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There is no “red line” set for approving public assemblies, Hong Kong’s police chief has said, while warning that national security risks persist despite the landmark conviction and imprisonment of organisers behind the city’s annual Tiananmen Square vigil for inciting subversion. The Hong Kong government on Saturday also strongly condemned Western countries, anti-China media, overseas organisations and politicians for launching “malicious attacks” over the trial of the disbanded Hong Kong...

Tariffs and geopolitical rifts dominate discussions at a critical BRICS summit in India's capital.

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Members of the 11-nation BRICS group including China, Russia, Iran and India called for calm in the Middle East at a summit in New Delhi on Saturday, overcoming earlier divisions to issue a joint statement. Chinese President Xi Jinping, who joined Russian, Iranian, Indian and other leaders in India's capital, told the summit that the Middle East war "does not serve the common interests of the international community".

Chinese President Xi Jinping joined the leaders of Russia, Iran, India and other BRICS nations in New Delhi on Saturday, seeking common ground on the Middle East war as deep divisions test the 11-member bloc. Xi told the summit that the Middle East war "does not serve the common interests of the international community", according to Chinese state news agency Xinhua.

BRICS nations urge 'maximum restraint' in Middle East war

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One person was killed and three others were injured, including a child, in Russian drone attacks in the Kyiv region over the past day.

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Zelensky: Very often Ukraine is pushed toward different arrangements so that Russia can be satisfied that Ukraine will never be in NATO. We don’t know whether Ukraine will be in NATO or not. Of course, we will fight tooth and nail to secure the strongest possible security guarantees for Ukraine by the end of the war. Because the main thing is to end the war and to have guarantees that this war will not begin again.
Zelensky: Ukraine is number one in drone technology in the world — in terms of quantity, quality, and pricing. We built an industry like this in four years. This used to be almost entirely state-controlled. Today, more than 80% is made up of private companies. And war, you see, besides all the negatives, also brought some positives for the industry during these years.
Smoke was seen rising from the direction of a military airfield in the Russian city of Taganrog, Rostov region, amid warnings of a drone threat.
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Russian forces struck the same business in Dnipro again on the morning of 12 September after an overnight attack, with information on casualties still being verified.

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Lebanon president visits bombed Nabatieh site: 'No new talks with Israel' Lebanese president Joseph Aoun visited the southern Lebanese city of Nabatieh on Saturday, near a strategic Hezbollah position that the Israeli army had blown up on Thursday, and announced that there would be no new negotiations with Israel at present. Lebanon’s state-run National News Agency said that Aoun, who was accompanied by security chiefs, “stressed that the withdrawal of Israeli forces, the return of prisoners an

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Incursions by Russian drones into Moldovan and Romanian airspace are increasingly common. This week the Ukrainian president's plane was stopped from taking off from Chisinau. Observers suspect the attacks are deliberate.

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500 Yemeni refugees arrive in Djibouti, economy minister Ilyas Dawaleh says Nearly 500 refugees, including women and children, from Yemen have arrived in Djibouti’s coastal city of Obock, according to the country’s minister of economy and finance, Ilyas Dawaleh. Dawaleh wrote on X that the refugees were rescued at sea from boats stranded without fuel. Yemeni government-run Executive Unit for the Management of Displaced Persons Camps said 1,367 families were displaced on 8 September alone in th

Shafqat Ali Khan, Pakistan’s first ambassador to Armenia, presented his letters of credence to President Vahagn Khachaturyan at a formal ceremony at the presidential palace, it emerged on Saturday. President Khachaturyan warmly welcomed Ambassador Khan, congratulated him on his appointment, and conveyed his best wishes for a successful tenure and the effective discharge of his diplomatic responsibilities. The president expressed his readiness to support efforts to further develop relationship b
China will increase retail gasoline and diesel prices from Saturday due to rising international crude oil prices, state news agency Xinhua reported. The National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) said gasoline prices will rise by 260 yuan ($38.76) per tonne and diesel by 250 yuan ($37.27) per tonne, citing escalating US-Iran tensions as a key factor.

Iraq has ordered the closure of the Shalamcheh border crossing with Iran as a precaution after drone attacks on Saudi Arabia. Source: Reuters

The U.S. has limited military protection for tankers crossing the Strait of Hormuz after increased attacks on ships travelling at night. Washington has been providing air-based defence for vessels using a route near Oman’s coast, but the protection window was reduced in early September to two daily time slots, according to maritime guidance. Source: FT

BRICS leaders, including Indian Prime Minister Modi and President Xi Jinping, are gathering in New Delhi to address trade, investment, and geopolitical tensions amid global conflicts and US-China friction.

Syrian government plans to turn a former military airport in Damascus into a hub for private jets are raising alarm among rights groups and residents who say redevelopment could disturb suspected mass graves and override private land claims. Syria’s civil aviation authority said last week it was preparing to reclassify Mezzeh military airport for limited civilian use, focused on private and executive aviation, to complement Damascus International Airport. Rubble removal and infrastructure...
Hormuz will remain under Iran's full control, Baghaei says Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, has said the Strait of Hormuz remains and will remain under Iran’s full control, blaming the US for regional maritime insecurity and rising global fuel prices, Mehr news agency reported. “The insecurity in the Strait of Hormuz is the result of US actions, and if the international community is concerned about rising fuel prices, it should reprimand the United States,” Baghaei said durin

“Separatists” and the United States are putting Taiwan in greater danger, China’s state broadcaster CCTV warned on Friday after Washington’s de facto ambassador said the island could convince a potential adversary that landing forces would be very difficult. Raymond Greene, the director of the American Institute in Taiwan, said in a keynote address at the 2026 Taipei Security Dialogue on Wednesday that “Taiwan doesn’t need to demonstrate that it can win a war outright”. He added that Taiwan had.
A total of 237 combat clashes between units of the Ukrainian Defense Forces and Russian invaders were recorded on the front line on September 11.

A senior UN official tells the BBC there is a race against the clock to ensure access to power and water through winter.
Iran used Chinese satellite images for attack on US base in Jordan Iran used Chinese satellite images to carry out its attack on an American base in Jordan that killed three US troops in July, Wall Street Journal reported. Citing US officials familiar with details of the incident, newspaper reported that Tehran had acquired high-resolution satellite images of Muwaffaq Salti Air Base, which suffered extensive damage in the strike. The newspaper reported that US officials declined to identify th
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Protesters and police have clashed in Chile, as the country marked 53 years of the military coup.

This year's summit comes amid the US-Israel war on Iran, Russia's war on Ukraine and global economic challenges.

Riyadh has increased its use of the East-West pipeline since the start of the Middle East war to bypass the closure of the strait of Hormuz Saudi authorities said Friday drones launched from Iraq led to the temporary closure of a crucial oil export route used to bypass the lockdown of the strait of Hormuz. Riyadh has increased its use of the East-West pipeline, which links Abqaiq, near the Gulf, to the port of Yanbu on the Red Sea, since the start of the Middle East war to bypass strait of Hormu

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