00:01Europol has taken down thousands of online posts, accounts and links tied to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:11With a recent Ebola outbreak, the U.S. has announced it will begin screening air travelers arriving from affected regions.
00:19A California jury has dismissed Elon Musk's lawsuit against OpenAI
00:24and a unanimous verdict that ruled Musk waited too long to file charges.
00:32Europol has taken down thousands of online posts, accounts and links tied to Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, including its
00:40main ex-account.
00:42The agency was able to do so as the EU formally designated the IRGC as a terrorist organization in February.
00:48This gave law enforcement the legal basis to move against its online infrastructure.
00:55Investigators said the IRGC had built a highly structured digital network spanning major social media platforms, streaming services, blog hosting
01:04sites and independent websites.
01:06The content, which was distributed in numerous languages, included political messaging intertwined with religious martyrdom narratives.
01:14Also, AI-generated videos were widely distributed, including videos praising the IRGC and calling for retaliation in the name of
01:23Iran's late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.
01:26Further details on the methods and tactics uncovered are expected to appear in Europol's upcoming EU terrorism situation and trend
01:34report.
01:38US President Donald Trump said he decided to hold off on a major US attack on Iran planned for Tuesday
01:45after Washington's allies in the Gulf requested more time be given for diplomatic efforts.
01:51The announcement of a planned renewal to the hostilities comes after weeks of stalled progress in ongoing negotiations between the
01:59United States and Iran.
02:01They also follow numerous threats by Trump to hit Tehran once more if it failed to enter into a nuclear
02:07deal with Washington soon.
02:09We were getting ready to do a very major attack tomorrow.
02:12I put it off for a little while, hopefully maybe forever, but possibly for a little while because we've had
02:19very big discussions with Iran and we'll see what they amount to.
02:24I was asked by Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE and some others if we could put it off for two or
02:31three days, a short period of time, because they think that they are getting very close to making a deal.
02:36The two warring sides have traded several counters to a proposal to end the war, mediated by Pakistan, but according
02:43to negotiators big differences are persisting and seem unlikely to break a stubborn impasse.
02:49The White House is seeking Iran's commitment to a complete abolishment of its nuclear ambitions, while Iran wants to maintain
02:56some of its nuclear infrastructure for what it says will be projects for civilian use.
03:03Trump has routinely warned that the war will not come to an end until Iran unconditionally agrees to never acquiring
03:09nuclear weapons and has expressed his country's readiness to fight for as long as it takes to achieve that.
03:19With a recent Ebola outbreak now declared a global health emergency, the US has announced it will begin screening air
03:26travelers arriving from three African countries.
03:30Passengers will now be checked at airports before entering the country and non-US passport holders who travel to Uganda,
03:37the Democratic Republic of Congo or South Sudan in the past 21 days will face entry restrictions.
03:44The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said it is monitoring the situation, but considers the risk of the
03:50virus to the US general public as low.
03:54The decision comes after one American citizen tested positive for the virus in the DRC following exposure related to their
04:01work.
04:02The individual is being transferred to Germany for treatment.
04:06Meanwhile, the European Center for Disease Prevention and Control said it was deploying experts to Africa's CDC in Ethiopia to
04:14help support the Ebola outbreak response.
04:17At least 100 deaths have been reported with around 400 suspected cases as of Monday.
04:27A US court has thrown out claims filed by Sam Altman's OpenAI and its top executives by Elon Musk who
04:36accused the company of betraying a shared vision for it to remain a non-profit dedicated to guiding artificial intelligence
04:43development for the good of humanity.
04:46The nine-person jury found Musk waited too long to file his lawsuit and missed a statutory deadline.
04:54After a three-week trial, the jury deliberated for less than two hours.
04:59The trial in Oakland, California shed light on the bitter falling out between the two Silicon Valley titans and the
05:07beginnings of OpenAI,
05:08now a company valued at nearly $1 trillion and moving toward potentially one of the largest initial public offerings in
05:18history.
05:19Musk, an early investor in the AI company, sued OpenAI CEO Sam Altman.
05:25Its presidents, Greg Bruckman, and Microsoft were allegedly betraying an agreement about keeping OpenAI as a non-profit that benefits
05:34humanity.
05:35However, Altman and OpenAI claimed there was never a promise to keep OpenAI a non-profit forever.
05:43They argued Musk's lawsuits aimed to undercut the company's rapid growth and bolster Musk's XAI, which he launched in 2023
05:53as a competitor.
05:54Musk posted on his social media platform X that he would file an appeal.
06:01The European Union's top military general, Sean Clancy, says Ukraine remains the number one priority for Europe
06:09as the ongoing war continues to shape the continent's defense strategy.
06:13Joining Euronews on its morning program Europe Today on the EU Military Committee's quarter-century anniversary,
06:20Clancy noted that this is time for reflection rather than celebration.
06:25I think flocking into celebrations, I think it's a moment of reflection more than celebration.
06:30I think it's, you know, it's a time to pause and reflect how far the European military committee,
06:35but the European paradigm of security and defense has come as a whole over that period of time.
06:39No more so in the last four years, and you've mentioned it, Ukraine, which is the number one priority for
06:43all of us and the focus of everyone.
06:44The top EU general stressed that Ukraine, which suffered a massive Russian overnight barrage of over 500 drones and close
06:52to two dozen missiles, remains crucial to continental security.
06:56The extraordinary resilience of the Ukrainian armed forces, but the Ukrainian people as a whole, has transformed Ukraine into a
07:03fortress nation now.
07:04And Ukraine, from a European point of view, is integral to the future security of Europe.
07:10So this isn't just beneficiaries of European charity, this is strategic initiative and imperative for Europe.
07:17Clancy says the EU Military Committee has today trained over 90,000 Ukrainian soldiers, an initiative it plans to continue
07:25doing, in his words, unrelentingly.
07:33Spain's former socialist Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero is being formally investigated for alleged money laundering and related crimes.
07:43Zapatero, who served as Prime Minister from 2004 to 2011, is to testify on the 2nd of June, Spain's top
07:52criminal court said in a statement.
07:54The investigation relates to the 2021 state rescue of airline Plus Ultra, which received 53 million euros through the state
08:04hoarding company CEPI during the COVID-19 pandemic.
08:08Zapatero is accused of leading the effort to bail out the airline and pressuring the transport ministry, led at the
08:15time by José Luis Abalos, to approve the rescue.
08:19The court is examining whether the aid was properly approved and whether any improper lobbying or influence was involved.
08:27He denied any wrongdoing related to the bailout in a Senate hearing in March.
08:32The news comes amid a political storm for the Spanish government, which is already facing several corruption scandals.
08:44A Spanish court has ordered the tax authority to refund Colombian pop star Shakira more than 55 million euros, which
08:54it ruled were improperly collected in a dispute over her taxes from 2011.
08:59The ruling concluded that tax authorities had failed to prove that the artist resided in Spain for more than 183
09:08days, the required amount to be considered a tax resident in the country.
09:12She had in fact spent 163 days in the country, the ruling found.
09:18The hips don't lie singer is now set to receive more than 55 million euros in the amount she had
09:24initially paid plus legal interest.
09:27Tax authorities had also argued that she lived in Spain long enough to be liable for taxes between 2012 and
09:332014.
09:34But she reached a separate settlement for that case with prosecutors back in 2023, avoiding a broader fraud case.
09:42Following the verdict, she denounced being treated as guilty for years, enduring brutal public shame in and orchestrated campaigns to
09:50destroy her reputation.
09:55Kazakhstan launched the cloud seeding project, first of its kind in Central Asia.
10:00The first artificial rain fell on the city of Turkestan on the eve of the informal summit of the Organization
10:06of Turkic States.
10:07Central Asia is among the world's regions most affected by global warming and water shortage,
10:12and the aim of the project is to alleviate the effects of drought on the agricultural regions of Kazakhstan.
10:17For last year, eight months in this Turkestan region, there were eight months of drought period.
10:23That's why we have to bring new technologies in order to come up with additional water resources.
10:31The cloud seeding is one of those technologies, and we are basing on UAE experience.
10:38The project is done in cooperation with the National Meteorology Center of the United Arab Emirates.
10:43So it is educational, it is a pilot project, and we will see the result after this project.
10:49Emirates specialists are training Kazakh meteorologists, engineers and pilots to use the technology that they have been using since 1980s.
10:57We fly, we take off to the certain locations where we started to build up the cloud,
11:04and we give them the feedback of the cloud behavior, such as the updraft, temperature, the cloud type,
11:12and based on communication with the operation, the specialists decide how many flares are utilized for this cloud,
11:20and we start applying the flares.
11:22The cloud seeding process is based on dispersing salts on the clouds, which causes moderate local showers.
11:29It is environmentally tested and can increase the precipitation in the region by 10 to 20 percent.
11:35It is estimated it will save Kazakhstan around 65 million euros every year, mainly through the increase of crop yield.
11:42The cloud seeding process is based on the outside of the cloud, and the ocean is placed on the cloud.
11:43The cloud seeding process has 141 hectares which uses 141 hectares of the largest units of the cloud.
11:46The cloud seeding process is based on the cloud.
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