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RIYADH: Saudi fintech Abwab.ai raised SR15 million ($4 million) in a seed round led by European venture capital firm Speedinvest as it seeks to expand its AI-powered lending infrastructure for small and medium-sized businesses. Middle East Venture Partners also participated in the round, according to a company statement. The investment marks Speedinvest’s first investment in Saudi Arabia, the statement said. Riyadh-based Abwab.ai said financial institutions using its technology have processed

Russia Secretly Plans Major Expansion of Kamikaze Drone Production Internal Rosatom plans point to a major expansion of military-grade carbon fiber production in Tatarstan, potentially adding 28,000 attack drones to Russia's arsenal each year. READ MORE

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In the Zaporizhzhia sector, Russian troops currently have sufficient forces and resources, but there are no signs of a significant increase in enemy personnel. At the same time, 69% of its servicemen have criminal records.

Zelensky: Ukraine’s energy sector, critical infrastructure, and our food exports must stop being targets for Russia, and this will lead to matching de-escalation steps on our part. Solutions are possible. We are ready to work on this, and we will discuss it with our partners on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York. I thank everyone who is helping! It will no longer be the case that only the country under attack suffers. The nature of war is now such that the aggressor wil

A special Air China flight from Beijing reached New York over the objections of a trade association representing the biggest US airlines, according to a flight data tracker, and a second additional flight by the same Chinese carrier is being considered for Friday. Flight 621 took off from the Chinese capital around 4pm on Saturday and landed after 6pm local time the same day, according to global flight tracking and data platform FlightAware. It was the first US flight China’s flagship airline...

The Afghan border provinces of Kunar and Paktika were struck overnight. Pakistan said 28 militants were killed, Afghanistan said three civilians died. This follows soon after an attack on police in Kohat, Pakistan.

Under a global cloud of wars and bitter divisions, world leaders meet at the United Nations in New York this week facing new fears that runaway artificial intelligence could threaten humanity even as climate shocks and escalating prices are already making life much tougher for hundreds of millions of people. The annual high-level gathering at the UN General Assembly will also be consumed with major wars in Iran, Gaza, Ukraine, Sudan, Congo and Myanmar and a persisting question: can the leaders..
Russian forces attacked a number of settlements in Kyiv region during the day on Monday, September 21, head of the Kyiv Regional Military Administration Tymur Tkachenko said.

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Zelensky: Ukraine’s energy sector, critical infrastructure, and our food exports must stop being targets for Russia, and this will lead to matching de-escalation steps on our part.

Rising electricity demand, shocks in energy security and climate commitments are reviving long-stalled plans for nuclear power across Southeast Asia. But proponents of nuclear energy still face formidable obstacles.

Pro-Kremlin party’s record victory in tightly controlled vote likely to be used as evidence country supports war Russia’s new parliament will include 49 deputies who have taken part in the war against Ukraine, officials said on Monday, after a landslide victory by the ruling United Russia party in widely criticised elections. The pro-Kremlin party won a record 355 seats in the country’s 450-seat Duma lower house of parliament, according to preliminary figures. The result further consolidates Vla

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Amnesty International is accusing Rwanda-backed M23 rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo of serious abuses against miners, including killings, torture and forced labour, allegations it says could amount to war crimes.

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KYIV: Russian drones struck the southern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia on Monday, a day after Kyiv’s forces fired more than 1,000 drones at Russia, officials said. The relentless daily attacks underscore the lack of significant progress in diplomatic efforts to end the fighting more than four years after Russia invaded its neighbor. There is no sign the war is abating as world leaders gather this week at the UN General Assembly. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said he expects to meet wi

Oil prices dropped to their lowest in 11 days on Monday, as investors hoped to see diplomatic progress on the Iran war with the UN meeting this week, as well as a partial recovery from shipments in Saudi Arabia.
NEW YORK: US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent warned Monday that Iranian airlines will have trouble functioning globally in two days under the weight of American sanctions — as the Trump administration seeks to keep pressure on Tehran. On September 23, “all the Iranian airlines will be shut down around the world,” Bessent told CNBC in an interview. “If they land, you cannot provide them with fuel, you cannot provide them with landing services, you cannot sell them tickets, or you will be knocked
Bessent on Iran: On September 23, all Iranian airlines will be shut down around the world. How do we do that? If they land, you cannot provide them with fuel, you cannot provide them with landing services, you cannot sell them tickets, or you will be knocked out of the dollar system.

Saudi-led coalition strikes Yemen’s Taiz as Houthi forces advance Saudi-led coalition aircraft carried out an air strike on the Hayfan district in Yemen’s Taiz province, Houthi-run al-Masirah television reported. The report did not provide details on casualties or damage from the strike. The air attack comes as Houthi forces have rapidly advanced across western Yemen, with the group claiming control of large parts of the country’s Red Sea coast and advancing towards areas near the Bab al-Mande

Trump banned CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House after aide Natalie Harp showed him clips and articles about recent negative coverage. The decision reportedly surprised some advisers. Trump later said there was “no reason” beyond not wanting the outlets there and suggested access could return if they “straighten themselves out.” Source: CNN
The entire White House TV pool — including Fox, NBC, CBS and ABC — is backing CNN after the White House prevented it from carrying out its assigned pool duties. The networks will stop covering events designated as presidential pool coverage, including Trump’s trip to New York, limiting live coverage of several events.
Bessent on China: Trump and Xi Jinping both have great respect for each other. In Xi Jinping’s eyes, Donald Trump is a different kind of leader than he has seen in the past.

The Communist Party accused former military leaders Zhang Youxia and Liu Zhenli of factionalism and disloyalty, expelling them from the party and the armed forces following a Politburo meeting on Monday, state media reported. Zhang was once a vice-chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) and the highest-ranking uniformed member of the Chinese military, second only to Chinese leader Xi Jinping. The CMC is China’s top military decision-making body. Zhang was also a member of the Communist
Ukrainian Defense Forces, following the strike on the Moscow Oil Refinery, have disabled more than 45% of the design capacity of Russia's oil refining industry as of September 21, the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine said in a weekly summary covering strikes on key enemy facilities in Russia and the temporarily occupied territories of Ukraine from September 14 to 20.
U.S. President Donald Trump has stated that Russia has lost control over its oil refining industry due to the war with Ukraine, noting that some refineries have been put out of commission, at least temporarily.

Spokesman Dmitry Peskov, who was careful not to criticize Trump directly, said Russia’s trading partners “unanimously reject” the punitive tariffs.

Zhang Youxia, once the People’s Liberation Army’s top uniformed commander, and another general had taken “exceptionally large” bribes, investigators said.

Trump has said Russia's diesel oil industry has been crippled by Ukrainian attacks, calling for an end to the "never-ending war".

The United States and China’s agreement to establish an official AI dialogue, including a proposed threat-notification system, marks a pragmatic step towards crisis prevention in their tech war, even as deep-seated divisions over chip access, model distillation and market dominance threaten to limit its impact, analysts said. Announced following high-level talks in New York on Sunday between US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and Vice-Premier He Lifeng,..

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and CDU representatives held a press conference on Monday, September 21, after the party suffered its worst regional election defeat in postwar Germany. Merz called the result in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania a “disaster”, as the CDU fell below the 5% threshold for entering the state parliament. According to FRANCE 24 Europe editor Armen Georgian, Merz and his party’s Berlin candidate, Stefan Evers, offered no concrete solutions to address the historic defeat, d
IRGC Spokesperson: Geographically, there is still room for this war to expand.
IRGC Spokesperson: Our targets will no longer necessarily be the previous targets; we actually have new targets that have not yet been attacked, and in the event of an aggression, we will indeed strike these new targets.

Key findings: * Leaked documents reveal over 50 Russian defense companies operating Western industrial high-precision machinery — produced by Germany, Switzerland, and Sweden — to manufacture weapons used against Ukraine. * Their machinery serving arms production was maintained by the Russian firm Galika-Service over the years of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine. * Russia-based Galika-Service is part of the larger Galika group, built around the Swiss company Galika AG. The group’s cen

With the US midterm elections now just six weeks away, we’ll speak to our Washington correspondent Fraser Jackson about whether President Donald Trump could help or hurt his party’s chances. Polls have pointed to what some are calling a “blue wave”, with Democrats potentially regaining control of the House, while the Senate race remains more uncertain. Trump has ramped up campaigning, including spending heavily on advertising and proposing $5,000 payments to voters who support Republicans. But w