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A few hundred young people dressed in black have clashed with police across France, Italy, Spain and Albania, smashing property and setting cars and buildings on fire. Political science professor Francis Dupuis-Deri said the movement began in Germany in the 1980s, drawing on the autonomia social movement. Italian MEP Mario Furore said Milan's looting involved very young people, many of them minors, and called it copycat behaviour.

On Thursday, flights from 16 countries, including Ireland, the United Kingdom, Spain and Denmark, were diverted, delayed or given extra security checks after a wave of alerts. The alerts continued on Friday, with at least 17 flights disrupted by midday GMT and Prague airport confirming nine were affected. Security inspections have so far found no explosives or suspicious materials on board, and no passenger has reported being harmed.

Russia and the United States are moving to block proposals to negotiate a legally binding set of rules on autonomous weapons at a UN conference in Geneva from 16 to 20 November, attended by 128 countries. A diplomatic retreat starting Friday will show the scale of opposition, according to the report. Anna Hehir of the Future of Life Institute said states have never been closer to a global agreement on AI weapons, warning that some may back endless discussions on voluntary measures.