1. United Russia claims the Duma as drones hit Moscow

With 13.88 percent of protocols counted late Sunday, the Central Election Commission had United Russia at 57.54 percent, ahead of the Communists at 13.67, the LDPR at 9.27, New People at 7.96 and A Just Russia at 5.16. Exit polls gave the ruling party around 53.5 percent; in 2021 it took 49.82 percent and 324 seats. The three-day vote closed as Ukraine launched what Mayor Sergei Sobyanin called the biggest drone attack on Moscow of the war: Russian authorities said 1,600 drones were intercepted nationwide since Saturday, some 450 near the capital, two people were killed in the Moscow region and a facility at the Moscow oil refinery was damaged. Yabloko, the only registered anti-war party, was absent from the ballot after the Supreme Court annulled its list in August. Watch the consolidated figure due today and whether United Russia holds 300 seats.

2. Ethiopia's rebels announce a single front

Seven armed groups, including the Tigrayan TPLF, the Amhara Fano and the Oromo Liberation Army, said Saturday they have formed an alliance to remove the government and install a transitional administration. Fano leader Zemene Kasse will chair it; the TPLF's Amanuel Assefa told AFP the groups had been talking for over a year. Fano and the TPLF fought on opposite sides of the 2020 to 2022 war. The OLA, for its part, calls the arrangement a procedural consensus rather than a political agreement. The African Union reports both federal forces and Tigrayan troops massed on Tigray's border. Addis Ababa had not responded by Saturday night. Watch for the government's answer, and whether a joint command issues joint orders.

3. Europe's growth was Irish

Eurostat revised second-quarter euro area growth from 0.4 to 0.6 percent on 7 September, the best quarter since 2022. Almost all of the revision came from Ireland, whose GDP was lifted from 3.9 to 10.2 percent after a 7.8 percent fall in the first quarter. Ireland weighs under 4 percent of the bloc but contributed roughly 0.4 point; the other nineteen members grew about 0.2. Irish modified domestic demand, the measure that strips out multinationals, fell 0.8 percent in the same quarter. Le Détroit's analysis of why Irish GDP measures where profits are taxed rather than where things are made is out this morning.

4. Turkey's Iran corridor closes today

Mahan Air's suspension takes effect this Monday, covering all flights between Turkey and Iran, three days after Ankara revoked Bank Mellat's banking licence after 44 years in the country. Both moves follow a US Treasury package of 8 September against Iran's aviation sector that designated three Turkish service firms. Turkish officials say other Iranian carriers remain under review. Watch Tehran's response and what replaces the licensed banking channel.

5. Interpol's Silver Notice goes after the money

Interpol is rolling out its first new colour-coded alert in at least twenty years, a Silver Notice that lets its 196 members ask each other to locate a criminal's assets: cash, crypto, property, vehicles. Piloted since January 2025, it has surfaced at least 36 million euros across 82 countries; the first request, from Italy against a mafia figure, produced property, apartments and livestock in Brazil within days. The notice locates but does not seize; recovery still runs through bilateral channels. Full adoption is expected at the general assembly in Hong Kong in November. Interpol's own estimate is that criminals keep 99 percent of what they make.