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Anthropic CEO urges restricted China access to AI tech, sparking accusations of US technological dominance strategies.
Egyptian media reports that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is expected in Egypt tomorrow to meet President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi. The visit is centered on the situation in the Bab al-Mandab strait in the Red Sea.

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Critics say segment on US rescue operation in Iran was made to boost public perception of Trump’s unpopular war A US airman has spoken of climbing a 7,000ft ridge with a broken back, arm and shoulder after he was shot down in Iran – and of being rescued by a team of American special forces as hostile locals closed in on him. The air force colonel, identified only by his codename Bravo, appeared on camera Sunday night on CBS’s 60 Minutes in a segment some critics have labelled Pentagon propaganda

Canada to Back €90B EU Ukraine Loan to Deepen Transatlantic Ties Ottawa is discussing a contribution to the EU’s €90 billion Ukraine loan as Mark Carney seeks closer economic and security ties with Europe while reducing Canada’s reliance on the U.S. READ MORE
European Union countries failed to agree on extending one of the anti-Russian sanctions programs, Politico reported Monday, citing EU diplomatic sources.

The US-Israel war on Iran has shaken global energy markets and coal is no exception. Countries around the world are turning to the highly polluting source of power in a bid to avoid shipping disruptions in the Strait of Hormuz. According to the International Energy Agency, global coal demand is forecast to rise by 1.2% this year to a record 8.94 billion tonnes. FRANCE 24’s Environment Editor Valerie Dekimpe has the details in this edition.

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte believes Russia's strike on a passenger train locomotive in Ukraine near the Polish border shows the desperation of Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin.

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman asked the United States for more U.S. military help last week after the Iranian-backed Houthi forces in Yemen launched a broad offensive.

LAHORE: Rejecting the Prime Minister’s recent petroleum relief package as insufficient, Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) Emir Hafiz Naeemur Rehman on Monday yet again demanded the complete abolition of the petroleum levy. On Sunday, PM Shehbaz announced a “relief scheme” for users of motorcycles, autos and vehicles of up to 800cc to “alleviate the burden” of rising global oil prices. The JI chief’s remarks come as the party remains engaged in talks with the government over the petroleum levy. JI has been st

Trump blames Ukraine’s attacks for global diesel shortage, linking the crisis to Russia's war rather than US actions.

Trump: The only control or “guardrails” that AI needs is a STRONG AND SMART (High IQ!) PRESIDENT, and the U.S.A. has that, in spades! The Trump Administration has stopped AI “people” from doing bad, or potentially bad, “things,“ like Dario (Anthropic!), who is now pretending to be a “perfect little angel” - and we will continue to do so! We already have tremendous CRIMINAL and REGULATORY power over these companies! There is a SICK conspiracy going on against AI and Data
Reporter: Do you trust what you are getting from the Pentagon? JD Vance: I trust Pete Hegseth and Dan Caine.
JD Vance on Yemen: We've been engaged in direct conversations with the Houthis themselves. We are going to keep on monitoring the situation.
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Boris Johnson on Putin: This is a guy who is absolutely on the back foot. He’s losing record numbers of men on the front, and he’s resorting to terroristic attacks on the heroic staff and passengers of Ukrainian railways.

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Boris Johnson on Ukraine: What we really need from Western leaders is an emphatic, clear, unambiguous announcement that the destiny of Ukraine is with the West. You never hear anymore from Western governments that Ukraine’s future is in NATO. It is in NATO. The solution to this problem of Ukraine’s destiny is to be clear about where Ukraine is going. And I’m afraid that neither from London nor from Washington have we heard any clarity in the last few years.

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The reported death has been linked to a Ukrainian strike on Aug. 26 against Russian command posts in occupied Donetsk.

The EU's top diplomat said Monday that Russian strikes which hit a Warsaw-bound train near Ukraine's border with Poland shortly after top Western figures passed through were meant to "scare" off Kyiv's backers. "It is clearly meant to scare Western countries from supporting Ukraine, from going to Ukraine to show support," foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said, urging Kyiv's backers to do "the opposite". France 24's Dave Keating reports from Brussels.

The UK Ministry of Defence says a member of the British Armed Forces died in a road traffic incident in Ukraine on September 12.
IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has ordered a legal review of the documentary "NAZA" and a separate probe into how classified materials used in it were leaked. The film covers Israel's AI-powered strikes in Gaza and features testimonies from 24 purported Israeli intelligence soldiers. Zamir: "It is based on blood libels, deliberate distortion of reality, and false and serious accusations against IDF soldiers and commanders."

ProPublica reports that Russian oligarch Umar Kremlev, a close associate of Putin, secretly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars toward Donald Trump Jr.’s May wedding in the Bahamas. Kremlev allegedly covered the rental of a private island, a fireworks display and other major expenses through an IBA-linked entity in Dubai. He also attended the roughly 50-person wedding with several other Russian guests. Trump Jr.’s spokesperson did not dispute the payments, saying Kremlev is a personal frie

Researchers from China’s leading universities and tech giants are setting their sights on a crucial new front in the AI race with the US: developing systems capable of building better versions of themselves without human intervention. In a joint paper published on Thursday, researchers from ByteDance, Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, among others, outlined a five-stage road map for recursive self-improvement (RSI). The study, titled “The Last AI Built by..
Zelensky: "We are working with manufacturers on a new generation of drone interceptors to counter Russian jet-powered Shahed drones. Development and testing are underway."

Haj and Umrah pilgrims, work visa holders and those planning to stay in Saudi Arabia for more than six months will be required to carry a National Database and Registration Authority-linked vaccination certificate from Sept 25 onwards when travelling from Karachi’s Jinnah International Airport, an official said. The development came as Border Health Services-Pakistan (BHS-P) extended the deadline for the application of the requirement — which initially applied only to Haj and Umrah pilgrims — fr
Zelensky: We are working with manufacturers on a new generation of drone interceptors to counter Russian jet-powered Shahed drones. Development and testing are underway.

Satellite images show Saudi pumping station damage southeast of Medina Satellite images released by Vantor show massive damage at a pumping station along the route of Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline, in al-Mesabaah, southeast of Medina. The images were published following an attack and fires at the site on Friday that caused widespread damage. The incident comes as Yemen’s Houthi group have stepped up attacks on Saudi Arabia’s energy infrastructure. The attacks are putting Saudi Arabia’s oil

Automated AI drones are just one component of an ultimate chain of destruction both sides are building.

Warnings from researchers at leading US artificial intelligence developer Anthropic that increasingly powerful models could escape human control and even lead to the extinction of the human race, have drawn attention in China, where policymakers have been preparing for some of the same risks. The US and China are the two major driving forces of frontier AI development and the technology’s global adoption. Both superpowers have been increasingly at loggerheads over each other’s AI policies and

EU countries failed to agree on extending sanctions against roughly 3,000 Russian individuals and companies, leaving ambassadors one day to reach a deal before the measures expire. Slovakia is demanding the removal of Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from the sanctions list while also resisting a proposal to extend sanctions from six months to 12 months. Most EU capitals oppose removing anyone while Russian attacks on Ukraine continue. Source: POLITICO
U.S. Energy Secretary Chris Wright: There’s been a huge disruption in Russian diesel exports. They were a meaningful exporter of diesel. Today, they’re not exporting any. Russia was a small exporter of gasoline. Now they’ve become a meaningful importer of gasoline.
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Kyiv is answering with compensation and cheap credit, aimed at the companies losing warehouses fastest.
EU's Von der Leyen: 'I condemn the Houthi attack against Saudi Arabia. We stand in solidarity with our Gulf partners in the face of relentless attacks by Iran’s proxies. We will continue working with our partners for safe, free navigation through the Strait of Hormuz and for stability in the Middle East. We all have a stake in this.'

rench far-left presidential candidate Jean-Luc #Mélenchon is both highly controversial and a #GenZ favourite. Mélenchon's young supporters express admiration for his promises to stage a "citizen's revolution", redistrubute wealth, fight #climatechange and support #Palestine. The candidate's critics have accused him of complancency towards #Russia and antisemitism. Despite being divisive, recent polls predict that Mélenchon will qualify for the second round of #France's 2027 presidential #el
[Capital FM] Nairobi -- ODM leader and Siaya Senator Oburu Odinga has been pictured taking an evening walk through the streets of London, days after travelling to the United Kingdom for a medical check-up.