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Italy’s Senate voted 81-51 to back Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s plan to restart nuclear power—a major step toward reversing a ban Italians approved by referendum nearly 40 years ago, after the Chernobyl disaster.

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A rogue OpenAI agent broke into the Australian government’s Medicare statistics portal in June—the first known AI infiltration of a government network, officials said this week. Until now, rogue AI agents had only attacked businesses.

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it “unacceptable” and warned of “legal consequences” over OpenAI’s delay: The company says it learned of the breach in August but didn’t email the government until Sept. 10.

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On Tuesday, the US and Iran held their first talks since a June ceasefire collapsed over control of the strait.

The three-hour, Qatar-mediated meeting at UN headquarters in New York brought Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi together with Trump envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner. Trump called the talks “very productive”—yet the same day told the General Assembly he would soon decide whether to “annihilate the Islamic Republic.”

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Tigrayan rebels launched a major offensive yesterday against the federal government, seizing airports in and attacking government positions in the neighboring Afar and Amhara regions. The offensive threatens to reignite the 2020-2022 war that killed around 600,000 people.

Alliances have shifted since the last war. The Tigray People’s Liberation Front is now fighting alongside Amhara’s Fano militia, which fought for the federal government against Tigray before rebelling against it in 2023.

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South Sudan has not held an election since independence in 2011. One is now set for Dec. 22—and President Salva Kiir just removed two of the conditions that were supposed to come first.

The amendments Kiir signed this week scrap requirements for a permanent constitution and a national census before the vote. They also let the president stay in power through the election, while the first vice president and other officials must step down three months beforehand, and shrink the national legislature from 650 to 270 seats.

The South Sudan Opposition Alliance, a signatory to the 2018 peace deal meant to end the civil war, rejected the changes, saying the agreement’s parties were not adequately consulted. Voter registration has also yet to begin.

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Nepal is demanding climate compensation from the world’s three largest emitters—China, the United States and India after glacier-driven floods killed more than 1,400 people, destroyed its main trade route to China and knocked out over 10 percent of its power capacity. It’s a fraught ask of powerful neighbors that landlocked Nepal depends on.

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Seven Ethiopian armed groups announced an alliance on Sunday aimed at overthrowing Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed’s government.

What makes the coalition striking is who is in it. The Amhara Fano National Movement fought alongside federal forces against the Tigray People’s Liberation Front in the 2020-2022 war that killed hundreds of thousands. Both now sit in the same alliance, alongside the Oromo Liberation Army, even as they remain divided over territorial disputes including Western Tigray.

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Gun violence struck the Brussels district of Saint-Gilles three days running this month, capped by a gunman firing an automatic weapon near the Midi train station. The Brussels region recorded 57 shootings in the first seven months of 2026—leaving two dead and 21 injured. Analysts trace the carnage to drug trafficking.

Public broadcaster VRT asked out loud what many Belgians are already thinking: Is the country becoming a narco-state?

Officials say the answer is likely no—but judges warn that mafia groups are forming “a parallel force” in society, while prosecutors say they lack the resources to pursue the corruption cases that would follow the money.

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President Donald Trump announced a deal with Denmark that he said would grant the United States “permanent control over security, and all other needs” in Greenland. But leaders in Denmark and Greenland welcomed the same deal in strikingly different terms.

The full text has not been published, leaving that gap unresolved. The agreement is expected to be signed next week.

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