Austria’s political-Islam watchdog says Islamist networks are increasingly using fitness, entrepreneurship and lifestyle content while also attempting to influence online knowledge sources used by AI.
East Flanders has dismissed special-education teacher Hadija Amajoud after she refused to remove her hijab under the province’s school neutrality rules.
China can now stop citizens leaving the country where export-control or technology-rule violations are judged to threaten national industrial or technological security.
South Korea is updating national cybersecurity guidance for agentic AI capable of operating with limited human supervision, potentially including systems connected to physical machinery.
A NATO fighter has shot down an unidentified drone over Lithuania after it apparently entered from Belarus, with authorities yet to establish who owned or launched it.
Washington has imposed new Iran-related sanctions on Russia’s VTB, accusing the already sanctioned bank of involvement in helping Tehran evade financial restrictions.
One Nation has proposed cutting Australia’s temporary migrant population by 750,000 over three years, targeting students, graduate visas and migrant families.
Australia’s signals intelligence chief warns that AI agents could exploit ageing government and business systems at machine speed and scale.
Donald Trump says Ukraine and Russia have agreed an energy truce, but Volodymyr Zelensky says Kyiv still wants guarantees that Moscow will comply.
The European Commission is preparing an EU Kids Act covering social media, online gaming, video platforms and AI chatbots, including new age-verification rules.
