“Syria shows us that Russia is not invincible and we shouldn’t underestimate our own power,” Kaja Kallas said on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENTForcing Ukraine into rushed negotiations with Russia to end the nearly three-year war risks leading to a “bad deal” for Kyiv, Kaja Kallas has warned, as calls for a quick…

As Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is going into its third winter, Russian President Vladimir Putin held its annual end-of-year press-conference, two days after a Kyiv-orchestrated killing of a high-ranking general on the streets of Moscow. ADVERTISEMENT”When everything is calm, measured, stable, we are bored”, Russian President Vladimir Putin said…

Despite the legal and political barriers to prosecution, human rights experts are optimistic that al-Assad and regime officials could one day be held accountable for their crimes in a court of law. ADVERTISEMENTIn Syria, celebrations of the fall of Bashar al-Assad have been mingled with a sense of horror, as…

The EDPB responded to the Irish authority, clarifying AI model anonymity, the legitimacy of using personal data for their development while leaving leeway to national data protection authorities. ADVERTISEMENTThe EU’s data protection agency has clarified in what circumstances developing AI models may access personal data in an opinion which sets…

French military troops deliver 120 tonnes of aid to Mayotte after Cyclone Chido battered the Indian Ocean Island on Saturday causing widespread destruction. It comes just one day before French President Emmanuel Macron’s scheduled arrival at the French overseas department on Thursday. ADVERTISEMENTFrench military personnel brought food and water to…

Russian troops are closing in on Pokrovsk from the east and south. According to different sources, Russian forces are between 1-3 km away from the city’s logistics hub on the western edge of Ukraine’s Donetsk region. ADVERTISEMENTRussian troops are closing in on Pokrovsk, a major logistics hub on the western…

In an interview with Euronews, Salomé Zourabichvili asked EU countries to avoid ‘business as usual’ with the Georgian government, as ‘Russia is experimenting a new form of invasion’ in the country. ADVERTISEMENTThe outgoing Georgian president has repeated claims that the 26 October Georgian parliamentary election was manipulated by Russian propaganda,…

The European Parliament greenlit a new stand-alone committee focusing solely on health, which will begin working next year. ADVERTISEMENTThe new Public Health Committee (SANT), approved on Wednesday by the Parliament in Strasbourg, branches off from the previous subcommittee handling the issue and will assume responsibility for health policy previously overseen…

Our reporter Julián López has travelled to Portugal to investigate the reasons behind, and consequences of, brain drain there – and the possible solutions being explored. ADVERTISEMENTBrain drain is the outflow of skilled workers in search of better wages or better living and working conditions. Places that welcome such a…

The tech giant says it “strongly disputes” the allegations after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) filed criminal complaints in France and Belgium. ADVERTISEMENTThe Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has filed criminal complaints in France and Belgium against subsidiaries of Apple, accusing the tech giant of using conflict minerals.Lawyers…