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Sep 14, 2026 - World

A U.S. government watchdog released its first report on the impact of the Iran war on Monday, acknowledging the military's advanced weapons shortfalls and offering the first public look at the damage to American aircraft, bases and diplomatic outposts in the Middle East.

Sep 14, 2026 - World

Central bank chief says continent’s AI dependency could give trade partners unprecedented leverage in negotiationsEurope must develop its own AI technology and build more datacentres in order to nullify the threat of being cut off by the US or China, according to the president of the European Central Bank.Christine Lagarde said the continent needed AI models – the technology that powers AI tools such as chatbots – that were “good enough” to carry out most tasks and run from domestic datacentres. If Europe invests in its own AI tech, said Lagarde, “the threat of being cut off loses its force”. Continue reading...

Sep 14, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump's announcement that Russia and Ukraine had agreed to stop hitting each other's energy sites, a deal he tied to rising diesel prices, unraveled within an hour.Trump made the claim in a Monday post on Truth Social, which also blamed the Russia-Ukraine war, not his own war with Iran, for the global rise in diesel prices.About an hour later, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on X that no such agreement existed."Ukraine has agreed not to hit Russian Energy targets. Russia has agreed to do, likewise!" Trump wrote, adding that the world's diesel price rise was "mostly caused by the Russia/Ukraine War, not Iran.""Ukraine has proposed that its partners secure an agreement with Russia that would stop the destruction of critical infrastructure," Zelenskyy wrote, saying Kyiv would halt its own strikes only if those partners could guarantee that Russia genuinely stopped first."Ukraine is not convinced that Russia is willing to abide by any agreement," he added.Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov blamed the turmoil in fuel markets on instability in the Persian Gulf, CNN reported. Speaking before Trump's post, he declined to say whether Russia would halt its strikes on Ukraine's energy grid.Neither Kyiv nor Moscow had confirmed the arrangement, European Pravda reported.Ukraine has struck Russian oil facilities for months. Kyiv calls the refineries legitimate targets because Moscow's oil funds the invasion, Al Jazeera reported.Rising energy costs are threatening Republican reelection chances, Politico reported.Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and other administration officials have taken to blaming Ukraine's drone strikes on Russian refineries, according to the same report.The claim landed as U.S. diesel hit a record $6.06 a gallon Friday, Al Jazeera reported. A year earlier, the national average was $3.71, and the midterm elections are in November."Mr. Zelenskyy has to do one thing. He has to stop knocking out diesel fuel in Russia," Trump told reporters in Ireland on Sunday, according to Al Jazeera.A day earlier, Trump blamed the Iran war for high gas prices and said they would "come tumbling down" after the midterms, MS NOW reported.

Sep 14, 2026 - World

Hundreds of people gathered on Monday at a mass funeral in eastern Congo to mourn 27 young victims of a school fire, as families wept and officials laid down wreaths and made speeches

Sep 14, 2026 - World

Neck-and-neck with Lula in polls, Flávio Bolsonaro fires up his base in the bellwether state of Minas Gerais – starting at the scene of his father’s stabbingA giant banner of Brazil’s incarcerated former president Jair Bolsonaro fluttered in the morning breeze as his eldest son, Flávio, touched down at an airfield on the fringe of a city that will soon help decide the future of one of the biggest democracies on earth.“Brazil is rudderless. Brazil has no president and Brazil needs a president – and that president is Flávio Bolsonaro,” the far-right senator declared as he waded into the flock of supporters who had gathered to welcome him to Juiz de Fora, one of the largest cities in the battleground state of Minas Gerais. Continue reading...