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China and the United States must prevent their AI competition from escalating into a cold war, a top Chinese policy adviser has warned, while asserting that a complete decoupling would be difficult. The remarks from Zheng Yongnian, a leading political scientist and dean of the school of public policy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, come ahead of the Xi-Trump summit in Washington, where artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to be among the top items on the agenda. Chinese...

Pakistan launched air strikes Thursday on 10 sites in Afghanistan in what Islamabad said was a retaliation for a drone attack by Afghanistan's Taliban forces on a border post. A Taliban government spokesman denied the allegation and said Pakistan's latest strikes killed four civilians in Afghanistan's southern and eastern provinces.

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Israeli forces launch air and artillery attacks across southern Lebanon Israeli forces have struck several locations across southern Lebanon as they continue to bombard towns and villages from the air and with artillery. Lebanon’s National News Agency says Israeli artillery targeted Chaqra’s eastern edge in Bint Jbeil district in the latest attack. The agency also says an Israeli drone struck near the popular La Vita restaurant, between Nabatieh al-Fawqa and Mayfadoun in Nabatieh governorate. I

The pact bundles weapons, energy, and humanitarian aid, widens sanctions to nearly 1,900 measures, and brings Canberra's total support to nearly $1.3 billion.
Czech President Petr Pavel: We need rules. Not because all states are equally powerful, but precisely because they are not. Rules have value only if they bind everyone, especially those powerful enough to break them. When rules are cast aside, raw power fills the vacuum. A world dominated by great power competition is a volatile world, less able to address the most pressing challenges of our time. It is a world where a single spark can ignite a fire. Instead, we should insist that with greate

Turkiye will transfer control of the Bashiqa-Zelikan military base in northern Iraq to the Iraqi government under a phased withdrawal agreement, according to a joint statement released by the offices of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi following their meeting at the UN General Assembly in New York. The agreement also includes Iraqi commitments to address armed groups in the Sinjar region that Turkiye has identified as security threats, according to the
Iranian Varesh Airlines flight from Tehran to Dushanbe was cancelled and returned to Imam Khomeini Airport after its route through Azerbaijani airspace was denied/disrupted.

Belgium has awarded Exail a nearly €9.9 million contract to supply TRIDENT mine countermeasure platforms and K-STER C systems to Ukraine. The post Belgium Procures TRIDENT Mine Warfare Systems for Ukraine via Exail appeared first on Naval News.

The president criticised North Korea for using citizens like 'currency' to aid Russia in its war against Ukraine.
Heavy Russian drone and missile activity over western Ukraine near Polish territory triggered an overnight NATO air patrol. Czech Air Force JAS-39 Gripen fighter jets launched from Pardubice air base and flew a combat air patrol along Poland's eastern border. The mission came from NATO's joint command under the alliance's integrated air and missile defense system.

Bomb disposal experts have removed debris from a Russian Iskander-M missile found in Kyiv following an overnight Russian attack and transported it for destruction.

El Mundo reports that U.S. intelligence has warned several European governments that Russia may be preparing a drone operation against Spain, France or Italy. According to the report, Russia could launch Gerbera drones from merchant ships in the Mediterranean, potentially hidden in containers. The drones have a range of up to 600 km and carry relatively small explosive payloads, making them more suited to disrupting airports, ports or military facilities than causing large-scale destruction.

DUBAI: The Gulf’s aviation boom was built on a powerful combination of geography, accessible airspace, relatively cheap fuel and millions of passengers connecting between Asia, Europe and Africa. The Iran war has put all of those advantages under pressure at once, spiking oil prices, closing airspaces and damaging the regions burgeouning tourism industry. According to the International Air Transport Association, Middle Eastern airlines are forecast to swing from a $7.2 billion net profit in 2025
Microsoft is set to invest more than $10 billion in Middle Eastern countries, focusing on cloud infrastructure and AI, as part of its regional strategy amidst the Iran war tensions.
Islamabad accuses Kabul of harboring militants who stage cross-border attacks, but Afghanistan's Taliban government denies harboring anti-Pakistani insurgents.

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A fire broke out at a ground-based Starlink satellite station in Poland’s Masovian region on Wednesday evening. The station provided connectivity for Poland and Ukraine, including Ukrainian military users. Source: Reuters
Al-Mansouri, Nabatieh Al-Fawqa and Bani Hayyan, all in southern Lebanon, came under Israeli air raids. Lebanon reports
Netanyahu is expected to land at a military airfield in New Jersey, travel to Manhattan, address the General Assembly, and then head back to Israel.
Russia is using citizens from 47 countries in its war against Ukraine, including Nepal, India, Cuba, Sudan, and South Africa, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has stated.
A fire that hit a Starlink ground station in central Poland on the evening of September 23 is being treated as sabotage. The power station and generator were destroyed. The site is run by state-owned telecom Exatel and handles secure data transmission used by the Ukrainian military. Deputy PM and Digital Affairs Minister Krzysztof Gawkowski: the attack was meant to disable the station and cut internet access, and it is an element of hybrid warfare. Systems are back and fully operational.
The Ukrainian military has successfully tested four new interceptor drones against jet drones, President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has reported.
🇪🇹 Fighters belonging to the #Tigray People's Liberation Front on Wednesday took control over airports run by the #Ethiopian federal government in Tigray amid an escalating conflict with government troops. https://t.co/ZJmIfcXEKU

Prime minister will ‘highlight Israel’s achievements’ as he heads towards his toughest re-election challenge When he takes the stage at the UN on Thursday, Benjamin Netanyahu will deliver a familiar message of defiance even as protests and international condemnation leave the Israeli leader in growing isolation. Netanyahu is facing his toughest re-election challenge in a political career spanning decades with three ongoing conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran, and a growing campaign of violence b
Seven people were killed and 12 others injured when Russian forces attacked an agricultural enterprise in the Kharkiv region on Thursday morning.

Ukraine has proposed EU sanctions on Russian billionaires Vladimir Lisin and Vladimir Potanin after the bloc removed Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from its sanctions list.
Russian Foreign Ministry Spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stressed that Moscow will keep following this approach consistently

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Whenever Washington accuses other countries of activity allegedly incompatible with the CTBT, it means that the Americans are once again looking to withdraw from their international commitments, Maria Zakharova noted
Fire breaks out at Starlink base in Masovian region of Poland on Wednesday evening. The station enables internet access for large parts of Eastern Europe, including Ukraine. Initial investigations suggest a possible arson attack. https://liveuamap.com/en/2026/24-september-07-fire-breaks-out-at-starlink-base-in-masovian
Russian strikes on telecommunications infrastructure in Ukraine may cause disruptions to communications and internet services.
At Dniprovsky direction clashes yesterday near Marhanets and Dniprovske, - General Staff of Armed Forces of Ukraine reports https://liveuamap.com/en/2026/24-september-08-at-dniprovsky-direction-clashes-yesterday

[Ayin Network] As Washington pushes for a nationwide arms embargo, Sudan's warring parties continue to acquire increasingly sophisticated military technology, including drones and air-defence systems.

Meanwhile, Ukraine's Vivaldi operation near Lyman succeeded not through robotics but through precise reconnaissance.

At least nine passengers were killed after a sleeper bus caught fire on the Yamuna Expressway in Greater Noida, near India's capital Delhi. DW has more.
[African Arguments] For African governments, the significance of China's humanoid-robotics programme is not that robots may one day appear on African battlefields. It is a diagnostic case of how a dual-use technology can move from commercial deployment to military relevance faster than the institutions responsible for assessing and governing it can adapt. Africa's stake is therefore not speculative. African states already operate within global technology and defence supply chains dominated by ex

The CIA has reportedly warned that Russia is preparing possible drone attacks on Spain, France or Italy using Gerbera drones launched from ships at sea.

Moldovan President Maia Sandu said four Russian drones have violated Moldova’s airspace during an attack on Ukraine, with at least one exploding in the north of the country.