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The company claimed the U.S. government imposed export controls out of concerns that some of the models’ built-in safeguards could be bypassed, a process known as “jailbreaking.” “To date, the government has only given us verbal evidence of a potential narrow, non-universal jailbreak,” the company said. It added that it disagreed “that the finding of a narrow potential jailbreak should be cause for recalling a commercial model.” In early April, Anthropic announced it had granted a limited set of trusted tech and cyber firms access to Mythos Preview through the Glasswing project to help them boost cyber defenses. The decision…
Published on 13/06/2026 – 10:51 GMT+2 The picture was taken by Emilio Morenatti, an AP photographer and two-time Pulitzer Prize winner, during the popemobile tour through Barcelona last Tuesday. In the image at the top of this article, Pope Leo XIV gazes intently at a boy and holds both his hands as the two smile. Morenatti later said the photograph was only possible because he broke with the routine photographers usually follow at this kind of event. ‘Covering a papal visit is often frustrating, because we are confined to fixed positions with little freedom to look for other angles,’ he…
Kaja Kallas has been caught in a political whirlwind after an informal document linked to the French government floated several ideas to drastically revamp her position of High Representative, the European Union’s foreign policy chief. The paper pitches three options, one of which would strengthen her portfolio and expand her competencies into trade and economic development. The other two options, however, would severely weaken her role by shifting powers either to the European Commission, led by Ursula von der Leyen, or to the member states. Amid the damaging headlines, Kallas opened the door for a fresh debate but made it…
Published on 13/06/2026 – 9:33 GMT+2 The United States kicked off their World Cup campaign with a dominant 4-1 win against Paraguay in Los Angeles on Friday, setting the tone for Group D. Goals from Giovanni Reyna and Folarin Balogun, alongside a little help from a Paraguay own goal, proved too much for the South American side, as ex-Paris Saint-Germain coach Mauricio Pochettino’s team romped home to victory. Despite the immense pressure of the occasion, the US side were superb in the opening 45 minutes, before a classy outside-of-the-boot finish sealed the win late in the game. It was an…
Published on 13/06/2026 – 7:35 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump said US forces carried out an operation to eliminate the leader of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang, which he called “one of the most bloodthirsty terrorist organizations on planet Earth”. In a post on Truth Social, Trump said the United States Southern Command had conducted a “swift and lethal kinetic strike” to take out Hector Guerrero Flores, the gang’s leader and cofounder, who is also known as Niño Guerrero. Trump’s post included a short, unclassified video showing a building with a green roof exploding. Pete Hegseth, the US Secretary…
Long before Spain lifted the Women’s World Cup, or stadiums began to fill up to watch women playing football**,** there was already a Spanish women’s team playing international matches without the support of the federation. In the early 1970s, a group of footballers travelled around the country promoting a sport that was still viewed with suspicion under the Franco dictatorship. That team went on to face Portugal and Italy and had a captain who would become one of the greatest legends of Spanish women’s football: Concepción Sánchez Freire, better known as Conchi Amancio. Regarded as the first Spanish female professional…
By euronews Published on 13/06/2026 – 6:30 GMT+2 A giant hydrogen-powered engine has successfully generated electricity for Spain’s national grid in what its manufacturer says is a world first for large-scale power generation. The technology was developed by Finnish energy company Wärtsilä and tested at its facility in northern Spain. The engine runs entirely on hydrogen and is designed to help solve one of renewable energy’s biggest challenges: providing electricity when wind and solar power are not generating enough energy. Company officials say hydrogen-powered engines could help balance future power grids without producing carbon emissions. Unlike hydrogen fuel cells, the system…
“I am a strong believer in a sustainable model of development,” Silvio Gonzato, the EU’s ambassador to Albania, told POLITICO. “So it breaks my heart sometimes to see the things that have been done because I recognize the same stupid mistakes that we made in Italy, in other parts of Europe, maybe in Romania,” he said. “We’ve been advocating that you cannot, again, ask member states to grant you a 10-year [exemption] from EU rules in the environmental sector and then pursue a model of development that aggravates the problems,” said Gonzato. Albania has passed controversial laws on strategic investments…
This rule does not require airlines to include a link to the compensation form or a pre-filled form — two ideas pushed by Parliament but rejected by EU countries. Criteria for extraordinary circumstances The criteria was also revised for so-called extraordinary circumstances — cases in which airlines do not have to pay compensation to passengers for flights canceled or delayed because the disruption is outside carriers’ control. EU policymakers agreed that this concept “should refer to events which, by their nature or origin, are not inherent in the normal exercise of the activity of the air carrier concerned and are…
Published on 12/06/2026 – 8:32 GMT+2•Updated 11:38 Thai Princess Bajrakitiyabha Mahidol has died aged 47, more than three years after she was hospitalised following a sudden illness, the royal palace announced on Friday. The king’s eldest daughter was suffering from an abdominal infection and was relying on medical devices to support her lung and kidney functions, until she passed away peacefully on Thursday evening. She will lie in state at the Grand Palace in Bangkok and her funeral will be held “with the highest honours according to royal tradition”, the Bureau of the Royal Household added. Known in Thailand as…