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By Euronews Published on 21/11/2025 – 10:56 GMT+1 Authorities across seven European countries have dismantled a criminal organisation that smuggled stolen cultural artefacts across the continent for more than 16 years, Bulgarian officials announced on Thursday. The coordinated action involved 131 searches of properties, vehicles and bank vaults across the seven nations, according to Europol. Officers seized more than 3,000 artefacts, including ancient gold and silver coins and other antiquities valued at over €100 million. Authorities also confiscated artworks, weapons, documents, electronic devices, substantial cash sums and investment gold. The operation resulted in 35 arrests linked to a network trafficking thousands…
By Euronews, AP Published on 21/11/2025 – 10:01 GMT+1 US President Donald Trump is considering pressuring states to halt state regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) in a draft executive order, according to The Associated Press, which obtained the document. Such a move will show how far Trump would help AI companies overcome the regulations that they say stifles innovation, as hundreds of public figures and AI experts warn that theAI race to superintelligenceraises concerns, ranging from human economic obsolescence, loss of freedom, and human extinction. Trump and some Republicans argue that the limited regulations already enacted by states, and others that…
By Giorgos Mitropoulos & Emma De Ruiter Published on 21/11/2025 – 10:16 GMT+1 After a rapturous reception in and sold out performances in four French cities,the legendary Martha Graham Dance Company, America’s greatest and longest-running contemporary dance company is now in the Greek capital with “The Fast and the Future” to celebrate its centenary. Martha Graham is universally regarded as the founder of contemporary dance and one of the most influential figures of the 20th century. It was she who created an entirely new dance technique, known as the “Graham Technique”, which allowed dance to become a means of expressing the…
“Regarding Yermak, the president clearly said that personnel issues in his office are his business,” a Ukrainian MP from Zelenskyy’s Servant of the People faction, granted anonymity to speak candidly, told POLITICO. The internal tug-of-war comes as Russia and some U.S. officials are once again pressuring Kyiv to agree to a so-called peace plan, which appears to favor Kremlin demands — though during a discussion with several reporters in Kyiv, American officials claimed the plan is comprehensive and does not amount to Ukraine’s capitulation to Russia. “We are here to support the Ukrainians like we have been throughout this conflict,…
Published on 21/11/2025 – 10:27 GMT+1 The European Commission has confirmed an €82 million financial contribution to the Palestinian Authority after the first meeting of the Palestine Donor Group in Brussels. But the money had already been pledged by four EU member states: Germany, Luxembourg, Slovenia, and Spain – and despite the Commission’s efforts to engage with non-EU countries, the conference has yielded no other commitments. The contribution will be channelled through “Pegase”, the Palestinian-European Socio-Economic Management and Assistance Mechanism, which links European disbursement to specific reforms and aims to control the final destination of the money. The Palestine Donor…
France welcomed the new Beaujolais Nouveau in the early hours of Thursday, opened as always at midnight. In central Paris, small crowds gathered in a local bar to taste the young wine with plates of cold cuts and oysters. Beaujolais can only carry the name if it comes from one of the 85 towns stretching from Lyon to Mâcon, a vineyard area of about 31,000 acres. France remains the main market, buying around nine million bottles a year, while about one hundred countries also import it. For winemakers and restaurant owners, the November release is above all a simple and…
From Soweto to Seattle, from apartheid to Black Lives Matter, Ralph Ziman’s art travels through history of 20th-century violence. The Johannesburg-born artist speaks about his work with the passion and calm of someone who has spent a lifetime confronting violence, not with weapons but with art. His monumental installations, such as ‘Weapons of Mass Production’, reinterpret military symbols, turning them into tools for dialogue and reflection. _”_I was born in South Africa during the dark days of apartheid. As a child I was aware of the injustice. I was raised by my parents, but also by African workers who worked…
Europe must work to unleash the untapped potential of its internal market, European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said, noting that she given the very same message in 2019 – before Russia’s war on Ukraine and U.S. President Donald Trump’s disruptive second presidency. Speaking at the annual European Banking Congress in Frankfurt, Lagarde said the ECB estimates that internal barriers in services and goods markets are equivalent to tariffs of around 100 percent and 65 percent, respectively. While acknowledging that barriers cannot be removed entirely, she pointed out to three key steps to boost potential. These include a overhaul of…
France’s Armed Forces Minister Catherine Vautrin backed top military officer General Fabien Mandon, who has called on the country to show “fortitude” and “accept losing our children” in order to “protect what we are,” warning that Russia is preparing for confrontation with Western nations by 2030. General Mandon told the Congress of French Mayors on Tuesday that France risks failure if it is not prepared to accept casualties and economic pain from prioritising defence production. “If our country flinches because it is not prepared to accept losing its children, because we have to say things, suffering economically because priorities will…
Meet the doge Nicknamed the “Doge of Venice,” Zaia, a former Italian agriculture minister, has spent 15 of his 57 years running Veneto from an office lined with emerald silk in a 16th-century palazzo on the Grand Canal.He won eight out of 10 votes cast in 2020, the highest approval rating of any regional chief, but is barred from running again because of a two-term limit.In an interview with POLITICO, he joked about the whirl of theories about his next steps. “I am in the running for everything: [energy giant] ENI, Venice, parliament, minister.” But when pressed on what he will do,…