The European Commission is looking into Elon Musk's AI chatbot Grok, after the model's "spicy" mode began generating sexualised deepfakes of women and minors in bikinis and transparent clothing.

Slovakia’s Hungarian minority are protesting against the state’s ongoing use of wartime decrees to confiscate private land on ethnic grounds. Now the president has signed a decree making it a criminal offence, with up to six months in prison, to criticise the land confiscations.

To understand Donald Trump’s foreign policy in Venezuela and Greenland, it must be seen as part of an emerging 'neo-royalist' world order driven by the interest of hyper-elites, not national interest, argues political scientist Abraham Newman.

Across Europe, mayors and local councillors are facing a disturbing rise in harassment, threats, disinformation, and even physical violence. These aren’t isolated incidents — they are a growing pattern. And they’re not 'just politics'. They are deliberate attempts to silence, intimidate, and push people out of public life, warns the Council of European Municipalities and Regions.

A French banker inside Euroclear, who flew to Russia 155 times for "private" reasons, allegedly tried to connect the company's CEO, Valérie Urbain, with Russian spies and threatened her when she declined, according to an investigation by EUobserver, Humo, De Morgen, and Dossier Center.

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