Baltarusijos opozicionierius, buvęs politinis kalinys Siarhejus Cichanouskis toliau viešai kritikuoja savo sutuoktinę Sviatlaną ir jos biurą. Paskutiniu postūmiu tapo Baltarusijos demokratinių jėgų lyderės skiltis portale „Zerkalo“, kurioje ji pasakojo apie savo nematomą darbą sūnaus Kornejaus ligos metu. S. Cichanouskis tai pavadino melu, o žmonos komandos veiksmus – „žemais ir niekšingais“.

Nuo pirmadienio krašto apsaugos viceministro pareigas pradės eiti Gabrielius Gorbačevskis.

The highpoint of his trip will be a giant Mass attended by more than half a million people.

The satellite station is used in part to provide internet coverage to neighbouring Ukraine, the government says.

The EU had said X "deceives users" by selling blue ticks without "meaningfully verifying" accounts.

The average price of a litre of diesel at the pump stands at 198.32p, according to the RAC motoring body.

BERLIN — U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham is preparing to travel to Berlin in early October for talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, according to two people familiar with preparations for the visit. The trip will be Burnham’s first to Germany since becoming prime minister in July and will give the two leaders a chance to meet as Britain’s new government looks to put fresh energy into relations with one of its most important European partners. Both Downing Street and the German chancellery declined to comment. Burnham took office on July 20 after replacing Keir Starmer, whose government had come under growing pressure following electoral losses, internal Labour Party disputes and weak public support. Starmer’s departure capped a turbulent final period in office in which domestic political problems increasingly dominated his government’s attention. The change in leadership came less than a year after Starmer and Merz had made a major push to bring Britain and Germany closer. The two governments signed the Kensington Treaty in July 2025. It laid out plans for closer work across defense and security, economic ties, transport and migration. Defense has become one of the strongest parts of the relationship. Britain and Germany signed the Trinity House Agreement in October 2024, creating a framework for much closer military and defense-industrial cooperation. Since then, they have expanded work on joint weapons projects and military coordination while remaining major European supporters of Ukraine. Burnham now has the chance to give those efforts new political momentum while setting his own approach to Europe. He entered Downing Street promising an intense domestic focus, but has since embarked on a diplomatic blitz, including meetings with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy along with France’s President Emmanuel Macron and U.S. President Donald Trump. While Burnham is enjoying an early bout of optimism about his leadership, he will meet a German government facing significant domestic pressure.  Merz’s Christian Democrats suffered sharp losses in two state elections this month, while the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has gained support nationally. POLITICO’s Poll of Polls puts the AfD at 28 percent, ahead of the Christian Democrats at 20 percent. For both governments, the October meeting offers an early opportunity to show that the closer relationship built over the past two years can continue under new political leadership in London.

The European Commission has failed to keep pace with AI developments, Axel Voss, a key German conservative lawmaker on tech policy, said in an interview. An EPP ally of Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the European Parliament, Voss criticized the way the Commission is enforcing its artificial intelligence rules in the wake of a series of AI hacking incidents, including OpenAI-powered agents going rogue and breaking into the AI company Hugging Face. “The whole working method of the European Commission is not adapted to these extremely fast-changing … developments,” he said to Anne McElvoy on the Brussels Playbook Week Ender podcast. The enforcement of the EU’s 2024 AI Act, which mandates that companies take measures to avoid losing control of their models, “is not on the level [where] we would like to have it,” he added. The comments shine the spotlight on the European Commission’s Artificial Intelligence Office, which was put in charge of enforcing the AI Act in August. Voss also said the Commission’s overall response to the fast pace of technological developments is lagging, singling out von der Leyen’s State of the Union last week. “The Commission … also the State of the Union is not ambitious enough regarding digital developments,” said Voss, who is a member of the German Christian Democratic CDU, to which von der Leyen belongs. One area where Voss sees a need for further regulation is liability of AI companies when their technology does damage. “What has been wrong from the beginning of this mandate is not to think about liability of AI,” he said. “This can have an effect on every company.” POLITICO reported Monday that other European Parliament members have floated a proposal to add product liability provisions to address gaps in the AI Act.

Ukraine's president added that eight regions have come under attack by Russian forces since the start of the day.

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Kyiv residents experience two days of internet disruptions, raising fears over access to banking and other online services

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President Donald Trump told President Volodymyr Zelensky that he had made a "final decision" to grant Kyiv the licence to produce Patriot air defence missiles, the Ukrainian leader said Friday. The assurance came during the last meeting between the two leaders, Zelensky said, capping a period of uncertainty after a series of reversals on the issue.

Canadian-Haitian novelist Thélyson Orélien was removed from the Prix Goncourt literary prize longlist following online claims that the book was largely written by artificial intelligence (AI), the organisers of France's top literary prize said Friday.

A US mining company is using artificial intelligence to search for critical minerals in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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