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Sep 14, 2026 - World

The warning comes as Chinese leader Xi Jinping is due to meet US President Donald Trump in Washington this month, with AI governance and safety set to be part of their discussions as calls mount for greater oversight of the technology.

Sep 14, 2026 - World

Vice President J.D. Vance on Monday said the U.S. has been in contact with the Iran-backed Houthi rebels in Yemen as the rebel group consolidates its control over the country's western coastline and deepens its influence over the Bab el-Mandeb Strait.

Sep 14, 2026 - World

Soaring oil prices of above $108 a barrel after Houthi attacks on Saudi infrastructure stoke inflation fears US government borrowing costs have risen to 5% for the first time since 2023 as soaring oil prices fuelled by the war in the Middle East trigger an intensifying sell-off in the global bond market.The yield – in effect the interest rate – on 10-year US Treasury bonds hit the psychologically important threshold on Monday, on a day of renewed selling pressure on Wall Street as the global oil price reached $108 a barrel. Continue reading...

Sep 14, 2026 - World

Centre-left bloc led by Social Democrats has narrow lead with 95% of vote counted, but faces internal policy battleSweden’s political parties have launched coalition negotiations as the Social Democrats leader, Magdalena Andersson, started the long and difficult process of trying to form a new government.Full results from Sunday’s election are not expected until after overseas votes are counted on Wednesday, but with 95% of the votes counted, the Social Democrats and the centre-left bloc had a narrow but growing lead of 176 seats to the right-leaning parties’ 173. Continue reading...

Sep 14, 2026 - World

President Donald Trump demanded Monday that “countries of the world” reimburse the United States for its deeply unpopular war against Iran, which by some estimates has cost American taxpayers upwards of $100 billion.“Oil is flowing through the Hormuz Strait,” Trump claimed on his social media platform Truth Social, despite traffic through the Strait of Hormuz hitting its lowest levels since May earlier this month. “The Countries of the World, which have been no help to us whatsoever, should, and will, reimburse the United States of America when this SCAM Confligration (sic) is all over. We are doing it much more for others, than we are for ourselves, and we have been for Generations!”Trump’s demand comes as recent developments have threatened a second global shipping chokepoint in the Middle East. Gas prices in the United States continue to climb, with diesel costs reaching their all-time high this month.Apparently aware of the soaring energy prices, Trump, in a follow-up post, expressed his “hope” that voters wouldn’t blame him and would instead blame the past administration.“I hope everyone realizes that price increases throughout America were caused by Sleepy Joe Biden and the Biden Administration, not by ‘TRUMP,’” he wrote. “Even Oil was higher under Biden than it is right now, and we prevented Iran from having a Nuclear Weapon!”