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Authorities in Ceuta are struggling to cope with thousands of people that remain in the autonomous city following the mass arrival of migrants last week. Security forces estimate that around 73,500 people have already left the North African exclave and returned to Morocco, while local authorities say up to 5,000 remain in the Spanish territory, including 862 minors. The crisis has so far resulted in at least 88 confirmed deaths, according to Ceuta’s authorities, in addition to bodies recovered by Moroccan authorities in Moroccan waters. Juan Vivas, the president of Ceuta, estimates that between 3,000 and 5,000 migrants remain in…
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Published on 17/07/2026 – 16:43 GMT+2 Doomscrolling for hours, paying bills, watching full episodes — smartphones have become an all-day habit. But all that swiping and typing is taking a toll on our hands. “Texting thumb” is an umbrella term for a range of phone-related pains: stiffness, throbbing near the knuckle, a clicking sensation when bending the thumb. Left untreated, the repetitive strain can develop into carpal tunnel, arthritis or De Quervain’s tenosynovitis. “Our hands were not designed to use phones all day long,” said Eugene Tsai, a surgeon at Cedars-Sinai Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine. “In order for us to…
Poland on Monday appealed a Brussels court judgment ordering it to take delivery of roughly 64 million unwanted Covid-19 doses and pay Pfizer about €1.3 billion. Warsaw also asked judges to freeze the ruling’s provisional enforcement while the challenge is heard. “The decision of the court of first instance does not take into account all the relevant factual and legal circumstances of the case,” the Health Ministry said in a statement. It added that Poland would use “all legal means of defense,” but declined to disclose its arguments or evidence, citing the need to protect the state’s interests. The ruling…
By Veronika Schuerr Published on 03/08/2026 – 19:52 GMT+2 More than a year after authorities took down the darknet marketplace “Archetyp Market,” German prosecutors have charged the alleged operator of the platform, which was reportedly used for the large-scale trading of illegal substances. The 31-year-old suspect is accused of having run the platform since July 2020, facilitating the sale of narcotics and other illegal substances. Prosecutors allege that, from June 2022 onward, he operated the marketplace as part of an organized criminal group involving at least two other people, generating around €20 million in revenue. At the time it was shut…
Published on 21/07/2026 – 14:26 GMT+2 Fabricated animal footage on social media is distorting conservation efforts and could be undermining public support for endangered species, a study has found. Generative AI tools are now capable of producing convincing wildlife videos and photographs that never happened, according to a paper published in Conservation Biology by researchers at the University of Cordoba. The authors, José Guerrero-Casado, Tamara Murillo-Jiménez, Antonio Carpio, Francisco Tortosa and Rocío Serrano-Rodríguez, argue this content is increasingly shaping how the public understands animal behaviour, often incorrectly. One example the researchers highlight is a viral AI video showing various bird…
The governing body of European football, UEFA, has threatened legal action against FIFA President Gianni Infantino, venture capitalist Joshua Kushner — brother of U.S. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner — and other individuals involved in the controversial plan to privatize a share of the World Cup’s commercial operations. UEFA is “actively considering legal action, arbitration, and/or regulatory complaints” against Infantino, reads a letter sent to Infantino, seen by the Telegraph. The move follows Infantino’s proposal to transfer FIFA’s commercial rights and tournament operations to a private entity firm — in partnership with Thrive Capital, Kushner’s venture capital company — allowing…
By Marina Neila & Euronews en español Published on 03/08/2026 – 18:42 GMT+2•Updated 19:02 The Ceuta migrant crisis spilled over this weekend into a mass protest in the exclave’s Plaza de los Reyes, with hundreds of residents gathering to demand tighter border controls following the arrival of tens of thousands of migrants from Morocco last week. The protest, which was organised on social media, featured chants defending the autonomous city and criticism of the Spanish government’s handling of the crisis. Tensions rose at the event with the arrival of far-right activist Vito Quiles, Se Acabó La Fiesta leader Alvise Pérez, and members of…
The resale housing market is showing no sign of easing. The average price in Spain stood in July at 3,154 euros per square metre, 0.7% higher than the previous month and 16.2% above a year ago, according to the Fotocasa Property Index. Converted into a standard 80-square-metre flat, the figure has jumped from 217,214 to 252,308 euros in just twelve months: 35,094 euros more for the same home. “The price of an average home in Spain has now exceeded 250,000 euros for the first time,” sums up María Matos, head of research at Fotocasa, who attributes the rise to an…
ChatGPT maker OpenAI said late Tuesday that its artificial intelligence system hacked into another AI company on its own in what the company called an “unprecedented cyber incident.” “We had a significant security incident during evaluation of our models,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in a statement posted on social media. AI startup Hugging Face said last week that it had detected an intrusion into its data processing systems that it suspected was caused by an AI agent autonomously acting on its own. “We suspected last week’s cyberattack might have come from a frontier lab, given the sophistication of the…