The most consequential developments around the world, with the facts and the context that matter.
Pro-government forces have taken Alamata, a strategic town about 120 kilometres south of Tigray’s capital Mekelle, according to Reuters, AFP and Al Jazeera. Reuters verified video of allied troops in the streets and cited diplomatic and opposition-linked sources supporting the change of control.
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27%, its highest level since 2007, as expensive oil and expectations of tighter monetary policy drove a wider bond sell-off.
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Anthropic’s IPO prospectus devotes about 80 pages to risk factors, including the possibility that advanced systems may evade safety evaluations, according to Reuters and the Financial Times.
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Larissa Waters has stepped down as leader of the Australian Greens after a chronic kidney condition worsened.
Read article →A senior Ukrainian commander says the Third Army Corps has retaken another 51 square kilometres in northern Donetsk during an operation called Vivaldi.
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South Korea’s military says a North Korean mine is the likely cause of a 21 September explosion that injured three of its soldiers in the Demilitarized Zone.
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Florida’s attorney general has asked a state court to stop OpenAI from releasing new AI models without independent safety approval.
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The US Federal Aviation Administration says it will delay certification of the 737 MAX 10 until a landing-related software issue is resolved.
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India’s industrial production rose 8% from a year earlier in August, according to government figures released Monday.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo recorded 8,067 confirmed cases and 3,901 deaths in its Bundibugyo Ebola outbreak as of 26 September, according to data published by the World Health Organization and reported by AP.
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Pope Leo XIV used the final day of his France visit to call for negotiation, international law and respect for migrants at a meeting in Metz devoted to Europe’s future.
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Magdalena Andersson said Monday that she could not form a government despite the centre-left bloc’s narrow election majority.
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Poland’s deputy defence minister says military pilots will soon be able to act on radar and other positive identification of a hostile aircraft instead of waiting for visual confirmation in some circumstances.
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A local ruling-party official died after an assault following a radio programme on Ebola prevention in Butembo, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Read article →Gisèle Pelicot is supporting a new French national campaign launched Monday by her daughter Caroline Darian’s association M’endors pas.
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South African police say 28 people died in two separate weekend shootings after another victim from the Wedela tavern attack died in hospital.
Read article →The Arakan Army said a military airstrike near a market in Kyauktaw, Rakhine state, killed at least 33 people and injured 36 on Monday.
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A Rome court convicted three Egyptian security officials on Monday in the case of Giulio Regeni, the Italian researcher abducted and killed in Cairo in 2016.
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09p set in June 2022, according to motoring group RAC.
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Indonesian rescuers recovered five more bodies from the Virgo Transport 8 ferry on Monday, bringing the confirmed death toll to 71, according to the national search agency’s figures reported by ANTARA and Reuters.
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SpaceX’s Starship reached orbit for the first time on Monday and released 26 new Starlink satellites.
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9 miles per gallon for model year 2031.
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Hungary’s parliament suspended the immunity of Prime Minister Péter Magyar on Monday, allowing prosecutors to investigate a 2024 nightclub incident involving another person’s phone.
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A Russian drone struck a building of Ukraine’s National Academy of Sciences in central Kyiv on Monday, killing at least one person and injuring three, according to the city’s mayor.
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Renewed fighting in Yemen is keeping children from classrooms as families flee the Taiz area.
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Nvidia’s board has approved a $150 billion increase to its existing share repurchase program, taking the amount still authorized to $235 billion.
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French authorities say a child and two women died after an inflatable boat carrying 105 people got into difficulty off northern France on Monday.
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Thousands of people remained in evacuation centres in Bangkok on Monday after days of severe rain inundated neighbourhoods.
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Local authorities said at least 12 people died and dozens were missing after a vessel carrying fish traders and goods capsized near Idjwi Island in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo on Saturday night.
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US ambassador David Perdue said President Donald Trump had asked Xi Jinping whether China would like to buy American weapons, without saying when the exchange occurred or how Xi replied.
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A Nepalese mountain guides’ association said rescuers had recovered four bodies from Himlung Himal by Monday afternoon, while 12 workers and guides remained missing.
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South Korea has demanded an explanation and apology after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy publicly confirmed that Ukraine transferred two captured North Korean soldiers to Seoul.
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A slow-moving nor’easter flooded communities from New Jersey to New England over the weekend, cut electricity to more than 100,000 customers at times and disrupted flights.
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Russian attacks across Ukraine killed at least eight people on Sunday, according to Ukrainian authorities cited by AP and AFP.
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Hurricane Polo had sustained winds of 125 mph in the US National Hurricane Center’s 03:00 UTC Monday advisory.
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China’s commerce ministry said Monday that its trade truce with the United States now runs until 10 January 2027.
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Authorities in India’s Uttar Pradesh state reported 56 deaths after days of unusually heavy rain, flooding and landslides.
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Aleksandar Vučić resigned as Serbia’s president on Sunday, seven months before the end of his term.
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Iran says it is waiting for mediators to deliver a formal US response to its proposal on reopening the Strait of Hormuz.
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France’s National Rally and its allies held 14 seats in the Senate after Sunday’s indirect election, AFP reported, clearing the 10-seat threshold for a separate caucus for the first time.
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Swiss voters rejected a proposal to put tighter neutrality rules into the constitution, according to final federal results reported by Reuters.
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British police arrested five men on Sunday after reports of suspicious vans near RAF Fairford, a UK air base used by US aircraft.
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Gaza’s Health Ministry reported on Saturday that 74,016 Palestinians have been killed since the war began in October 2023.
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Near-complete results from Russia’s parliamentary election put the ruling United Russia party on course for 355 of the State Duma’s 450 seats, according to the electoral commission.
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An Italian fighter jet on NATO duty shot down a drone after it entered Lithuanian airspace from Belarus.
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Pacific Islands Forum leaders registered concern about China’s July ballistic missile launch into the region, but their statement was not unanimous and stopped short of a stronger condemnation.
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Russia launched missiles and drones at Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities in an attack that continued into the morning.
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