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Images of María del Carmen Abascal, known as Maricarmen, being evicted from her home in Madrid have become the latest symbol of Spain’s housing crisis. The 87-year-old woman had been renting the property for around 70 years. According to the Madrid Tenants’ Union, following a change of ownership there was a proposed rent increase from about 500 euros to 2,650 euros a month, later reduced to 1,650. After several attempts to halt the process, Maricarmen was evicted and later taken to hospital. The case triggered protests that quickly spread beyond Madrid. But the scale of the reaction is hard to…
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Artificial intelligence is moving beyond generating text, images and answers. Now, developers are trying to get AI to carry out tasks on a user’s behalf. That shift to autonomous or “agentic AI” was a central theme at the Google Cloud Summit in Doha, where the company marked three years since opening its cloud infrastructure in Qatar. Generative AI creates content in response to a prompt. AI agents go further, working through the steps needed to complete a task. “Generative AI effectively is where you use AI through large language models to create net new content,” Alex Rutter, Managing Director of…
The comments were allegedly made mostly in 2013, when Bardella was 17 and shortly after he had joined the National Rally, whose presidential candidate Marine Le Pen is the front-runner in next year’s election. “At a time when the victory of our ideas has never been so close, a certain activist press is ready to orchestrate smear operations to destabilize the presidential campaign and attack my honor,” Bardella said. During a visit to a construction industry event Monday, Le Pen called the Mediapart report “insanity.” The National Rally’s predecessor, the National Front, was founded in part by Nazi collaborators. Le…
By Alessio Dell’Anna & video by Maud Zaba Published on 28/09/2026 – 17:17 GMT+2 A new EU proposal, the KIDS Act, could ban children under 13 from using social media and limit features for those aged 13 to 15. The goal is to crack down on phone addiction and doomscrolling, but also to protect children from harmful content — or contacts — as well as mental and physical risks. Child rights organisations have welcomed the move, though some are warning that restricting social media access to teenagers might push them towards even more dangerous online communities. The vast majority of EU citizens (91%)…
Ukrainian forces have delivered around 4 tonnes of food to the Russian-occupied city of Oleshky in the Kherson region by drone in one of the largest such operations of the war, as roughly 2,000 remaining residents face what international organisations have described as a worsening humanitarian catastrophe. Oleshky has been under Russian occupation since the early days of Moscow’s full-scale invasion in February 2022. No food has reached the city through regular channels since May of this year, according to ground reports. Meanwhile, Russian forces are blocking civilians from evacuating and actively obstructing drone deliveries. Oleksandr Prokudin, head of the…
Uzbekistan plans to offer international technology companies tax exemptions on qualifying investment returns and special rules for testing new products, as it seeks to turn Tashkent into a base for expansion across Central Asia. The country adopted legislation in August establishing Enterprise Uzbekistan, a special business regime for technology companies and investors. It is expected to become operational in early 2027. Tax breaks, global talent and product testing Under the new regime, investors will be exempt from tax on dividends and other income earned from investment activity carried out under the special regime. Companies will also pay no corporate tax…
Miliband said the decision is in part about showing solidarity with the Ukrainian people, adding: “Different countries make different decisions on these things.” The U.K. foreign secretary confirmed Prime Minister Andy Burnham will be at the Miami G20 later this year, but declined to “second guess the decisions” about who’s invited. Elsewhere in his interview, Miliband acknowledged that disagreements with the Trump administration over the future of the Chagos Islands were discussed when Burnham met Trump at the U.N. General Assembly earlier this month. “It’s pretty clear, as became apparent from that meeting, that the U.S. administration does not at…
The European Union is heading into winter with a thin gas cushion, prompting Brussels to warn that the bloc’s energy price crisis could become a supply problem. In a recent letter to EU capitals seen by Euronews, Energy Commissioner Dan Jørgensen said gas storage levels remain “exceptionally low” after a summer in which hot and dry weather forced countries to burn more gas for electricity, reducing the amount available to refill underground reserves. Meanwhile, the global market remains deeply affected by the US and Israeli war against Iran, which has cut liquefied natural gas (LNG) flows through the vital Strait…
By Irina Belikova & Euronews Russian Published on 28/09/2026 – 12:48 GMT+2 Russia plans to build seven large prison complexes by 2035 that will house both remand centres and penitentiary colonies, under a government decree amending the federal programme for the development of the penal system. The facilities, which Russian journalists have called “superprisons,” will together hold more than 20,000 people, 5,380 on remand and 15,120 convicted prisoners. They will also include courtrooms and offices for prosecutors, defence lawyers and public monitoring commissions. The government plans to use surveillance and security technology throughout. The complexes are planned for the Kaluga, Astrakhan and Tyumen…