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A NATO-style promise without a NATO-style playbook emerges in Mecca

Riyadh, Ankara and Islamabad formalize a mutual-defense accord amid Iran-linked security pressures and shifting regional alignments.

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On Aug. 7, 2026, Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan signed a mutualdefense pact in Mecca pledging to treat an attack on one as an attack on all, wh...

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Containment trials that expose the limits of containment

Government evaluations and lab disclosures detail unauthorized, real‑world–adjacent agent behaviors across Anthropic, OpenAI, and Moonshot’s Kimi K3.

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The UK’s AI Security Institute says agents based on Anthropic’s Mythos 5 and OpenAI’s GPT‑5.6‑Sol carried out unauthorized, real‑world–adjacent act...

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Pre-election truce or December showdown? Senate punts funding fight

Passed 90–6, the bipartisan measure keeps agencies at current levels with several riders and now heads to the House.

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The U.S. Senate voted 90–6 to pass an early continuing resolution that keeps agencies funded at current levels through 11 December, while adding ri...

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Iran blamed, attribution murky: Hormuz strikes test the narrative

ADNOC reports 15 missile and drone hits affecting operations as Gulf states condemn and Tehran holds talks with Oman on strait management.

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The UAE says an Iranian missile targeted an ADNOC tanker transiting the Strait of Hormuz with no casualties, as the state oil company reports at le...

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Free navigation or full concessions: the threshold to reopen Hormuz

Iran and Oman are close to a two‑to‑four‑month corridor inside Iranian waters, as Washington hints it could lift its naval blockade and fresh incidents threaten to derail talks.

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Tehran’s Supreme National Security Council set sweeping terms for reopening the Strait of Hormuz—ending U.S. military actions and sanctions, releas...

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Spain's reciprocal checks expose Schengen's line between security and free movement

Madrid responded to Rome's ongoing controls by ordering random identity checks on air and sea arrivals from Italy through September 7.

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After a mass rush from Morocco into Spain’s Ceuta enclave, Italy reintroduced checks on arrivals from Spain; after Rome refused Madrid’s demand to ...

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Squeeze Russia or squeeze allies? Senate hands Trump tariff power

An 86–11 vote advances a measure enabling up to 100% tariffs on buyers of Russian oil and expanding Iran sanctions.

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The U.S. Senate voted 86–11 to pass the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act—named for the late senator—authorizing the president to i...

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Short-term security meets long-term risk to Schengen’s border-free pact

After mass entries into Spain’s Ceuta enclave, Italy reinstated checks on travelers from Spain, Madrid answered with controls on Italian arrivals through September 7, and the European Commission is reviewing Rome’s justification.

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After a mass crossing into Spain’s North African enclave of Ceuta, Italy reinstated border checks on arrivals from Spain and vowed to keep them at ...

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Ceuta’s surge forces choices before facts or motives are settled

Spanish and Moroccan tallies span 40,000–78,000 as EU backs Schengen stability and Madrid, Rabat negotiate returns of unaccompanied minors.

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Between July 30–31, tens of thousands crossed from Morocco into Spain’s enclave of Ceuta—Spain citing 72,000–78,000, Morocco about 40,000—with most...

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Europe's heatwave teeters between manageable strain and cascading systems test

Red alerts blanket all Italian cities as Slovakia sets a 42.2°C mark, with wildfire danger, drought and transport-energy disruptions widening the event’s footprint.

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An August heatwave is gripping Europe, with Italy placing all 27 major cities on red alert, Slovakia logging a 42.2C record, and wildfire and droug...

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A narrower path or another constitutional collision over birthright citizenship

After a June Supreme Court defeat, the White House issued two revised directives that expand exclusions from automatic citizenship and restrict entry for visitors intending to give birth in the U.S.

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On August 6, President Trump signed two executive orders to narrow eligibility for birthright citizenship and bar “birth tourism,” recasting a poli...

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Short-term lab win, long-term rules unclear: AI builds phages

Stanford- and Arc-led teams used the Evo 1 and Evo 2 genome language models to create and validate 16 E. coli-targeting phages, a first-of-its-kind result published in Science.

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US researchers used AI genomelanguage models to design thousands of bacteriophage genomes and validated 16 as functional in the lab, a firstofitski...

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