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Chile has presented Latam-GPT, a project aimed at providing Latin America with its own artificial intelligence (AI) model in a sector dominated by American companies and with the objective of limiting the biases observed in current systems. The initiative has been promoted by Chile’s National Centre for Artificial Intelligence (Cenia), a private corporation with public funding. It has also been supported by universities, foundations, libraries, governmental entities and civil society organisations in countries such as Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Ecuador and Argentina. During the presentation of the project on Television Nacional this week, the Chilean President, Gabriel Boric,…
Die AfD ist zurück bei der Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz. Diesmal offiziell. Drei Abgeordnete sind akkreditiert. Ausgerechnet Markus Frohnmaier, außenpolitischer Sprecher und Vertrauter von Alice Weidel, ist nicht eingeladen. Er reist aber dennoch an. Im Podcast analysieren Gordon Repinski und Pauline von Petzold, warum Frohnmaier die MSC als PR-Bühne im Wahlkampf nutzt, welche Rolle seine Kontakte in die USA spielen und weshalb die AfD mit deutlich größeren Erwartungen nach München gekommen ist. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview spricht der CDU-Außenpolitiker Norbert Röttgen über die Erwartungen an München, die Rolle von US-Außenminister Marco Rubio und die strategische Lage Europas. Ein weiteres zentrales Thema: das Future Combat…
By Lucy Davalou with AP Published on 12/02/2026 – 6:07 GMT+1 A few hours after Canada’s worst school mass shooting in recent history, which left eight people dead and more than 25 injured in British Columbia, police identified the suspect as 18‑year‑old Jesse Van Rootselaar, known to police services due to a past with mental health issues, according to authorities. The 18‑year‑old was found dead from an apparent self‑inflicted injury after the attack on the school, in which six people — including five students and one teacher — were killed, as well as two people in a home who were later identified as…
Allies believe the public will have some sympathy for Rayner over the circumstances of her resignation, as her ambition had been to keep her son out of the public eye. A second MP allied to Rayner said her team “don’t seem at all fazed or panicked” by what HMRC will uncover. “The mood is that they need HMRC to expedite this so that she can pay what she owes and put it behind her,” they said. But trying to move before HMRC makes a decision would be nightmarish. One government official said: “Angela would get 80 MPs [needed for a…
The political damage to Merz and his conservatives appears substantial. Two-thirds of Germans oppose the proposal of his Christian Democratic Union (CDU) to make it harder to work part-time, according to Germany’s benchmark ARD-DeutschlandTrend survey. More consequentially for Merz, his conservatives are losing points on their core issue: the economy. Only 31 percent of Germans surveyed said they trust the chancellor’s conservatives to improve the economy. That still beats other parties, but is 6 percentage points less than last year — tying the conservatives’ lowest economy rating on record. So it came as no surprise, earlier this month, when Merz’s party…
There’s also a 5 percent import duty on all foreign cars. Trading partners that have deals with Canberra — like Korea and Japan — saw that removed but are still charged the luxury car tax. The potential is there: Japan sold $8 billion worth of vehicles to Australia in 2024, with German only in fifth position at $2 billion. While the EU would love to pave the way for more high-end German autos to be sold Down Under, the tax is domestic legislation and not formally part of the talks. Australia was rumored in 2023 to be willing to get…
EU leaders on Thursday head to Alden Biesen castle in the Belgian countryside for a retreat to discuss how to make Europe more competitive as it seeks to reduce dependence on Donald Trump’s America. Slashing red tape will be a major focus of the talks, and on Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that EU countries, not just Brussels, are to blame for excessive rules. Scroll down for the latest news and analysis.
Published on 10/02/2026 – 6:06 GMT+1•Updated 10:08 Ghislaine Maxwell, the convicted associate and former girlfriend of late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, refused to answer questions from the US House Oversight Committee during a deposition on Monday. However, Maxwell, who is currently serving a 20-year prison sentence at a federal prison camp in Texas for sex trafficking, said that if she were pardoned by US President Donald Trump, she would be willing to testify that neither Trump nor former President Bill Clinton had done anything wrong in their connections with Epstein. In a video released by the committee, Maxwell can be…
LONDON — Britain should be part of any “Made in Europe” club giving preference to European goods, the U.K.’s finance chief has said. Rachel Reeves said she was in favor of the plan — floated by France last week as a way to boost European industry — but that it should be “as broad a club as possible.” The proposal would see minimum levels of European-made content mandated in public contracts. “I actually support the idea of some sort of ‘Made in Europe’ or ‘Made in countries that share each other’s values,’” she told an event hosted by the LSE…
Published on 10/02/2026 – 13:18 GMT+1 The US military has boarded another Venezuela-linked tanker after tracking the ship from the Caribbean Sea, as part of an oil quarantine meant to squeeze Caracas. Venezuela has faced US sanctions on its oil and been accused by Washington of relying on a shadow fleet of falsely flagged tankers to smuggle crude into global supply chains. Following the US raid to apprehend then-President Nicolás Maduro in early January, several tankers fled the Venezuelan coast, including Aquila II, the ship that was boarded in the Indian Ocean in the early hours of Monday. “US military…