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By Christina Molle with Agences Published on 16/06/2026 – 16:59 GMT+2 The French government wants to free itself from American influence. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu announced on Tuesday morning that French firm ChapsVision has been chosen to replace US company Palantir in handling large-scale data processing for the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI). “We cannot accept new strategic dependencies in the digital sphere”, the prime minister argued, saying he wanted to “build real autonomy” so as “not to depend on the goodwill of certain partners, who are able to turn off the tap of access” to AI. A break after ten years…
Iran coach Amir Ghalenoei said his team was “perhaps the most oppressed in the World Cup,” after his side was ordered to leave the US and fly back to its training base in Tijuana only hours after opening the tournament with a 2-2 draw against New Zealand on Monday night. “They didn’t even give us time to recover,” Ghalenoei said through an interpreter. “After the game today, they said to us, ‘You have to leave immediately. “It’s very important for us to have time for recovery, but we are asked to get on a plane and return to our camp…
The British PM has been in the room twice with U.S. President Donald Trump since they arrived at the G7 summit, but has not been offered a bilateral meeting. He was also absent from a meeting between Trump, Emmanuel Macron and Volodymyr Zelenskyy, which took place separately from Tuesday’s working session on Ukraine. Starmer denied he had been “snubbed” and said Trump had raised no concerns with him about the U.K.’s defense spending or the announcement of a new social media ban for children. The prime minister said he had had “a very honest and frank” and “productive conversation” with…
A Russian artist well-known for satirising President Vladimir Putin has been shot dead in eastern Poland, officials said on Tuesday. “An investigation is being conducted…into the murder of a 44-year-old citizen of the Russian Federation…known in the media as Semyon Skrepetsky,” a spokesman for the prosecutor’s office in Lublin, Marcin Kozak, told journalists. Two Belarusian nationals have been arrested in connection with the killing, he added. They were detained in the vicinity of the Belarusian consulate in Biała Podlaska in eastern Poland, where the killing took place. According to Polish officials, Skrepetsky, whose real name is Robert Kuzovkov, was shot…
A light-hearted World Cup moment briefly stole the spotlight at the G7 summit in France on Tuesday when German Chancellor Friedrich Merz presented U.S. President Donald Trump with a German national football team jersey bearing the name “Trump 47.” The gift was exchanged as G7 leaders gathered for a working session attended by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Video showed Merz handing the jersey to Trump before leaders took their seats for discussions on Ukraine, the Middle East and global economic challenges. The gesture came as football remains in the global spotlight during the 2026 World Cup, co-hosted by the United…
Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi thriller Disclosure Day is proving to be a box office hit, having debuted to $93 million globally. The film marks the celebrated director’s return to human contact with extraterrestrial life, focusing on a whistleblowing mission to uncover a government conspiracy regarding aliens visiting Earth. While the film is on track to become the 79-year-old director’s best performing original title in the US, reactions have been mixed. We’re in two minds. On one hand, the uneven script undercuts Spielberg’s efforts, and the third act topples into shmaltzy parody. However, Disclosure Day remains further proof that few directors can…
“We will increase our numbers,” said ECR co-chair Nicola Procaccini on Tuesday at a press conference, though cautioning “we don’t want to enlarge our numbers only because we want to be bigger than the others ― we want to increase our influence through the right people.” In recent months, Renew Europe has welcomed German MEP Lukas Sieper, Italian MEPs Elisabetta Gualmini and European Parliament Vice President Pina Picierno, both defectors from Italy’s Social Democrats. “Each of the groups in this Parliament has an interest in growing to gain influence,” Renew chair Valérie Hayer said in February. Bartůšek won her seat…
Published on 16/06/2026 – 15:00 GMT+2 Almost 2.4 million refugees will need resettling next year, the United Nations said on Tuesday, at a time when a number of countries have slashed resettlement spots. UNHCR, the UN refugee agency, warned of a dire shortage of options for such refugees, who cannot return home and face risks in their country of asylum. “Expanding resettlement is urgent and achievable,” Jackie Keegan, who leads UNHCR’s durable solutions and field protection support service, told journalists in Geneva. “Increased quotas, bringing more countries on board, and accelerating processing will ensure this life-saving tool reaches more of…
Published on 16/06/2026 – 14:21 GMT+2•Updated 14:25 SpaceX is pushing deeper into AI with its largest acquisition yet, striking a $60 billion (€51.7bn) all-stock agreement to buy Anysphere, the developer of the AI coding assistant Cursor. The purchase, announced on Tuesday, is intended to strengthen SpaceX’s position in the enterprise AI market, where rivals such as OpenAI and Anthropic have found early commercial traction. Anysphere is a San Francisco startup that uses AI to automate large parts of software development, and its Cursor tool is widely used by programmers. According to a regulatory filing, the two sides signed a merger…
Yesterday’s Spain vs Cape Verde has already gained a prime spot in football history. It’s not just about the result, which had the reigning European champions and World Cup favourites held to a 0-0 draw against a tiny archipelago of half a million people. The game brought to fame a name that most football fans probably never heard before. His name is Roberto “Pico” Lopes, a Cape Verde defender who plays for Ireland’s Shamrock Rovers. What makes him special? For a start, he wasn’t even born in Cape Verde, but in Ireland, to an Irish mother and a Cape Verdean…