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US Energy Secretary Chris Wright on Wednesday dismissed claims that Washington was “stealing Venezuelan oil” after the South American nation granted its northern neighbor access to a huge chunk of its natural resources. Wright, who…
Chinese President Xi Jinping urged Middle Eastern countries on Wednesday to oppose “external interference” and said Beijing was ready to work with regional states to safeguard maritime shipping, jeopardised by the US-Iran war. Xi’s remarks…
A US federal judge on Wednesday blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a new executive order limiting who qualifies for birthright citizenship. The move thwarts President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to restrict the…
It was a regular Tuesday evening in Kampala. A friend visiting Uganda opened the Uber app, requested a ride, and waited. The car pulled up, he hopped in—and there, in the front passenger seat, was the driver’s wife or girlfriend, casually…
The world has entered a “danger zone of extreme weather” as the impacts of El Niño start to be felt globally, UN head António Guterres has warned. The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released the latest data on the natural…
On Wednesday, the US Mint launched the $1 coin with a portrait of Trump alongside the words “LIBERTY” and “IN GOD WE TRUST”, to celebrate America’s 250th anniversary.
A Maltese businessman on trial over the murder of investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has been acquitted. Yorgen Fenech, 44, was accused of complicity in her murder and criminal association to commit murder. He denied all the…
Thousands of people have protested in cities across Spain over the government’s handling of the influx of migrants to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north African coast. Spanish opposition parties accuse Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez…
President Donald Trump has called the deal granting the US control of strategic Venezuelan oil fields “the biggest in history”. North American Blue Energy Partners (Nabep), a company little known outside the South American country, will…
It was a scene few expected to see in wartime Ukraine: a gunfight between two state security agencies on the streets of the capital. On the morning of September 2, 2026, a confrontation between Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and military…
An 18-year-old inmate serving time outside Paris has been formally charged after investigators discovered a chilling list inside his prison cell. One of the names on that list? Kylian Mbappé. The discovery has sent shockwaves through…
It sounds like the plot of an outback thriller, but for a property owner outside Blackall in rural Queensland, it is a very real and costly nightmare. Between February and May 2026, thieves made off with approximately 5,500 Dorper sheep…
If you are in Lagos, Abuja, or any other Nigerian city where Uber was a household name, you might have opened the app this morning and found something missing. As of today, September 2, 2026, Uber has officially shut down its ride-hailing…
After more than nine months without stepping foot on solid ground, the crew of the USS Abraham Lincoln finally got what they have been waiting for. The aircraft carrier pulled into Laem Chabang port in eastern Thailand on Wednesday,…
US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is under fire in Canada for a social media post that appears to mock members of the country’s cadet youth programme. Hegseth posted the image, taken from the social media account for a local training…
The Dutch central bank (DNB) has confirmed that billions of dollars in gold has been taken out of north America and relocated to London, citing “increasing geopolitical unrest”. DNB said on Wednesday that 86 tonnes of gold had been removed…
If you haven’t been paying close attention to Central America, here’s the short version: Nicaragua just told the world it’s done with elections, and the United States is not taking it lying down. Let’s rewind a bit, because this didn’t…
On September 2, 2026, U.S. President Donald Trump made a provocative suggestion on his Truth Social platform: rename the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz as the “Trump Strait.” Here are the verified facts surrounding this claim. In a…
Trump administration efforts to force change in the handling of election ballots may be facing a bigger hurdle than the cross-country court challenges and resistance: Election officials insist it is simply too late for them to even try to…
Sara Netanyahu, the wife of the Israeli prime minister, has claimed an opposition figure was aware of the plan for Hamas’s October 7, 2023 attack before it happened. Her remarks, which triggered outrage across Israel’s opposition,…
Brazilian presidential candidate Flavio Bolsonaro was acquitted Tuesday of a possible violation of electoral law after he broadcast a deepfake video of his father, former president Jair Bolsonaro. A left-wing coalition supporting the…
Mexican soldiers killed an accused drug cartel leader with a three-million-dollar US bounty on his head, the government announced Tuesday. The suspect, Luis Enrique Barragan, 39, was a leader of a group called Cartel de Los Reyes, a…
The effective interest rate on borrowing over 10 years rose to 4.79%, its highest level since January 2025, as oil prices surged above $92 a barrel.
Based in a converted Second World War hangar overlooking San Francisco Bay, the start-up makes self-flying aircraft without cockpits, designed either to spray crops or deliver cargo.
