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Published on 21/09/2026 – 5:54 GMT+2 US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that in talks with Chinese officials on Sunday, the two sides discussed setting up a way to communicate about AI issues called the “US-China AI dialogue.” “We want a shared vision of common goals and common threats,” Bessent told reporters after talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng in New York. “We think that just like any cross-border activity, that moving from opaque to more transparency between the No. 1 and the No. 2 AI powers in the world is very important.” “The US has proposed that we…
With over 12 million posts on Tiktok, generating billions of views, and influencer videos on Instagram attracting millions of viewers, Air Up bottles have become a viral sensation across Europe. Founded in 2019 by a group of five students in Munich, the brand has now sold over 15 million bottles and more than 200 million of their interchangeable pods. But what makes this bottle so desirable and can a viral hit really become a long-lasting global brand? Cristina Kenz, CEO of Air Up, joined Angela Barnes in the studio for the latest episode of The Big Question to discuss how…
When it’s his turn to draw a card, Cristian M. Amores doesn’t look at anything: he points his iPhone camera at a QR code stuck to the sleeve and waits for VoiceOver to tell him what he has just drawn. He is blind and, since late 2020, has been adapting, card by card, the way he plays “Magic: The Gathering”, the collectible card game created in 1993 by mathematician and doctor Richard Garfield. Amores shares the process under the name Magic Accesible on social network X, and his case is far from isolated: from controllers reprogrammed button by button to…
A new season for Europe’s fashion industry Turning fashion from a linear industry into a circular one is an ongoing, complicated process. For the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a circular economy for fashion is where clothing, shoes and accessories are used more, made to be recycled and created from recycled or renewable inputs. European post-consumer textile waste is currently more likely to be downcycled, landfilled or incinerated rather than recycled in Europe due to a lack of financial incentive and a clear regulatory pathway — meaning the EU is discarding material it could use, while exporting environmental impacts and industrial value…
Germany’s final state elections of the year have redrawn the political map, with the Left emerging as the strongest force in Berlin and the AfD taking the lead in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. The CDU suffered heavy losses in both states, while the SPD made significant gains under state premier Manuela Schwesig. In Berlin, the latest Infratest dimap projection puts the Left at 25.7% of the vote. The CDU comes second with 18.8%, followed by the AfD at 16.3% and the Greens at 14.3%. The SPD has fallen further behind to 12.1%, while the BSW narrowly clears the threshold for parliament. The…
Andersson, who also favors limits on immigration, said some of the governing coalition’s policies had gone too far for average Swedes, such as deporting the teenage children of migrants who had grown up in Sweden. “These are young people that are part of the club and now they have to leave,” she said. “People don’t like it.” Far right a victim of its own success Two big issues that had driven support for the SD in previous elections — gang shootings and immigration — were lower on the agenda in this election, Aylott said. Perhaps because Kristersson’s coalition, with the SD’s…
“The expansion of Alabuga and its affiliated enterprises should be viewed not merely as a problem for the Ukrainian front, but as a long-term challenge to the security of the whole of Europe,” said Serhii Kuzan, head of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre. In-housing production Moscow is working to increase its domestic carbon fiber production to reduce its reliance on imports from China as it aims to manufacture around 130,000 drones for its national “Unmanned Aerial Systems” project by 2030, according to an analysis by the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington-based think tank, this year. Russia…
Exit polls showed Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s party suffering heavy losses in two German state elections on Sunday. Merz’s centre-right Christian Democratic Union is projected to fall to 5.5% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, a largely rural state in Germany’s formerly communist east. That would be its worst result there since World War II. In Berlin, the CDU is projected to finish second with 20% of the vote, trailing the Left Party at 24.5%, according to an exit poll by the public broadcaster ARD. The Alternative for Germany (AfD) made significant gains in Sunday’s regional elections. The vote came two weeks after the…
Published on 20/09/2026 – 21:12 GMT+2 French President Emmanuel Macron declared that France and Canada are “two great independent nations who want to stay that way” during a joint news conference with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney on Sunday. The bilateral summit—held in the French territory of Saint Pierre and Miquelon, located just off Canada’s Atlantic coast—comes against the backdrop of increasingly strained relations between the two nations and the United States. Carney stated that the time had come to significantly strengthen ties with France and the European Union. His comments follow a high-profile visit to Brussels and Strasbourg, where…
The Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania race is also a key test for center-right Chancellor Friedrich Merz, as speculation grows that party insiders could move to replace him if the party collapses again in a regional election. His CDU won only 5.5% in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — the worst outcome for his party in any regional or national election since the end of World War II. In Berlin, Die Linke, or the Left party, is on course to finish first with 24.5%, according to the ARD exit poll, ahead of Merz’s CDU on 20%, which currently controls the mayor’s office in the capital.