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The EU began the conference wanting any electrification agreement to refer explicitly to “clean” power, generated from renewables or nuclear, a position enshrined in the negotiating mandate agreed by its 27 member governments last month. But Climate Commissioner Wopke Hoekstra, who will co-lead negotiations for the EU from Monday, suggested in an interview that the bloc could drop that condition. “The world needs much more radical, much faster electrification. Ideally, that comes for the overwhelming part from solar, from wind, and from nuclear sources,” he told POLITICO and other media outlets Friday. “But at the same time, let’s also acknowledge…
Recent footage shows cattle wandering through traffic, grazing in public parks and moving between houses, sometimes after dark. Local authorities in the north-eastern municipality of Kriva Palanka say the animals have caused extensive damage to farmland and municipal property, while residents fear unexpected encounters with the large livestock. Mayor Saško Mitovski has asked the government to declare a 30-day state of crisis, warning that the situation has steadily deteriorated. According to the mayor, the number of roaming cattle has risen from around 400 five years ago to more than 1,000 today. Many of the animals previously belonged to a single…
Not long ago, Nvidia was the world’s most valuable company. Now its future is far less certain. Since Nvidia announced Jensen Huang’s resignation on Thursday, Wall Street analysts have been trying to size up what his departure means for the chipmaker and for the AI industry he helped build. Huang, 63, was one of AI’s most visible champions. He fuelled the boom with advanced chips and financing deals across the supply chain. Nvidia invested in customers and suppliers, helping cloud providers and AI labs build out the infrastructure that runs on its chips. Colette Kress, Nvidia’s finance chief since 2013,…
Published on 13 November 2026 – 14:48 GMT+1 China has warned the United States against tightening chip export controls, as a company founded by the woman at the centre of the Nvidia scandal reportedly obtained banned AI chips. Shanghai Longteng Intelligent Computing, set up by Alice Huang, a former executive at Singapore-based data centre firm Megaspeed, ended up with servers containing Nvidia’s H800 chips, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing documents submitted to the Chinese government. The servers were bought from Dell Technologies by Aperia Cloud Services, an official Nvidia partner in Singapore, according to an unnamed source. It is…
“If ‘El mal querer’ was a dream and ‘Motomami’ was a gamble, ‘Lux’ for me has been a leap into the void. I think it is very important to speak your truth, and this record is mine.” The phrase, spoken by an emotional Rosalía after winning her third album of the year award for her most maximalist project, was nonetheless followed by a warning: “I know I have a lot to learn and I know I probably still haven’t done my best work, but I know I have everything it takes to be the best.” The San Esteve Sesrovires native…
Microsoft on Friday morning said recovery was still uneven. “At this time, we have no evidence of malicious activity associated with this incident. We will continue to treat this with urgency until full mitigation,” it said. At the European Commission “the impact … is very limited and does not affect our operations,” spokesperson Thomas Regnier told POLITICO. He said the outage had a “minor impact on a limited number of applications, such as the slowness of SharePoint.” Outlook and Teams were “fully operational,” Regnier said. The Council of the EU, which gathers representatives of national governments, also carried on work:…
In the capital’s Shevchenkivskyi district, a strike sparked a fire at a medical facility and partially destroyed its second floor, Ukraine’s State Emergency Service reported. Hospital staff evacuated 30 people, while emergency crews rescued another seven. Footage released by the emergency service shows patients being helped to safety, including people using wheelchairs and crutches, as firefighters work to extinguish the blaze. Other images reveal damaged windows, smoke rising from the building and rescue workers moving through hospital corridors. The fire had been extinguished. In the southern port city of Odesa, a separate Russian drone attack killed two people and injured…
By Dogyu Lee & Euronews Doha bureau Published on 13 November 2026 – 12:07 GMT+1 Türkiye signed a preliminary agreement with China on Thursday (12 November) aimed at attracting around $15 billion (€13.5bn) in investment in solar and wind projects, its energy minister said. The agreement was signed at the COP31 UN climate summit in Antalya. It covers plans for solar and wind farms with a combined generating capacity of seven gigawatts, alongside energy storage and improvements to the electricity grid. Energy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar said the cooperation would also involve sharing technology to support the production of wind-turbine equipment in…
Winter travel can be an expensive business, particularly around the Christmas and New Year peak times, but choosing the right dates could make a significant difference to the cost of your trip. New data from Expedia has revealed the cheapest and most expensive days to fly and book accommodation over the coming months, as well as when airports and hotels are likely to be at their busiest. The online travel agency’s “Winter Travel Outlook” looked at both searches for accommodation and flights made between July and October this year for winter breaks compared to the same period in 2025. Here’s…
The Irish Data Protection Commission ruled that Tinder’s “Download My Data” tool is not complaint with GDPR. The company plans to appeal. Listen AI generated Text-to-speech