As a war correspondent I’ve seen this strategy used before. Putin is weaponising the savage eastern European winter
In the winter of 1993, during the siege of Sarajevo, people burned books and furniture to keep warm. Water froze in pipes. Electricity vanished for the duration of the war. Children slept in coats and hats, their breath visible in dark rooms. Cold itself became a weapon of war.
I remember, when I was reporting from the Bosnian capital, seeing doctors operating by candlelight or wearing camping headlamps. I remember old people chopping wood in the park in the centre of the city until there were no trees left, then dragging it home on sledges. I remember the ground being too frozen to bury the many dead on the football pitch, which later became a cemetery. I remember a terrible, frozen day when I went to an old people’s home near a frontline and counted dead body after dead body, all frozen in their sleep.
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Men in custody for allegedly broadcasting content likely to incite hatred from French coast
French authorities have arrested two far-right British activists in what is believed to be the first case of its kind.
An order had been issued on Friday prohibiting British activists from gathering for a planned “stop the boats” protest nicknamed Operation Overlord in the departments of Nord and Pas-de-Calais. The order was due to expire at 8am on Monday but was extended for two days.
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Business wing of Christian Democrats aims to scrap legal right to fewer hours, saying people should need permission
The business wing of Germany’s leading Christian Democratic Union party is proposing a ban on the legal entitlement to work part-time, arguing that those wishing to work fewer hours should have to acquire special permission to do so.
Currently, every employee in Europe’s largest economy has a fundamental right to carry out part-time work, with many, particularly women, often needing to do so for reasons relating to childcare or looking after elderly relatives.
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L’intelligence artificielle générative est une nouvelle fois au cœur d’une controverse majeure. L’Union européenne a annoncé l’ouverture d’une enquête officielle visant Grok, le chatbot développé par xAI, soupçonné d’avoir produit des dizaines de milliers d’images à caractère pédocriminel en l’espace de quelques jours seulement. Cette affaire relance de …
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L’intelligence artificielle générative est une nouvelle fois au cœur d’une controverse majeure. L’Union européenne a annoncé l’ouverture d’une enquête officielle visant Grok, le chatbot développé par xAI, soupçonné d’avoir produit des dizaines de milliers d’images à caractère pédocriminel en l’espace de quelques jours seulement. Cette affaire relance de …
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Adriana Turk grew up in Australia believing that her entire family tree had been wiped out in Hitler’s genocide. She tells Maira Butt how a DNA test helped her discover long-lost family living all over the world - and why it sends a message of hope to the Jewish community
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SCNF has caused controversy by banning under-12s from its premium offering. Fiona McIntosh thinks it’s a stroke of Gallic genius
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Britain might be chilly, but you can still enjoy balmy weather on the Iberian peninsula
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The Baltic Sea region has been on high alert after a string of power cable, telecom link and gas pipeline outages
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Entre la formation interne et la communication, les usages de la vidéo générée par IA se multiplient et vont bien au delà des outils comme Sora 2. Ainsi, certaines plateformes spécialisées cherchent désormais à structurer un nouveau marché, à la croisée de la création de contenu et des agents conversationnels. Synthesia fait partie de ces […]Fifty killed in one incident as Italian authorities estimate 380 people may have drowned last week
Up to 380 people may have drowned attempting to cross the Mediterranean last week as Cyclone Harry battered southern Italy and Malta, the Italian coastguard has said, as a shipwreck with the loss of 50 lives was confirmed by Maltese authorities.
Just one person, who was hospitalised in Malta, survived the shipwreck, which happened on Friday.
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Exclusive: Hundreds of works by the artist and poet Peter Kien have new home in UK after campaign by Judy King
They survived the Nazis, were confiscated by the communists, and for the last three decades they have been jealously guarded, bound in red tape, by a museum in the Czech Republic. Due to the attentions of an overzealous Czech customs guard and the vagaries of the British weather, a happy conclusion had been in doubt to the very end.
But last Thursday a small suitcase filled with 681 drawings, love letters, poems and manuscripts created by the Jewish artist and poet Peter Kien in the Theresienstadt ghetto in German-occupied Czechoslovakia between 1941 and 1944 finally made a blustery landing at Heathrow.
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Joël Guerriau is alleged to have drugged centrist member of parliament Sandrine Josso in order to sexually assault her
A former French senator has gone on trial in Paris accused of drugging a fellow politician in order to sexually assault her, in a case that has shaken French politics.
Joël Guerriau, 68, was a centrist senator for Loire-Atlantique in the west of France in November 2023 when he is accused of spiking a glass of champagne with MDMA and serving it to Sandrine Josso, a centrist member of parliament.
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Entre la formation interne et la communication, les usages de la vidéo générée par IA se multiplient et vont bien au delà des outils comme Sora 2. Ainsi, certaines plateformes spécialisées cherchent désormais à structurer un nouveau marché, à la croisée de la création de contenu et des agents conversationnels. Synthesia fait partie de ces […]Friends say the hairdresser was committed to giving her children ‘the best life she could’
The AI chatbot was used to remove clothing from images of women and children
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Ukrainian president’s remarks come as Russia praises trilateral talks but warns against expectations of ‘significant results’
The European Commission got also asked about the regular US criticism that it is “targeting” US big tech companies and that, in doing so, it undermines free speech.
Digital spokesperson Regnier replied:
“Again, we don’t target any company … based of its origin.
Now on your censorship point: I think if anyone dares to compare freedom of expression with child sexual abuse material or freedom of expression with undressing women digitally without their consent, then they are not fully aligned with Europe or absolutely not aligned with Europe. We don’t even live on the same planet.
“No comments to be made on this US internal matter. But, of course, we deplore any loss of innocent lives.”
“I have said innocent lives, but it’s not for us to judge, innocent or not innocent. Any life lost, we deplore it, in general, and it is, of course, for the justice system in the US to establish the facts.”
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The Independent's travel team shared their predictions for the location of the next White Lotus hotel last year — and US Travel Editor Ted Thornhill correctly prophesied Château de la Messardière in Saint-Tropez. Here he recalls his blissful family stay at the property
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Investigation comes after Elon Musk’s firm sparked outrage by allowing users to ‘strip’ photos of women and children
The European Commission has launched an investigation into Elon Musk’s X over the production of sexually explicit images and the spreading of possible child sexual abuse material by the platform’s AI chatbot, Grok.
The formal inquiry, launched on Monday, also extends an investigation into X’s recommender systems, algorithms that help users discover new content.
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Warnings issued across 26 US states, while Portugal braces for heavy rain as Storm Joseph rolls in
The US is enduring another bout of severe winter weather, as a succession of powerful weather systems brings heavy snow, freezing rain and extreme cold temperatures to much of the country.
Twenty-six states, from Texas to Massachusetts, were under storm warnings issued by the National Weather Service over the weekend, with many alerts remaining in place this week.
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