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European Union negotiators are racing toward a year-end deal on the digital euro, but disputes over wallet limits and privacy safeguards remain unresolved even as the ECB pushes ahead with a 36-provider pilot.
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Tools for Humanity launched a biometric-verified stablecoin app in over 150 countries, but regulators from Germany to Brazil have already halted the identity system it depends on.
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Mark Carney welcomed a European Union proposal to make Canada its first associate member, but officials on both sides admit the status does not exist in EU treaties and its terms are still unwritten.
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Ursula von der Leyen's KIDS Act would bar under-13s from social media and hand parents Commission-designed 'mini accounts' for teenagers, replacing family judgment with a bloc-wide identity and access system.
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European officials used the UN General Assembly to promote the EU's new KIDS Act as a template for other nations, raising questions about who would control the resulting identity-checking infrastructure.
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An Euronews investigation found the EU wallet mandated for all 27 member states by the end of 2026 still lacks the unobservability protections that digital rights advocates say the law promised.
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A Geneva fact-finding mission says there are reasonable grounds to believe United States strikes on an Iranian school and sports facility were war crimes, while finding Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity.
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The Secretary-General told reporters on 16 September that law-breaking powers sit on the Security Council and paralyse it, and in the same appearance he asked governments for coordinated global guardrails on artificial intelligence.
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Ursula von der Leyen invited Canada to become the EU's first associate member in her Strasbourg address, and reporting since indicates neither the legal content nor the approval route has been defined.
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The Commission president used her Strasbourg address to propose a leaders' security forum with Britain, Norway, Canada and Ukraine, and conservative lawmakers in her own group dismissed it almost immediately.
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