Europe

BERLIN (AP) — Austria’s main center-left opposition party on Monday reversed the result of its weekend leadership election, announcing that a computer error originally led to the wrong candidate being declared the winner.

LONDON (AP) — The European Union is pushing online platforms like Google and Meta to step up the fight against false information by adding labels to text, photos and other content generated by artificial intelligence, a top official said Monday.

EU Commission Vice President Vera Jourova said the ability of a new generation of AI chatbots to create complex content and visuals in seconds raises “fresh challenges for the fight against disinformation.”

04 June 2023; MEMO: Famous singer Dua Lipa criticized British government officials' comments on migrants, slamming them as "shortsighted and small-minded," Anadolu reports.

Lipa, a Grammy-winning performer who was born to Kosovar-Albanian parents, expressed the personal "hurt" caused by the way the government has discussed Albanians and called for a greater sense of empathy.

In an interview with the Sunday Times, Lipa warned such rhetoric has a negative impact.

SIMFEROPOL, June 4. /TASS/: Crimea’s air defenses shot down five Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) overnight to Sunday, while four more were jammed by electronic warfare systems, region’s head Sergey Aksyonov wrote on his Telegram channel.

VIENNA, June 4. /TASS/: A new visit of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General Rafael Grossi to Moscow is possible, but there are no concrete arrangements for now, Russian Permanent Representative to International Organizations in Vienna Mikhail Ulyanov told TASS on Sunday.

"Of course, it is possible. A new visit is possible, but so far we have not discussed it in practical terms," he said. According to Ulyanov, the date of a possible visit is not being discussed currently.

MOSCOW, June 4. /TASS/: Russian President Vladimir Putin devotes as much time to meetings on the progress of the special military operation as he needs as supreme commander-in-chief, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview with the Moscow.Kremlin.Putin program.

"Exactly as much as it is necessary for the supreme commander-in-chief to exercise overall leadership," the Kremlin spokesman said, answering a related question.

A fragment of the program was posted on its host Pavel Zarubin’s Telegram channel on Sunday.

MOSCOW, June 4. /TASS/: Governor of Russia’s Belgorod Region Vyacheslav Gladkov said on Sunday he is ready to meet with Ukrainian saboteurs at the Shebekino checkpoint for the sake of saving Russian prisoners of war, if they are still alive.

"I am grieved to say but most probably, they have killed them (prisoners - TASS). But is they are alive, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. at the Shebekino checkpoint. I guarantee security," he said in a video address posted on his Telegram channel.

MINSK, June 4 (NNN-XINHUA) — About 200 charging stations run by Belarusian oil company Belorusneft will be modified to adapt to Chinese electric vehicles by the end of 2023, a senior manager of the company said.

They account for about 30 percent of all existing charging stations of Belorusneft in the country, said Deputy General Director for Construction, General Matters and Ideological Work of Belorusneft Andrey Kotik.

Kotik noted that there is a trend in Belarus for an increase in auto supplies from China, a global leader in electric vehicle technologies.

ROME, June 4 (NNN-AGENCIES) — The Italian Coast Guard has apprehended two vessels from non-governmental organisations operating in the Mediterranean Sea, after they were found to be in breach of a new law preventing ships deployed to rescue migrants from carrying out multiple operations in a row.

A 20-day detention was imposed on the German rescue ships Sea-Eye 4 and Mare*Go on Friday evening, said the organisations Sea-Eye and Sea-Watch that operate the vessels.

KYIV, June 4 (Reuters) - The Ukrainian military on Sunday renewed its plea for operational silence around a long-awaited counteroffensive against Russian forces, the latest in a stream of messages by Kyiv as it prepares for the assault.

Anticipation has mounted around what is expected to be a broad attack by Ukrainian forces to retake Russian-occupied territory in the east and south.

But Ukrainian officials have repeatedly discouraged public speculation over the operation, saying it could help the enemy.