With Donald Trump tearing up the world order, governments across Europe are having to confront the fact that most of the technology they rely on comes from US companies. French officials have taken a step this week to reduce their dependence on US digital infrastructure, announcing they have stopped using Zoom, the US-owned video meeting software, in favour of a French-made program. But how viable is this? And what are the risks? The Guardian’s Michael Safi speaks to the tech journalist Chris Stokel-Walker
Rotterdam film festival A set of shorts by film-makers from Afghanistan, Iran, Ukraine, Syria and Somalia are shocking, funny and mysterious in equal measure
With considerable chutzpah and elan, and in her capacity as producer and UNHCR Goodwill ambassador, Cate Blanchett has achieved a geopolitical film-making coup. In concert with festival authorities in Rotterdam, she has secured cash and commissioned short films on the subject of displacement from five directors – including Mohammad Rasoulof, now in exile from his native Iran due to his pro-democracy activism, in effect making his first public statement since the recent massacres and apparently expressing his fears that he may never go home again.
The films are far from solemnly earnest – this is an anthology of five brilliant miniature artworks. By turns shocking, funny, confessional and deeply mysterious, this is a tremendous collection; the constituent films of which benefit in some enigmatic way from being shown together. What Ealing Studios’s Dead of Night did for scariness, these films may have done for 21st-century exile.
Ukraine president says he will wait to see if Putin complies with Trump request to halt strikes on energy infrastructure
Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said he was waiting to see whether Russia would observe a proposed pause in strikes on Ukrainian cities and energy infrastructure, as Kyiv endures a spell of bitter winter cold.
Donald Trump on Thursday claimed that Vladimir Putin had agreed to halt strikes on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure for a week after he issued a personal appeal to the Russian leader due to the extreme weather in Ukraine.
Brussels prosecutor reportedly opens criminal investigation into arrest of conservative activists who opposed transgender treatments for children at protest.
Mike White’s show will begin production in April at five-star Saint-Tropez resort known for old-world opulence
Will it be a fatal attack with a pétanque boule under the parasol palms? Some skulduggery in the swimming pool of a €21,000-a-night private villa? Perhaps a poisoned cocktail on the terrace overlooking the luxury yachts in the Mediterranean?
Bienvenue to season four of The White Lotus on the Côte d’Azur; judging by past series, someone is not making it out of the French Riviera alive.
The EU Space Act was formally proposed by the European Commission (EC) on June 25, 2025. While it doesn’t aim to codify all European Union (EU) space activities, it does address […]
La Pologne a signé plusieurs contrats pour doter son armée d'un système antidrones « le plus moderne en Europe », selon le Premier ministre Donald Tusk. Il s'agit pour le pays de protéger sa frontière située à l'est, limite orientale de l'Union européenne et de l'Otan. Face à la menace russe, la Pologne investit depuis plusieurs années pour moderniser son armée.
La Pologne a signé plusieurs contrats pour doter son armée d'un système antidrones « le plus moderne en Europe », selon le Premier ministre Donald Tusk. Il s'agit pour le pays de protéger sa frontière située à l'est, limite orientale de l'Union européenne et de l'Otan. Face à la menace russe, la Pologne investit depuis plusieurs années pour moderniser son armée.
Millions told to stay home in US and more than a million are left without power, while Australia faces record heatwave
Cold weather across a vast swathe of the eastern US has been the likely cause of at least 49 deaths in the past week.
At one point, about 213 million people were under some sort of winter weather warnings, affecting areas from New Mexico to New England – a spread of about 2,000 miles (3,200km). Millions were told to stay at home, and at one point there were more than a million people without power. As of Wednesday night, there were still 312,000 outages, mostly across Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
Viktor Orbán reiterates stance on EU membership as spokesperson claims Brussels wants to give Ukraine access to next budget
But just as Volodymyr Zelenskyy doubles down on his 2027 accession target, so is Hungary’s Viktor Orbán in opposing the move.
In clipspublished by Hungary’s international spokesperson Zoltán Kovács, Orbán has claimed that during the last EU summit the leaders were given a document describing Brussels plans to admit Ukraine in 2027.
Donald Trump a dit, le jeudi 29 janvier 2026, avoir demandé « personnellement » à Vladimir Poutine de cesser les frappes sur Kiev et d'autres villes ukrainiennes « pendant une semaine », assurant que le président russe « avait accepté de le faire ». Après un premier round de négociations en fin de semaine dernière, de nouvelles négociations doivent se tenir ce week-end à Abou Dhabi. Sur la table, il y a toujours plusieurs points sensibles, comme la cession par l’Ukraine du Donbass. Mais alors, à l’aube de ces négociations avec « l’ennemi », comment se sentent les premiers concernés par cette guerre, les militaires ukrainiens ?
Construction works for Milano Cortina have been a lightning rod for suspected infiltration by organised crime, but anti-mafia groups have adopted an approach that will help future hosts
Early on the morning of 8 October, the Provincial Command of the Carabinieri in Belluno put out a press release announcing three arrests, in the culmination of a year-long investigation they called “Operation Reset”. Two of the three were brothers; both were known members of the notorious Lazio Ultras, the Irriducibili, it was stated in the release, and had boasted of having personal ties to former boss Fabrizio Piscitelli, who was murdered in 2019. The crimes the brothers had been arrested on suspicion of had not been committed in Rome, but 400 miles north, in the small alpine ski resort of Cortina d’Ampezzo, high in the Dolomites, and home, for the next three weeks, to the Winter Olympics.
The brothers are still awaiting trial, but the local public prosecutor’s office has alleged that they were running an operation in three phases. The first was taking control of the drug distribution network in Cortina, the second was to take control of three nightclubs, and the third was to extort the local council into awarding the construction contracts for the works being done for the Games. Among the evidence the prosecutor says it possesses is a note on one of the brothers’ phones saying: “We want the cemetery area for the garages, the former pastry shop, the slip road and the new ring road, the construction of the tourist village.”
Donald Trump a annoncé, jeudi 29 janvier au soir, avoir demandé « personnellement » à Vladimir Poutine de cesser les frappes sur Kiev et d'autres villes ukrainiennes « pendant une semaine », et assuré que le président russe « avait accepté de le faire », alors que l'Ukraine subit une importante vague de froid.
Près de quatre ans après l'exclusion de la Russie du Conseil de l'Europe, l'opposition russe en exil a participé, jeudi 29 janvier, à une première réunion officielle avec l'Assemblée parlementaire de l'organisation. Un symbole fort pour ces figures critiques du Kremlin, réunies à Strasbourg dans le cadre d'un nouveau groupe de dialogue.
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