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Updated: 02/04/2025 – 12:05 GMT+2Ukraine’s second-largest city was struck by drones, causing injuries and fires, as a larger wave of over 1,800 drones targeted Ukrainian units and settlements across the country. … More Russian attacks on Kharkiv overnight injured eight people, including three children, regional governor Ihor Terekhov said on Wednesday.Fifteen drone strikes hit the city, damaging civilian and industrial buildings and causing widespread destruction in residential areas, with at least 20 homes affected. Firefighters were seen battling large fires at affected sites.Ukraine’s General Staff said that Russia carried out 101 air strikes across the country, using more than 1,800…

Amid ongoing debates surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) and its role in the arts, an Austrian university has admitted an AI as an official student in a world first.The non-binary AI, dubbed “Flynn,” has been enrolled in a digital art programme at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. It can attend classes, receive critiques, and get grades alongside its human peers.Flynn went through a standard application process that included a portfolio submission, interview, and suitability test.”This department specifically appeals to my artificial sensibilities because of its focus on pushing the boundaries of digital art,” Flynn told the admission committee during its interview.”I…

Legendary Canadian-US singer-songwriter Neil Young has expressed concern that he may be unable to return to the United States after criticising Donald Trump.  “If I talk about Donald J. Trump, I may be one of those returning to America who is barred or put in jail to sleep on a cement floor with an aluminum blanket,” the 79-year-old folk musician writes on his Neil Young Archives site – referring to the Trump administration detaining travellers for weeks, deporting and detaining immigrants over their political views, and what actress Jasmine Mooney endured last month.  The Canadian actress said in an interview that she…

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz announced Wednesday a military expansion further into Gaza to capture “extensive territory” and turn it into Israeli-controlled buffer zones. The goal of the operation “is first and foremost to increase pressure for the release of all the hostages in the face of Hamas’ refusal,” Katz wrote in a post on X. He added: “Expanding the operation this morning will increase the pressure on the Hamas murderers and also on the population in Gaza and advance the achievement of the sacred and important goal.” According to the Times of Israel, Katz said the military will move…

It’s a big day, and nobody quite knows how it’ll end. U.S. President Donald Trump will share the details of his tariff plans at about 9 p.m. U.K. time. As we record, the message from the UK government stays the same — it’s a cool and calm approach, talks continue and no retaliation immediately. But is tonight’s Rose Garden moment really about economics, or more about international power dynamics? Also, today is the last PMQs before Easter, so a chance to seek some clues about how Keir Starmer is feeling about any deal.

Elon Musk’s self-purchase of his artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI and social media platform X (formerly Twitter) is the latest sign of AI and social media uniting.While the move is largely seen to be for financial reasons – to boost X’s static revenue by adding it to the AI bubble – it is also likely to fuse the companies so that user data on X can be used to train xAI. “Today, we officially take the step to combine the data, models, compute, distribution and talent,” Musk said when the purchase was announced. Not only does the move consolidate power for Musk,…

“We are trying to identify who are the key people in the U.S. administration; you need to understand who can actually deliver — some … may not be what their titles say,” said one of those envoys in March, complaining that key roles in the White House and the State Department responsible for dealing with Europe had remained unfilled weeks after the inauguration. Complicating the matter further, the diplomat said, the Trump administration preferred to communicate directly with individual EU capitals, even though Brussels plays a pivotal role in trade policy for its 27 members. “Trump sees the EU as…

A fresh push to incentivise Europeans to invest in EU assets has been weaponised in an online disinformation campaign. Euroverify investigates. The EU executive is not looking to “confiscate” up to €10 trillion in money stashed away in European citizens’ savings accounts to spend on defence, despite a claim circulating widely on social media.Euroverify has detected the false allegation on X, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube, fuelled by an article published on the Russian state news agency TASS.The disinformation campaign falsely accuses Brussels of wanting to dip into taxpayers’ savings to “fund its war machine” and “militarise the EU.”The unfounded claims…

More and more audiophiles are flocking to bars that have invested in top end equipment and a focus on vinyl. Euronews Culture speaks to the man who brought the phenomenon to Europe. “This is the Kronos Quartet and Asha Bohsle. I love this album,” smiles Paul Noble, seated on a stool opposite me wearing a cloth cap. From the industrial ceiling hang small spotlight cylinders, super high-spec speakers and a glitter ball. A projector beams mildly psychedelic imagery onto one wall, while another boasts a generous spirits collection that basks invitingly in the effulgence. Sonically obsessed from an early age, Noble…

That has triggered a withering response from Kyiv, which wants Russia banished from the Olympics and other international sporting events as Moscow’s destructive invasion drags on. “We will call on the international community to reject any attempts to normalize the presence of Russian and Belarusian citizens in sports as long as the war against Ukraine continues,” Yuri Muzyka, Ukraine’s deputy sports minister, told POLITICO. “In the Russian Federation, sport is part of state policy, it has no autonomy, and athletes and officials are part of the state propaganda machine,” he said, adding that Kyiv remained “steadfast” in its support for…