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Last updatedSep 30, 2026, 4:49 PM
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Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says any country or terrorist organization found to have been behind the Flydubai incident must be held responsible alongside the person involved.
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A Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv was forced to make an emergency landing in Saudi Arabia after a violent incident inside the cockpit triggered a hijacking alert.
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Rebeca Grynspan has again emerged as the leading candidate to become the next UN secretary-general, topping the Security Council’s fourth informal straw poll.
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The U.S. Treasury has opened a new front against Iran’s military supply chain, sanctioning 10 people and companies accused of helping Tehran obtain weapons and sensitive technology.
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Morocco has named its first woman prime minister, with King Mohammed VI appointing Fatima Ezzahra El Mansouri to form the country’s next government.
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Manchester City have been found guilty of serious financial rule breaches spanning much of their rise to the top of English football, with sanctions still to come.
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Germany and five other major EU contributors are threatening to block Brussels’ proposed €2 trillion budget unless the spending plan is cut back substantially.
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Germany and five other major EU contributors are threatening to block Brussels’ proposed €2 trillion budget unless the spending plan is cut back substantially.
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Italy is reported to be preparing a full withdrawal of its military personnel from Iraq, as the broader foreign troop presence in the country winds down.
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Reuters reports that the last U.S. troops are due to leave Iraq by Sept. 30, bringing a 23-year military presence that began with the 2003 invasion to an end.
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Sudan has sharply escalated its rhetoric against the UAE at the UN, accusing Abu Dhabi of helping prolong the war through its alleged support for the Rapid Support Forces.
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Anthropic is warning prospective investors that the same AI technology driving its growth could also pose “catastrophic or existential risks to humanity.”
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Lebanon’s army has received a new batch of U.S.-supplied military vehicles, adding to Washington’s long-running support for the country’s armed forces.
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An Iranian passenger jet was stopped from leaving Istanbul after Turkish enforcement officers moved to seize the aircraft over an unpaid debt.
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Reuters reports that the U.S. is set to complete its military withdrawal from Iraq by Wednesday, closing a 23-year chapter that began with the 2003 invasion and later shifted to the fight against ISIS.
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Saudi Arabia has restored crude exports from Yanbu after a 17-day shutdown of its East-West Pipeline, reopening one of its main routes around the Strait of Hormuz.
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BREAKING | Trump has publicly rejected reports that his administration offered Iran sanctions relief or access to frozen funds, saying no such offer was made.
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Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan held talks with UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi on Monday, with regional security high on the agenda.
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Netanyahu’s office has formally confirmed his previously unannounced visit to Abu Dhabi, saying he traveled there with his wife and a senior security delegation at the invitation of UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed.
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Trump says the U.S. is close to winning the war with Iran, predicting the conflict will end “very soon” and arguing that American intervention prevented a far wider nuclear crisis.
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A rare Germany-Russia meeting has triggered a political backlash in Berlin, with critics saying Sergei Lavrov used the encounter to make Germany look weak.
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Former German vice chancellor Robert Habeck says Germany’s historical responsibility toward Israel should not prevent open criticism of how the country has conducted the war in Gaza.
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Trump is doubling down on his promise of a $5,000 payment to every American adult if Republicans keep control of both chambers of Congress.
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UK Defence Secretary Wes Streeting says Britain was right to support U.S. defensive operations during the Iran conflict, while stressing that the war itself was not one London chose.
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Iranian officials are increasingly doubtful that Tehran and Washington can reach a deal to end the fighting and fully reopen the Strait of Hormuz before the U.S. midterm elections on Nov. 3, Bloomberg reports.
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Erdoğan says Türkiye will keep pressing for legal accountability over Gaza and Israel’s wider military actions across the region.
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The Trump administration is signaling that sanctions relief and access to frozen Iranian funds could be on the table if Tehran delivers concrete movement on its nuclear program.
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Al Hadath says Iran has agreed in principle to suspend uranium enrichment in exchange for U.S. sanctions relief, citing Pakistani sources familiar with indirect talks.
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Andrew Bailey is leaving the FBI’s No. 2 leadership team after barely a year, adding another change at the top of the bureau under Director Kash Patel.
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A U.S. Senate investigation says Tether’s USDT has become a key tool in Iran-linked financial networks, with sanctioned wallets relying overwhelmingly on the stablecoin.
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A U.S.-backed effort to bring Venezuelan gold into the American market has run into a major obstacle: refiners are wary of touching the metal because of concerns over its origins.
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Netanyahu has sharply rejected reports that Egypt warned him of an impending Hamas attack before Oct. 7, turning the dispute into a broader fight over responsibility for Israel’s prewar intelligence failures.
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South Korea says evidence from last week’s deadly DMZ blast points strongly to a North Korean mine, raising the prospect of a new military confrontation along the border.
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India has invoked emergency powers to boost electricity generation as coal stocks at power plants fall to their lowest level in nearly three years.
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei says repeated Iranian strikes have pushed hostile naval forces away from the Strait of Hormuz and toward the Arabian Sea.
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Benjamin Netanyahu made an unannounced trip to Abu Dhabi on Sept. 27 amid a growing dispute over a report that the UAE warned him of a major Hamas attack before Oct. 7.
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Greece and France are considering a limited reroute of the Great Sea Interconnector to keep the planned Crete-Cyprus power cable outside Türkiye’s new Fethiye-Kaş marine park near Kastellorizo.
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Iceland’s foreign minister hit back at Benjamin Netanyahu’s “moral cowards” remark at the UN, turning the phrase back on Israel’s conduct in Gaza.
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EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas says European intelligence indicates Russia is planning further sabotage and attacks aimed at weakening democratic societies across the bloc.
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Niger’s prime minister says the country will now control and sell its own uranium, declaring that its resources will be managed “by us and for us.”
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Niger’s prime minister has accused France and Ukraine of trying to destabilize the central Sahel, framing the region’s security crisis as part of a broader struggle over sovereignty and resources.
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Syrian authorities say they have dismantled an ISIS cell operating across Raqqa, Aleppo, Idlib and Homs, arresting four of its leaders and several other members.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made an unannounced one-day visit to Abu Dhabi on Sunday for talks with UAE President Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan.
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China and the U.S. have agreed to expand coal trade under a new reciprocal tariff deal covering about $30 billion of goods from each side.
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NBC News says eight U.S. Marines were injured in an Iranian missile strike on a vessel operating in the Strait of Hormuz on Sept. 14.
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Russia’s envoy in Vienna says Switzerland can no longer be considered neutral by Moscow after Swiss voters rejected a push for a stricter neutrality policy.
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The European Commission is urging EU governments to keep cutting gas and electricity use as Europe heads into winter with unusually low storage levels and volatile energy prices.
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Trump says he expects more U.S.-Iran talks this week despite rejecting Tehran’s latest proposal, while keeping the possibility of renewed strikes open.
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U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says China has sharply reduced its support for Iran and predicts Tehran’s remaining oil deliveries to Beijing could run out within weeks.
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The Wall Street Journal says U.S. Ambassador Kimberly Guilfoyle pushed Balkan officials toward Greek firm Aktor as Washington sought to expand U.S. LNG sales in the region.
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Israel is stripping Dutch diplomats in Ramallah of Israeli-granted diplomatic status after the Netherlands imposed a sweeping settlement-goods ban.
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Washington says Trump and Xi held extensive talks about China’s support for Iran, but U.S. officials have not detailed any specific commitment from Beijing.
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Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf mocked U.S. claims that Iran does not control the Strait of Hormuz, pointing to the sharp market premium on oil prices.
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Asked whether Xi Jinping committed to ending Chinese support for Iran in the war, U.S. Ambassador to the UN Mike Waltz said there had been “good, strong and fulsome” discussions on the issue, but declined to detail any commitments, leaving that to President Trump.
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A U.S. official told Axios that no ships have been struck in the Strait of Hormuz over the past two days.
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U.S. Ambassador to China David Perdue said President Trump at one point asked Chinese President Xi Jinping whether he would like to buy American weapons, Bloomberg reported.
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Poland has offered to host a factory producing Patriot air defense missiles for Ukraine if Kyiv secures the necessary U.S. license, a Polish deputy defense minister said. Warsaw argues that locating the facility in Poland would provide a safer site for missile production than building it inside Ukraine.
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President Trump said a record amount of oil moved through the Strait of Hormuz last night, claiming the volume exceeded levels seen before the war.
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Iran’s IRGC Navy says it seized a second U.S. military underwater drone in the Strait of Hormuz during an intelligence and electronic warfare operation. It identified the vehicle as a REMUS 600, alleging it was conducting espionage, and said specialists are now extracting its data.
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A source close to Iran’s negotiating team said Tehran’s latest proposal included phased, reciprocal steps and that its positions had been clearly conveyed to the other side. The source said Iran would not surrender its national rights or interests under U.S. or Israeli pressure or threats.
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A source close to Iran’s negotiating team said Tehran’s latest proposal included phased, reciprocal steps and that its positions had been clearly conveyed to the other side. The source said Iran would not surrender its national rights or interests under U.S. or Israeli pressure or threats.
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Israel’s “Blue Line” team is redrawing land boundaries in the occupied West Bank, reclassifying Palestinian land as Israeli “state land” that could later be used for settlement expansion. Palestinians report land seizures, uprooted olive trees and tighter access restrictions. Source: Al Jazeera
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Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan called on the international community to condemn what he described as Houthi “terrorist” attacks and criminal acts threatening navigation security in the Red Sea and the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.
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Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan called for the entire region to remain free of weapons of mass destruction and said peaceful nuclear programs should be subject to international oversight, verification and safeguards to strengthen confidence and regional security.
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Saudi Foreign Minister Faisal bin Farhan said Saudi Arabia and other regional countries have faced what he called “flagrant Iranian attacks” on their security, resources and civilian and economic facilities. He reaffirmed Riyadh’s right to defend its sovereignty and called on the international community to confront threats to peace and security.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said the objectives of Russia’s “Special Military Operation” would be achieved and threats to the country’s security eliminated. He added that peace would return “despite anything that might happen.”
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov accused the U.S. of dismantling Europe’s security system and creating what he called a “Russophobic regime” in Kyiv. He also claimed Europe is trying to obstruct peace talks that the Trump administration wants to pursue.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Serbia is effectively being pressured to impose sanctions on Russia in exchange for progress toward European Union integration.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov called on the United States to end what he described as its “siege” of Cuba and lift all restrictions on trade with the country.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said it was “unacceptable” that force was used to kill Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, members of his family, and senior military and political figures of the Islamic Republic.
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