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00:00Uber is fined 290 million euros by the EU's data protection authority for transferring personal details of European drivers to the US.
00:11Portuguese authorities call for calm following a 5.3 magnitude earthquake.
00:21Spanish olive oil producers are accusing supermarkets of inflating prices by taking advantage of production shortages.
00:30Uber has been fined 290 million euros by the data protection authority in the Netherlands, where the body's European headquarters are located.
00:44The ride-hailing company is accused of breaching EU data rules by transferring personal details of European drivers to the US.
00:54The Dutch DPA says the company lacked adequate protection between 2020 and 2022.
01:03In a statement, Uber replied that the decision was flawed and the extraordinary fine was completely unjustified. The company is likely to appeal the ruling.
01:14The company, as well as the not-for-profit association computer and communications industry, argue that the fine is targeting a period of significant legal uncertainty.
01:28In 2020, an EU court invalidated the privacy shield that allowed for data transfers between the EU and the US.
01:37Until the end of 2023, there was no clear set of rules until the EU-US data privacy framework came into force.
01:47Uber has been using those rules since then, but the Dutch authority argues it cannot ignore the lack of sufficient protection during the period investigated after a group of drivers in France filed a complaint.
02:06Authorities are calling for calm following a 5.3 Richter scale earthquake that struck in the early hours of Monday morning.
02:15Government officials say the event was not strong enough to warrant executing recovery plans.
02:22It is a concern in the sense that we have means of response and a natural phenomenon with this intensity already allows us to verify how the means are or are not ready and with the capacity to respond.
02:40From this point of view, let's say that a collateral advantage of such an event is to be able to do this test in a real way.
02:50The epicentre of the earthquake was recorded in the Atlantic, 58km west of Sinez, but felt as far as Lisbon. Up to three aftershocks were recorded.
03:02I woke up and then the noise of furniture and things at home making noise was scary.
03:12The earthquake caused no personal or material damage so far, according to Portuguese authorities.
03:19It is Portugal's strongest seismic event recorded since 2009 when a 5.6 quake struck the south coast.
03:34Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has said a large-scale attack on Hezbollah positions in Lebanon is not the end of the story.
03:43Israel launched a wave of airstrikes across southern Lebanon on Sunday in what it said was a pre-emptive strike.
03:50Hezbollah said it had launched hundreds of rockets and drones to avenge the killing of one of its top commanders last month.
03:57Hezbollah tried this morning to attack the State of Israel with rockets and bombs.
04:02We ordered the IDF to launch a massive attack to stop the threat.
04:08The IDF destroyed thousands of rockets, thousands of short-range missiles and all of them were designed to hit our citizens and our forces in Galilee.
04:18The leader of Hezbollah said the group's attack on Israel in retaliation for the killing of Fuad Shakur in Beirut last month had been delayed to give Gaza ceasefire talks a chance.
04:29We are afraid of retaliation, of going to war and of problems.
04:37They started to say that there is a ceasefire, a ceasefire and that we should be careful.
04:43In fact, we have given up.
04:45Of course, we did not tell anyone that we would give up, but the truth is that we have given up so that we can give a chance to these negotiations.
04:54Two Egyptian security sources said that the latest round of ceasefire talks in Cairo have ended without an agreement,
05:01with neither Hamas nor Israel agreeing to any of the compromises proposed by mediators.
05:07An anonymous US official said talks will continue at lower levels in the coming days in an effort to bridge remaining gaps.
05:13Solo protesters have gathered outside the French Embassy in Moscow to call for the release of Telegram founder Pavel Durov, who was arrested in France on Saturday.
05:28One protester carried a sign calling on the French not to follow in Putin's footsteps and to respect freedom of speech.
05:36He was later detained by police officers.
05:39Activists in Russia have tried to skirt the ban on unauthorized protests by staging single-person pickets, but even they are punishable by a fine or up to 15 days in prison.
05:50Russian-born Durov was arrested after landing in his private jet in an airport outside Paris.
05:56The arrest follows an investigation into the lack of moderators on Telegram.
06:01Police allege that allows criminal activity such as drug dealing and pedophilia networking to take place unhindered on the app.
06:09Telegram has become one of the leading social media platforms, ranking alongside giants like Facebook, YouTube, WhatsApp and Instagram.
06:17However, it still doesn't meet the requirements of the European Union, which has led to it being temporarily suspended in some member countries such as Spain.
06:31Prosecutors in Germany have released the name of the 26-year-old Syrian man suspected of killing three people in a stabbing attack in the city of Solingen on Friday.
06:41The man has been identified as Issa al-Aech. His surname has been withheld in line with German privacy laws.
06:48On Sunday, he was flown by helicopter to appear in the Federal Court of Justice in Karlsruhe for his first hearing following his arrest on Saturday.
06:56The Federal Public Prosecutor's Office said he'd been remanded in custody on suspicion of murder and membership of the so-called Islamic State terrorist group.
07:06The German daily newspaper Bild said on Saturday night that al-Aech approached officers on the street in Solingen just after 11pm local time to turn himself in.
07:17His arrest has sparked relief among many of Solingen's 160,000 residents.
07:23I think it's very good that the person has been identified, or at least that he has been identified.
07:30What's really interesting is why.
07:34Of course, it calms you down that he has turned himself in, but I'm speechless and totally shocked.
07:43German media reported that al-Aech's asylum claim had been denied and that he was supposed to have been deported last year.
07:50At a memorial church service on Sunday, some residents said they were afraid the far right would use the stabbing to whip up hatred of migrants.
07:59Of course, we are very afraid that the right wing is getting more and more power and that's definitely not the way.
08:08Of course, we have to ask some hard questions, but racism is never the answer.
08:12The attack happened on a central square in Solingen during the Festival of Diversity, an event to mark the 650th anniversary of the city.
08:21It was supposed to run until Sunday but was subsequently called off.
08:28The French interior minister has condemned a rise in anti-Semitism following an arson attack on a synagogue in a seaside resort town in southern France on Saturday.
08:38One police officer was injured in the attack and the suspect, identified by local press as a 33-year-old Algerian man, was also wounded in the shootout with police.
08:50Setting fire to a synagogue where the rabbi and his family live voluntarily with an axe is an anti-Semitic act.
08:59It is necessary to denounce it as such, otherwise we create a suspicion and a confusion of genders.
09:04I think the French expect, especially the Jewish community, to put words on things.
09:08Today there is an increase in anti-Semitic acts.
09:11The hatred of Jews, the hatred of Israel, affects children, women and French men who have the right to live the religion they want.
09:18In Paris, people gathered on Sunday to express solidarity against racism, anti-Semitism and all forms of discrimination.
09:25One protester voiced her anger and condemned all acts of violence.
09:31I say it is anger. We must be angry.
09:35It is enough to do as we have always done, at least the Jews, because I am Jewish, to always submit, to say yes, sorry, etc.
09:42No, shit, we are angry.
09:44It is not normal to attack a man because he is Jewish. It is not normal to attack a man because he is Muslim.
09:49It is not normal to attack a man because he is black, because he is Christian, because he is that. We must learn to live together.
09:54Prosecutors considered the attack as a terrorist act.
09:57Since the start of the Israel-Hamas war, the security around Jewish worship places in France have been strengthened.
10:07Russia unleashed its biggest air attack on Ukraine since its Kursk invasion, in which three people have been killed.
10:15Many of Kiev's residents hid from the air attack in the subway and, according to its mayor, power and water supplies in the city have been disrupted by the attack.
10:25The barrage, which appeared to target Ukraine's energy infrastructure, hit 15 regions.
10:31It began around midnight and continued beyond daybreak.
10:39Heat waves and drought have been crippling olive oil production in recent years.
10:44Spain, the world's largest olive oil provider, expects production to drop by 50% in 2024,
10:52on top of creating a perfect breeding ground for counterfeit products.
10:57Shortages sent prices through the roof.
11:01A study by farmer association UÑOYAURADORA argues supermarkets increased margins over producers by 75% over last year.
11:13The original price of our products has gone up by 3%.
11:18However, consumers are paying 59% more.
11:22Supermarkets deny inflating prices.
11:26Olive oil has remained below 10 euros throughout 2024.
11:30Consumer organizations say prices remained high despite the complete elimination of VAT on olive oil in Spain since July the 1st.