Rusijos institucijos antradienį paneigė, kad dėl pranešimų apie nuo maro mirusią laboratorijos darbuotoją buvo įvesti specialūs apribojimai, nors Vašingtonas pareiškė atidžiai stebintis įvykius.

Dirbtinio intelekto (DI) agentai, kurie pradeda elgtis neprognozuojamai, ir vis garsiau skambantys apokaliptiniai perspėjimai verčia daugelį europiečių klausti, ar Europos Sąjungos (ES) DI taisyklės yra pakankamos, kad apsaugotų juos nuo galimų pavojų.

Students who have been demanding more investment in education are being joined by parents and some big unions.

Calling of a snap election was not a knee-jerk reaction from Pedro Sánchez but a carefully thought-out manoeuvre, Guy Hedgecoe reports from Madrid.

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The person was sentenced to 28 months in prison after an investigation found the claims were made up, the insurance trade body, the ABI said.

BERLIN — A former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence agency was arrested early Tuesday in connection with an investigation into suspected espionage and attempted treason, according to the German Federal Prosecutors Office. An informant allegedly provided August Hanning, the former head of the foreign intelligence agency, or BND, with nearly two thousand documents, many of them classified, according to a statement from federal prosecutors. In one case, Hanning used classified information provided by an informant identified as Manfred D. to create an analysis for an employee of a foreign intelligence service, according the prosecutors office. “The accused Hanning is under strong suspicion of espionage constituting treason,” the prosecutors’ statement read. The allegations will amount to a huge embarrassment for Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, which Hanning ran between 1998 and 2005. This is a developing story.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen cautioned against cuts to the EU’s next seven-year budget in a rebuke to Germany’s calls to dramatically slash spending. During a speech in the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Tuesday, von der Leyen said that reducing the size of the EU’s common cash pot would undermine critical EU-wide priorities such as competitiveness and energy autonomy. “I would like to caution against large cuts. It would risk cutting deep into critical priorities that we all together have agreed on,” von der Leyen told MEPs. The warning comes days before the Irish presidency of the Council of the EU, which is steering the budget talks, is expected to put forward a budget negotiating document with new figures. Von der Leyen had previously hailed the Commission’s budget proposal for 2028-2034 as “the most ambitious ever proposed.” But Tuesday, as negotiations among governments enter crunch time, she struck a more cautious note. In a message to Berlin, von der Leyen recalled that the Commission’s budget proposal represents 1.26% of the European Union’s gross national income — a relatively small increase from the current seven-year cash pot. She also underscored the need to approve “a significant package of new own resources,” which are EU-wide taxes to finance the budget and reduce national contributions to Brussels. The bloc’s governments are racing to reach an agreement by the end of the year, before elections in France, Italy and Poland in 2027 threaten to disrupt the negotiations. Despite the looming deadline, EU leaders are still far apart over the size of the new budget. Germany and its allies in Northern Europe have pressured Dublin to make cuts worth hundreds of billions of euros across the board. But 17 EU countries from Southern and Eastern Europe — led by Italy and Romania — are pushing in the opposite direction. They asked to preserve farmers’ subsidies and regional payouts, known as cohesion policy, in a joint letter last week. During a separate speech to the European Parliament on Tuesday, Portuguese Prime Minister Luís Montenegro said that “there is no European competitiveness without cohesion, and no European cohesion without competitiveness.” In a rebuke to the frugals, Montenegro said that Portugal’s contribution to the EU budget as a share of its gross domestic product is higher than that of Germany and other wealthier countries. “Giving 10 out of 100 is much more than giving 50 out of 1,000,” he told MEPs. But Germany insists that its budget contributions are too high. In a thinly veiled threat on Monday, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said that “having no new financial framework is by far the most financially advantageous solution for Germany.” However, he added that such a scenario would restrict the EU’s ability to act and renewed calls to end the negotiations by the end of the year. Several European officials believe that Dublin will propose budget cuts exceeding €100 billion. The proposal is expected to be put forward Saturday and be discussed by EU ambassadors Sunday. This article has been updated.

Aegean Boat Report founder Tommy Olsen insists he is defending the rule of law, as Greece opens trial against him.

Israeli settlers and forces beat Palestinians, set property on fire and steal crops across the occupied West Bank.

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At least 6 people have been killed in Ukraine's northeastern city of Kharkiv after a Russian strike hit a residential area. Nearly 60 were injured and apartments destroyed. Elsewhere, a Russian drone struck an apartment building in the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia. Morgan Ayre has the details.

Cornell University students staged a mass rally on Monday voicing solidarity with a classmate whose gang-rape allegations have ignited a national uproar and demanding that the Ivy League school take firmer action against sexual violence on campus. France 24s Kethavan Gorjestani takes a closer look.

In Libreville, filling up with diesel has become a real struggle.
Since the end of September, queues have been growing outside service stations across the Gabonese capital. Customers wait in long lines, jerrycans in hand, hoping to get the much-needed fuel.

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