‘Alcohol-free’, ‘0.0%’ and ‘alcohol light’ are the new standardised denominations proposed by the European Commission for no and low-alcohol (NoLo) wine products in a bid to enhance their appeal.
Category: 3. Europe
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EU uncorks new era for no- and low alcohol wines with new naming rules
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ChatGPT’s viral Studio Ghibli-style images: ‘An insult to life itself’
“I strongly feel that this is an insult to life itself.” Wise words from legendary Japanese filmmaker Hayao Miyazaki, whose comments on AI in 2016 are going viral following this week’s trend of creating Studio Ghibli-style portraits with ChatGPT’s latest update.
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Dani Alves: Spanish court quashes former Barcelona and Brazil defender’s sexual assault conviction
Former Barcelona and Brazil defender Dani Alves has had a rape conviction overturned on appeal by a Spanish court.
The appeals division of Catalonia’s High Court of Justice unanimously upheld the appeal by the 41-year-old and acquitted him, saying the case against him had “inconsistencies and…
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US dismisses Putin’s idea of temporary UN governance in Ukraine
The Russian leader suggested that Ukraine be under temporary UN control until a “competent” government was elected, despite it being contrary to Ukrainian law.
Washington has dismissed Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposal that Ukraine should be put under…
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Era of close US-Canadian relations is ‘over’, warns Prime Minister Mark Carney
After Trump announced more tariffs this week, the new Canadian prime minister described Washington as ‘no longer a reliable partner’.
Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has said the era of close bilateral relations between his country and the US “is over,” following…
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Euronews Culture’s Film of the Week: ‘Baby Invasion’
US director Harmony Korine’s second EDGLRD production, now available online, is shallow and mind-numbingly dull First-Person Shooter nonsense.
I’ve been putting off watching Baby Invasion for as long as I could, ever since it premiered at the Venice Film Festival…
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‘Our GPUs are melting’: OpenAI puts restrictions on new ChatGPT image generation tool
ChatGPT’s new feature that can generate images in the style of a popular Japanese animation studio is so popular that OpenAI has to put temporary limits on its use.
ChatGPT’s new image generation tool is so popular that parent company OpenAI has to put in place…
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Europe’s economic confidence dips again in March as services sector retreats
Sentiment across the European economy weakened again in March, with confidence in services and retail slumping. The euro area’s index fell to 95.2, deepening doubts over recovery momentum.
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French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal given five year prison sentence
Sansal was arrested in November 2024 at Algiers airport. French President Macron has called on Algeria to release the writer.
French-Algerian writer Boualem Sansal has been sentenced to five years in prison in Algeria for undermining the country’s territorial…
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Fear and loathing in a Signal group chat – POLITICO
The real bombshell is how much Vance and Hegseth despise Europe. This is no way for Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to find out that the two men share a “loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”
Comments such as these require a strong response; our leaders have…
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