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A sudden blank screen startled almost three million Ueno Bank customers in the early hours of Tuesday 3 November. At around 03:24, the app of the Paraguayan institution, a key player in the system that manages multimillion-dollar state funds and has grown at breakneck speed in its three years of existence, stopped displaying users’ accounts and showed a single message: “We cannot display the balance”. At the same time, the Central Bank of Paraguay issued a tough statement on its social networks: the institution was being taken over and its liquidation process was starting. This “resolution procedure” against Ueno Bank…
The U.S. government has scuttled a French push for the G7 to coordinate on advanced AI safety, with a White House official calling it “unnecessary bureaucracy.” France’s digital minister Anne Le Hénanff told a French Senate hearing on Wednesday that she held two ministerial meetings in September and October to secure G7 commitments to a high-level working group to test frontier AI — the most advanced models — and share information about risks and incidents. That effort “did not reach a successful conclusion” because the U.S. wanted to pursue its own approach, the French minister said. “They are not prepared,…
A slow, noisy column of tens of thousands wound through eastern center of Lyon on Thursday, banners and flares at its head, as French unions staged their fourth nationwide strike day of the autumn over pay and public services. Authorities counted 30,500 marchers, while the CGT union estimated 55,000. Protesters waved union banners and Palestinian flags as they made their way through the city. The march followed a route imposed by local authorities, who had banned demonstrations across much of central Lyon over fears of renewed vandalism and looting. Unions challenged the restrictions in court but lost their appeal. Tensions…
A sudden blank screen startled almost three million customers of Ueno Bank in the early hours of Tuesday 3 November. At around 03:24, the app of the Paraguayan institution, a key player in the system that manages state funds worth millions and has grown at breakneck speed in its three years of existence, stopped displaying users’ accounts and showed a single message: “We cannot display the balance”. At the same time, the Banco Central del Paraguay published a tough statement on its social media accounts: the bank was placed under intervention and its winding-up process began. The reason for this…
Published on 5 November 2026 – 15:47 GMT+1 Over 100 rights groups across 15 European countries will protest the rapid development of energy-hungry data centres, calling for an immediate moratorium on new large-scale projects until clearer rules governing them are put in place. The Stop Dirty Data Centres protests are taking place this Friday and Saturday (6-7 November), with actions planned in Ireland, Poland, Denmark, Finland, Spain, the Netherlands, France and the United Kingdom. The organisers say the action comes “amid growing concerns about the impact of data centre expansion on local communities, public infrastructure, land, water and energy use,…
While the EU has repeatedly insisted it gets a “seat at the table” at Ukraine peace talks, to safeguard the region’s interests and bolster Kyiv’s ability to resist a lopsided deal, the bloc has yet to agree on a single leader or institution to spearhead negotiations. “I’m convinced that we all realize how, by projecting the image of a Europe that’s all over the place, we’re doing nothing but serving the interests of those who want this war to continue. And I think this is unacceptable, given that human lives and the future of our security are at stake,” the…
By Euronews Roma Published on 5 November 2026 – 12:18 GMT+1 Leonardo has received orders exceeding 60 billion euros for the first time, the company said in a statement released on Thursday. “The results for the first nine months of 2026”, which also include rising revenues in all the sectors in which the Italian group is active in defence and aerospace, “confirm the soundness of our development path, characterised by financial solidity, a strong commercial proposition, the breadth of our offering and the expansion of our production capacity”, said Lorenzo Mariani, Chief Executive Officer and General Manager of Leonardo. “We are…
Burnham has said that options could include membership of the single market or customs union, but also rejoining wholesale. Barnier, however, said there can be “no cherry-picking” when it comes to joining the single market — a line he often used as Brexit negotiator. Barnier, who spent roughly three months as French prime minister in 2024 before falling to a vote of no confidence in parliament, also weighed in on next year’s presidential election in his home country. He called the current atmosphere in French politics “pre-insurrectionary” and said he regrets that two radical candidates who want to fundamentally reshape…
Argentine President Javier Milei and Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez came face to face on Thursday morning at the 30th edition of the Ibero-American Summit in Madrid, exchanging a brief and visibly distant greeting. The encounter came just two weeks after Milei described Sánchez as an “unpresentable dictator”, in the latest episode of a long-running political dispute between the two leaders. Their relationship has been strained for years, with ideological differences repeatedly escalating into personal attacks. Tensions reached a diplomatic crisis in May 2024, when Spain withdrew its ambassador from Buenos Aires after Milei criticised Sánchez and his wife, Begoña…
By Doloresz Katanich with AP Published on 5 November 2026 – 13:32 GMT+1•Updated 13:37 In a widely expected move, the Bank of England raised its main interest rate to 4% from 3.75% on Thursday. The main cause of the rise in inflation this year has been down to the sharp increase in fuel costs because of the Iran war and the ensuing bottlenecks in the Strait of Hormuz, which have squeezed global oil and gas supplies. Thursday’s increase was the first since August 2023. Eight policymakers voted for the quarter-point increase, while one wanted a larger, half-point rise. The pressure on the Bank…