Aplinkos apsaugos agentūra naikina leidimą Klaipėdos zoologijos sodui vykdyti veiklą. Panaikinus leidimą zoologijos sodo administracija ne tik nebegalėtų priimti lankytojų, bet turės pasirūpinti, kur toliau dėti gyvūnus.

Rūdninkų poligone baigus vokiečių kariams skirtų gyvenamųjų korpusų statybas, krašto apsaugos ministras Robertas Kaunas sako, kad darbai vyksta pagal planą, o infrastruktūra laiku bus paruošta visai į Lietuvą persikeliančiai brigadai.

Sánchez says Spain will head to the polls on 29 November after recent defeats on measures aimed at addressing the country's housing crisis.

Footage shows a drone hitting the Pivnichyi (Northern) Bridge as vehicles move across it, creating a large fireball.

The cost of a new fixed-rate mortgage has been rising in recent weeks as lenders face higher costs.

The takeover still needs to be approved by the regulator, but would give certainty to TalkTalk's millions of customers

OpenAI’s Sam Altman named French President Emmanuel Macron as the world leader who stands out for their approach to AI in an exclusive interview with Decoded by POLITICO. “The person that came to mind as you were saying that is the French president,” Altman told Decoded co-author and POLITICO senior tech reporter Brendan Bordelon in response to being asked who has impressed him the most with their AI policy or plans for the technology. “I think [Macron] is extremely thoughtful and has been for a long time about where this is going and what the shape of it needs to look like,” Altman said. The recognition is notable because Macron has sought to use his leadership to push AI safety on the global stage, and because the French president is months away from leaving office. After two terms as president, Macron is barred from running in the next election in April 2027. The far-right candidate Marine Le Pen, who is leading in the polls, is advocating a policy of deregulation on AI, three senior party officials told POLITICO. Le Pen’s National Rally party also wants to become less dependent on foreign tech companies and is considering reviving a proposal for a sovereign wealth fund to channel money toward French tech leaders such as OVH or Mistral, as well as favoring French companies in public contracts. Some party figures have even threatened to repatriate French capital invested in American tech — €80 billion, according to party official Alexandre Loubet — without specifying how. Macron himself has been a major champion of the French AI lab Mistral. Next month he’ll host the annual Paris Peace Forum — one of his pet diplomatic projects — to focus on AI safety and the risks technology poses to children and teenagers. The Altman interview appears in Monday’s debut edition of Decoded by POLITICO and its accompanying daily podcast, covering global technology and focused on the personalities, political shifts and policy battles shaping the future of the world.  Read the full Decoded newsletter for more. Also check out the full interview on YouTube and listen to the podcast here.

BERLIN — Germany’s foreign intelligence chief warned Monday of the rising risk of a direct clash with Russia as the Kremlin escalates its “shadow war” on Berlin and hits Ukraine with increasing brutality. “Germany is in danger of being drawn into a violent conflict with Russia,” Martin Jäger, the head of the German’s foreign intelligence agency, or BND, told parliamentarians, citing what he called Russia’s attempted attack on a Ukrainian Antonov cargo plane at Leipzig Airport in August as an example. “Germany has become a major obstacle to Russia’s hegemonic power projection in Europe and, as a result, a primary target of Russian actions.” Jäger also warned that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is entering its most dangerous phase yet as President Vladimir Putin faces growing domestic pressure to show military progress with the war entering its fifth winter. “Russia is determined to bring Ukraine to its knees this coming winter,” Jäger said. “We must expect Russian attacks of a severity and brutality that we have not yet seen on this scale. The war in Ukraine is entering a new and extremely dangerous phase.” Jäger’s comments come a day after a politically weakened Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited Kyiv in what appeared to be an attempt to show resolve following two first-place finishes by the Kremlin-friendly Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in regional elections last month. Those AfD victories, blamed in large part on the chancellor’s historically low domestic approval ratings, raised concerns in Ukraine and across the EU that German support for Ukraine might waver due to the chancellor’s troubles at home. With his highly symbolic visit to Kyiv on Sunday, Merz sought to illustrate that he remains firmly at the helm and unflinching in his support for Ukraine. “Mr. Putin, put an end to this senseless war,” Merz said during the visit, echoing one of his political heroes, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and his famous Cold War speech at the Brandenburg Gate alongside the Berlin Wall in 1987: “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.” In his comments Monday, Jäger suggested Russia’s escalation was in part driven by the fact that Putin had been backed into a corner as Moscow faces rising economic pressure and burns through resources to wage its war on Ukraine. Putin, he said, has “passed the point where he could simply call off the attack on Ukraine without jeopardizing his domestic power base,” adding, “He must demonstrate a success in Ukraine that, from Russia’s perspective, justifies the immense sacrifices made so far.” Jäger also said he currently sees “no evidence” for a large-scale Russian attack on a NATO member country. Yet “we consider it entirely possible that Russia might carry out targeted, smaller-scale operations” like the “little green men” who spearheaded the annexation of Crimea in 2014. Hans von der Burchard contributed to this report.

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Delano D’Souza is pleased to welcome Dr Shauna Burke, Associate Professor in Exercise and Health Psychology at the University of Leeds. A passionate mountaineer who first summited Mount Everest in 2005, Dr Burke returned to the world’s highest mountain earlier this year, following her diagnosis with stage four breast cancer. She is now setting her sights on the world's 13 other 8,000-metre peaks. For Dr Burke, the mountains are more than a backdrop to an extraordinary personal challenge. “When I’m in the mountains, I do feel at peace. I feel alive,” she says. Faced with an incurable cancer diagnosis, she chose not to allow the illness to define the boundaries of her life. she , continuing to explore what exercise, resilience and a commitment to living fully might make possible. 

Thousands of youth protesters and opposition supporters rallied in Delhi and Mumbai on Sunday to demand the resignation of India's election commission chief over changes to ​voter rolls as ‌police detained some demonstrators for a third day.

The Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded Monday to three scientists working on the mechanisms the brain uses to switch on, or off, the activity of individual nerve cells.

The next UN secretary-general will take charge of an institution under pressure to restore its influence, tackle financial challenges and adapt to a changing world.