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Authorities in Tehran have sought to quell an uprising that has spread across more than 100 towns and cities in Iran since Dec. 28. The protests began as demonstrations against the dire economic situation, with rampant inflation and a plunging currency making daily life almost impossible for millions of Iranians. But they quickly grew into a nationwide uprising demanding, in many cases, the overthrow of the ayatollahs’ authoritarian regime. Accurate data is difficult to verify, after the regime shut off internet communications, but an Iranian official claimed around 2,000 people may have been killed, including security personnel, according to Reuters. Many…
Russia launched another large-scale attack on Ukraine overnight on Tuesday targeting its energy grid and killing at least four people. The attack — the second major barrage in just four days — consisted of almost 300 drones, 18 ballistic missiles and seven cruise missiles, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wrote on X. “Once again, the main target of the strike was our energy,” Zelenskyy wrote, adding that there was also “extensive destruction of residential and civilian infrastructure. Dnipro, Zhytomyr, Zaporizhzhia, Kyiv, Odesa, Sumy, Kharkiv and Donetsk regions came under attack.” In recent months, Russia has ramped up its attacks on Ukraine’s…
Published on 13/01/2026 – 13:31 GMT+1 Shares in Ørsted climbed about 5% on Tuesday after a federal judge in Washington cleared the company and its partners to restart work on the $5bn (€4.28bn) Revolution Wind offshore wind development, which had been put on ice by the Trump administration. In an order from the US District Court for the District of Columbia, the judge granted preliminary relief that pauses a 22 December stop-work directive issued by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the Interior Department agency that oversees offshore energy development in federal waters. This means construction can resume while…
By Euronews, AP Published on 13/01/2026 – 13:36 GMT+1 Malaysian authorities said on Tuesday they will take legal action against Elon Musk’s social media platform X and its artificial intelligence unit xAI, accusing the companies of failing to ensure the safety of users of its Grok chatbot. The move came just days after Malaysia and Indonesia became the first countries to block access to Grok, as concerns grow that it is being misused to generate sexually explicit and nonconsensual images. The Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission said in a statement that it has identified the misuse of Grok to generate and…
Rogers, an appointee of President Donald Trump, has repeatedly criticized European efforts to crack down on hate speech. She was involved in last month’s State Department decision to sanction former European Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other European nationals involved in efforts to curb the spread of disinformation. At least one lawmaker aligned with Trump has also weighed in on behalf of the Elon Musk-owned platform. U.S. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, a Florida Republican, said last week she was drafting legislation to sanction the U.K. if X is banned in the country. In her GB News interview Rogers accused the…
By Euronews Published on 13/01/2026 – 11:04 GMT+1 North Korean leader Kim Jong-un replaced three top officials in charge of his personal security, South Korea said Tuesday, suggesting the leader may fear assassination attempts. Seoul’s Unification Ministry said three state agencies handling Kim’s security had new bosses. The reshuffle was spotted during a military parade in October. The changes at the Bodyguard Command, which handles security measures against drone or electronic attacks, could be linked to Kim’s decision to send troops to aid Russia’s war in Ukraine, said Hong Min, analyst at the Korea Institute for National Unification. “Change in the…
By Euronews, AP Published on 13/01/2026 – 10:45 GMT+1 Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok will join Google’s generative AI engine in operating in the United States’ Pentagon network, US defence secretary Pete Hegseth announced on Monday. The announcement comes just days after Grok — which is embedded into X, the social media network owned by Musk — drew global outcry and scrutiny for generating highly sexualized deepfake images of people without their consent. Hegseth said it comes as part of a broader push to feed as much of the military’s data as possible into the developing technology. “Very soon we…
The talks come after Trump ramped up his rhetoric on Greenland in a series of saber-rattling statements in recent days following his administration’s bombing raid on the Venezuelan capital and capture of leader Nicolás Maduro. In a sign of the increasing diplomatic activity, Motzfeldt and Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen will travel to Brussels on Monday for a meeting with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte. Both Copenhagen and Greenland, a self-ruling Danish territory, have rejected Trump’s designs on the island, which he has repeatedly stated is vital to American security interests. “I’d love to make a deal with them.…
By Euronews Published on 13/01/2026 – 12:02 GMT+1 French farmers steered some 350 tractors through Paris on Tuesday to protest low incomes and an EU trade deal with South America they say threatens their livelihoods. The tractors entered Paris shortly after 6 am through Porte Dauphine, escorted by police, and rumbled down Avenue Foch toward the Arc de Triomphe before driving along the Champs-Elysées. The convoy crossed the Seine River to reach the National Assembly, snarling rush-hour traffic. The protests were led by the FNSEA farmers’ union and Jeunes Agriculteurs or Young Farmers, demanding “concrete and immediate action” to defend France’s…
By Euronews with AP Published on 13/01/2026 – 10:56 GMT+1 Apple will rely on Google to help complete its efforts to smarten up its virtual assistant Siri and bring other artificial intelligence (AI) features to the iPhone as the trend-setting company plays catch-up in technology’s latest craze. The deal, which allows Apple to tap into Google’s AI technology, was disclosed on Monday in a joint statement from the Silicon Valley powerhouses. The partnership will draw upon Google’s Gemini technology to customise a suite of AI features dubbed “Apple Intelligence” on the iPhone and other products. After Google and others took the early lead…