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The museum insisted no passwords or security maps were stolen and that the systems involved were closed-circuit and not accessible from outside, with “no information lost.” The transfer of items to the vaults, including Medici-era treasures, was unrelated to the cyberattack but due to ongoing renovations. The episode quickly turned political. Former Prime Minister and ex-Florence Mayor Matteo Renzi tore into Giorgia Meloni’s government, accusing Culture Minister Alessandro Giuli of failing to protect one of Italy’s most iconic cultural institutions in his home city. “Hackers attack the Uffizi and threaten our cultural heritage. What is Minister Giuli doing?” Renzi wrote…
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Published on 03/04/2026 – 17:09 GMT+2 Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi might be nearing the final chapters of their legendary rivalry – but together, they’re still capable of breaking the internet. The two icons of modern football have reunited for another World Cup-themed advertisement, this time ahead of the 2026 tournament in the United States. After their viral Louis Vuitton chess campaign before Qatar 2022, Ronaldo and Messi are back – but this time joined by the next generation in Real Madrid’s Kylian Mbappé and Vinícius Jr. The four athletes star in LEGO’s new “Everyone Wants a Piece” campaign, promoting…
European lawmaker Bernd Lange, responsible for the European Parliament’s negotiations on the EU-U.S. trade deal, told POLITICO he believed the Trump administration’s announcement made a final deal more likely. Lange noted that the U.S. administration had scrapped 50 percent tariffs on many steel derived items, bringing some, like motorcycles, to the agreed 15 percent levels. In other cases, however, a special 25 percent rate applied. “The US is increasingly adopting a stance of not further breaching the Scotland Deal,” said the EU lawmaker. But, he added, “we wanted a little bit more, so let’s see.” The White House also confirmed…
She was again questioned by the police on Friday morning as part of an investigation into a social media post she wrote last week expressing solidarity with Japanese terrorist Kōzō Okamoto. Okamoto was convicted of a terrorist attack that killed 26 people at Ben Gurion International Airport in 1972. In her post on Friday, Hassan, who is an MEP with the hard-left France Unbowed party, said she had two types of CBD, a chemical that is found in the cannabis plant but does not have the same intoxicating effects as THC, the main psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. The first type…
By Rédaction Africanews with Jeremiah Fisayo-Bambi Published on 02/04/2026 – 11:08 GMT+2•Updated 03/04/2026 – 8:00 GMT+2 Former Malawian leader Lazarus Chakwera has delivered a blunt warning about the cost of reform in office, saying efforts to tackle corruption can quickly turn leaders into targets. “The fight you engage in fights back,” Chakwera said in an interview on Africanews’ Global Conversation, reflecting on his presidency and the backlash he faced while attempting to expose wrongdoing. Elected in 2020 on a reformist, anti-corruption platform, Chakwera said his time in office was quickly overtaken by overlapping crises, from the global shock of the COVID-19 pandemic to…
ATHENS — Margaritis Schinas, a former European Commission vice president, is set to take over the Greek agriculture ministry after a widening farm fraud scandal prompted the resignation of three top government officials. Agriculture Minister Konstantinos Tsiaras, Civil Protection Minister Ioannis Kefalogiannis and Deputy Health Minister Dimitris Vartzopoulos stepped down Friday after being implicated in fresh allegations from the European Public Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) earlier this week. The European investigations are chipping deeper into the ranks of Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis’ center-right New Democracy party. They focus on dozens of cases in which Greeks allegedly received EU agricultural funds for pastureland…
In Kakanj, an industrial town in the heart of Bosnia and Herzegovina, everything revolves around lignite. Thousands of jobs depend on it. Here lie 440 million tonnes of coal, one of the largest deposits in Europe. I get special authorisation to enter the huge open-cast pit. Coal was already being mined in Kakanj during the time of the Austrian emperor. Before World War I, some five thousand miners toiled here. Today, there are still 1200. One of them is Omer Hrustić: “I was literally a kid when my uncle brought me to the work site. Yeah, it’s three generations, literally.…
Published on 03/04/2026 – 15:39 GMT+2 President Donald Trump said on Friday that the United States could “open” the Strait of Hormuz and “take the oil” if it has more time. “With a little more time, we can easily OPEN THE HORMUZ STRAIT, TAKE THE OIL, & MAKE A FORTUNE. IT WOULD BE A ‘GUSHER’ FOR THE WORLD???” Trump posted. The message, on his Truth Social platform, did not explain how the United States could end Iranian control over the Hormuz waterway or what oil Trump was referring to. Lying between the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman, the…
Swedish authorities suspect the vessel may be part of Russia’s so-called shadow fleet, a covert network of mostly aging oil tankers used to circumvent sanctions imposed after Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine. In a post on X, Civil Defense Minister Carl-Oskar Bohlin said the “older, inadequately insured tankers that circumvent sanctions pose a significant security and environmental threat” to the country. “The government views the incident with grave concern, even though this time it is not a matter of a large-scale oil spill,” he added. It is the third time this year that Swedish authorities have boarded a suspected false-flagged vessel. Last…