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If you send a message on Signal or WhatsApp today, EU law does not apply to it for now. If you send the same photo through an unencrypted app, it may already be checked by an automated system before anyone reads it. This distinction, rather than a broad claim that “the EU reads your DMs,” reflects the core issue in the ongoing debate over Chat Control and the detection of child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online. A revived temporary regulation, in force until 2028, allows platforms to voluntarily scan private messages, photos, and videos for CSAM. This does not apply…
Authorities in the German city of Cologne provided public water sprinklers to allow people to cool off as temperatures reached 35C. Video from Rudolfplatz shows residents and visitors strolling beneath the water sprays. The sprinklers are part of the city’s ‘Cooling Cologne’ campaign, launched in 2025 in partnership with local utility firm RheinEnergie. The misting systems are installed in areas most affected by extreme heat and operate only when the German Weather Service issues official heat warnings.
South Korean technology giant Samsung Electronics on Thursday reported a record operating profit of ₩89.5 trillion (€54 billion) for the April-to-June period, up 56% quarter on quarter and more than 19 times the level recorded a year earlier. Based on Samsung’s published rounded figures, the semiconductor business’s operating profit rose to ₩89.2 trillion (€53.8 billion), 223 times its year-earlier level of ₩0.4 trillion (€241 million). Samsung’s semiconductor business benefited from rising chip prices driven by demand for AI servers and increased shipments of advanced high-bandwidth memory chips used to power AI applications. That outweighed an operating loss in its mobile,…
This summer, amid scorching heatwaves, travellers are looking beyond the usual Mediterranean destinations in hopes of cooler escapes. But will this only be a one-off summer, or mark a durable shift in the tourism market? With temperatures in the European summer now climbing up towards 40C, the trend of seeking out cool has now become cool. This year, visitors “have been telling me that they have escaped the heat in southern parts of Europe”, said Terje Viblom Pedersen, a guide who offers tours in southeastern Sweden. They are “just amazed” by the daytime high temperatures under 30C and sea breezes,…
The Beit Beirut museum’s “Tell Me, South” exhibition has had a constant stream of visitors since its opening back in May. The Sodeco district venue in the Lebanese capital has attracted almost unprecedented attention due to its display of family photos, testimonies and personal stories that have made their way to the city. The aim is to show South Lebanon through its people, far from an image that reduces it to devastation, so that the South’s past does not slip into oblivion and war does not wear it down to death in the memories of its sons and daughters. Despite…
The kingmakers name their price In surveys testing a separate Morawiecki list, support for PiS falls to between 16 and 22 percent, Konfederacja takes roughly 13 to 15 percent and Braun’s party about 10 percent. Morawiecki’s Rozwój Plus (Development Plus) project has backing ranging from below the 5 percent parliamentary threshold to around 7.5 percent. No party with such weak support can govern alone. Bryłka’s conditions for forming a right-wing alliance hinge on Brussels: There must be no more transfer of powers to the EU, no softening on the climate policy that her party has opposed since 2019, and a…
Brussels may have entered summer mode, but one of the first big political moments everyone will be watching when they return to work is Commission President Ursula von der Leyen’s State of the Union address in September. And officials still at their desks are scrambling to make sure the she has something to say. Hosts Zoya Sheftalovich and Sarah Wheaton discuss some of the policy areas von der Leyen might want to emphasize … and others she may want to avoid. Next, as the EU’s AI Office gains sweeping new powers to scrutinize the companies behind systems like ChatGPT, Claude and…
Published on 30/07/2026 – 5:53 GMT+2•Updated 5:54 The US military announced early on Thursday it had completed “a heavy wave of strikes against Iran” conducted in response to earlier Iranian attacks on a US base in Jordan. The latest barrage came after the US partnered with Saudi Arabia to strike Iran-backed militias in neighbouring Iraq, killing at least 20 fighters and six Iranian advisers. The US Central Command said in a post on social media that over a two hour period, the US struck “dozens” of targets belonging to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, including military command centres as well as…
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The Greens, riding high on their Gorton and Denton by-election victory, have put significant effort into this campaign — with MPs and leader Zack Polanski arriving to knock on doors. Coggins said that Labour have just put “a new singer playing the same song” with their leadership switch-up, and argues that voters are skeptical to trust Burnham before he has a record on delivery. About the Thursday contest, Coggins said the Greens hope to make it into the second round with Labour. “We find a lot of people don’t know about the SV, and once they understand that they can…