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By Euronews Published on 09/01/2026 – 10:56 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that “it may be a choice” for Washington if it were to pick between controlling Greenland and maintaining the NATO alliance, amid a renewed push to acquire the island in the Arctic Circle. Trump also hinted that the alliance would be toothless without the US. “I think we’ll always get along with Europe, but I want them to shape up,” he said. “If you look at NATO, Russia I can tell you is not at all concerned with any other country but us.” Speaking days after…
By Anna Desmarais & AP Published on 09/01/2026 – 11:14 GMT+1 Chinese artificial intelligence (AI) Deepseek has been gaining ground in many developing nations, surpassing US models that are popular in the West, according to a new report from Microsoft. In the intensifying global race for AI dominance, DeepSeek has emerged as a fast-rising Chinese contender. Its open-source and cost-efficient models challenge leading American platforms such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini. A recent report from Microsoft found that DeepSeek’s market share was an estimated 56 percent in Belarus, 49 percent in Cuba and 43 percent in Russia. The Chinese startup also performed…
BRUXELLES — L’IA d’Elon Musk Grok a limité l’accès à son générateur de deepfakes, disponible sur le réseau social X, après que ses utilisateurs ont créé une déferlante d’images de nus non consenties. Grok indique désormais que la création d’images “est actuellement limitée aux abonnés payants”, ce qui “permet de garantir une utilisation responsable pendant que nous continuons à affiner les choses”. Il cite “les problèmes récents et les améliorations apportées aux mesures de protection”. Le chatbot a attiré l’attention des autorités de régulation et des responsables politiques de toute l’Europe après avoir permis à ses utilisateurs de manipuler des…
To Starmer’s left, backbench rebels including Richard Burgon and Dawn Butler backed the push toward a customs union by the opposition Lib Dems. The members of the left-wing Socialist Campaign Group frame their argument around fears Labour will lose voters to other progressive parties, namely the Lib Dems, Greens and SNP, if they fail to show adequate bonds with Europe. Some other, more centrist MPs fear similar. Labour MPs with a military background or in military-heavy seats also want the U.K. and EU to cooperate further. London MP Calvin Bailey, who spent more than two decades in the Royal Air…
The opinions expressed in this article are those of the author and do not represent in any way the editorial position of Euronews. Nine months ago, I was travelling to Nuuk. After a five-hour journey, the snowy island came into view — only for the plane to suddenly make a sharp U-turn due to fog. Another five hours later, we completed our round trip. It took me ten hours to get from Copenhagen to Copenhagen. Greenland remained an enigma: easy to talk about, difficult to reach. It felt like a scene from the 1970s. Yet this reality is far from…
Published on 09/01/2026 – 10:12 GMT+1 Your dog’s dinner could have a much larger climate impact than you think, particularly if they have a penchant for ‘premium’ brands. Researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Exeter recently calculated the carbon footprint of 996 types of dog food sold by a single retailer in the UK. The selection included dry, wet and raw foods with plant-based and grain-free options. Published in the Journal of Cleaner Production, the study warned that the production of ingredients used in UK dog food contributes to around 0.9 to 1.3 per cent of the country’s total…
By Euronews with AP Published on 09/01/2026 – 9:55 GMT+1 In a rare move, NASA is cutting a mission aboard the International Space Station short after an astronaut had a medical issue. The space agency said Thursday the United States-Japanese-Russian crew of four will return to Earth in the coming days, earlier than planned. NASA cancelled its first spacewalk of the year because of the health issue. The space agency did not identify the astronaut or the medical issue, citing patient privacy. The crew member is now stable. NASA officials stressed that it was not an onboard emergency, but are “erring on the…
Europe had barely switched off its out-of-office replies before geopolitics came roaring back. In the first days of January, events in Caracas — and rhetoric from Washington — jolted Brussels out of its post-holiday slumber and straight back into crisis mode. A U.S. special forces operation captured Venezuela’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and left more than 100 people dead, reopening old questions about power, sovereignty and just how reliable an ally the United States really is. This week on EU Confidential, host Sarah Wheaton is joined by Allison Hoffman, Nick Vinocur, Eva Hartog and Bartosz Brzeziński to unpack what Donald Trump’s…
The West Midlands city of Birmingham is blanketed in snow as Storm Goretti hits the UK, with forecasters predicting snow of up to 30 centimetres in some areas and disruptions to road and rail transport. Roads have been closed in Buxton and Chapel-en-le-Frith in Derbyshire with the area blanketed in snow. British forecasters have issued weather warnings for severe winds, large amounts of snowfall and freezing temperatures. In France, some 380,000 households lost power, the vast majority in the northern Normandy region, the Enedis power provider said, while some 65,000 households lost electricity in Britain.
Jim Jarmusch has always excelled in the art of extracting the extraordinary in seemingly commonplace situations. Nowhere is this better seen than in the director’s superb 2003 anthology film Coffee And Cigarettes, an unexpectedly poetic collection of sketches that turns awkward meetings and missed conversations into something resonant and deeply human. He returns this year with Father Mother Sister Brother, another go at the underappreciated cinematic format which won him the Golden Lion at last year’s Venice Film Festival. This time, he’s less concerned with caffeine and nicotine spears, and more preoccupied with water and watches. That, and the frayed…