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On 1 November, a career prosecutor from Rostock becomes the head of the European Public Prosecutor's Office. For five years he helped build the machine behind its first chief. Now the machine is his, at a moment when VAT fraud and organised crime have turned it into one of the most powerful law enforcement bodies in Europe.
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Unitree Robotics founder Wang Xingxing took his Hangzhou-based company public in August 2026, raising $905m in what became the first initial public offering by a Chinese humanoid robot manufacturer. The firm's range spans quadruped robot dogs to a $650,000 transformable mecha, positioning Wang at the centre of an intensifying global robotics race.
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Kevin Warsh, the 17th chair of the Federal Reserve, joined a unanimous Federal Open Market Committee on 16 September 2026 to raise interest rates, defying repeated calls from the president who nominated him. A former Morgan Stanley banker and Bush-era official who sat on the Fed board through the 2008 crisis, Warsh returned to the central bank in May 2026 promising reform. His first months in the chair have complicated expectations that he would deliver the rate cuts Donald Trump has demanded.
