Vos Kęstučio Budrio interviu Šveicarijos leidiniui „Neue Zürcher Zeitung“ pasirodė viešumoje, Rusijos propagandinė žiniasklaida suskubo paskelbti, esą Lietuvos diplomatijos vadovas ragina NATO pulti Kaliningradą. Interviu, kuris taip įaudrino Rusijos aukščiausio rango pareigūnus, K.Budrys pabrėžė, kad Rusija turėtų bijoti NATO atsako, o ne laikyti Kaliningradą savo saugumo garantija.

Suomijos ministras pirmininkas Petteri Orpo (Pėteris Orpas) pirmadienį sušaukė susitikimą, kuriame bus aptariama, kaip reaguoti į stiprėjantį užsienio dronų aktyvumą, baiminantis bepiločių įsiskverbimo į šalies oro erdvę.

The pontiff also warned of a "new digital slaveries" in his first encyclical since becoming Pope last year.

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MEP Fidias Panayiotou on Monday said he will remain a lawmaker in the European Parliament and decline to take the seat to which he was elected in this weekend’s legislative elections in Cyprus. Panayiotou’s Direct Democracy group finished in sixth place, gaining four seats, as it and other anti-establishment parties performed well. “I’ll stay in the European Parliament because it would be good for the Direct Democracy party to have a European Parliament member,” the YouTube influencer told reporters before attending a ceremony for newly elected national lawmakers in Nicosia. Cypriot law forbids legislators from simultaneously holding seats in the European Parliament and the country’s House of Representatives. The center-right Democratic Rally party scored the most votes in Sunday’s elections, which saw the ultranationalist National Popular Front double its share of seats in the 56-member parliament. “Fidias,” as Panayiotou styles himself, has gained some 2.6 million subscribers on his YouTube channel since he began posting in 2019. The 26-year old influencer shot to fame after embarking on a mission to hug tech billionaire Elon Musk, and in 2024 launched a successful bid to become a lawmaker in the European Parliament. Since his election, Panayiotou has raised eyebrows with a visit to Russia and caused uproar by referring to paralympians with intellectual disabilities as “loonies.” He created the anti-establishment Direct Democracy party six months ago, and in the lead up to Sunday’s vote he regularly campaigned wearing a clown nose. Panayiotou’s group ultimately finished in sixth place, securing four seats. “We could’ve done better but we’re happy with what has happened, this is a small victory,” he said. Yiannis Laouris, a neuroscientist considered by some as Panayiotou’s ideological mentor — a label he rejects — will take up the seat instead.

PARIS — A France-led group of five EU countries is calling on Brussels to make a broader use of tariffs and other defensive measures to take on China and other countries’ abusive trade practices. In a joint non-paper seen by POLITCO, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and Lithuania urged the EU to launch probes into unfair trade practices more frequently. The document, which was shared with the European Commission and other member countries on Friday, also proposed the creation of new, more defensive trade tools. The non-paper was issued at a moment when the European Commission is working on a “more assertive and effective trade defense policy” to deal with Beijing. Brussels is due to hold an internal strategy debate on the competitive threat posed by China next Friday. While the document didn’t explicitly name China, it implicitly refered to Beijing by stressing that “some of the European Union’s (EU) main trading partners are breaking with this multilateral framework by imposing new trade barriers or contributing to systemic and structural industrial overcapacity.” The non-paper’s signatories, which include all of the EU’s biggest economies except Germany, urged the Commission to “contemplate more frequently the opportunity to open safeguard investigations in case of sector-wide trade disruptions.” The countries also called for the bloc to “be more proactive” in bringing breaches of trade rules before the World Trade Organization, and to allocate more human resources to its investigative units. In what appears to be a push to make trade enforcement more geopolitical, the five countries also called for adding “economic security” among the criteria that are assessed when deciding whether to open trade defense probes which can result in tariffs and other trade sanctions. “This approach would help preserve the Union’s remaining production capacities in strategic sectors and value chains, thereby protecting the Community’s industrial base,” they wrote in the document, first reported by the Financial Times. Other proposals include technical tweaks to existing legislation to make sure that foreign companies can’t circumvent EU trade probes, and a move to allow the Commission to apply anti-subsidy duties directly on companies. At present, those duties can only be applied to countries and products. The group also pitched the idea of a so-called “resilience tool” — a “cross-sector trade defence tool” which could be activated when no other trade defense tool is applicable — and the idea of additional duties or tariff rate quotas “in order to protect European producers.” On Friday, French President Emmanuel Macron called on the EU to take inspiration from the U.S. on trade measures aimed at protecting strategic industries. Tackling “global imbalances” — including China flooding the rest of the world with its exports — is also the top identified by the France for the summit of G7 leaders which it will host in Evian-les-Bains on June 15.

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At Roland-Garros, Stan Wawrinka bowed out at 41 in an emotional farewell to the French Open, marking the end of a long and celebrated career at the tournament. Iga Swiatek continued her dominant run, while Gaël Monfils is set to play later tonight in what could be his final appearance at the event ahead of retirement. FRANCE 24's James Vasina has the latest.

Pope Leo XIV personally presented his first encyclical at the Vatican, outlining a strong warning about artificial intelligence and its impact on humanity. He argued that AI should be “disarmed,” warning it could deepen global conflicts and dehumanise society, while calling for broader regulation and diverse voices in shaping its development. Joined by Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah, the Pope framed AI as a defining challenge of the modern era, comparable to the Industrial Revolution.

Catholic worshippers gathered for Mass on Sunday in the city of Bunia, right in the heart of a rapidly spreading Ebola outbreak in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo — despite a government ban on gatherings of more than 50 people.

In the mountains of Dalgo Mahas in northern Sudan, unregulated miners armed with metal detectors search tirelessly for gold, hoping to earn enough to support their families amid deepening economic hardship.