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Published on 25/11/2025 – 14:25 GMT+1 We did not have this one on our 2025 Bingo cards… Having successfully put an end to numerous wars and solved all the conflicts he promised to rapidly stop, including the Middle East and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine (let’s not get bogged down with technicalities), Donald Trump is turning his attention to what matters. The President of the United States has reportedly taken the time to push for a revival of his favourite buddy cop action-comedy franchise. According to a Semafor report, which cites “a person directly familiar with the conversations,” Trump “personally pressed”…
An overwhelming 75 percent of voters also think it is important for the U.K. to stand up for Kyiv’s sovereignty, compared to 8 percent who believe it isn’t. The More in Common think tank polled 2,062 British adults between Nov. 22 and 24, as U.S. and Ukrainian officials worked on a peace agreement in Geneva almost four years after Russia began its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. U.S. and Russian officials are meeting in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, just hours after strikes by Moscow killed six people in Kyiv. U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer will co-host a call with a group…
Published on 25/11/2025 – 13:42 GMT+1 The European Parliament approved on Tuesday a legal action against the Commission over the withdrawal of a proposal on high-tech patents meant to help small and medium-sized enterprises negotiate with tech giants. A total of 334 MEPs were in favour of the legal action, mainly from left-wing political groups, while 294 voted against and 11 abstained. The matter will be referred to the EU Court of Justice, which oversees the inter-institutional issues. The legal action concerns a proposalto reform standard-essential patents (SEPs) put forward by the European Commission in 2023 and withdrawn two years…
More than fifty years after the end of the Franco dictatorship, Spain continues to investigate mass graves linked to the civil war and subsequent repression. At a site in Córdoba, archaeologists are examining human remains along with personal items that may help confirm identities through DNA. Yet experts note that, due to limited records and decades of deterioration, many victims may never be conclusively identified, leaving families still searching for answers.
Some X accounts that post far-right ideologies about Europe are not based in the region and are located in Asia or Australia, Euronews Next has found. The social media platform said last week it was adding country labels to X accounts “for authenticity”. A user’s IP address, app store regions and posting behaviour all inform what location is shown by the new feature. Users in the United States identified several accounts based in Eastern Europe, Nigeriaand Pakistan that use “Make America Great Again,” the political slogan made popular by President Donald Trump. Euronews Next looked into over 30 accounts that…
Published on 25/11/2025 – 12:39 GMT+1 The air connection between Madrid and Caracas was interrupted on Monday after a cascade of cancellations by various international and Venezuelan airlines. The decision, which immediately affects thousands of passengers, comes at a time of growing geopolitical tension, fuelled by the designation of the so-called Cartel of the Suns as a terrorist group and by warnings from the US government about air safety in the region. On Monday, Spanish airline Air Europa announced the suspension of its flights to Venezuela until “conditions are adequate”, according to company sources quoted by local media. Estelar and…
The Parliament had agreed a position on the file but the Commission said in February that it planned to scrap its proposal to regulate the licensing of certain patents, arguing there was no “foreseeable agreement” with the Council, where negotiations had become drawn out. The Parliament’s legal affairs committee voted earlier this month to sue the Commission. President Roberta Metsola put the lawsuit to a final plenary confirmation amid pushback from a right-wing majority. The case can now move ahead to the EU’s top court in Luxembourg, which will have to decide whether the Commission was within its rights to…
Published on 25/11/2025 – 12:13 GMT+1 OpenAI is rolling out a ‘shopping research’ tool on ChatGPT to help users find products through a more guided process in time for the holiday season. The tool searches the internet and produces a personalised buyer’s guide to help people decide what to purchase. Shopping research works through conversation. Users describe what they want and can refine results by marking items as “Not interested” or “More like this”, with the agent adjusting suggestions in real time. The new feature comes as AI companies are betting that e-commerce will be a major application of AI.…
In a press release summarizing the judgment, the court added: “Member States are therefore required to recognize, for the purpose of the exercise of the rights conferred by EU law, the marital status lawfully acquired in another Member State.” Member countries “enjoy a margin of discretion to choose the procedures for recognizing such a marriage,” the court added. The court stressed, however, that its ruling does not oblige countries to introduce same-sex marriage under their domestic laws.
Published on 25/11/2025 – 11:13 GMT+1 The Japan National Tourism Organisation (JNTO), along with All Nippon Airways (ANA), is offering free domestic flights across the airline’s entire Japanese regional network to UK and European travellers. The initiative, which will run from 24 November to 31 January 2026, has been introduced to encourage visitors to travel to Japan’s lesser-known regions and ease pressure on crowded destinations like Kyoto and Tokyo. It is part of a “Stopover & Add-on Free Fare” offer, which will allow eligible economy passengers from the UK and Europe to book up to two free domestic flights on…