Firefighter becomes fourth fatality in Portugal wildfires

A firefighting airplane flies over a wildfire in Castelo Novo, Fundao area, Portugal, August 21, 2025. (Reuters)
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Updated 23 August 2025
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Firefighter becomes fourth fatality in Portugal wildfires

  • The office of President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa sent condolences

LISBON: A firefighter killed in Portugal while battling a wildfire has become the fourth fatality in the emergency the country has faced this summer, the presidency said on Saturday.

The office of President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa sent condolences to the family of the fireman “who tragically lost his life after directly combating the forest fires in Sabugal municipality,” in the northeast of the country.


EU regulators hit Elon Musk’s X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc’s social media law

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EU regulators hit Elon Musk’s X with 120 million euro fine for breaching bloc’s social media law

  • The European Commission issued the decision after a two-year investigation under the Digital Services Act
  • They cited issues with X’s blue checkmarks, which they called “deceptive,” and failures in its ad database and data access for researchers

LONDON: European Union regulators on Friday fined Elon Musk’s social media platform X 120 million euros ($140 million) for failing to comply with the bloc’s digital regulations.
The European Commission issued its decision following an investigation it opened two years ago into X under the 27-nation bloc’s Digital Services Act. Also known as the DSA, its a sweeping rulebook that requires platforms to take more responsibility for protecting European users and cleaning up harmful or illegal content and products on their sites, under threat of hefty fines.
The Commission said it was punishing X, previously known as Twitter, because of three different breaches of the DSA’s transparency requirements. The decision could rile President Donald Trump, whose administration has lashed out at digital regulations from Brussels and vowed to retaliate if American tech companies are penalized.
Regulators said X’s blue checkmarks broke the rules because of their “deceptive design” that could expose users to scams and manipulation.
X also fell short of the requirements for its ad database and giving access to researchers access to public data.