GENEVA — Experts commissioned by the U.N.'s top human rights body say they have found "reasonable grounds" to believe the United States committed war crimes in two strikes in Iran, including on a school in the southern city of Minab. They also accuse Iran's theocratic government of carrying out crimes against humanity against its own people in a report published Thursday.来源 1
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"Following the United States and Israeli attacks on 28 February, the mission found reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed the war crime of launching indiscriminate attacks resulting in the loss of life or injury to civilians or damage to civilian objects," a U.N. statement about the team's findings said.来源 1
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The U.N.-backed team based its allegations on two strikes — one involving Tomahawk missiles that hit the "clearly identifiable" school, and another in which Precision Strike Missiles dispersed tungsten pellets over a "clearly identifiable sports complex and residential area" in the southern city of Lamerd, also on Feb. 28.来源 1
The UN experts said they found reasonable grounds to believe US forces were responsible for an attack on the Shajareh Tayyebeh Primary School in the city of Minab, where more than 150 people were killed, including around 120 schoolchildren, according to Iranian officials.来源 3
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The experts reached a similar conclusion over a strike on a sports centre in Lamerd. The report said the attack damaged nearby residential buildings and a school and killed and injured 22 civilians. It concluded that the strike was indiscriminate and therefore constituted a war crime.来源 3
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The UN mission probe found that the Iranian authorities carried out a widespread and systematic attack against civilians during protests that erupted in late December last year, involving unlawful killings, torture, arbitrary detention, enforced disappearances and severe restrictions on freedom of expression.来源 3
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US spokesperson Anna Kelly said the UN’s Human Rights Council has “accomplished nothing for human rights while spouting unserious nonsense for decades”, according to remarks carried by The Washington Post on Thursday.来源 4
The BOJ on Friday raised its policy interest rate to 1.25 percent from 1.0 percent, as widely expected.来源 1
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Following the policy decision, the dollar climbed by around 1 yen to the lower 157 yen range, its highest level in two weeks.来源 1
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The 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average ended up 882.70 points, or 1.38 percent, from Thursday at 65,018.95. The broader Topix index finished 3.05 points, or 0.07 percent, lower at 4,091.14.来源 1
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The BoJ voted to raise its target interest rate by a quarter of one percentage point to 1.25%, the highest level since 1995. The vote was not unanimous – with two board members dissenting to the hike.来源 2
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Bank of Japan raised its key interest rate to 1.25 percent from 1.0 percent on Friday, accelerating monetary tightening as it seeks to contain inflation fueled by higher oil prices and a weaker yen.来源 3
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The rate hike, decided at the BOJ's two-day policy meeting, was widely expected, but two of the Policy Board's nine members, Toichiro Asada and Ayano Sato, opposed it.来源 3
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The move puts borrowing costs at their highest level in 31 years. It also marks the shortest interval between rate hikes since the current rate hike cycle began in March 2024, with only three months having passed since the previous increase in June.来源 3
The Bank of England has kept interest rates on hold as it warned a continuation of the bitter fighting in the Middle East could force it to raise borrowing costs amid mounting fears over inflation.来源 1
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As the fallout from war in the Middle East fuels a rise in energy prices, the Bank’s monetary policy committee (MPC) voted by a majority of six to three to keep its base rate unchanged at 3.75%.来源 1
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In a surprise move, the Bank said it planned to sell £146bn of bonds to the Treasury, at a pace of about £20bn a year until 2034, in a plan that would require signoff from the chancellor, John Healey, next April. The Treasury’s Debt Management Office (DMO) would then sell bonds to cover the government’s financing commitments, including this buyback.来源 1
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At its meeting ending on 16 September 2026, the Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) voted by a majority of 6–3 to maintain Bank Rate at 3.75%. Three members voted to increase Bank Rate by 0.25 percentage points, to 4%.来源 2
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At this meeting, the MPC also voted unanimously to reduce the stock of UK government bond purchases held for monetary policy purposes, and financed by the issuance of central bank reserves, to zero. This will be conducted through a multi-year plan, such that the remaining stock is unwound at an annual average pace of £46 billion by the end of 2034, through annual sales of £20 billion alongside maturing gilts.来源 2
Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said on Thursday that France will cut public spending by €54 billion next year to reduce the country's deficit. The announcement comes seven months ahead of the country's…来源 1
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In an interview with the Le Figaro business newspaper, he said the cuts will bring the public deficit down to 4.8 percent of gross domestic product excluding defence spending, and five percent including military spending.来源 1
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But the government acknowledged on Thursday that it will likely rise to 5.4 percent.来源 1
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PARIS — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said his government’s budget for 2027 will include a staggering €54 billion in savings as he attempts to contain the country’s growing deficit in a year that’s seen little to no economic growth.来源 2
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In an excerpt of an interview published by French daily Le Figaro, Lecornu said that without any cuts, the budget deficit would spike to 6.5% of gross domestic product — making it all but impossible for the government to keep its promise to the European Commission to get that figure to 3% of GDP by 2029.来源 2
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Lecornu said the 2027 budget deficit target was 5%, while the hope is to contain this year’s deficit to less than 5.5%来源 2
Sept 18 : Berkshire Hathaway said on Friday that Warren Buffett, its former CEO and the world's most revered investor, has been named chairman emeritus, effective immediately.来源 1
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"Father Time always wins. He has, however, been generous with me," Buffett, 96, wrote in a letter to shareholders.来源 1
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The conglomerate named his son, Howard Buffett, a Berkshire director since 1993, as chairman.来源 1
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Warren Buffett is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, the sprawling conglomerate worth $1 trillion that he has led since 1965. The 96-year-old legendary investor announced the move in a letter to shareholders Friday.来源 2
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Buffett will become chairman emeritus, effective immediately, while remaining a director on the board, the company said in a separate announcement. His son, Howard Buffett, will replace him as chairman as dictated by a long-standing succession plan, Berkshire said. Susan Decker will continue as lead independent director.来源 2
Russia and China have vetoed a United States-backed resolution at the United Nations Security Council that would have authorised UN experts to keep monitoring sanctions on Iran.来源 1
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On Thursday, 11 members voted to extend the Security Council’s mandate for monitoring sanctions, while Pakistan and Somalia abstained.来源 1
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Russia and China have vetoed a UN Security Council draft resolution that would have extended for another year the mandate of a panel of experts monitoring sanctions imposed on Iran. The US-drafted text received 11 votes in favour, two abstentions, including Pakistan, and two against. Vasily Nebenzya, Moscow's UN envoy, argued that the draft resolution “was deeply flawed and did not have any legal basis". “We strongly urged the authors to refrain from promoting such a draft; it was clear that the only thing that such a stubborn imposition of such products could lead to would be an increased growth in tensions within the Security Council, both on political and procedural grounds,” he said. “Nonetheless, Washington decided to opt for confrontation and put the draft to a vote.” The vote exposed deep divisions on the 15-member council over whether sanctions imposed by the UN on Iran remain in force following a dispute over the use of the “snapback” mechanism contained in the 2015 nuclear deal. Britain, France and Germany triggered the mechanism in August last year, arguing that Iran had failed to meet its commitments under the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). The move was intended to restore UN sanctions that had been suspended under the agreement and Security Council Resolution 2231. Russia and China have rejected the legal and procedural validity of the move. They argue that the sanctions were permanently lifted when Resolution 2231 reached its scheduled termination date on October 18, 2025. After the vote, the US accused Russia and China of seeking to prevent independent scrutiny of sanctions violations, saying the veto would leave a gap in monitoring Iran. “We are not surprised by the actions of several council members in vetoing the extension of the mandate of the panel of experts,” the US representative, Jennifer Locetta, said, arguing that the panel would have “shined the light” on prohibited defence co-operation between Iran and its partners. Ms Locetta said the veto was part of a broader effort to block or weaken expert panels whose reporting could implicate council members or their partners in sanctions violations, pointing to difficulties involving panels monitoring Yemen and the Central African Republic, as well as the termination of expert panels for Mali and North Korea. “Without an independent panel of experts, this council loses its principal source of impartial, evidence-based reporting on sanctions violations, creating a monitoring gap that only benefits the Iranian regime and those who profit from evading those measures,” the representative said. Britain also criticised the vetoes, accusing Russia and China of shielding Iran and weakening the Security Council's ability to monitor sanctions. Ambassador Sarah MacIntosh compared the move with Russia's March 2024 veto of the mandate of the panel monitoring sanctions on North Korea, which ended 14 years of UN expert monitoring. She also accused Russia of assisting sanctions evasion by Iran and North Korea, and of receiving Iran-designed Shahed drones and North Korean ballistic missiles for its war in Ukraine. But she said the veto did not affect the sanctions themselves. “Sanctions against Iranian proliferation remain fully in force, binding on each and every UN member state,” she noted. The disagreement has effectively paralysed the sanctions committee. More than nine months into 2026, council members have not yet agreed on the allocation of subsidiary body chairs, leaving the Iran committee without a head and unable to conduct any work. China and Russia also rejected eight candidates proposed by the UN Secretariat in April to serve on the expert panel, according to diplomats. With the panel yet to be reconstituted, the International Atomic Energy Agency remains the principal independent body reporting on Iran's nuclear programme, though it has also faced difficulties carrying out monitoring and verification activities. The IAEA's 35-nation Board of Governors adopted a resolution on September 10 calling on Iran to remedy what it described as non-compliance with its safeguards obligations under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. The resolution also asked IAEA director general Rafael Grossi to report the matter to the Security Council and the UN General Assembly, the first such referral by the board in 20 years.来源 2
MANILA: The Philippines said a China Coast Guard ship "rammed" one of its fisheries department boats on Friday (Sep 18) morning in contested waters in the South China Sea.来源 2
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The Chinese vessel "rammed BRP Datu Magat Salamat ... as it carried out its maritime patrol to deliver fuel subsidy to our fishermen", Philippine Coast Guard spokesman Jay Tarriela said.来源 2
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Jiang Lue, a spokesperson for China's coast guard, blamed the Philippine vessel for "disregarding repeated solemn warnings" and deliberately changing course to "cut across the bow of the Chinese coast guard vessel".来源 2
Five people were reportedly killed as the escalation between the two sides continues to spiral. The Houthis denied attacking Mecca, with Saudi Arabia saying one person was killed by drone shrapnel.来源 1
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Saudi Arabia accused the Houthis of a "cowardly" strike on Mecca, the holiest city in Islam and the site of the hajj and umrah pilgrimages, this week.来源 1
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In Saudi Arabia, one person was killed by shrapnel from a downed drone in the Mecca area, the country's civil defense agency said. Damage was also caused to buildings and vehicles.来源 1
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Yemen’s Houthi forces launched a "powerful ballistic missile attack" on the King Fahd Industrial Port in Yanbu, Saudi Arabia, overnight, Iranian news agency Tasnim has reported.来源 2
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The Houthis captured the important Red Sea port city of Mokha before taking several islands near the narrow Bab el-Mandeb strait, through which some 12% of world trade passes in peacetime. They are also just 32 kilometers (20 miles) from Djibouti, a small African nation hosting U.S. and other military bases.来源 3
Voting got underway on Friday in a tightly controlled three-day parliamentary election in Russia which President Vladimir Putin has framed as a barometer of support for Russia's war in Ukraine. It is the first parliamentary election since Russia launched its full-scale war in Ukraine in February 2022, and most anti-war candidates have been excluded from the ballot.来源 1
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Russians began casting ballots on Friday to elect a new lower house of parliament, kicking off a three-day vote that President Vladimir Putin's party is all but guaranteed to win.来源 2
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(AP) -- Russians on Friday began three days of voting in the country's first wartime parliamentary election, which features virtually no opposition and is all but certain to secure the Kremlin's political dominance.来源 3
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Polls opened in Russia's Far East on Friday as the country began three days of voting for its parliamentary election, the first since Moscow launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The Kremlin's main party, United Russia, is poised to keep its grip on power alongside other parties aligned with President Vladimir Putin, as the only party that criticised the war was removed from the ballot.来源 4
11. 第十一条，亚洲新闻台报道：印度尼西亚海军潜水员周五从在爪哇海倾覆沉没的客船“Virgo Transport 8”号中打捞出3具遗体。该船周日恶劣天气中在从泗水前往马辰的20小时航程中倾覆，船上共243人，目前已确认9人死亡、108人生还、126人失踪；当局周五开始由船东主导、海军和搜救机构协助的打捞作业，计划把船扶正。
BANJARMASIN, Indonesia: Indonesian divers retrieved three bodies from a passenger ship that capsized and sank in the Java Sea, although more than 100 passengers remain missing, a Navy official told Reuters on Friday (Sep 18).来源 1
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The Virgo Transport 8 was carrying 243 people on a 20-hour voyage from Surabaya in East Java to Banjarmasin in South Kalimantan when it capsized in bad weather early on Sunday.来源 1
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Nine people have now been confirmed dead, with 108 survivors, but 126 passengers remain unaccounted for.来源 1
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Indonesia began the operation to right the ship that had sunk to the seabed after staying partially afloat for days, authorities said.来源 1
Xi arrives for his first White House visit in a decade at the helm of an economy on track to post a $1 trillion trade surplus for a second straight year. Trump, mired in the Iran war and with low approval ratings, is looking for trade wins he can tout to Americans unhappy with rising prices.来源 2
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Markets will watch for signs of an extension of a tariff truce announced after a Trump-Xi summit in South Korea last October and set to expire on November 10. That deal paused a trade war in which the world's two largest economies threatened global supply chains with tit-for-tat tariffs that topped 100%.来源 2
DUBAI, Sept 17 - China has privately asked Tehran to help rein in Yemen's Houthis after an appeal to Beijing by Saudi Arabia following the Iran-backed group's military blitz in the past week, according to three Iranian sources familiar with the matter.来源 2
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Riyadh turned to China for help after the Houthis made rapid advances along the Red Sea coast and around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, moves that have left Saudi oil exports and shipping more exposed, the sources said.来源 2
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Beijing wants Iran to use its influence with the Houthis to help prevent the conflict spreading further across energy routes on which China, the world's second-largest economy, depends.来源 2
TEHRAN: Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Friday (Sep 18) they struck an oil tanker in the Strait of Hormuz, according to state news agency IRNA, as a British maritime agency also reported an attack.来源 1
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"The Togo-flagged oil tanker Trend had been targeted and detained after a fire broke out on board" late on Thursday, the statement said, calling it an attempted "illegal passage".来源 1
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A tanker was hit by an unknown projectile in the Strait of Hormuz, causing a fire on board, the United Kingdom Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO) said on Friday.来源 2
Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Navy said a Togo-flagged oil tanker was struck while attempting to make an "illegal passage" through the Strait of Hormuz on Thursday, Iranian media said.来源 4
Perhaps in recognition of that, OpenAI committed this week to a new framework for disclosing “instances of model misalignment at OpenAI,” including six examples of “unexpected or concerning model behavior” observed within the company in the past six months. The company said that publishing details of these incidents will hopefully “[allow] others to investigate the same problems, test our explanations, and improve mitigations.”来源 1
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OpenAI caught something unusual while training its latest model, GPT-5.6 Sol: It began leaving instructions for future versions of itself, telling them to conceal mistakes and misaligned behavior from the user.来源 2
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OpenAI has disclosed six more examples of “unexpected or concerning” behaviour by its technology, as it warned that the pace of development could not continue at “maximum speed for much longer” responsibly.来源 3
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OpenAI, the developer of ChatGPT, said in a blogpost published on Wednesday night that it was introducing a new framework for tracking, investigating and disclosing AI model misalignment, the term for AIs failing to adhere to human values and safety goals.来源 3
An estimated 125,000 people, including more than 57,000 children, have fled since hostilities erupted in July between the Iran-backed Houthi rebels, the Yemeni government and its ally Saudi Arabia, with the UN calling it one of the most rapid and volatile waves of displacement in Yemen in years. Thousands have even been making the dangerous crossing across the Bab el-Mandeb strait to Djibouti, many of them children, travelling in extreme heat, often without enough water.来源 1
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The rebel blitz has forced some 125,000 Yemenis to flee their homes. The civil war has killed over 150,000 people and at times pushed the country to the brink of famine.来源 2
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The latest fighting has killed eight civilians and wounded another 32, according to the U.N. humanitarian office, which says an estimated 125,000 people have fled their homes. The Health Ministry in the Saudi-backed government says the Houthis have killed around 150 civilians since Sept. 3.来源 2
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The U.N. humanitarian office, known as OCHA, says only 20% of its humanitarian appeal for Yemen has been funded, and that "millions risk losing access to food, healthcare, nutrition, water and protection services."来源 2
The world's rivers experienced one of their driest years in more than three decades in 2025, while glaciers continued to retreat and freshwater reserves kept declining, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The agency warns that climate change and growing water use are making the global water cycle more erratic, increasing the risk of both droughts and floods.来源 1
The assessment shows that 2025 was one of the driest years for river flows worldwide in 35 years, with below-normal discharge across 36 per cent of the world’s river basin area.来源 3
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In 2025 alone, glaciers lost around 408 gigatonnes of ice, while cumulative losses between 2023 and 2025 reached roughly 1,400 gigatonnes – equivalent to around one third of the freshwater the world withdraws in a year.来源 3
Huawei is moving up the launch of its next-generation Ascend 960DT AI chip to the first quarter of 2027, as it races to challenge Nvidia, the company said on Thursday at its Huawei Connect conference.来源 1
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Huawei is trying to turn hundreds of thousands, and eventually millions, of AI chips into one giant computer. The Chinese tech firm calls the approach its Peerium Computing Architecture. It relies on UnifiedBus, Huawei’s technology for linking processors with memory, storage, and networking hardware. Eric Xu, Huawei’s rotating chairman, said in the company’s statement that it is using its new Peerium Computing Architecture to build larger AI computing systems designed for both training and inference.来源 1
SINGAPORE: Waymo, the autonomous driving company owned by Alphabet, will launch a fully driverless ride-hailing service in Singapore in 2028, its first foray into Southeast Asia.来源 1
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On Friday (Sep 18), Waymo said it was partnering the Ministry of Transport and Land Transport Authority to introduce an all-electric commercial ride-hailing service that commuters can book through its app.来源 1
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The company aims to begin offering fully autonomous rides to the public via its app in 2028, subject to regulatory approval.来源 1
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Waymo says it will launch a robotaxi service in Singapore in 2028, as the Alphabet-owned company continues to eye overseas markets for expansion. Waymo’s vehicles will begin arriving in Singapore in “the coming months,” the company says, in preparation of mapping and autonomous testing with human safety drivers behind the wheel in 2027. Waymo says it is “working toward offering fully autonomous ride-hailing to the public” by 2028. Waymo will need approval from Singapore’s Land Transport Authority (LTA) before it can begin accepting passengers. The city-state requires all autonomous vehicles to undergo a safety assessment conducted at the Centre of Excellence for Testing and Research (CETRAN) before they can be deployed on public roads. The tests have been developed by LTA and CETRAN, with input from the Traffic Police. But Waymo isn’t totally unknown in Singapore. The company established a corporate entity there earlier this year and participates in Singapore’s Steering Committee on Autonomous Vehicles. Singapore has become a hotbed for autonomous vehicle testing. The local authorities have greenlit autonomous freight delivery and road-sweepers, as well as self-driving buses for airport workers. Motional, a US-based company majority owned by Hyundai, conducted a robotaxi pilot in Singapore in 2016. In addition to Singapore, Waymo has said it plans on launching a robotaxi service in London by the end of 2026, and Tokyo in 2027. The company has also said it will bring its robotaxis to Munich, Germany, in late 2027, marking its first expansion in the European Union. “Singapore has built one of the safest, most efficient, and most forward-thinking transportation ecosystems in the world,” Waymo co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana said in a statement. “Their focus on reliability, sustainability, and human-centric progress directly mirrors how we have built Waymo’s technology and service.” This year, Waymo has announced several new domestic markets, including Nashville, Denver, San Diego, and Las Vegas. The company has around 4,000 vehicles operating in about 15 US cities. But regulatory hurdles and political opposition have kept it out of some of the US’ most important cities, including New York City, Chicago, and Washington, DC. As the robotaxi debate continues to rage on in America, Waymo has signaled that it intends to keep growing overseas — with no signs of slowing down.来源 2
Sept 18 : Global equity funds recorded their largest weekly outflow in nine months in the week through September 16, as a surge in oil prices heightened inflation concerns and expectations of a Federal Reserve interest-rate increase added to investor caution.来源 1
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Investors withdrew a net $23.21 billion from global equity funds, the biggest weekly outflow since December 17, 2025, LSEG Lipper data showed.来源 1
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Investors withdrew a net $31.44 billion from US equity funds, a fourth consecutive week of outflows. During the same period, European equity funds recorded net outflows of $295 million, while Asian funds attracted net inflows of $6.26 billion.来源 1
Brent crude futures fell $2.3, or 2.2 per cent, to $102.53 a barrel by 0636 GMT, while US West Texas Intermediate futures fell $1.85, or 1.8 per cent, to $100.04 a barrel.来源 1
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Oil prices fell on Friday as investors weighed fresh strikes between Saudi Arabia and Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis against signs that additional Saudi crude could reach global markets and help ease supply concerns.来源 2
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International benchmark Brent crude futures with November expiry were last seen down 2.2% to $102.57 per barrel, on track for a third consecutive session of losses. U.S. West Texas Intermediate futures fell 1.9% to $100.05, having briefly dipped below $100.来源 2
STOCKHOLM - Sweden's left-wing opposition won a narrow majority in the country's general election after the vote count ended Thursday, but faces laborious negotiations to form a government.来源 2
However, now the details that should never have been marked confidential are starting to leak. In a motion for summary judgment that was unsealed Thursday from news plaintiffs led by The New York Times, internal documents are exposed that news groups alleged show exactly how Microsoft and OpenAI viewed the threat to news before unleashing new AI products like ChatGPT and Copilot.来源 1
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Perhaps most explosively, Microsoft Director of Applied Science Brent Hecht repeatedly warned in documents that scraping news for AI training was “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” calling it perhaps the “largest theft of labor in human history,” news orgs said. In another document, Hecht contradicted Microsoft and OpenAI’s argument that training AI on news content is fair use, suggesting that the plan to widely scrape news made “a complete mockery of the idea of ‘fair use.’”来源 1
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Over at OpenAI, ChatGPT head Nick Turley wrote in an internal message that publishers would face an “existential threat” from commercial products trained on news content that can be used to substitute news providers. One Microsoft document even described a “doom loop,” news orgs said, “that will hurt the performance of our models and the entire web at the same time.”来源 1
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Data from both firms shows that this prediction was accurate. Microsoft recorded 83–93 percent drops in click-through rates for some news plaintiffs, and 51–94 percent drops for others. Add to that reporting on low click-through rates from ChatGPT search results and news organizations’ own reporting on traffic declines. Suddenly, it becomes easier to see how declining news revenue could ultimately rob chatbots of the abundant streams of reliable information that supposedly makes them such groundbreaking tools.来源 1
India has warned Washington that new measures to levy tariffs over the purchase of Russian oil could impact bilateral ties, the South Asian nation's foreign ministry said on Thursday, hours after the U.S. made a new move to punish such buyers. Earlier in the day, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a sweeping sanctions and tariff bill intended to increase economic pressure on Russia over its invasion of Ukraine. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell reports.来源 1
CAIRO: Three pumping stations serving the vital East-West Pipeline in Saudi Arabia were damaged in an attack last week - one more than assessed previously - with a repair timeline unclear, according to satellite imagery and three industry sources.来源 1
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Three said the damage could take as long as five to six weeks to repair. Another said it could be fixed sooner and could resume pumping partially while repairs are ongoing.来源 1
The problems at the two choke points have driven Asian spot liquified natural gas (LNG) prices back toward US$30 per million British thermal units this week, the second such spike in 2026, from about US$10 before the war.来源 1
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Shell estimates the world has lost roughly 36 million tonnes of LNG from the Middle East so far in 2026, and the shortage is particularly hitting countries where governments have limited financial leeway to intervene.来源 1
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The strain shows up in orders in its garments industry, the country’s biggest export. A survey of knitwear factories by the BKMEA trade group found 55 per cent had seen buyers cancel or cut orders because of gas and power shortages since late August, and 78 per cent had partially halted production.来源 1
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The Prime Minister’s Fuel Relief Scheme that took effect on Sept 16 night offers motorcycle, rickshaw and small-car owners a subsidy of 100 rupees (46 Singapore cents) a litre on a capped monthly quota, after petrol rose to roughly 380 rupees a litre and diesel to 409 Pakistani rupees – a heavy burden in a country where the minimum wage is around US$145 a month.来源 1
SEOUL, Sept 18 : Chipmaker SK Hynix's US subsidiary Solidigm is considering building a factory to manufacture NAND flash memory chips in the United States, with upstate New York a leading candidate for the site, three people familiar with the matter told Reuters.来源 1
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The South Korean chipmaker faces growing pressure from the Trump administration to expand US manufacturing as Washington pushes to reshore semiconductor production and relentless investment in AI data centers has fuelled an acute shortage of memory chips.来源 1
At a time when fears of AI are gripping the public, the startup has built a wet lab, or place for physical experiments, in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said. Anthropic has said it wants to unlock treatments for rare diseases, and its biology work has gone beyond "in silico" or computer evaluations.来源 1
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"We believe that to do biology, the final test is still and will be for a while in real lab work," he said. "We absolutely are doing that today, and I would describe our approach as being typical of what you would see in most biotech companies, where there's some amount of that that we're doing in our own facilities and some amount of that that we're working with external partners on."来源 1
Radovan opened the debate on the federal government's proposed 2027 budget for her ministry with a stark assessment. The budget is set to shrink for the fifth consecutive year, falling from just over €10 billion to just under €9.5 billion ($10.9 billion). In 2022, it stood at nearly €14 billion, meaning that the ministry's budget has been reduced by roughly one-third over the past half decade.来源 1
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The impact of the cuts is already clearly visible, according to VENRO. A survey of its member organizations found that the number of funded projects is declining significantly. "Our sample of 34 organizations shows that, among these organizations alone, more than ten million fewer people are being reached with assistance."来源 1
委员会发表报告同日，美国国会及行政当局中国委员会(CECC)就向中国国家主席习近平争取释放黎智英举行听证会，该会来自执政共和党参众两院的两位主席苏利云(Dan Sullivan)和史密夫(Chris Smith)，联同来自参众两院的两名委员麦克利(Jeff Merkley)和苏奥斯(Tom Suozzi)提出《2026年黎智英香港政治犯问责法案》(The Jimmy Lai Hong Kong Political Prisoner Accountability Act of 2026)。来源 1
33. 第三十三条，亚洲新闻台报道：OpenAI周四推出面向法律行业的GPT-6 Astra版本“Astra for Law”，把该模型与美国判例法、法规等索引和专门的法律分析写作指令结合，帮助律所研究和起草文件，Harvey、Legora等法律AI厂商可在其上开发产品，平台还与Relativity、Clio、Intapp和汤森路透等集成。
WASHINGTON, Sept 17 : OpenAI on Thursday released a legal industry-focused version of its latest AI technology, GPT-6 Astra, that it said is designed to help law firms and legal software providers conduct research, draft advice and build custom applications for lawyers.来源 1
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OpenAI said its new product combines its Astra model with an index of US case law, statutes, regulations and other legal materials, along with specialized instructions for legal analysis and writing.来源 1
Anthropic and OpenAI are hunting for smaller AI data center deals, sources told CNBC, as the race to access the infrastructure needed to deploy workloads ramps up.来源 1
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The two AI labs have both inked huge deals for AI data centers in the past year for facilities of multi-hundred-megawatt and gigawatt capacity, but sources have said those companies are now also looking for compute capacity deals for much smaller deployments of 20-30 MW.来源 1
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Anthropic has sounded out agreements within that range across the U.K. and the Nordics, four people familiar with the conversations, who asked to remain anonymous when discussing private business dealings, told CNBC. OpenAI had been exploring opportunities for those smaller capacity deployments in the Nordics, two of the sources said.来源 1
Spanish police in Ceuta on Friday morning started moving hundreds of migrants from the beaches of the Spanish enclave to a new tented area. Several thousand migrants remain in Ceuta after tens of thousands of people crossed the border with Morocco in late July.来源 1
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Ceuta authorities estimate that 13,000 migrants have remained in the 18.5 square kilometre (7.2 square mile) territory. The central government says the figure is lower.来源 1
36. 第三十六条，联合国新闻报道：联合国周四在纽约总部启动“联合国系统数据共享平台”（UN System Data Commons），把26个联合国实体的公开数据汇集到一个网站，用户可用日常语言检索近4400万个数据点，并可直接接入自己的应用程序。秘书长古特雷斯说，如果可信事实难以找到，不可靠数据和虚假信息就会填补空白。
The United Nations system is hoping to make that task much easier with the launch of the UN System Data Commons, a new online platform that brings together data and statistics from across the Organization into a single gateway.来源 1
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Speaking at UN Headquarters in New York on Thursday, Secretary-General António Guterres unveiled the new platform, which allows users to search, explore and access trusted publicly available data from 26 UN entities in one website.来源 1
The final round of the 2026 World Rally Championship has been moved from Saudi Arabia to Italy because of continuing unrest and uncertainty in the Middle East, with the season shortened to 13 rounds. Rally Saudi Arabia had been scheduled to bring the championship to a conclusion in Jeddah from November 11-14, but the FIA has confirmed the WRC will instead finish with Rally Italia in Sardinia from October 1-4. The Saudi event will still take place on its original dates, but will form part of the Middle East Rally Championship rather than the WRC calendar. The FIA said Saudi Arabia remained ready to stage the rally safely, but cited “ongoing uncertainty in the region and its effect on logistical arrangements” for the decision. FIA president Mohammed ben Sulayem said organisers had explored every option to retain the rally as a WRC round. “We have worked closely with our partners in Saudi Arabia, our Member Club the Saudi Automobile and Motorcycle Federation, WRC Promoter and our championship stakeholders in recent months to explore every possible route that would allow Rally Saudi Arabia to take place as planned," Ben Sulayem said. “However, ongoing regional developments mean that the WRC element of Rally Saudi Arabia will not proceed this year. These are never easy decisions, particularly after the significant work undertaken by everyone involved in preparing for the event. “While the WRC element of the event will not take place this year, our confidence in the organisers and in the long-term future of the rally remains unchanged ... “Our focus now is firmly on the future. We will continue working together with our partners in Saudi Arabia and WRC Promoter towards bringing the FIA World Rally Championship back in 2027. The decision adds another layer of uncertainty to a title race being led by Great Britain's Elfyn Evans. Evans heads Finland's Sami Pajari by 17 points with a maximum of 35 available in Sardinia. The Welshman has finished runner-up in the championship five times and is seeking to become only the third British world champion, following Colin McRae and Richard Burns. The move comes against a backdrop of conflicts across the region, including the Israel-Gaza war, the conflict involving Israel, the United States and Iran, and Saudi Arabia's continuing confrontation with Houthi rebels in Yemen. Motor sport has already been forced to alter its schedule this year. The FIA cancelled the Bahrain and Saudi Arabian Formula One races in April, with the Bahrain event subsequently relocated to Malaysia. The Qatar and Abu Dhabi Grands Prix remain scheduled to go ahead later in the season.来源 1