Denmark on Sunday made its displeasure known after the wife of President Donald Trumpâs most influential aide posted a social media picture of Greenland painted in the colours of the US flag.
The concept of disinformation as a âbiohazardâ underscores its infectious nature. Like a virus, disinformation spreads invisibly, mutates rapidly, and exploits the vulnerabilities of its host societies. Thus, the NDU Press article notes, Russiaâs campaigns are tailored to the sociopolitical fault lines of target countriesârace, immigration, economic inequality, and vaccine hesitancy, among others. Meanwhile, this precision targeting is facilitated by data analytics and AI-driven algorithms that allow for hyper-personalized influence operations.
Deutsche Bahnâs punctuality rate was 62.5% in 2024, and 74.4% in 2015. Germanyâs rail operator counts a train as late if it is delayed by six minutes or more.
The extensive damage means that about 35,000 households will be without electricity until Thursday afternoon, Berlin authorities said in a statement. Power should be restored to other homes by early Sunday.
Gillian Tett wrote in the Financial Times (see below) an article on cognitive biases in the global threat landscape, referring to a manual by the Swiss Federal Intelligence Services on cognitive blind spots.
In December, the governing parties sought to fast-track amendments to the law governing LRT, including changes to the procedure for appointing and dismissing the broadcasterâs director general.
Germany, the blocâs largest economy, recorded the weakest performance among the eight nations monitored with the PMI reading hitting a 10-month low. Italy and Spain also slipped back into contraction territory.
Almost all new cars sold in Norway last year were fully electric, according to official registration data published Friday.
It puts the Nordic country within touching distance of effectively erasing gasoline and diesel cars from its new car market.
â2025 has been a very special car year,â Geir Inge Stokke, director of the Norwegian Road Traffic Information Council, said in a statement.
Plans are under way to drop dozens of devices from military aircraft into the waters off the coast of Ireland to help detect Russian submarines.
The project forms part of Government efforts in increase the Stateâs âmaritime domain awarenessâ in response to increasing concerns about the vulnerability of subsea infrastructure, such as communications cables and energy connectors, to attack or sabotage.
Canada PM Mark Carney will be in France on Monday and Tuesday, where leaders of the bloc known as the Coalition of the Willing will gather to âaccelerate efforts toward a negotiated peace for Ukraine, supported by strong security guarantees.â
Ukrainians forced out of their homes by the Russian military now face the prospect of permanent loss of their property under a new Russian law. Signed by Vladimir Putin on December 15, 2025, Federal Law No. 518-FĐ authorizes Russian authorities in illegally annexed Ukrainian territories (the regions of Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia and Kherson) to seize, through 2030, any property deemed âownerless.â
Finnish police have formally arrested two crew members of the Fitburg, a cargo ship suspected of breaking a data cable between Finland and Estonia on New Yearâs Eve. Two other crew members have been placed under travel bans.
Ukraineâs military intelligence (HUR) faked the death of Denis Kapustin, commander of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), and claimed the bounty placed on his head by Russiaâs intelligence service, HUR chief Kyrylo Budanov revealed on Jan. 1.
The New Year festivities in the Netherlands have left two people dead, dozens with serious injuries and destroyed Amsterdamâs historic Vondelkerk church.
âAlmost all available riot police in the Netherlands were on duty. It was a truly maximum deployment that lasted for much of the night,â acting police chief Willem Paulissen said in a statement.
The European Ombudsman has found that the Commission disregarded important transparency rules while preparing the Europol Regulation, which is a part of the legislation to âcounter migrant smugglingâ. The inquiry concluded that the Commission didnât provide enough evidence to justify the claims of âurgencyâ to bypass their own âBetter Regulationâ rules, and skipping public consultations, thorough impact assessments and evidence gathering.
The results suggest a material change in the electronic warfare environment. According to the report, the strongest events now blend forged GPS signals with simultaneous jamming of GLONASS, Galileo and BeiDou. The authors argue this imposes reliance on spoofed GPS inputs while denying access to independent satellite ranges. They recorded 83.5 percent GNSS availability in the worst period and more than four days of spoofing across June and July, including nearly 30 continuous hours inside a 48-hour window.
The Anti-Corruption Foundation (ACF), founded by the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, has revealed the existence of yet another luxury palace linked to Vladimir Putin, this one on Cape Aya in Crimea. According to the investigation, the foundation obtained photographs of the secret property as well as detailed architectural plans. The cost of building the palace is estimated at about 10 billion rubles (roughly $125 million).
Spanish investigators have confirmed that the Russian cargo vessel Ursa Major, which sank off the coast of Cartagena in December 2024, was carrying undeclared nuclear reactor components likely bound for North Korea.
The Hollywood actor is a prominent donor to the Democratic Party in the United States. In recent years, that has regularly led to criticism from President Trump, who has called him a âsecond-rate movie star,â among other things. According to Clooney, it didnât bother him much. âItâs not my job to keep the President of the United States happy.â
AI-generated videos promoting Polandâs exit from the European Union have appeared on Polish-language social media, featuring non-existent, attractive young women advocating for âPolexitâ.
Finlandâs Rauma Marine Constructions has signed a deal to build two icebreaker ships for the U.S. Coast Guard with delivery in 2028, the company said in a statement, as President Donald Trump seeks to boost his countryâs national security in the Arctic.
While Kremlin propaganda feeds Russians fairy tales about âgreat friendshipâ and âstrategic partnership without limits,â Chinese media calmly discusses exactly how those limits will be redrawn. Not someday in the distant future â but when Russia collapses. And according to Chinese authors, preparations should begin now.
The Chaos Computer Club (CCC), which says it is Europeâs largest association of hackers, and other organizations have launched a call for a monthly Digital Independence Day, urging people to rethink their reliance on the dominant digital platforms.
Ireland is looking to push for EU-level rules on social media ID verification and a ban for children during the countryâs rotating presidency of the Council of the EU in the second half of 2026.
But the story of Lufthansaâs role in the Third Reich war machine, one that includes the large-scale use of forced labor, remains largely under the radar. In fact, Lufthansa is just one of many companies that collaborated with the Nazi regime, big-name brands and business dynasties that continue to âhide in plain sight,â according to journalist David de Jong.
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