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Expanded BRICS weighs financial integration while its purpose remains unsettled

India hosts an 11-member summit including Putin and Xi, with agendas spanning local-currency trade, linked payment systems, and UN-focused governance reform amid ongoing conflicts.

Published: 16 days ago

India is hosting an expanded, 11‑member BRICS summit in New Delhi, with Putin and Xi attending, as wars in Ukraine and the Middle East and wider U....

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Chokepoint captured or contested? What Houthi control really means

Iran-aligned fighters expelled government forces from Mocha and advanced onto Red Sea islands by the Bab al-Mandab, amid Saudi airstrikes and trade concerns.

Published: 16 days ago

Yemen’s Iranaligned Houthis seized the Red Sea port of Mocha and pushed toward the Bab alMandab, with reports that a strategic island at the strait...

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Common criteria, local discretion: will limits relieve housing—or splinter rules?

Brussels outlined conditions for municipalities to cap short-term rentals in designated “tension zones” to ease pressures in tourism-heavy areas, affecting platforms like Airbnb.

Published: 17 days ago

The European Commission proposed letting municipalities impose tighter limits on short‑term rentals under EU‑set conditions—introducing “tension zo...

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Germany’s postwar firewall meets AfD’s biggest test yet

The far-right party’s record state result leaves it short of a majority and seeking partners in Saxony-Anhalt.

Published: 17 days ago

AfD won about 44% in SaxonyAnhalt—its strongest state result and the biggest regional share for any German party in a decade—falling short of a maj...

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Escalation threatens a border plan that only works if guns fall silent

Attacks around Kfar Rumman and Nabatieh killed infants and paramedics and wounded media crews, as Beirut tallies thousands of alleged breaches of a June 26 framework.

Published: 17 days ago

Israeli strikes intensified across southern Lebanon, with a 7 September attack on Kfar Rumman killing at least 11 civilians, including infants, and...

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USMCA’s promise meets unilateral bans—tactical gambit or lasting rewrite?

Washington invoked Tariff Act Section 338 to block Canadian alcohol, dairy and motorcycles and apply 50% surcharges on selected goods, while Ottawa’s C$27.6bn counter‑tariffs took effect.

Published: 17 days ago

Washington invoked Section 338 of the 1930 Tariff Act to ban Canadian dairy, most alcohol and motorcycles and to add 50% surcharges on selected goo...

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Pressure or plateau: Iran referral collides with great-power fault lines

Backed by the US, France, Germany and the UK, the IAEA Board sent Iran’s safeguards file to the Security Council over unresolved uranium-trace inquiries—the first such step in roughly two decades.

Published: 17 days ago

The IAEA Board of Governors has referred Iran’s nuclear file to the UN Security Council for the first time in nearly 20 years, citing Tehran’s fail...

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When does AI distillation become theft—and who decides?

In a coordinated move before planned Trump–Xi talks, multiple U.S. agencies accused Chinese AI companies—reportedly six—of industrial‑scale IP copying via model distillation, while Beijing rejected the claims and urged cooperation.

Published: 17 days ago

U.S. law enforcement and intelligence agencies accused six Chinese AI firms of extracting capabilities from American models via “industrial‑scale” ...

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Interceptions Hailed, But the Strike’s Toll Remains Unclear

Iran’s IRGC targeted U.S.-linked air bases in Jordan as retaliation for U.S. tanker strikes, while signaling parallel maritime restrictions that raise regional stakes.

Published: 17 days ago

Iran’s Revolutionary Guard fired roughly 20 ballistic missiles at Jordanian air bases used by U.S. forces, casting the strike as retaliation for re...

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UK’s sweeping settlement sanctions face uncertain bite and boundaries

London bans settlement goods and tightens arms licensing with allies as Israel closes the British consulate in East Jerusalem.

Published: 17 days ago

On 8 September 2026, the UK moved from censure to penalties against Israeli West Bank settlements—banning settlement imports, restricting services ...

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Symbolic reset or consequential shift? Britain targets West Bank settlements

Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband will unveil a targeted regime focused on goods and some services from Israeli-occupied settlements, with measures reportedly aligning UK policy to the ICJ’s 2024 advisory opinion.

Published: 19 days ago

Britain is set to ban trade in goods and some services from Israeli West Bank settlements, with Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband expected to unveil a ...

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Local containment meets a borderless smoke threat we barely count

From the Pyrenees to Mount Kenya and Antalya, authorities battled blazes as distant Indonesian fires worsened Manila’s air and the WMO warned of increasingly extreme smoke events.

Published: 20 days ago

Wildfires from the French Pyrenees to Türkiye’s Antalya coast, Albania’s Himara, Kenya’s Mount Kenya moorlands, and Colombia’s Norte de Santander f...

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