Global battle to lead in AI: Regulation, geopolitics, security and the new rules that will determine the future of AI
Category: 3. Europe
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How the global competition to win the AI race is going
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What we know about leaked US draft plan to end Russia’s Ukraine war
Paul KirbyEurope digital editor
Marharyta Fal/Frontliner/Getty ImagesThe draft US-Russia peace plan has been widely leaked and we now know that it proposes to hand over those areas of Ukraine’s industrial eastern Donbas region still under Ukrainian control to the de facto control of Vladimir…
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EU condemns Sudan atrocities
European Union member states have condemned “in the strongest terms” the “grave and ongoing atrocities perpetrated by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in Sudan”, including following the seizure of the city of El Fasher. The attack came from EU foreign ministers who gathered in Brussels…
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‘Outrageous’: COP30 draft deal drops mention of fossil fuels despite calls for transition roadmap
The chances of establishing a roadmap to phase out fossil fuels remain doubtful despite support “ramping up”.
A new draft text on the outcome of COP30 negotiations has been released today (21 November) but all mentions of fossil fuels have been erased.
The proposed deal has sparked heavy…
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Fire disrupts climate talks — and souvenir hunters
BELÉM, Brazil — The fire at the climate summit Thursday not only disrupted global negotiations over rising temperatures, it also halted kitsch collectors.
The blaze closed an area of the COP30 venue that hosted pavilions set up by nations from around the world, featuring cultural displays…
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Which EU countries recycle the most raw materials?
Progress on recycling materials across the European Union hasn’t been outstanding in the past decade.
Between 2015 and 2024, the rate of recycling across the bloc increased by only one percentage point: From 11.2% to 12.2%, according to the latest Eurostat data.
When it comes to avoiding the…
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Campaigners demand cancer screening systems 'that work for every woman'
Each year brings with it 58,000 new cases of cervical cancer in Europe and 27,000 deaths from the disease – all the result of the human papillomavirus (HPV). But campaigners say: “It does not have to be this way.” The European Cancer Organization goes on, “Europe has all it needs to put…
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Fast, easy, interactive and adaptative: the “game-changing” 3D design tool
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Based in Budapest, Shapr3D has developed a software that allows fast, easy, interactive 3D modelling of manufactured products, from robotic arms to bikes…
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Nicolas Sarkozy to release prison memoir – POLITICO
A quote from the actual book was released as a teaser. It begins: “In prison, there is nothing to see, and nothing to do,” which does rather beg the question — what are you going to write 216 pages about?
He adds that “silence … does not exist at La Santé [prison in Paris]”…
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Migrant workers must not be 'criminalized' says United Nations
UN human rights experts have voiced fresh concerns about what they call the “continued exploitation, deception, and deepening debt bondage” of Bangladeshi migrant workers in Malaysia. “We are deeply troubled that fraudulent recruitment and the exploitation of migrants remain widespread and…
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