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Italy temporarily blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns
ROME (AP) — Italy is temporarily blocking the artificial intelligence software ChatGPT in the wake of a data breach as it investigates a possible violation of stringent European Union data protection rules, the government's privacy watchdog said Friday. The Italian Data Protection...
Greece's PM makes border wall extension an election pledge
THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) — Greece’s prime minister promised Friday to extend an existing wall across all of the country’s land border with Turkey as he campaigned for the country's general election. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, who called the May 21 election earlier...
Europe's inflation eases to 6.9% as energy falls but food up
LONDON (AP) — Inflation in the 20 countries that use the euro currency slowed to the lowest level in a year as energy prices dropped, but food costs were still on the rise, keeping pressure on the European Central Bank to hike interest rates further. Consumer prices in the...
Ukraine's neighbors call on EU to address farm produce glut
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The leaders of five European Union members helping the transit of Ukrainian farm produce to third countries on Friday called for EU action over a glut that resulted from the goods not leaving for their destinations, bringing down prices in their own markets and angering...
2 foreign nationals die in small plane crash in Croatia
ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — A small plane crashed on Friday in northern Croatia, killing two people on board, authorities said. The plane crashed around 12:30 p.m. during takeoff at the airport in the town of Pula, in the Istria peninsula, according to the Ministry of Sea, Traffic and...
Cyprus, Greece, Israel: East Med energy source for Europe
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — The eastern Mediterranean can provide a key energy corridor to Europe through a planned electricity cable connecting the power grids of Cyprus, Greece and Israel and a potential natural gas pipeline, the three countries' top diplomats said Friday. The three...
EU official says major aid to Lebanon depends on IMF deal
BEIRUT (AP) — A European Union official visiting Lebanon said Friday that the international body will increase its humanitarian assistance to the crisis-struck country, but that more significant long-term aid depends on reforms and a deal with the International Monetary Fund. EU...
AP Week in Pictures: Europe and Africa
March 23-30, 2023 From protests against the raising of the retirement age in France to Kamala Harris’ visit to Ghana and Belgium beating Germany in an international friendly soccer match in Colgone, this photo gallery highlights some of the most compelling images made or published...
Montenegro vote pits incumbent president against new blood
PODGORICA, Montenegro (AP) — Voters in small Montenegro go to the polls this weekend to choose their next president in a runoff between pro-Western incumbent Milo Djukanovic and Jakov Milatovic, a newcomer supported by the shaky governing coalition with links to neighboring Serbia. ...
Poor Albanian town pins tourism hopes on communist tunnels
KUKES, Albania (AP) — If you'd like to walk for miles in concrete burrows built to defend an isolationist totalitarian regime that nobody wanted to attack, Kukes in northeastern Albania is the place for you. The small Balkan country's post World War II communist dictatorship...
