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Putin rakes in extra €1B for his war chest via Bulgaria sanctions loophole – POLITICO

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BRUSSELS — The Kremlin raked in an extra €1 billion for its war effort this year after Russia’s largest private oil firm exploited loopholes in EU sanctions rules — with help from Bulgaria.

Taking advantage of a unique exemption to the EU’s Russian oil ban, Bulgaria allowed millions of barrels of Russian oil to reach a local Russian-owned refinery, which then exported various refined fuels abroad including to EU countries, according to an investigation by the NGO Global Witness, the

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Rishi Sunak weaponizes net zero as election looms – POLITICO

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LONDON — Rishi Sunak has rolled the dice on weaponizing net zero for electoral advantage. No one knows if it will pay off — and some say it’s already costing him dearly.

In a Downing Street speech on Wednesday — coincidentally on the very afternoon the UN hosted talks in New York on increasing climate ambition — the British prime minister took a red pen to some of his

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With a return of Trump looming, Ukrainians ramp up homegrown arms industry – POLITICO

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KYIV — Ukraine’s long-range Beaver drones seem to be making successful kamikaze strikes in the heart of Moscow, but Serhiy Prytula is coy about how much he knows.

“We are not sure whether we are involved in this,” he says with a charming but inscrutable smile, when asked about these mysterious new weapons.   

Prytula rose to fame — just like President Volodymyr Zelenskyy — as an actor, TV star and comedian, but is now best known for his contribution to

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America is using recovered UFOs to make high-tech weapons: Intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower claims US recovered ET craft and ‘opened Pandora’s Box’ – in bombshell BBC interview

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Former high-ranking intelligence official David Grusch has made waves all summer, charging in public and classified settings that the US government has hidden crashed non-human spacecraft from both the public and, illegally, from Congress.

Grusch added to his sworn testimony and classified whistleblower complaint in a new interview with BBC radio Thursday — describing his claims of a classified UFO reverse-engineering program and UFO-related deaths as ‘an act of truth to power.’

He warned that America’s alleged top secret UFO

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UK spells out deadly threats to Brits – POLITICO

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LONDON — Fancy losing sleep tonight? Just read the U.K. government’s list of all the massive threats it believes are currently facing the U.K.

The U.K. government’s National Risk Register, unveiled Thursday by Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden, sets out key vulnerabilities and threats to the country. And it reveals previously classified information about the U.K. government’s thinking in a bid to encourage firms to up their mitigation strategies.

The register details a total of 89 risks that meet the

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8,500+ Russian paratroopers wounded in Ukraine, admits Moscow commander – POLITICO

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More than 8,500 Russian paratroopers have been wounded while fighting in Ukraine, a Russian general said Wednesday in a rare official admission about the number of casualties suffered by Moscow’s troops in Ukraine.

“More than five thousand wounded paratroopers returned to the front after treatment, and over three and a half thousand of our wounded refused to leave the front line at all,” Mikhail Teplinsky, commander of Russia’s Airborne Forces, said Wednesday in a video message posted on state-run broadcaster

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Fox News Artificial Intelligence Newsletter: Restaurant robot backlash, AI regulation

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‘NO THANK YOU’: Community chides struggling restaurant owner who hired a robot

A restaurant in a rural Oregon city couldn’t find enough servers to stay fully staffed. So the owner hired a robot named Plato. She had no idea how much pushback she’d get from the community.

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AI improves breast cancer detection rate by 20 percent – POLITICO

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Artificial intelligence is able to accurately detect 20 percent more breast cancers from mammograms than traditional screening by radiologists, according to early results from a Swedish trial published overnight.

The study is the first randomized controlled trial to look at using AI in breast cancer screening and comes amid a dramatically shifting landscape for the technology and how it’s regulated.

The interim results, published in the Lancet Oncology late Tuesday, found that using AI-supported analysis of mammograms, alongside either one

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Sweden weighs tighter border controls after Quran burnings – POLITICO

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Sweden’s prime minister is considering tightening border controls over security concerns after recent Quran-burning controversies.

“As everyone knows, we have a complicated security situation both in and around Sweden,” Prime Minster Ulf Kristersson said during a press conference Tuesday. “We are in daily contact with the Swedish intelligence services at the moment. That’s how serious we think the situation is.”

A final decision on border control will be made Thursday, Swedish broadcaster SVT reported.

“People with very weak links to

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