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From Donald Trump’s promises of a national Bitcoin stockpile to Kamala Harris’ support of a regulatory framework for digital assets, the two US presidential hopefuls have different stances on the future of crypto. 

TikTok took down several networks allegedly trying to meddle in Romania’s elections, executives said Tuesday as they defended the company’s election integrity measures to European Union lawmakers

Russian President Vladimir Putin has approved budget plans, raising 2025 military spending to record levels as Moscow seeks to prevail in the war in Ukraine

Gulf Air flight, GF005, was unexpectedly diverted. The passengers have accused the airline of neglect, claiming they were left without food or assistance during the long wait. A video shared on social media shows frustrated passengers arguing with airport authorities.

Volodymyr Zelensky said Sunday that his country needed security guarantees from NATO and more weapons to defend itself before any talks with Russia. He made the comments after meeting the EU's new head of diplomacy Kaja Kallas and EU Council chief Antonio Costa, who were visiting Kyiv as a show of support on their first day in office. «An invitation for Ukraine to join NATO is a necessary thing for our survival,» Zelensky said at a press conference with Costa.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. President-elect Donald Trump is known for grandiose statements, a larger-than-life persona and a fondness for unpredictability. His counterpart on the other side of the Atlantic couldn’t be more different in political style.

Italy's data protection watchdog has warned Italian publisher GEDI not to share its personal data archives with ChatGPT owner OpenAI, it said on Friday, citing concern over potential breaches of EU rules. GEDI, owned by the Agnelli family's holding company Exor, announced a strategic partnership with OpenAI in September to bring Italian-language content from the publisher's portfolio of news outlets to users of the Microsoft-backed artificial intelligence startup. In Italy, GEDI publishes daily newspapers la Repubblica and La Stampa.

Inflation in the 20 countries that use the euro currency rose in November — but that likely won’t stop the European Central Bank from cutting interest rates as the prospect of new U.S. tariffs from the incoming Trump administration adds to the gloom ov...

According to Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union, services remained a sticky price point, with the highest annual rate of any inflation component at 3.9%, down 0.1 percentage points from October's level. Food, alcohol and tobacco also fell by 0.1 percentage points to 2.8% while non-energy industrial goods and energy prices both increased, from 0.5% to 0.7% and -4.6% to -1.9%, respectively.  ECB cuts interest rates to 3.5% amid softer inflation figures and faltering growth November's rate marked the first return to a level above the ECB's 2% target since August.  ...

privacy of mobile users amid ambiguity around the nature of consumer data that can be sought by the Centre, senior telecom executives and legal experts said. They added that the new rules could also throw up implementation challenges as the mandated six-hour timeline to report cybersecurity incidents to the government is a fraction of the time allowed under comparable laws in the US and the European Union (EU). Leading corporate lawyers, who work closely with India’s top telcos, have flagged concerns around the privacy of consumers of mobile services, saying the notified cybersecurity rules—which empower the government to demand traffic data from telcos—have neither defined ‘traffic data’ nor specified any limitation on the duration for which such data can be stored. This ambiguity in the new rules, they warned, potentially allows private consumer data to be retained indefinitely without any legal or procedural constraints.

The EU and the South American trade bloc Mercosur are working to finalize a trade deal that has been in negotiation for over 20 years

Bitcoin surged by 9% over the past week and 31% since its September low, as markets bet on a potential Trump victory in the US election on 5 November.

Supermarket giant Carrefour’s support for French farmers’ protests against a trade agreement between the European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur has sparked a strong reaction in Brazil

A last round of negotiations on a legally binding treaty to address the global scourge of plastic pollution has opened in Busan, South Korea

French far-right leader Marine Le Pen has threatened bring down France’s minority government by the end of the year unless changes are made to the country's budget bill

Negotiators are gathering in South Korea in what’s billed as a final push.

Tens of thousands of Spaniards are marching in downtown Barcelona to protest the skyrocketing cost of renting an apartment in the popular tourist destination

The president of Cyprus says Moody’s two-notch credit ratings upgrade to A3 from Baa2 will open the threshold to quality foreign investment that will generate new jobs

Schengen Area by as early as January 2025, according to Hungarian officials. This milestone follows years of partial inclusion, with the two Balkan countries having joined the European Union in 2007 but not gaining full access to the Schengen Area until March 2023.

The Swiss government says it is barring exports to a Polish military hardware supplier after concluding that some 645,000 rounds of Swiss-made small-caliber ammunition ended up in Ukraine in violation of Swiss law

Last month, ex-US president Donald Trump announced he was selling a new collection of his digital trading cards. The cards, announced in typical Trump style on his Truth Social platform, cost $99 (€90) each and if you buy 15 or more, you will receive an actual physical card with a piece of the suit he wore to his debate with Joe Biden.