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A Houthi Missile Was Shot Down Over Riyadh at Dawn, the First Alert There Since July, as Saudi Crude Went Through Hormuz

Smoke rose from a fuel depot by King Khalid airport and the coalition said nobody was hurt. Bisha, Taif, Farasan and Yanbu were targeted the same morning. Trump says he would meet Pezeshkian in New York; Iran says it knows of a planned attack.

Sep 22, 2026/3 min read

The Riyadh skyline at dusk with the Kingdom Centre and the King Abdullah Financial District, photographed in April 2016

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The Left Won Berlin, the AfD Won the North-East, and the CDU Fell Below Five Per Cent in a State for the First Time

Die Linke took 25.7 per cent in the capital and Elif Eralp may become its first mayor from a migrant family. In Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania the AfD took 38.2, the SPD 35.5, and Merz's party 4.9 and no seats. He called it a disaster and is staying.

Sep 22, 2026/3 min read

The Rotes Rathaus, Berlin's city hall and the seat of its governing mayor, with Ukrainian flags flying outside, photographed in May 2025

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Merz Skipped New York to Stay in Berlin. Eight Premiers Back Him, 78 Per Cent of Germans Do Not. Two States Vote Sunday

Sixteen months in, with the CDU on seven per cent in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and level with the Left in Berlin, the chancellor says he was elected for four years. The party meets on Sunday morning to say the same thing before the polls close.

Sep 17, 2026/3 min read

Friedrich Merz in the Coronation Hall of Aachen town hall at the Charlemagne Prize ceremony on 14 May 2026

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Von der Leyen Offered Canada a Seat That Does Not Exist Yet: the EU's First Associate Member, With Carney in the Gallery

A 73-minute State of the Union in Strasbourg proposed a European Security Council with Ukraine, Britain, Norway and Canada, a migration emergency framework, a social media ban under thirteen and a two trillion euro budget. The treaties know no such seat.

Sep 17, 2026/3 min read

Mark Carney and Ursula von der Leyen shake hands before her State of the Union address in Strasbourg on 16 September 2026, in a European Commission photograph

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The House Voted a Third Time to End the Iran War, the CBO Priced It at 38 Billion, and Massie Moved to Impeach Hegseth

Seven Republicans crossed, the most yet, for a resolution that binds nobody. The budget office says the war costs two to three billion a month and has used up to two thirds of the missile-defence interceptors. Vance says the first phase is done.

Sep 17, 2026/4 min read

The west front of the United States Capitol at dusk, photographed in 2013

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Saudi Arabia Stopped Loading Oil at Yanbu, a Houthi Drone Was Shot Down South of Mecca, and Four Ships Crossed Hormuz

With the East-West pipeline still shut, no Saudi crude has left the Red Sea since 11 September and Europe's late-September cargoes are being cancelled. The coalition called the Mecca drone a red line. An American drone killed the crews of two IRGC boats.

Sep 17, 2026/4 min read

The port and city of Yanbu on Saudi Arabia's Red Sea coast, where the East-West pipeline ends, seen from the International Space Station in 2002

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Israel and Lebanon Will Talk in Rome in October. On Monday a Strike on Kfar Rumman Killed Thirteen, Six of Them Children

The State Department announced an eighth round of talks hours before one of the deadliest days in the south since June's ceasefire. Israel says it hit people moving weapons. Lebanon says twelve died in a residential building and a medic in his vehicle.

Sep 15, 2026/2 min read

The hills around Khiam in Nabatieh governorate, southern Lebanon, the district in which Kfar Rumman lies, photographed in 2013

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The Himalayas Near the Point Where the Rivers Stop Rising and Start Falling. Only 21 of 40,000 Glaciers Are Watched

A report from Systemiq and three mountain institutes says the range that feeds the Indus, Ganges and Brahmaputra will reach peak water by mid-century. Nearly 200 glacial lakes in India are high risk. Last month a glacier collapse killed at least 1,300.

Sep 15, 2026/3 min read

The Ngozumpa glacier and the Gokyo lakes below the peaks of the Khumbu region in Nepal, seen from the air in June 2025

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A Hundred Radio Flashes From Deep Space Have Given Astronomers a New Way to Weigh the Universe's Missing Matter

Fast radio bursts last a millisecond and arrive smeared by everything they pass through. Caltech's Kritti Sharma and Vikram Ravi used that smear from about a hundred of them to measure how clumpy the gas between galaxies is. It is smoother than anyone thought.

Sep 15, 2026/3 min read

Radio dishes at Caltech's Owens Valley Radio Observatory in California, home of the Deep Synoptic Array that caught the bursts

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Europe's Leaders Met in Lapland to Talk About the Arctic, and a Russian Drone Hit a Train Two Kilometres From Poland

Merz, Frederiksen, Costa and Kallas went to Rovaniemi to talk icebreakers, satellites and the Northern Sea Route. Then a drone struck a Kyiv to Warsaw locomotive minutes after Boris Johnson's train had passed. Berlin called it a calculated escalation.

Sep 15, 2026/3 min read

Finnish icebreakers moored at Katajanokka in Helsinki in July 2026; the Rovaniemi summit discussed pooling icebreakers that Finland would help build

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Sweden Voted 176 to 173 for the Left, the Far Right Fell for the First Time in Twenty Years, and Nobody Has Conceded

Magdalena Andersson's bloc reversed the 2022 result to the seat, on a turnout above eighty per cent, with overseas votes still to count. The Sweden Democrats lost eleven seats. The same night the AfD more than tripled its vote in Lower Saxony.

Sep 15, 2026/3 min read