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The bill that would finally tell American crypto companies which regulator governs them is moving again. Republican senators released what they called the final text over the weekend, containing a revised ethics package that US President Donald Trump has agreed to after months of deadlock. The CLARITY Act, formally the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act, would divide supervision of digital assets between the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission, replacing a fragmented system in which classification has largely been settled through enforcement actions and litigation. The House passed its version in July 2025 by 294…
US President Donald Trump has poured scorn on warnings that artificial intelligence could wipe out humanity, branding the fears a “hoax” and rejecting calls from world leaders to rein in the fast-moving technology. In a barrage of six posts on Truth Social on Monday, Trump cast himself as the only safeguard the world needs against runaway AI, dismissing months of mounting alarm from tech executives, the United Nations and Beijing alike. “I am the Hoax Buster, and I’m right now breaking another Hoax — that AI is going to take over, consume, and destroy the World, and that Robots will…
Will the 21st century be the era of the “great transfer”? This notion, which first emerged in Anglo-Saxon private finance under the name _”_Great Wealth Transfer” before being taken up in economic and sociological research, refers to the transfer of wealth linked to the gradual disappearance of the baby-boomer generation. In France, experts estimate that several trillion euros could change hands over the coming decades. Culture is also a matter of transmission, and economic stakes are never far away. Can a music scene become part of our heritage? Musical cycles move much faster than generations: in the space of around…
The ratification push is only one strand of Ottawa’s broader European courtship. In separate talks, officials are working to lock in cooperation on critical minerals, education, digital infrastructure and Arctic security, with a meeting in Montreal next month set to move them forward. The Canada-EU agreement, which entered provisional force in 2017, has not been ratified by 10 of the bloc’s 27 countries, amid concerns that Canadian agricultural exports could hurt European farmers. Carney’s European pivot follows months of escalating trade hostility with Washington. In August, U.S. President Donald Trump imposed additional 50 percent tariffs on certain Canadian goods, including…
By Simon Ormiston & Euronews Published on 15/09/2026 – 9:35 GMT+2•Updated 11:22 A Russian warship has fired two emergency flares at a helicopter in the Baltic Sea, with the Russian ambassador summoned over the incident, Danish officials reported. “One of the air force’s Fennec helicopters was today fired at with flares during a routine photographic operation of a Russian frigate, which was located in international waters off Gedser,” Danish armed forces said in a statement. The frigate had fired “two flares towards the helicopter. One of the flares passed at close range to the helicopter.” Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen condemned the incident…
By Euronews Persian Published on 15/09/2026 – 11:03 GMT+2•Updated 11:05 Six months into his tenure as Iran’s ayatollah, Mojtaba Khamenei has given no public interviews and appeared in no new photographs, yet his late wife’s family is now depicting him as a movie buff with a keen interest in start-ups. Farideddin Haddad Adel, the brother of Zahra Haddad-Adel — killed alongside Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in the 28 February US-Israel strike on the supreme leader’s compound — has described his brother-in-law in interviews republished by state-aligned Iranian media. He portrayed Mojtaba Khamenei as someone with broad interests spanning technology, start-ups, psychology, cognitive…
Published on 15/09/2026 – 10:56 GMT+2 Chinese shoppers are barely spending more than they were a year ago, and the gap between what the country makes and what it buys is widening. Figures published by China’s National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday showed year-on-year retail sales growth of just 0.4%, falling short of the 0.8% economists had forecast and slowing from 0.6% in July and 1% in June. However, the number is at least positive. Retail sales shrank 0.6% in May, so August represents an improvement on the low point, but it leaves consumption close to flat at a time…
Microsoft is introducing guardrails and privacy standards for its AI in schools in the United States, as negotiated with the country’s second-largest teachers’ union, amid a growing backlash against AI and screen time. The agreement, signed last week, prohibits the use of AI companions or features “designed to foster emotional attachment or dependency” or designed to keep students engaged for longer than a learning task requires. The standards are legally binding and require third-party audits to check compliance. As part of the wide-ranging agreement, Microsoft says it will not use student or educator data to train AI systems, apart from…
From the blue-tiled monuments of Samarkand to the old quarters of Bukhara and the walled city of Khiva, Uzbekistan’s Silk Road heritage remains the country’s most recognisable draw. But a growing number of international travellers are now discovering a country that extends well beyond its best-known historic cities. Uzbekistan recorded 9.1 million visits by foreign nationals in the first eight months of 2026, up 21.1% year on year, according to the country’s Tourism Committee. Tourism services exports rose by 53.5% to $4.6bn (€3.98bn) over the same period. But the headline arrival figure covers a broad mix of international travel, rather…