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News from around the world covering politics, society, and current affairs.

Brussels, like much of western Europe, faced searing heat this spring and summer

'Uphill battle'

After heatwaves, will EU pivot back to the climate fight?

Morning Roundup

Luxembourg secures winter gas, UN praises aid for women, and AfD leads polls ahead of German state election

Bukayo Saka has scored in both of Arsenal's Premier League matches this season

Arsenal brace for Chelsea test as Spurs seek spark

Taiwan's Lin Yu-ting after winning Paris gold

'Clarity and determination'

Taiwan boxer Lin considered 'graceful exit' after Paris Games gold

More than 20,000 Cambodians displaced by deadly border clashes cannot return home because Thai soldiers control where they used to live

'Waiting village'

'I miss my home': Cambodians displaced by conflict start over

Lethwei is traditional Burmese boxing, distinct from Thai kickboxing because head blows are permitted and fighters compete bareknuckle

'Art of Nine Limbs'

War-bruised Myanmar finds relief in bareknuckle bloodsport

Nick Kyrgios at the Australian Open last year

'I'm sorry to my fans'

Kyrgios gets month ban for cocaine, enters treatment programme

Self-driving taxi

Tesla launches self-driving 'Cybercab' in Texas

The move makes New Zealand the second country in the world to approve the use of the party drug for use in treating PTSD, after Australia

For medical use

New Zealand approves use of party drug MDMA to treat trauma

Some 4,000 participants from 90 countries are taking part this year

4,000 participants

Westerners test their mettle at World Nomad Games in Kyrgyzstan

Asad Dandia won a landmark lawsuit over the New York Police Department's surveillance of Muslim communities after 9/11

New York's Muslims reclaim their city after 9/11 backlash

Ayyoub Bouaddi (R) playing for Lille last season against Marseille's Quinten Timber. Both players moved to the Premier League in the summer transfer window, with Bouaddi joining Manchester City in one of the biggest deals

Financial challenges

Premier League transfer windfall a lifeline for ailing French clubs

Nick Kyrgios at the Australian Open last year

'I'm sorry to my fans'

Kyrgios gets month ban for cocaine, enters treatment programme

Cutting-edge AI models have drawn concern over their ability to identify software vulnerabilities

'Limited window'

OpenAI begins rollout of new powerful AI model GPT-6 Astra

Demonstrators gather amid water cannon spray during a protest against a security reform package proposed by Chilean President Jose Antonio Kast in downtown Santiago, on September 3, 2026.

Kast security crackdown

Chile protesters see shades of Pinochet in new security plan

Colombia's US-backed President Abelardo de la Espriella narrowly won elections with a hardline security message

Following airstrikes

Colombian judge bans strikes on guerrillas if minors are present

Iran reacted with fury after the Iranian Red Crescent said a US attack that hit a wedding in Iran's south killed four people, including a child, and wounded more than 50

Iran hits US targets as Washington says probing wedding strike

Santiago Carreras reverts to fullback for Argentina against Australia

Carreras reverts to fullback as Argentina change four for Australia Test

Canada's Felix Auger-Aliassime, a semifinalist at the US Open in 2025, was upset by Russia's Karen Khachanov in the second round

Premier League showdown

Ailing Auger-Aliassime upset by Khachanov at US Open

Harry Wilson (top C) returns to captain Australia against Argentina this weekend

Wilson back to lead Australia as Kiss rotates team for Argentina

Kevin Reddington, defense attorney for Lindsay Clancy, is surrounded by press as he arrives at the courthouse during Clancy's murder trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts over the strangulation of her three young children

Lone juror blocking verdict in US mother's child murder trial: defense

Ayase Ueda headed Lille past Toulouse to send his new side top of the French league

28-year-old talent

Japan's Ueda fires Lille top of Ligue 1 on debut

The German auto sector has been battling a decline

'Nonsense, rubbish, hogwash'

Volkswagen says cutting 100,000 jobs by end of decade

Lida Moniava, the founder and director of the Lighthouse children's hospice, was detained and charged with spreading 'false information' about the Russian army

'False information'

Russia slaps curfew on charity director over army criticism

The thousands of migrants who remain in Ceuta live in precarious conditions

Addressing parliament

Spanish PM says no 'solid proof' Morocco planned migrant rush

US Vice President JD Vance did a briefing for reporters, after Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt's departure

'There is no active shooting'

Iran war is not a war, US VP Vance says

El Nino climate phenomenon is impacting operations at Panama Canal, through which five percent of global trade passes

Barely recovering

How El Nino is choking the Panama Canal

Senegal is heavily in debt

Senegal has an IMF loan, now what?

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