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Pope Leo XIV celebrated Lebanon’s tradition of interfaith coexistence Monday as a beacon of hope for a conflict-torn region, calling for “the divine gift of peace” in a meeting with the country’s Christian and Muslim religious leaders. The pope received a great welcome from Lebanon’s spiritual leaders on his first day of visit, where billboards bearing his image dotted highways around the capital, Beirut, with thousands of ordinary Lebanese braving the steady rain in the morning to line his motorcade route. The interfaith meeting in Martyr’s Square in Beirut had Lebanon’s Christian patriarchs and Sunni, Shiite, and Druze spiritual leaders…
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming part of daily life. The tools and opportunities offered by major AI companies have grown rapidly in recent years. Education is no exception. Authorities, teachers or scholars reveal how the students use tools such as ChatGPT to complete homework, including essays. At the same time, AI also offers valuable support for teachers. How widely are teachers using AI across Europe? Which countries are ahead? And what do teachers rely on AI for the most? According to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s (OECD) Teaching and Learning International Survey (TALIS), teachers’ use of AI significantly…
At the same time, Europe expects networks to become more resilient, more redundant, less dependent on foreign technology and more capable of supporting defense-grade applications. Security and resilience are not side tasks for telecom operators, they are baked into everything they do. From procurement and infrastructure design to daily operations, operators treat these efforts as core principles shaping how networks are built, run and protected. Therefore, as the Copenhagen Economics study shows, the level of protection Europe now requires will demand substantial additional capital. It is unrealistic to expect world-class, defense-ready infrastructure to emerge from a model that has become…
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Mit einer neuen Einheit der Bundespolizei will Innenminister Alexander Dobrindt eine klare Antwort auf die wachsende Bedrohung durch Drohnen geben und die im Zweifelsfall auch besser abwehren. Rasmus Buchsteiner erklärt, welche Möglichkeiten die Einheit künftig hat, wie Bund, Länder und Bundeswehr zusammenarbeiten sollen und warum trotz neuer Strukturen weiter Unsicherheit bleibt. Im 200 Sekunden Interview spricht Georg Maier, Innenminister in Thüringen, über die Lage aus Sicht der Länder. Er warnt vor hybriden Angriffen, kritisiert Kompetenzüberschneidungen und fordert ein nationales Lagebild sowie einen Aktionsplan. Maier macht deutlich, dass die Länder den Schutz des Luftraums allein nicht leisten können und auf zusätzliche…
The White House said Monday that a Navy admiral acted “within his authority and the law” when he ordered a second, follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean Sea in a September U.S. military operation that has come under bipartisan scrutiny. According to White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, defence “Secretary Hegseth authorised Admiral Bradley to conduct these kinetic strikes, said Leavitt. “Admiral Bradley worked well within his authority and the law, directing the engagement to ensure the boat was destroyed and the threat to the United States of America was eliminated. Leavitt, in her comments to…
Transparency experts have warned that the source of cryptocurrency donations can be difficult to track. That raises concerns that foreign donations to political parties and candidates — banned in almost all circumstances under British law — as well as the proceeds of crime and money laundering could slip through the net. Labour’s elections bill is also expected to place new requirements on political parties and their donors. It is set to include a clampdown on donations from shell companies and unincorporated associations, and could force parties to record and keep a risk assessment of donations that could pose a risk…
“The richest families in cocoa — the Marses, the Ferreros, the Cargills, the Jacobs — are billionaires thanks to the exploitation of the poorest children on earth,” said journalist and human rights campaigner Fernando Morales-de la Cruz, the founder of Cacao for Change. “And countries like Norway, which claim to be ethical, profit from slavery and child labor.” The problem is, few are asking who picks the cocoa. And though the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, which was adopted last year, requires large companies to address human rights and environmental abuses in their supply chains, critics say the directive’s…
“Ministers agreed we need to agree on the funding options as a matter of urgency,” Kallas told reporters after the Foreign Affairs Council. “We need to work on the legislative proposals to work on all the risks and mitigate all the risks and share the burden regarding those risks, but we definitely need to move on.” Ahead of the gathering, Swedish Defense Minister Pål Jonson called for more sanctions on Russia as well as the use of the Russian frozen assets to allow Ukraine to “negotiate from a position of strength.” On the sidelines of the gathering, the Netherlands announced a €250…
In the conversation, Nadella stressed that digital sovereignty is a critical consideration for any nation. “I think that every country, whether it’s at the European Union level or at the country level, like in Germany, I think sovereignty is an important consideration,” he said. “So every country would like to ensure that there is continuity of their supply, there is resilience in their supply. And there’s agency in which they operate. And that’s one of the reasons why we have made all these commitments.” Nadella said that true sovereignty goes beyond infrastructure. “The new chapter of sovereignty is … what…