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What if the European Union banned VPNs? That question has circulated widely on social media in recent weeks, with some users warning of what they describe as a serious threat to digital freedoms and online privacy. However, the controversy is largely based on a misunderstanding. The debate follows wider discussions around new EU plans to strengthen online age-verification systems aimed at protecting minors from harmful content. VPN stands for Virtual Private Network, which is a privacy security tool that hides a user’s IP address and routes their internet traffic through an encrypted tunnel. People often use them to pretend they…
By Tokunbo Salako with AP Published on 15/05/2026 – 8:42 GMT+2 They came, they saw and they conquered. Ten more entrants have qualified for Saturday’s Grand Final at the Eurovision Song Contest. But five other acts are preparing to go home after failing to make it out of Thursday night’s second semi-final. Performers from Azerbaijan, Luxembourg, Armenia, Switzerland and Latvia were eliminated. After voting by national juries and people around the world, those completing the 25 spots for the finale include Denmark’s Søren Torpegaard Lund with the sultry “Før Vi Går Hjem” (“Before We Go Home”), Australian star Delta Goodrem with power ballad…
Those impacts are especially a concern for Sweden, which is a leading consumer of nicotine pouches, followed by Germany, Poland and other Nordic countries. The country has rapidly reduced smoking over the past 20 years, and its liberal policies on pouches are often cited by tobacco companies and industry-funded consumer groups as a model for others to follow. But according to the WHO, Sweden’s success in suppressing smoking owes to a wide range of tobacco control measures including taxes, advertising restrictions and services to help people quit. “Sweden’s overall positive experience is not as a result of snus [packaged tobacco]…
While Hungarians have been cheering the new Prime Minister, Péter Magyar, politicians and stakeholders in Brussels have been debating a new set of measures aimed at changing the European Union (EU)’s landmark Artificial Intelligence (AI) Act. For the latest, Euronews’ weekly podcast Brussels, My Love? talked to Teresa Küchler, Svenska Dagbladet’s European correspondent and Euronews’ political reporters Luca Bertuzzi and Sandor Zsiros. The start of a new political chapter in Hungary Last Saturday (9 May) the leader of the centre-right, pro-European Tsiza party, Péter Magyar, was sworn in as Hungary’s new prime minister, ending Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule over the…
The United States is reportedly seeking to indict Cuba’s former President Raúl Castro, the 94-year-old brother of late leader Fidel Castro, as Washington ramps up pressure on the communist-run island, US media said on Thursday. An indictment of Castro would be a stunning twist in the deepening crisis in US-Cuba relations, with the island enduring constant power outages prompted by President Donald Trump’s fuel blockade. Trump has repeatedly signalled that he wants to topple the communist government in Cuba. Raul Castro, who succeeded his brother as president of Cuba, oversaw a historic 2015 rapprochement with the United States under Barack…
Alexandra Matthaiou travels to Cannes with her short film Free Eliza (Notes on an Anatomical Imperfection). The film is a co-production between Cyprus, Greece and France and is among nine shorts selected for this year’s programme. Elisa, the heroine, works in a luxury hotel. Due to an anatomical anomaly, she cannot smile. In a world where positivity reigns supreme, this is a serious problem. Elisa will have to defend her difference or adapt to the demands of others. The shooting of Alexandra Matthaiou’s third short film lasted four days and took place in the hotel that inspired her. We met…
Jadallah Masran is 86 years old. Every morning at dawn, he leaves his tent in a displacement camp in eastern Al-Bureij and joins the queue at the nearest bakery. As an older person, he used to have bread brought to him, but now he has to queue for it. “All that comes is pasta, beans and lentils,” Masran told Euronews. “They used to bring bread but stopped completely.” “I’m an old man. Every day at 5:30 in the morning I go stand in line to get a loaf of bread instead of having it delivered to the tent,” he said.…
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US President Donald Trump met with Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Friday for a second day of talks, concluding his state visit to China that has so far resulted in a Chinese offer to help reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but also a warning from Beijing that mishandling Taiwan could spark conflict. On Friday, Trump visited the Zhongnanhai leadership compound next to Beijing’s Forbidden City, where he will have tea and lunch with Xi before travelling back to Washington. “Hopefully our relationship with China will be stronger and better than ever before,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, adding that Xi…
Bolton, who was also U.S. ambassador to the United Nations for President George W. Bush, was unimpressed. “He is wrong,” he retorted. “He (Albares) has also spoken about the need for a European Union army — to which all I can say is good luck with that. “It’s not like Europe is filled with strong political leaders at the moment, or that the capability exists that they can handle a number of crises entirely on their own. It was a key Soviet goal during the Cold War to split the NATO alliance, and one reason among many that that didn’t work…