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  • Oct 5

    Gillian Anderson asks repeat front-row superfans to move back at London West End play

    Actor Gillian Anderson asked a group of longtime fans to stop booking front-row seats for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? at London's Soho Place, explaining that seeing familiar faces in the intimate 600-seat space distracts the cast.

  • Oct 5

    Giorgia Meloni applies to trademark her voice at EUIPO to combat AI deepfakes

    Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni submitted a four-second recording to the European Union Intellectual Property Office to establish legal protections against artificial intelligence voice cloning.

  • Oct 1

    Tokyo Film Festival unveils 2026 lineup with 15 competition features

    The 39th Tokyo International Film Festival will screen 15 main competition features from October 26 to November 4, opening with Sukiyaki and closing with Colony.

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Brussels promises Ukraine a winter shield

EU leaders pledge winter lifeline to Zelensky in Brussels

European leaders welcomed Volodymyr Zelensky in Brussels and pledged a winter package for Ukraine covering energy, air defence and financing. Ursula von der Leyen said the EU is working on a 22nd sanctions package and would not lift sanctions until Russia stops the war.

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  • US-Russia diesel deal dispute

    Politico reports Trump's waiver also enables sales of Russian diesel that the Graham Act sanctions would have restricted.

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China and the West: decoupling

Von der Leyen's announcement of planned instruments follows the expected playbook; no regulation has yet been adopted.

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