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Algeria's parliament voted on 25 October to send army units to Niger, the first such deployment since 1973 by Reuters' count. The stated aim is to protect Algerian energy interests; the larger stake is influence in the Sahel.
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QatarEnergy has signed two contracts to buy up to 4 million tonnes a year of US LNG from Cheniere until 2054. The world's second-largest exporter of 2025 is paying to keep a door open beyond Hormuz.
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A power failure in one zone of Google Cloud's London region disrupted Revolut, several big banks and remote court hearings on Tuesday. It looks like an early test of new UK rules for critical cloud providers.
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Posts claiming Kim Jong-un had a brain haemorrhage and was taken to a Beijing hospital reached The Sun on Monday. He was last seen in public on 11 October; no government has confirmed the claims.
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Nine days before Israel votes, Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled a security doctrine built on pre-emption and alliances. The three-bloc map shown at his briefing was drawn by a German foundation in May.
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An IRGC-linked agency says Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon should seek Iranian permits and pay fees for cables crossing its waters. At the weekend, Iran's top security official threatened the region's data infrastructure.
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US officials say 20 million barrels of crude are moving through the strait, close to pre-war levels, and that America "clearly controls" it. Gulf crude exports are indeed back near pre-war levels, but much of that oil now avoids the strait. Iran disputes the claim, attacks on ships continue every day, and Brent remains above $100.
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Elon Musk's rocket and AI group is in talks to raise one of the biggest debt financings of the AI boom, led by Apollo. The deal shows how the race for computing power is turning into a credit story, just as borrowing costs climb and warnings of a bubble multiply.
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For the first time, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan have triggered their two-month-old defence pact. The deployment, against a backdrop of Houthi attacks on the kingdom, puts the Red Sea route that now carries most of Saudi oil exports at the centre of the war.
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The contact details of 136 professionals who file suspicious transaction reports with TRACFIN, and the content of 213 support requests, were stolen this summer. The reports themselves were not exposed, according to France's cybersecurity agency.
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A deputy chair of the AKP has resigned after the opposition accused her of selling shares for 20 times what she paid, just before the market crashed. Nearly half a million savers are waiting to find out what they will get back.
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The deal from Xi Jinping's state visit is a set of recommendations, not a tariff cut. Beijing's own account leaves out the coal.
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Armed police stopped three vans heading towards the base the US uses for strikes on Iran. Police have named no suspect and no motive.
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A departing SEC commissioner says cryptography can prove compliance without collecting identities. In France, collected identities have become kidnapping target lists.
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A map circulating online shows which delegations left before Netanyahu spoke. It has not been confirmed, and at least one detail suggests it may be out of date.
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The far right won Saxony-Anhalt. The federal government and its allies now fear that what a state government reads could reach Moscow.
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Tigrayan forces took Mekelle, Shire and Axum overnight, three days after joining an alliance to topple Abiy Ahmed. Ethiopia's north is cut off by air for the first time since the peace deal.
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Underground workshops at Alabuga, dispersed infrastructure, jet-powered Geran variants. The question is not whether Moscow invades Europe. It is whether Europe can afford to shoot down what Moscow builds.
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EU envoys have agreed to delist Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman in exchange for renewing sanctions on thousands of others until 2029. France pushed for Usmanov. Diplomats say Azerbaijan pushed France.
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The Financial Times revealed on Sunday that Riyadh quit mBridge in May 2025. Until this weekend, the project's own literature still counted it as a member.
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Petal will carry a petabit a second between France and the United States from 2029, twice today's best cables. Meta's shares jumped the same day, for entirely different reasons.
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A new "Silver Notice" lets 196 police forces ask each other where a criminal's assets are. The first target was a mafia boss with property, apartments and livestock in Brazil.
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The Kremlin's party keeps its majority in a three-day election that excluded Yabloko from the national ballot. State pollsters had recorded Vladimir Putin's lowest ratings of the war going in.
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A French military source tells Le Monde that covert conventional responses to Russian hybrid attacks are "already happening." That sentence changes France's position.
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Ankara has closed Iran's banking channel and its busiest air corridor in the same week. Neither decision mentions the United States. Both follow a US Treasury package dated 8 September.
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Aramco has told European refiners their October allocation is zero. The barrels have not disappeared. They have been rerouted, and Europe is on the wrong side of the detour.
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A social media account citing Reuters says US officials met Houthi representatives in Muscat, agreeing not to strike Houthi-held territory in exchange for keeping the Red Sea strait open to shipping. The reported deal excludes Saudi vessels and comes after Washington declined Saudi requests for air strikes. The claims could not be independently verified.
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The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee voted 6-3 on 17 September 2026 to keep Bank Rate at 3.75%, with three members seeking a rise to 4%. UK CPI inflation reached 3.1% in August and is expected to climb towards 4% as an energy shock tied to Middle East conflict feeds through, while the committee moved unanimously to wind its gilt holdings down to zero over a multi-year plan.
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The US House of Representatives voted 262 to 159 on Wednesday to pass the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act of 2026, which the Senate approved 86 to 11 in August. The bill grants the president power to impose tariffs of up to 100% on buyers of Russian energy such as China and India, and now awaits President Donald Trump's signature.
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The Federal Reserve raised its benchmark rate by a quarter point on Wednesday 16 September 2026, its first increase in more than three years, in a unanimous 12 to 0 vote. Chair Kevin Warsh said inflation had been too high for too long, even as President Donald Trump renewed his demands for sharply lower rates.
