From this Sunday, AI companies will be subject to new obligations under the EU’s AI Act requiring them to make deepfakes and other AI-generated content clearly recognizable as artificial. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING However, technical challenges raise doubts about how effective the rules will be. Two years ago, the EU adopted sweeping rules to regulate artificial intelligence […]
Continue ReadingByAkis Tatsis&AFP, AP, ΚΥΠΕ, riknews.com.cy Published on 07/28/2026 – 13:39 GMT+2•Updated 2:35 p.m United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated his commitment to efforts to restart negotiations over Cyprus after holding separate meetings with the President of the Republic of Cyprus Nikos Christodoulides and the Turkish Cypriot leader Tufan Erhürman. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING The UN chief […]
Continue ReadingIt’s a bittersweet birthday for the EU-US trade deal. One year after European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and US President Donald Trump struck the landmark agreement in Turnberry, Scotland, transatlantic trade relations are being jeopardized by fresh threats from the US. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Last week’s €890 million fine imposed by the Commission on […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 07/27/2026 – 13:31 GMT+2 Police authorities seized more than 2.6 tonnes of cocaine and arrested four people in a major international operation in the Atlantic Ocean, Italian officials said Monday. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Four people were arrested, two Spaniards, one Albanian man living in Italy and a Gibraltar resident. The street value of the […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 07/27/2026 – 12:30 GMT+2 Iran has issued a fresh warning to Bulgaria after the Balkan country allowed the United States to use its military bases, escalating diplomatic tensions between Tehran and Sofia. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING In a statement posted on social media, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said that “those making decisions in […]
Continue ReadingIn recent weeks, Ukraine has made slow progress on its path to EU membership, opening two of the six negotiating clusters while still facing resistance to speed up the process. But now it faces another complication: Serbia. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Ukraine’s progress in opening more clusters, in tandem with Moldova, became possible only after Viktor Orbán’s […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 07/26/2026 – 11:58 GMT+2 Spain’s prime minister has thanked the media for their work in communicating accurate information and the public for their exemplary behavior during these wildfires. Sánchez added that people needed to “exercise extreme caution”. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Sánchez said there were still “difficult hours of work ahead”, although he confirmed that […]
Continue ReadingA species that resembles a jellyfish but, unlike a jellyfish, has no stinging cells reached Europe in the 1980s. As WM Graham and KM Bayha point out in the bookBiological Invasions by Marine Jellyfish (source in Polish)it was carried there by ships calling at Black Sea ports from the Atlantic coasts of North and South […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 07/26/2026 – 10:36 GMT+2•Updated 10:53 A third drone has been shot down by Romanian forces in just three days, Romanian President Nicușor Dan has announced, adding to a string of drone-related incidents in the country. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING In a statement on social media, Dan said a Romanian air force F-16 fighter jet had […]
Continue ReadingPublished on 07/26/2026 – 8:57 GMT+2•Updated 9:19 More than 220,000 people have now been evacuated in southwestern France as wildfires continue to ravage southern Europe. ADVERTISING ADVERTISING Evacuations were ordered in a further five villages around Bordeaux on Saturday night, as the parched landscape and strong winds helped the area’s main blaze spread rapidly, local […]
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