fiancé, David, in the North Tower. On the strength of that story, shewent on to chair the World Trade Center Survivors’…