Italian courtroom blocks extradition of Nord Stream blast suspect, newspapers file criticism over Google AI overviews, and extra information on Thursday.
Italian courtroom blocks extradition of Nord Stream blast suspect
Italy’s highest courtroom on Wednesday blocked the extradition to Germany of a Ukrainian man arrested over the sabotage of the Nord Stream fuel pipelines linking Russia with Europe, AFP reported.
The Court of Cassation in Rome rejected the ruling of an appeals courtroom, as a substitute sending the case involving Serhii Kuznietsov to a brand new panel for overview.
Kuznietsov, who was arrested in Italy in August on a German warrant, has denied collaborating in a cell that allegedly positioned explosives on the underwater pipelines in September 2022.
The defendant, now being held in a high-security jail in northern Italy, claims to have been a member of the Ukrainian armed forces and in Ukraine on the time.
He faces as much as 15 years in jail if discovered responsible in Germany in accordance with the appeals courtroom in Bologna, whose extradition ruling was rejected.
Italian newspapers file criticism over Google AI overviews
Google’s AI Overview summaries are killing visitors to all of Italy’s foremost newspapers’ web sites, the nationwide federation of newspaper publishers FIEG mentioned on Wednesday because it filed a criticism to the Italian communications watchdog.
Similar complaints had been additionally being made in different nations, information company Ansa reported, coordinated by European Newspaper Publishers’ Association ENPA with the purpose of pushing the European Commission to analyze below the Digital Services Act (DSA).
Publishers mentioned Google was violating the DSA with the introduction of AI Overviews, in addition to with the AI Mode characteristic, which eliminates conventional search outcomes altogether.
The transfer got here because the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority confirmed that Google’s search and Discover platforms, together with AI overviews, will now be topic to regulation below the Digital Markets Act.
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Actor Depardieu absent as trial begins in Rome
A trial wherein French actor Gerard Depardieu is accused of attacking a paparazzo final 12 months in Rome will proceed after either side failed to achieve a deal, AFP reported.
The star didn’t seem in courtroom in Rome on Wednesday, however photographer Rino Barillari took the stand to accuse the actor of hitting him in an altercation at Rome’s well-known Harry’s Bar.
Depardieu has claimed he slipped and fell on Barillari as he moved to defend his associate, Magda Vavrusova, whereas the couple’s lawyer Delphine Meillet has mentioned the photographer pushed Vavrusova violently.
Depardieu has confronted a number of scandals lately, with a Paris courtroom handing him an 18-month suspended sentence in May after convicting him of sexually assaulting two girls on a movie set in 2021. He has appealed.
