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The artificial intelligence-based chatbot ChatGPT has been open to the public on the website of provider OpenAI for a week now. Within just a few days over a million users registered to ask the programme questions and chat. Commentators discuss what the innovative language generation model can and can't do.

The EU home affairs ministers cleared the way for Croatia's accession to the Schengen Area on Thursday. Controls at the national borders of the popular holiday destination will no longer apply as of January. Bulgaria and Romania, however, will not be allowed to join because Austria vetoed their accession citing concerns about the migration policies of both countries. Commentators harshly criticise the move.

In Iran, the first official execution over the protests against the leadership of the Islamic Republic that have been going on for almost three months has been carried out. Mohsen Shekari, 23, was hanged on Thursday for injuring a member of the pro-regime Basij militia during a road blockade in September, the country's justice authority announced. Commentators are appalled.