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Asked by POLITICO if he regretted the choice to work in Russia, Koolhaas shot back: “If I thought it was a mistake I wouldn’t have done it and even now in retrospect I think it would be right. We created a potential (in Garage) which is currently not used, but it was good to create that potential and maybe some day, it will be — that potential is still there.” He added that “dialogue with Russia and Russians” was a more promising route to healing division between Moscow and the West — and claimed that following an American model of attempts…

Directed by Christopher McQuarrie, the latest instalment in the long-running franchise is this year’s biggest Hollywood production to screen at the festival.Crowds gathered outside the Palais des Festivals as Cruise and the cast posed for photographers, briefly halting activity around the red carpet.While McQuarrie is due to appear in an onstage interview, no press conference was held for the film.Cruise, who received an honorary Palme d’Or in 2022, has remained a festival favourite.

“I want there to be a labor shortage, because that’s the way to getting productivity improvements,” Tice said. “That’s the way to get wage growth for the least well-off and that’s the way to get millions of people off benefits and back into work.” For Tice, any youth mobility deal — a key EU objective in upcoming talks — would open “a backdoor to the freedom of movement.” Britain’s Labour government has repeatedly stressed that a return to European free movement post-Brexit is a red line in any talks with Brussels. Mindful of being accused of unpicking Brexit, it has…

Estonia has warned that Russia is willing to protect its shadow fleet of ageing tankers with military force. Moscow is thought to operate dozens of these oil-transporting vessels to avoid sanctions imposed on it after its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.The warning about Moscow’s willingness to offer military protection to its shadow fleet came after Estonia recently intercepted a suspicious vessel in its waters. The Estonian navy stopped the ship, named ‘The Jaguar’, because it was flying no flag and appeared not to have any insurance. Speaking at a NATO meeting in Turkey on Thursday, Estonian Foreign Minister…

Cyclones, floods and other disasters forced people from their homes 45.8 million times last year, official figures show, nearly double the annual average over the past decade. Virtually all of these internal “disaster displacements” were due to extreme weather events, which are being turbocharged by climate change.That’s according to the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC)’s latest global report, which also found that the number of people living in internal displacement at the end of 2024 exceeded 80 million for the first time. In total, 83.4 million people were forced to move within their own country due to conflict and violence, as well…

YouTube will start playing advertisements directly after the “peak” moments of its videos, the latest in a string of new tools from its parent company that are backed by artificial intelligence (AI).The platform will use Google’s AI model Gemini to identify the point in videos “where audiences are the most engaged” – and allow brands to place ads there, the company said in a blog post Wednesday.YouTube gave an example: A video of a marriage proposal atop a snowy mountain could be strategically interrupted with an ad immediately after the groom pops the question.The new tool is called “Peak Points,”…

The study, published in The Lancet Planetary Health, examined how climate and other factors have influenced the spread of dengue and chikungunya in Europe over the past 35 years. It found that outbreaks have become more frequent and severe since 2010, in line with rising temperatures. “Our findings highlight that the EU is transitioning from sporadic outbreaks of Aedes-borne diseases towards an endemic state,” the study said. In 2024, the hottest year on record, a total of 304 dengue cases were reported in the EU — “a historic peak compared with the combined total of 275 cases in the previous 15…

Lhermitte said that during the same time period, American investors were spooked by geopolitical tensions, spiking energy costs and sluggish growth. The coronavirus pandemic and the rise of energy prices set off by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have plunged Europe in period of industrial decline. “A region with no growth during three years is exhausting,” Lhermitte said. The situation is likely to get worse, especially with Trump’s threat to raise across-the-board tariffs on European goods from 10 percent to 20 percent as he seeks to convince foreign companies to produce more goods in the United States.  “Companies tell us that this is a major reason for concern,” said Lhermitte.…

Over 95 per cent of French Guiana – a French overseas department nestled between Brazil and Suriname – is covered in tropical forests, a wild, thick, humid ecosystem found in regions near the equator. Tropical forests play an important role in mitigating climate change, as they absorb a great share of the carbon dioxide (CO2) stored in terrestrial biomass. However, quantifying exactly how much CO2 these forests absorb is challenging, as their dense canopies make them almost impenetrable.But the answer to these doubts might come from French Guiana itself. Blasting off from Europe’s spaceport in Kourou on April 29, the European…

TikTok is the second platform to receive a warning from the EU under the Digital Services Act (DSA), following preliminary findings against Elon Musk’s X released last summer. TikTok does not “provide the necessary information about the content of the advertisements, the users targeted by the ads, and who paid for the advertisements,” and it also does not allow the public to search for ads, the Commission said. The investigation into TikTok started in February 2024, and several aspects of the probe are outstanding: addictive design, minors’ protection and giving data access to researchers. The Commission closed another DSA investigation…