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He freed desire, shattered taboos and turned it into art. Tinto Brass, the director who brought Italian erotic cinema to a wide audience, leaves this to his public: liberation from inhibitions and the celebration of Eros. Between experimentation, scandal and films that became cult favourites, Brass bids farewell to his audience: the director has died in Rome at the age of 93. Born in Milan on 26 March 1933, he spanned more than half a century of cinema. In recent years he lived in Isola Farnese, on the outskirts of Rome. At his side was his wife Caterina Varzi, whom…
La France insoumise s’est réjouie de la défaite de Donald Trump lors des élections de mi-mandat aux Etats-Unis, y voyant la possibilité de “faire reculer l’extrême droite”. Toute coïncidence avec la situation française n’est pas fortuite, alors que le scénario d’un second tour opposant Marine Le Pen à Jean-Luc Mélenchon devient de plus en plus probable, sondage après sondage. Pourquoi les Insoumis se sentent-ils pousser des ailes ? Ont-ils raison d’y croire ? Cela oblige-t-il les candidats de la droite et du centre à redéfinir leur stratégie ? Anthony Lattier en discute avec Victor Goury-Laffont, journaliste à POLITICO, et Marcelo…
Footage shows demonstrators lying on the pavement, with groups of officers lifting them and carrying them to a waiting police van, while others continued holding placards. Police said 25 people had been detained on suspicion of supporting a proscribed organisation under the Terrorism Act, with further arrests expected. The legal challenge was brought by Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori, who is seeking to overturn the group’s designation as a terrorist organisation. The court heard that it was the first of 98 proscribed groups banned solely for causing serious property damage, rather than advocating violence against people. More than 4,000 arrests…
Published on 4 November 2026 – 15:20 GMT+1•Updated 16:27 The next big artificial intelligence risk is not AI agents going rogue, but ones that slip human control and pursue their own survival infinitely, according to a new report. The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) identified a new class of artificial intelligence threat it calls “sovereign agents”. Sovereign agents pursue their own survival independent of human oversight, the paper wrote. It is unlike the AI agents that this summer were reported as going rogue, when OpenAI, Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Meta disclosed that their AI agents had escaped containment…
Published on 4 November 2026 – 16:59 GMT+1 As the Thélyson Orélien case, in which he is accused of having used AI for his novel ”C’était ça ou mourir”, shakes the literary world, the Goncourt Prize winner admitted on France Inter that he had turned to artificial intelligence “three times” while writing his book. Enough to reignite the debate on AI? Philippe Jaenada said he first used it to slip in a sentence written by ChatGPT, in order to “play with the reader”. He only revealed this sentence to the Goncourt jurors on Tuesday. “If it comes out, I know…
Mao did not elaborate on which topics the leaders would cover if they convene, amid fears in Europe that talks on ending the war in Ukraine could take place without Kyiv or European capitals at the table. Trump last month indicated interest in discussing “denuclearization” in a trilateral meeting, but “not so much” Ukraine. China hasn’t commented on what would be on the agenda, although German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Xi rejected the idea of discussing Ukraine in that format when both leaders spoke last week. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that such a meeting would be “appropriate and very…
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan told Euronews that his country’s strategy is to diversify and balance its foreign relations to pursue its national interests, as the current political and economic momentum in the South Caucasus brings the region a “totally new global role”. During an interview at Euronews’ Enlargement Summit on Tuesday, Pashinyan said that the “South Caucasus is a region with differences, but with common interests and there can be common views and strategies as well”, which led the region’s countries to establish relations which “will open up the regional infrastructure connectivity.” “The need to overcome the global supply…
“No matter how AI may be used in a parliament, the responsibility is still [with] those who are elected,” she said. Secretary-General Alessandro Chiocchetti said at the same event that Parliament is building its own AI tool for sensitive work, hosted on its internal infrastructure. As POLITICO reported in July, commercial AI models, such as ChatGPT, Claude and Meta’s Llama, can still be used for less sensitive tasks. Parliament officials have warned of a surge in AI-written amendments, including some that reference laws that don’t exist. Chiocchetti cited the case of an MEP who turned to AI for legal advice…
By Babak Kamiar & Euronews Persian Published on 4 November 2026 – 11:03 GMT+1•Updated 14:16 Iranian lawmakers have threatened missile strikes on European countries hosting US military bases, as state-run media warned on Wednesday that any renewed confrontation with the US could reach “the heart of Europe”. “If America uses its bases in Europe, including in Italy and Germany, Iran’s missiles will be fired towards Europe,” Ahmad Bakhshayesh Ardestani, a member of parliament’s National Security Committee, told Euronews. “In the two previous wars we did not do this, but this time we will not let Europe’s assistance to America for an attack on…
The incident appears linked to a fresh wave of cyberattacks on supermarket refrigerators across Europe, which forced stores to throw out spoiled food. That wave came just weeks after French supermarkets were first hit by a cyberattack that also hit refrigerators. French media reports said refrigeration company Coolworld is the supplier to EFS. The company said in a statement that it’s aware of the incident and that it “concerns a component supplied by a third-party provider and not directly controlled by Coolworld.” It said only a “limited number” of its units were affected. In the attacks on supermarkets, refrigerator defrost…