Thursday 19 March 2026 - 08:50
European electricity markets are proving more resilient than expected to the Middle East energy crisis, as rapid expansion in wind and solar generation limits the impact of surging gas prices, according to a Bloomberg analysis. Gas prices in Europe have risen by more than 50 percent since late February, when the United States and Israel launched......
The European Commission has expressed concern over the imminent expiration of a voluntary system for detecting and reporting child sexual abuse images on online platforms and messaging services. Negotiations to extend the system temporarily have failed, raising fears of a legal gap that could hamper protection efforts. Currently, platforms......
Barclays and Morgan Stanley have upgraded their outlook on Finnish renewable fuels producer Neste, citing improved margins driven by rising fuel prices linked to geopolitical tensions involving Iran. Barclays raised its rating on the company to overweight and set a price target of €32, while Morgan Stanley increased its target to €28.50......
Commercial shipping through the Strait of Hormuz has halted completely as the conflict involving Iran enters its third week, marking one of the most severe disruptions to global energy supply chains in decades. Maritime analytics firm Windward reported that vessel traffic through the strategic waterway fell to zero on March 14 and 15. These......
The German services workers' union Verdi has called for a strike at Berlin Brandenburg Airport on Wednesday amid ongoing disputes over wages and working conditions with public-sector employers. The union said in a statement that during the second round of negotiations, the employers presented a pay offer that the Verdi bargaining committee......
A drone strike near Dubai International Airport forced a temporary suspension of flights early Monday, intensifying an aviation crisis across the Gulf that has already grounded tens of thousands of flights since the start of United States and Israeli strikes against Iran. More than 52,000 flights to and from the Middle East have been canceled......
A recent report suggests that West Germany played a covert financial role in the development of Israel’s Dimona nuclear reactor in the Negev Desert. According to the investigation, from 1961 to 1973, Bonn transferred approximately 140–160 million German marks annually to Israel through secret loan arrangements, totaling nearly......
Jürgen Habermas, one of the most influential philosophers and sociologists of the modern era, has died at the age of 96, according to his publisher Suhrkamp Verlag. The German thinker passed away in Starnberg, near Munich. Widely regarded as a central figure in the intellectual life of postwar Germany, Habermas spent more than seven......
A public security challenge designed to test the resilience of an autonomous AI agent on the Solana blockchain drew nearly 15,000 participants, with only five successfully breaching the system. The event, organized by Berlin based company Stormrae, generated more than 64,000 attempts to manipulate or compromise the AI agent. Stormrae announced......
A growing diesel shortage triggered by disruptions to global energy supplies is threatening agricultural activity across multiple continents, raising concerns about rising food prices in the months ahead. Two weeks after the start of the US Israeli conflict involving Iran, the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz has disrupted shipments......
A team of mathematicians has demonstrated that a long-standing principle in differential geometry proposed more than 150 years ago is not universally valid. By constructing two distinct torus-shaped surfaces that share identical geometric measurements and curvature properties, the researchers showed that these local data do not always determine......
Germany is intensifying diplomatic efforts to help end the ongoing conflict involving Iran, as concerns grow across Europe about the political, economic and security consequences of a prolonged war. Speaking during a visit to military exercises in northern Europe, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stressed that diplomacy remains the most viable......
Peter Sarlin, the Finnish entrepreneur who sold artificial intelligence startup Silo AI to AMD for $665 million in 2024, has unveiled a new venture called QuTwo. The company positions itself as what Sarlin describes as “an AI lab for the quantum era,” aiming to bridge enterprise artificial intelligence systems with emerging quantum......
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