World News – 25 September 2025

• Greeted by a standing ovation and chants of “Jimmy! Jimmy!” late night host Jimmy Kimmel returned to the air on ABC last night—well, in many markets. ABC stations under Sinclair and Nexstar control preempted the show, and it’s not clear when or if they’ll resume airing it going forward.
• At least one victim is dead and two were injured in a shooting at an ICE facility in Dallas this morning. The latest from Adrienne Vogt, Dakin Andone, Alisha Ebrahimji and Nicquel Terry Ellis of CNN, at least two detainees were among the victims. The shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
• Ximena Bustillo of NPR reported yesterday that Georgia senators Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are demanding answers from Noem on more than a dozen deaths in immigration detention. Bustillo says, “As DHS ramps up detention capacity and arrests there are concerns over a lack of oversight to these facilities.”
• Ben Wieder and Shirsho Dasgupta of Miami Herald report hundreds of Alligator Alcatraz detainees have dropped off the grid after leaving the site: “As of the end of August, the whereabouts of two-thirds of more than 1,800 men detained at Alligator Alcatraz during the month of July could not be determined by the Miami Herald.”
• Marc Caputo of Axios explains how Tulsi Gabbard damaged the Trump administration’s probe into ex-spy chief John Brennan by withdrawing the security clearances of potential witnesses who could have testified against him.
• Some really good news, via James Gallagher of BBC News: Doctors say Huntington’s disease has been successfully treated for the first time.
• What’s the dog in Rembrandt’s ‘The Night Watch’? Researchers at the Rijksmuseum say they’ve solved the longtime mystery, reports Nina Siegal of The New York Times.
• New York City’s “first-ever ‘rat czar’ quietly scurried away from her post last week with the war on rats still raging.”
• Greggs opens first ever pub serving up special beers as well as sausage rolls.
• Democrat Adelita Grijalva wins father’s seat in Arizona’s special House election.
• Annunciation Catholic Church shooting: 12-year-old girl shot in the head making ‘miraculous’ recovery
• N.C. lawmakers work to eliminate cashless bail with ‘Iryna’s law,’ following gruesome train stabbing caught on camera.
• 3 shot at Dallas ICE facility.
• Jimmy Kimmel’s emotional return to TV: I didn’t mean to ‘make light of the murder of a young man’.
• Dallas Police reveal accused shooter’s ‘anti-ICE’ messages at press conference.
• Trump: Backed by EU and NATO, Kyiv is in position ‘to fight and WIN all of Ukraine back in its original form’.
• Minister of Social Development Sisisi Tolashe’s controversial senior appointment has been rescinded – but 22 year-old Lesedi Mabiletja still holds a job in the department that she remains unqualified for.
• A gunman opened fire on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) office in Dallas, Texas. At the scene, the words “ANTI-ICE” were found written on an unused bullet. A detainee was killed and two others were wounded, before the gunman took his own life.
• Denmark’s Aalborg airport, primarily used for commercial and military flights, was forced to close due to drones discovered in its airspace, said police. This comes just two days after Copenhagen airport was forced to shut over drone sightings that raised European security concerns.
• Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy’s corruption trial will deliver a verdict today, in which he is accused of taking millions of euros from late Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi to help finance his 2007 election campaign. Prosecutors have requested a seven-year jail sentence for Sarkozy, who was president from 2007 to 2012.
• The guardian of professional accountants in South Africa – SAICA – has hit back at claims by a whistleblower, who has alleged that he was targeted after coming forward and exposing misuse of funds.
• China pledged to cut emissions 7–10% by 2035 and expand wind and solar sixfold, rebuking US climate denial at the UN summit. Environmentalists called the target underwhelming, while Brazil, the EU and Australia announced steeper reduction plans.
• Canada’s Supreme Court has temporarily halted the culling of 400 ostriches in British Columbia after two tested positive for avian flu. Universal Ostrich Farms is fighting the cull, citing unique genetics, with US officials backing their appeal.
• Kenya’s President William Ruto expects to sign a US trade deal by year-end and urged Washington to extend Agoa for five years. He also appealed for more support for Kenya’s Haiti mission and backed talks on the conflict in eastern DRC.
• The guardian of professional accountants in South Africa – SAICA – has hit back at claims by a whistleblower, who has alleged that he was targeted after coming forward and exposing misuse of funds.
• China pledged to cut emissions 7–10% by 2035 and expand wind and solar sixfold, rebuking US climate denial at the UN summit. Environmentalists called the target underwhelming, while Brazil, the EU and Australia announced steeper reduction plans.
• Canada’s Supreme Court has temporarily halted the culling of 400 ostriches in British Columbia after two tested positive for avian flu. Universal Ostrich Farms is fighting the cull, citing unique genetics, with US officials backing their appeal.
• Kenya’s President William Ruto expects to sign a US trade deal by year-end and urged Washington to extend Agoa for five years. He also appealed for more support for Kenya’s Haiti mission and backed talks on the conflict in eastern DRC.
• European car sales edged up again in August, as consumers warmed to electric and hybrid models produced by the region’s manufacturers in their fightback against Chinese rivals. New-car registrations across the region rose 4.7% from a year earlier. Germany and Spain gained more than 5%, while demand in the UK and Italy dwindled.
• Copper prices held close to the highest in more than a year after Freeport-McMoRan declared force majeure on contracted supplies from its giant mine in Indonesia, where two employees are dead and five missing after a massive mud flow. The incident highlights how vulnerable the copper market is to global supply shocks. It’s the latest disruption after Hudbay Minerals said it was shutting operations at a mill in Peru due to political protests.
• Starmer is Winning Back Britain’s Wealthy Voters, Survey Finds.
• Witkoff Predicts Gaza Peace Breakthrough After Trump Meeting.
• Apple Asks EU to Repeal Sweeping Big Tech Antitrust Rules.
• HSBC said it’s achieved a breakthrough in deploying quantum computing in financial markets, as a race intensifies among some of Wall Street’s biggest firms to embed the technology in their daily operations.
• Jessica Chastain protested Apple’s decision to postpone the release of TV series The Savant, where she plays an operative infiltrating online hate groups, arguing such a show has never been more relevant given the increase in violence in the US.
• UK news Deprived areas of the UK will be given tens of millions of pounds each from a new fund that Keir Starmer hopes will help Labour tackle the threat posed by Reform UK. More than 300 areas across the country will each be given the cash to patch up derelict shops, pubs and libraries.
• Science Huntington’s disease, a devastating degenerative illness that runs in families, has been treated successfully for the first time in a breakthrough gene therapy trial. The gene therapy slowed the progress of the disease by 75% in patients after three years.
• Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appealed to global leaders to intervene to prevent Russia from leading the world through “the most destructive arms race in human history”, warning that the combination of drone technology and artificial intelligence would end in catastrophe.
• US news One detainee has been killed and two others injured in a shooting at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) field office in Dallas, officials said. A shell casing was engraved with the phrase “ANTI ICE”, according to a post from Donald Trump’s FBI director, Kash Patel.
• Environment The world’s oceans have failed a key planetary health check for the first time, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels, a report has shown. In its latest annual assessment, the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research said ocean acidity had crossed a critical threshold for marine life.
• The South African estate where properties sell for over R70 million: Val de Vie estate in Paarl has cemented its status as one of South Africa’s most exclusive property markets, with lifestyle farms and residences now selling for over R70 million.
• SARS is coming after corporate leaders in South Africa: SARS is intensifying enforcement, holding directors, public officers, shareholders, and even informal financial decision-makers personally liable for their company’s unpaid tax debts.
• Major international bank coming to South Africa: Revolut, the UK-based neobank with over 65 million global customers, has announced it will apply for a commercial banking license in South Africa.
• South Africa’s richest city is running out of water: Rand Water is supplying as much water as it can to Joburg and other municipalities, but the city wastes around a third of that supply, leading to shortages.
• Alarm bells over popular online shopping payment method in South Africa: South Africa is experiencing a buy now, pay later boom, and Micro Finance South Africa says many residents are landing themselves in big trouble.
• The entrepreneurs who revolutionised the South African retail sector: From a single store in Klerksdorp to a R40 billion empire 40 years later, the story of Mr Price began with two shopkeepers and a vision to change how South Africans shop.
• NHI reality check for medical aid members in South Africa: South Africa’s National Health Insurance (NHI) promises free healthcare for all, but the reality is sobering.
• Three things South Africa must get right: South Africa can quickly achieve over 4% annual economic growth, lower unemployment, and greater political stability by doing just three things.
• Andre de Ruyter warns of social unrest in South Africa: Former Eskom CEO Andre de Ruyter warned that without urgent reforms to boost growth and investment, South Africa risks collapsing into widespread unrest similar to Nepal’s recent turmoil.
• Cyril Ramaphosa’s message to Trump and the world: South African President Cyril Ramaphosa said on Tuesday his country is in talks with a US trade representative to reduce tariffs levied by US President Donald Trump after telling world leaders that “trade is now being used as a weapon.”
• ICE Shooting in Dallas: One person was killed and two others were left in critical condition after a gunman opened fire at a Dallas Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility yesterday morning. Officials described the shooting as a targeted attack and said the assailant died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound before police reached him.
• A SpaceX rocket successfully deployed a trio of scientific spacecraft yesterday, each with the goal of studying various aspects of the solar wind—the stream of energetic charged particles emanating from the sun.
• Syria’s President Ahmed al-Sharaa became the first Syrian leader since 1967 to address world leaders at the UN General Assembly in New York yesterday. He previously led the Islamist rebel coalition Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, which toppled the decadeslong dictatorship of his predecessor, Bashar al-Assad, in December.
• Sean “Diddy” Combs accused in lawsuit of sexual assault and battery by a former personal stylist; Combs is due to be sentenced next week in a separate criminal case.
• Claudia Cardinale, Italian film star known for starring roles in “Pink Panther” and “Once Upon a Time in the West,” dies at age 87.
• Seven-year study shows people at risk for rheumatoid arthritis experience immune system changes years before feeling symptoms; finding could enable more targeted monitoring and earlier intervention.
• Mathematical modeling reveals spirals in human umbilical cords facilitate an oxygen and heat exchange that keeps babies cool before birth; research suggests abnormal cord structures contribute to pregnancy complications.
• Researchers develop gene therapy treatment that slowed the progression of Huntington’s disease—a fatal, progressive brain disorder—by 75% in a clinical trial; biotech company uniQure aims to offer the therapy in the US next year.
• US stock markets close down (S&P 500 -0.3%, Dow -0.4%, Nasdaq -0.3%) as investors eye release of Federal Reserve’s preferred inflation gauge on Friday.
• US new-home sales rise 20.5% month over month in August, an unexpected increase and the fastest pace since 2022.
• Lithium Americas shares close up 96% after the Trump administration proposes an equity stake of up to 10% in the Canadian miner.
• Widow of victim in January helicopter-plane collision near Reagan National Airport files first federal lawsuit against American Airlines, its regional partner, the US Army, and the FAA; at least 60 more lawsuits expected.
• Chinese President Xi Jinping pledges to reduce greenhouse gas emissions 7% to 10% by 2035, marking the first time the world’s largest emitter has set a firm reduction target.
• Denmark’s prime minister publicly apologizes to Greenlandic Indigenous girls and women who were given invasive contraception against their will by Danish health authorities in the 1960s and 1970s.
• Trump Hangs Portrait of Biden Autopen: The president previously joked about using the picture for his predecessor’s portrait after evidence emerged that Biden used an autopen on many occasions.
• President Donald Trump announced on Wednesday that he would be signing a new executive order to dismantle Antifa networks in the United States.
• IRS Announces Paper Check Update.
• US Ambassador Says Potential China Deal With Boeing ‘Very Important’ to Trump.
• Secret Service Investigating Alleged Sabotage of UN Escalator.
• Energy Department to Return $13 Billion in Unused Climate Funds to Taxpayers.
• Breakthrough Gene Therapy Treats Huntington’s Disease for First Time.
• New Mexico is making history. Starting November 1, it will become the first US state to offer free childcare to all families, no income limits. The move is intended to relieve parents’ financial strain, expand workforce participation and invest in early learning.
• US President Donald Trump recently made links between pregnant people taking paracetamol (known as Tylenol in the US) and their children having autism. Medical experts around the world have stated there is no strong connection.
• Fly me to the moon: NASA is accelerating plans to send humans to the moon again, with a possible launch as early as February 5.
• Crowd control: Amsterdam residents have taken legal action against the council, which they say is not doing enough to curb unsustainable visitor numbers.
• Ageing analysis: Maria Branyas Morera, who was the world’s oldest person before she passed away aged 117, has given scientists insights to the secrets of healthy old age.
• Mind the gap: PSA for your next trip – the worst London train stations for cancellations have been revealed through new data.
• Jurassic giant: Scientists have discovered a new dinosaur from Argentina, which may have been 7m long.
• Chinese drone experts have flown to Russia to conduct technical development work on military drones at a state-owned weapons manufacturer that is under Western sanctions.
• China led several countries in announcing new climate plans and offered a veiled rebuke of the US president’s anti-climate rhetoric a day earlier at the U.N. General Assembly.
• The White House asked federal agencies to prepare plans for mass firings during a possible government shutdown next week. It’s a significant shift from what usually happens during shutdowns.
• A gunman, who wrote “ANTI-ICE” on an unused bullet, fired on an Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas from a nearby rooftop, killing a detainee and badly wounding two others before taking his own life, officials said.
• Doctors are already facing worried women asking whether taking Tylenol during pregnancy can cause autism in their children just days after the US president told them not to take it. Doctors say Acetaminophen remains the only safe pain reliever for pregnant women.
• Denmark said that drone incursions that briefly shut two of its airports and affected military installations overnight were hybrid attacks intended to spread fear, but said it did not know who was behind them.
• Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy was found not guilty of receiving illegal campaign financing from late Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi for his successful 2007 presidential bid, but was pronounced guilty of criminal conspiracy in the same case.
• Israeli forces advanced deeper into Gaza City as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu headed to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly, with US President Donald Trump pursuing a deal to end the Gaza war. Meanwhile, Italy sends a second navy ship to escort a Gaza aid flotilla.
• Private detectives in France are increasingly tracking white-collar employees who form part of a growing cohort of French people suspected of abusing their sick leave. Experts say fraudulent absenteeism has been rising in the country.
• Several investors in Walt Disney asked the media giant to share documents about its decision to suspend Jimmy Kimmel’s show last week for inspection.
• As ChatGPT nears its third birthday, at least one in 10 retail investors is using a chatbot to pick stocks, fuelling a boom in the robo-advisory market, but even fans say it is a high-risk strategy that cannot replace traditional advisors just yet. Sign up for the Reuters Artificial Intelligencer newsletter.
• The US Federal Aviation Administration has just two candidates vying to become the project manager of a multi-billion dollar effort to overhaul air traffic control in the US, the agency’s top official told Reuters.
• The risk of a partial US government shutdown beginning next week is rising as congressional Democrats and Republicans hit an impasse over how to continue to fund the federal government. Here’s how a shutdown could affect financial markets.
• MIT Professor Cancels Israeli Military Grant After Student Pressure: “This concession shows that student campaigns do have an influence,” one student said.
• Far-Right Demands for Informants About Charlie Kirk Comments Remind Me of Syria: Authoritarianism flourishes when people fall silent. That’s why the response to Charlie Kirk’s killing made me think of Assad’s Syria.
• Israel Just Bombed the Building Next Door. Will We Be Next?: Our reporter in Gaza City on her life this past week, as neighbors evacuate and Israel intensifies its attacks.
• SA uniquely positioned to broach peace between Russia and Ukraine, says Ramaphosa: The president says SA is uniquely placed to engage Vladimir Putin, Volodymyr Zelensky and Donald Trump to bring them together for a trilateral meeting.
• A 71-year-old man who was kidnapped from his North West home on Tuesday evening was found safe in Johannesburg last night.
• The Hawks have raided City Power in Joburg again, looking for answers concerning a questionable R67-million contract for transformers that sources say were never delivered, even though the money was paid.
• Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy has been sentenced to five years in jail 🚨 after being found guilty of criminal conspiracy in the “Libyan funding” trial. He was, however, acquitted of corruption and illegal campaign financing charges.
• The UK government is trying to block the co-founder of Palestine Action – a pro-Palestinian campaign group – from challenging the group’s ban under UK anti-terrorism laws. The British Home Office is trying to overturn a July decision that allowed the challenge to go ahead.
• US news – Donald Trump attacked European leaders, telling them “Your countries are going to hell” and describing climate change as a con in an inflammatory general assembly speech at the UN.
• UK politics – The Liberal Democrats are the only remaining block against “the forces of darkness” led by Nigel Farage, Ed Davey has told his party’s annual conference in a speech that repeatedly and at times personally took aim at the Reform UK leader.
• Jeffrey Epstein – The Duchess of York allegedly sent an email apologising to the disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein after he threatened to “destroy her” in a “Hannibal Lecter-style” phone call, according to reports.
• Media – Jimmy Kimmel returned to air on Tuesday, calling government threats to silence comedians “anti American”, as he spoke about the suspension of his late-night programme which ignited a debate over free speech.
• Media – Noel Clarke has been ordered to pay the Guardian an initial £3m towards its legal costs from successfully defending his libel claim over an investigation in which the actor was accused of sexual misconduct by more than 20 women.
• The recent spate of Russian incursions into Nato airspace began on 10 September, when 19 drones flew over Poland and three or four were shot down. Even at that stage, Polish prime minister Donald Tusk said that military conflict was closer “than at any time since the second world war”.
• Sixty percent of the world’s coffee supply comes from smallholder farmers*. Those with access to quality trees suited to their farms are not only more profitable but more likely to remain in farming – a reality that is now being strengthened on the KZN South Coast through provincial support.
• The Securities and Exchange Commission released a report to Congress summarizing policy recommendations made during the SEC’s 44th Annual Small Business Forum.
• The ranks of crypto millionaires have surged to an unprecedented 241,700 individuals worldwide, according to the newly released Crypto Wealth Report 2025 by leading international residence and citizenship advisory specialists Henley & Partners, featuring exclusive data from global wealth intelligence firm New World Wealth.
• Canal+ CEO and new MultiChoice chairman Maxime Saada said DStv subscribers can expect the best content on the planet and the best service levels following the company’s acquisition of MultiChoice.
• According to former Eskom CEO André de Ruyter, no regulator should be setting electricity tariffs in South Africa, the market should decide. The only rule should be a prescribed maximum tariff, he said.
• City Power is conducting level three disconnections at residential properties with large electricity debts.
• Hyundai South Africa CEO Stanley Anderson says bringing the company’s EVs to local shores isn’t viable.
• Taiwan has imposed restrictions on the export of chips to South Africa, citing national security concerns.
• Doctors are already facing worried women asking whether taking Tylenol during pregnancy can cause autism in their children just days after U.S. President Donald Trump urged women to “fight like hell” to not take it.
• The Israeli military campaign that followed has killed more than 64,000 people, including more than 18,000 children, according to Gaza health authorities.
• Prince Hisahito explored and experienced the Osaka-Kansai Expo in a two-day visit, marking his first public engagement outside Tokyo since his coming-of-age ceremony earlier this month.
• The Global Sumud Flotilla is using about 50 civilian boats to try and break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza. Many lawyers and activists, including Swedish climate campaigner Greta Thunberg, are on board.
• Just five years after being dramatically unseated by a court ruling, Peter Mutharika is set to return to power as the president of Malawi.
• Karen Brady, the chief executive at Ryther, a behavioural health nonprofit, said her sector has been grappling with a workforce shortage – and hiring employees through the H-1B programme has helped address the crisis.
• Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa told CBS News that Israel’s actions put “the interests of the U.S. and its strategic allies at risk.”
• At the United Nations General Assembly, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy sounded like a wartime leader carrying the weight of more than three years of fighting. He warned the global delegates that international law does not work without the backing of “powerful friends” and ultimately, military backup.
• Poland and Estonia are praising President Trump after he backed shooting down Russian planes and drones that violate NATO airspace — incursions that have already happened twice.
• Densely populated Hong Kong is being slammed by its most powerful storm in years, with Super Typhoon Ragasa packing hurricane-force winds and a dangerous storm surge.
• After furiously barreling across the South China Sea, Super Typhoon Ragasa slammed into Hong Kong, bringing hurricane force winds, torrential rain and a storm surge that’s left a trail of destruction.
• Super Typhoon Ragasa pummeled southern China. It already left a trail of destruction in Taiwan, killing at least 17 people there and another 10 in the Philippines.
• Almost two million people have been moved to safety as Typhoon Ragasa hit towards southern China after battering Taiwan, the Philippines and Hong Kong.
• Syria’s new president Ahmed al-Sharaa, a former rebel leader once associated with al Qaeda and the Islamic State, became the first Syrian leader in nearly 60 years to address the United Nations.
• Kremlin spokesman shoots back at Trump’s suggestion that Russia is “a paper tiger,” declaring: “There are no paper bears. And Russia is a real bear.”
• President Trump criticized the U.N. on Tuesday in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Later, following his meeting with Ukrainian President Zelenskyy, Mr. Trump shifted his stance on the Russia-Ukraine war, saying Ukraine could win back all of its territory.
• Law enforcement in the United Kingdom said they’ve arrested a suspect in an alleged cyberattack that disrupted several European airports in recent days.
• American stand-up comedian Tim Dillon says he’s been dropped from the Riyadh Comedy Festival bill after jokes about the country’s alleged use of forced labor.
• The Rijksmuseum museum said that it had finally sniffed out a sketch that inspired the dog in Rembrandt’s iconinc “NightWatch” painting.
• Renowned economist Dawie Roodt said, despite its significant problems, South Africa remains a good place to live. However, there are important things people should do.
• South Africa’s taxi industry, which generated around R100 billion in annual revenue, is paying virtually no tax.
• Spam calls have become such a problem in South Africa that people are stopping answering calls, using platforms like WhatsApp instead.
• South Africa’s pension system risks failure unless technical reforms are matched by leadership, collaboration and consistent execution, experts stated at the recent Old Mutual Thought Leadership Forum, that brought together senior policymakers, regulators and industry leaders to debate the future of retirement in South Africa.
• The City of Joburg has threatened to completely remove electricity infrastructure for its worst defaulters who collectively owe the municipality R1 billion in debt.
• Pick n Pay has opened its first Hypermarket in Pietermaritzburg, with the new-look conversions underpinning the group’s store reset and rollout in the country.
• The Artemis II mission is the second part of the Artemis programme, which is focused on returning astronauts to the Moon for the first time since 1972.
• Skydivers spotted the rare sight of a circular rainbow in Nottinghamshire.
• More areas bring in voluntary ban on plastic flying rings to protect seals as wildlife groups calls for government to bring in a UK-wide ban.
• The Corporate Council on Africa (CCA) and the Government of the Republic of Mauritius have the honor to announce that the Republic of Mauritius will host the 18th U.S.-Africa Business Summit in 2026.
• The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has concluded a four-day workshop in Kinshasa to strengthen project management and improve the performance of Bank-financed operations in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
• On the sidelines of Climate Week NYC, Casablanca Finance City Authority (CFCA) reinforced its leadership in sustainable finance by signing two major cooperation agreements aimed at accelerating the development of voluntary carbon markets in Africa.
• The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), legislation that has been the cornerstone of the U.S.-African commercial relationship for the last 25 years, is set to expire on September 30th.
• Malawi’s incumbent leader, Lazarus Chakwera, has conceded defeat in the election and congratulated his opponent, Peter Mutharika, on his victory.
• Malawi’s 2025 elections have triggered one of the biggest political shake-ups in recent memory, with more than 110 of the 193 Members of Parliament (MPs) from the 2019-2025 cohort losing their seats–among them 14 Cabinet ministers.
• UTM presidential running mate, Mathews Mtumbuka, who also contested for the Rumphi Central parliamentary seat, has embarked on a series of “thank you” whistle-stop rallies in the constituency.
• President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has called on the international community to act “together and decisively” to protect civilians, hold perpetrators of atrocities accountable, and strengthen mediation efforts, as he addressed the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday.
• China’s pledge to cut emissions by 7-10 percent does not go far enough, though renewables rollout a cause for hope, expert say.
• ‘Rohana’ and ‘Rojali’ are the latest internet buzzwords to describe Indonesians visiting malls to do anything but spend.
• Danish police said drone activity in Aalborg airspace similar to drone sightings that shut down Copenhagen airport.
• Israel escalates devastating attacks on Palestinians in Gaza despite world leaders calling for ceasefire at UNGA.
• At the 80th UNGA, Senegal President Bassirou Faye condemned the war in Gaza, calling it a “humanitarian catastrophe.”
• According to UNHCR, more than seven million Syrians remain displaced inside the country.
• A part of a road has collapsed in Bangkok, leaving a large sinkhole that disrupted traffic, damaged infrastructure and prompted evacuations in the surrounding area.
• China has announced it will no longer seek special treatment as a developing country in World Trade Organization agreements.
• Ukrainians have reacted cautiously to U.S. President Donald Trump’s unexpected shift in stance on their war with Russia.
• A 6.1-magnitude earthquake has jolted northwest Venezuela, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
• Denmark’s prime minister has given an emotional apology to Greenlandic Indigenous girls and women who were given invasive contraception by the Danish health authorities against their will over decades.
• Moldova’s Prime Minister Dorin Recean warns that Russia is spending heavily to influence an upcoming parliamentary election.
• CDC Sounds Alarm of ‘Dramatic Increase’ of Dangerous Bacteria.

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