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He also claimed the West had “shot itself in the foot” by cutting reliance on Russian energy after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. Dmitriev, an increasingly visible Kremlin economic envoy who has negotiated with the U.S. about the war in Ukraine, has ramped up his messaging in recent days, casting Russia as indispensable to global energy markets as supply tightens and arguing Western sanctions have backfired. His bullish remarks come with energy prices skyrocketing as Iran’s blockade of the Strait of Hormuz disrupts liquefied natural gas flows and pushes crude oil toward $100 a barrel, stoking fears of…
Published on 27/03/2026 – 12:25 GMT+1 A new era of quantum computing could challenge the foundations of online security sooner than many expect, Google says. Cybersecurity experts have sounded the alarm for years about quantum computers becoming so powerful that they could break the public encryption systems that protect our online conversations, bank accounts, and most vital infrastructure, wreaking havoc on governments and businesses. In a blog post, Google said that “quantum computers will pose a significant threat to current cryptographic standards, and specifically to encryption and digital signatures”. Quantum computing is a technology that uses the principles of quantum…
Published on 27/03/2026 – 12:05 GMT+1 A Russian court has banned the distribution of the award-winning documentary Mr Nobody Against Putin, after authorities claimed the film promoted “negative attitudes” about the government and the war in Ukraine. The ban on the documentary was issued by a Chelyabinsk court on Thursday after prosecutors said the film negatively portrayed Russia and promoted “extremism and terrorism”, according to AFP. Directed by David Borenstein and Pavel Talankin, the film follows Talankin – a school teacher – at a school in Karavash in Chelyabinsk region. His footage, secretly recorded over two years, chronicles how the…
“I would like to note that local air defense specialists are at a fairly high level, by the way, but they mostly work with ballistic threats. As for short-range air defense — how to counter massive “Shahed” [Iranian-made kamikaze drones] attacks — I believe no one has,” Zelenskyy said previously. Earlier, Zelenskyy said he would gladly trade Ukraine’s interceptor drones and expertise for PAC-3 missiles, which Gulf countries possess plenty of. In the first days of the war, they used more than 800 PAC missiles, while Kyiv has only received about 600 since 2022, according to reporting in the New…
By Greta Ruffino & AP Published on 27/03/2026 – 8:22 GMT+1 Pope Leo XIV will travel on Saturday to the Principality of Monaco, becoming the first pontiff in almost five centuries to visit the Mediterranean enclave. Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni said the visit would offer the American Pope his first real opportunity to address the whole of Europe. “In the Bible, it is the little ones who play a significant role,” Bruni said. Monaco is also one of the few European countries where Catholicism is the state religion. And Prince Albert II of Monaco has recently rejected a proposal to legalise abortion, citing…
Given the Hungarian leader’s success in remaining in power, 10 EU officials and diplomats, all granted anonymity to speak freely with POLITICO, outlined what they see as the worst-case scenario: Orbán securing a fourth term and derailing budget negotiations. “We are not in a rush, so if we win the elections, then we certainly don’t see the need to rush the agreement on the MFF through by the end of 2026,” said Hungarian Minister for European Affairs János Bóka. During negotiations to date, the Hungarian government has called for the links between EU payments and respect for democratic standards to…
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The Iran war is nearing its one-month mark with a mounting civilian toll that aid organisations warn is pushing the limits of international humanitarian law. More than 3,300 people have been killed inside Iran since the war began, among them at least 1,400 civilians, according to figures compiled by Human Rights Activists in Iran (HRANA), a US-based NGO. Euronews was unable to independently verify the numbers. The fighting has increasingly targeted the infrastructure underpinning daily life. Last week, Israeli strikes hit South Pars, one of Iran’s most strategically significant gas fields. Tehran responded by striking Ras Laffan, Qatar’s sprawling LNG…
By Pascale Davies with AP Published on 27/03/2026 – 9:11 GMT+1 Anthropic has won an early round in its legal battle against the Trump administration, after a federal judge awarded the artificial intelligence company an injunction against the government’s order that labelled it a “supply chain risk”. US President Donald Trump and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth publicly declared in February that it was cutting ties with Anthropic after it refused to allow unrestricted military use of its Claude AI model. The restrictions include the use of lethal autonomous weapons without human oversight and mass surveillance of Americans. In response, the US government labelled…
If you haven’t seen “Frozen,” it’s about a place that’s cast into a perpetual winter (Europe) and is governed by a blonde woman in a tower (European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen). Among the other characters are a love interest who turns out to be a baddie of the highest order (U.S. President Donald Trump), and an annoying sidekick who keeps getting into trouble and threatening to ruin everything (Hungarian Prime MinisterViktor Orbán). At the end, everything’s resolved and they all live happily ever after (which seems unlikely). European Commissioner Apostolos Tzitzikostas, who is in charge of the transport…