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“Russia is determined to bring Ukraine to its knees this coming winter,” Jäger said. “We must expect Russian attacks of a severity and brutality that we have not yet seen on this scale. The war in Ukraine is entering a new and extremely dangerous phase.” Jäger’s comments come a day after a politically weakened Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Kyiv in what appeared to be an attempt to show resolve following two first-place finishes by the Kremlin-friendly Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in regional elections last month. Those AfD victories, blamed in large part on the chancellor’s historically low domestic approval…
Russian intelligence services are creating fake websites, social media pages, and messenger channels to imitate Ukrainian government agencies, security bodies, media outlets and senior officials, Kyiv has said. According to the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), these fake resources copy official names, logos, photographs and branding in an attempt to appear legitimate. The agency said it had recorded a key increase in such manipulative activities and had already identified and blocked more than 50 resources that copied the SBU’s own branding and appearance. Fake accounts have also been created in the names of senior Ukrainian officials. Previous examples include Telegram…
By Babak Kamiar & Euronews Persian Published on 05/10/2026 – 14:35 GMT+2 Iran’s military said on Monday it retained full control over the Strait of Hormuz despite changes in US tactics, as the rial fell to record lows, the oil minister resigned and Washington claimed Tehran had not exported a single barrel of crude in September. “All movements (in Hormuz) are under the control of the armed forces of the Islamic Republic,” Brigadier General Aziz Jafari, commander of Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya Joint Air Defence Headquarters, said Monday. Hours before Oil Minister Mohsen Paknejad’s resignation was announced, he said in a video released by…
The recognition is notable because Macron has sought to use his leadership to push AI safety on the global stage, and because the French president is months away from leaving office. After two terms as president, Macron is barred from running in the next election in April 2027. The far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who is leading in the polls, is advocating a policy of deregulation on AI, three senior party officials told POLITICO. Le Pen’s National Rally party also wants to become less dependent on foreign tech companies and is considering reviving a proposal for a sovereign wealth fund…
Incidents were reported outside schools in France on Monday morning, a day before a major action called by the Union syndicale lycéenne (USL), a high-school students’ union. Students have been protesting over overcrowded classrooms, teacher shortages and crumbling facilities. Among the schools hit on Monday was the Vauquelin secondary school in Paris’s 13th arrondissement, where “around ten hooded and masked young people came up to the entrance”, according to headteacher Carole Zerbib. They “brought bins and inflammable items” to the doorway and then set them alight, she told French news channel BFMTV. As a result, the school will remain closed…
The remains of Czar Samuel, a medieval Bulgarian ruler, were flown to Sofia on Saturday under a military flypast. Honour guards then carried the coffin in a state procession to the Church of St Sophia, where crowds queued to pay their respects. Samuel spent his reign fighting the Byzantine Empire to expand his kingdom, and he died in 1014. His bones were found in a Greek border area 60 years ago, and Bulgaria has negotiated with Athens for decades to bring them home. Saturday’s handover follows an agreement this week between the Bulgarian and Greek culture ministers. Under it, Bulgaria…
Published on 05/10/2026 – 13:04 GMT+2 Schneider Electric, one of Europe’s most valuable companies, saw its shares plunge after confirming an agreement to buy US-based industrial design software company PTC. The deal is expected to be the largest acquisition in Schneider Electric’s history, as the company seeks to expand its industrial AI capabilities using product and engineering data. The French energy technology group will pay $205 per share for 100% of PTC’s shares in cash, valuing its equity at $22.6bn (€20.1bn) and the business, including debt, at $23.7bn (€21.1bn). The deal “creates a leading, scaled, open and interoperable industrial software…
The year is 2029: the AI system “Skynet” has broken loose and wiped out most of humanity in a nuclear war. Autonomous killer robots are trying to finish off the survivors. That is the plot of the 1984 film “Terminator”, which made Arnold Schwarzenegger a household name and a global action star. But how realistic is it that artificial intelligence could slip beyond human control and trigger catastrophic consequences? With the kind of performance these systems could have, that cannot be ruled out, says Reinhard Karger of the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence in an interview with Euronews. “The…
Published on 05/10/2026 – 12:41 GMT+2 It was a big swing, and it has turned out to be a huge miss. What was supposed to be the awards season heavyweight to finally get Tom Cruise to the Oscar podium has ended up as one of the biggest box office flops of the actor’s career. Worse, early indicators strongly suggest that Digger is on track to lose between $150-200 million. Those are John Carter numbers. The movie, starring Tom Cruise as a powerful oil tycoon who has triggered an environmental disaster, made just $8 million in the US and $20 million…
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