Selon une récente étude, les batteries LFP sont désormais les plus présentes sur les voitures électriques dans le monde, alors qu'elles étaient quasiment inconnues il y a cinq ans. C’est le cas en Chine, mais également en Europe. Et voici pourquoi.
Les cyberattaques contre les hôpitaux, les réseaux énergétiques ou les institutions démocratiques ne relèvent plus de la fiction. Avec un contexte géopolitique plus tendu que jamais, l’Union européenne cherche à renforcer sa capacité de résistance face à des menaces numériques de plus en plus structurées, souvent portées par des groupes criminels organisés ou des États. […]
Selon une récente étude, les batteries LFP sont désormais les plus présentes sur les voitures électriques dans le monde, alors qu'elles étaient quasiment inconnues il y a cinq ans. C’est le cas en Chine, mais également en Europe. Et voici pourquoi.
Les cyberattaques contre les hôpitaux, les réseaux énergétiques ou les institutions démocratiques ne relèvent plus de la fiction. Avec un contexte géopolitique plus tendu que jamais, l’Union européenne cherche à renforcer sa capacité de résistance face à des menaces numériques de plus en plus structurées, souvent portées par des groupes criminels organisés ou des États. […]
Driven by a belief in a common humanity, the Platzdarm search team bring the bodies of soldiers back from the frontline – no matter which side they fought on
Alexei clears his throat without showing the slightest expression on his face. Squatting and wearing gloves, he shakes the military uniform that once belonged to a man. The jacket and trousers still hold their shape, but inside there is nothing. Just air.
Alexei pulls out a worn, stained piece of paper from one of the pockets. “Andrei. Moscow,” he reads aloud. “There’s a phone number written here. Good. It helps us trace his origin.” Whoever he was, he was a Russian soldier.
Finding bodies from both sides is common at the front – the remains pile up after a battle
Les menaces de Donald Trump sur les pays européens suscitent la consternation parmi les dirigeants réunis à Davos mais elles provoquent également le trouble parmi ses principaux alliés sur le « vieux continent » : les chefs de file de l'extrême droite européenne, qu'ils soient au pouvoir comme en Italie ou dans l'opposition comme en France ou en Allemagne. Les réactions de ces dirigeants, nombreux à se réclamer du président américain sur la scène européenne, sont pour le moins embarrassées.
Les menaces de Donald Trump sur les pays européens suscitent la consternation parmi les dirigeants réunis à Davos mais elles provoquent également le trouble parmi ses principaux alliés sur le « vieux continent » : les chefs de file de l'extrême droite européenne, qu'ils soient au pouvoir comme en Italie ou dans l'opposition comme en France ou en Allemagne. Les réactions de ces dirigeants, nombreux à se réclamer du président américain sur la scène européenne, sont pour le moins embarrassées.
Donald Trump a invité une centaine de dirigeants à siéger dans un « Conseil de la paix », qu’il présiderait lui-même. Ce Conseil aurait pour objectif d’œuvrer à la résolution des conflits dans le monde, et d’empiéter sur les plates-bandes de l’ONU, bête noire du locataire de la Maison Blanche. Le Premier ministre hongrois Viktor Orban, grand admirateur du président républicain, a été le premier à répondre « oui » avec enthousiasme à cette invitation.
Donald Trump a invité une centaine de dirigeants à siéger dans un « Conseil de la paix », qu’il présiderait lui-même. Ce Conseil aurait pour objectif d’œuvrer à la résolution des conflits dans le monde, et d’empiéter sur les plates-bandes de l’ONU, bête noire du locataire de la Maison Blanche. Le Premier ministre hongrois Viktor Orban, grand admirateur du président républicain, a été le premier à répondre « oui » avec enthousiasme à cette invitation.
State provision for psychological health services is lamentable. Until things improve, let’s not judge those who turn to an app for help
It’s a sunny afternoon in a Roman park and a peculiar, new-to-this-era kind of coming out is happening between me and my friend Clarissa. She has just asked me if I, like her and all of her other friends, use an AI therapist and I say yes.
Our mutual confession feels, at first, quite confusing. As a society, we still don’t know how confidential, or shareable, our AI therapist usage should be. It falls in a limbo between the intimacy of real psychotherapy and the material triviality of sharing skincare advice. That’s because, as much as our talk with a chatbot can be as private as one with a human, we’re still aware that its response is a digital product.
Viola di Grado is an Italian author
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Gelsenkirchen savings bank was raided over Christmas by criminals who used huge drill to access vault
Faqir Malyar, a carpet trader from the western German city of Gelsenkirchen, was on his way to visit one of his customers during the Christmas holidays when he heard news on the radio of an astonishing bank heist. Thieves had drilled a hole in the wall of the vault of a local Sparkasse – savings bank – and made off with the contents of almost 3,250 deposit boxes.
The robbery, likened by a police spokesperson to the Hollywood film Ocean’s Eleven, made international headlines: it is estimated that the thieves’ haul could have been worth as much as €300m (£260m), a sum that would make it the one of the biggest bank heists in a country wearily familiar with them.
Incident in Spain took place days after collision between two high-speed trains in Andalucía that killed at least 42
A commuter train has hit a collapsed retaining wall near Barcelona, killing the driver and injuring 37 people, four of them seriously, firefighters have said.
Four people are believed to be in a critical condition after the incident in the Catalonia region of north-eastern Spain, a spokesperson for the region’s fire service, Claudi Gallardo, told reporters.
Gavin Newsom, the governor of California, has decried Europeans for their “complicity” in failing to stand up to Donald Trump’s demands that he be allowed to buy or annex Greenland.
Newsom, a frontrunner among Democratic candidates for president in 2028, told reporters at the World Economic Forum in Davos on Tuesday that Europeans were being “played” by Trump and that their efforts to negotiate with him were “not diplomacy, it’s stupidity”.
Popular Mavic drone will be replaced by homegrown option with longer range, says minister; digital transformation of Ukraine defence ministry and military announced. What we know on day 1,428
Ukraine’s new defence minister has announced troops will begin fielding a homegrown replacement for the Chinese-made DJI Mavic drone. Reliance on China for drones and components has been a major concern for Ukraine given Beijing’s close relationship with Moscow. The retail-grade Mavic is used widely for aerial reconnaissance on the frontlines by both sides, even though Ukraine already builds many of its own “suicide” attack drones – as well as defensive versions used to take down Russian drones. Mavic drones are prized by Ukrainian army units, who are often supported by volunteer groups that continuously run campaigns to source Mavics and raise funds to buy them. Mykhailo Fedorov, the defence minister, said: “We will have our own Mavic analogue: the same camera, but with a longer flight range.” Fedorov did not disclose the manufacturer of the Ukrainian version.
Fedorov on Tuesday promised a sweeping data-driven overhaul of Ukraine’s military to reward commanders achieving results on the battlefield and give Ukrainian forces the upper hand. Fedorov said he would start by overhauling the vast defence ministry’s management and spending, emphasising the importance of “the mathematics of war”. He promised a mission control system for drone flightsand for artillery crews to increase the data available about crews’ performance and effectiveness. Fedorov said Ukraine would establish a system allowing its allies to train their military artificial intelligence models on Kyiv’s combat data collected throughout the war including combat statistics and millions of hours of video taken by drones.
Overnight Russian strikes on the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih killed a 77-year-old man and a 72-year-old woman, and wounded a 53-year-old woman, said Oleksandr Ganzha, the head of the regional military administration. The missile and drone attack also damaged several buildings, he added. Kryvyi Rih, is about 80km (50 miles) from the frontline and is the hometown of Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
Earlier, a Russian air attack cut power to more than a million Kyiv residents and affected substationscarrying power from Ukraine’s nuclear plants on Tuesday. Ukrainian officials had warned in recent days that Moscow would target nuclear-related facilities. The UN atomic watchdog said several substations critical for nuclear safety were affected by the attack, while power lines to some other nuclear plants were affected.
Drone and missile strikes killed four people: three in the south-eastern city of Zaporizhzhia and one in the Kyiv region surrounding the capital. Other regions in the east, south and north of Ukraine also came under attack. “In Kyiv alone, as of this evening, more than one million households remain without power,” said Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, in his Tuesday evening address. “And a significant number of buildings have no heating, more than 4,000 apartment buildings.” Authorities in the northern region of Chernihiv bordering Russia said 87% of the population was without power.
All off-site power was also temporarily lost at the Chornobyl plant – where the reactor destroyed in the world’s worst civil nuclear catastrophe is entombed and requires constant monitoring for safety. “While Russian officials speak about the ‘importance’ of power lines, their forces deliberately strike substations, directly endangering nuclear safety,” said Ukraine’s foreign minister, Andrii Sybiha.
A new round of peace talks at the weekend between US and Ukrainian officials was followed on Tuesday by a meeting at Davos in Switzerland between envoys for presidents Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. Kiril Dmitriev, the Russian envoy, said their meeting on a possible peace deal to end the war had been “very positive” and “constructive” and claimed that “more and more people are realising that Russia’s position is right”. Dmitriev met Steve Witkoff and Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Zelenskyy urged the US to pile more pressure on Moscow, saying it had “not yet had the strength” to stop Russia. “Can America do more? It can, and we really want this, and we believe that the Americans are capable of doing this,” said the Ukrainian president. Zelenskyy said some of the Russian missiles fired on Tuesday had been produced this year and called for tougher sanctions on Moscow to curb its production. He said he was ready to travel to Davos if Washington was ready to sign documents on security guarantees for Ukraine and a postwar prosperity plan.
Swiss riots erupt in multiple cities as anti-Trump protesters march against President Trump's World Economic Forum appearance, with police deploying water cannons.
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Les cyberattaques contre les hôpitaux, les réseaux énergétiques ou les institutions démocratiques ne relèvent plus de la fiction. Avec un contexte géopolitique plus tendu que jamais, l’Union européenne cherche à renforcer sa capacité de résistance face à des menaces numériques de plus en plus structurées, souvent portées par des groupes criminels organisés ou des États. […] 
