Yemen’s Houthi militants have seized two strategic islands in the Red Sea, reinforcing the Iran-backed group’s ability to control a key shipping route, as concerns mount that the world is facing a new oil supply crisis.来源 1
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The seizure of the islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish is the latest in the militant group’s swift advance across Yemen’s Red Sea coast, after the capture of the port of Mokha and Perim island in the Bab al-Mandab strait.来源 1
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On Tuesday morning, Brent crude oil rose 1.17% to $106.92 a barrel. The average price of diesel in the US hit $6 per gallon for the first time last week, as the Iran war, combined with Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries, squeezed supply.来源 1
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Yemen's Iran-aligned Houthis have launched a new wave of attacks on Saudi Arabia, the group claimed Monday, and also seized the strategic islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish in the southern Red Sea, bolstering the rebels' ability to control a key maritime shipping route.来源 2
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Yemen's UN envoy warned on Tuesday that the Bab Al Mandeb strait was at risk of becoming a “blackmail card” in the hands of a “transnational terrorist” group, urging countries to share responsibility for securing the strategic waterway. Abdullah Al Saadi told an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on Yemen acknowledged the Houthis' control of the area around the strait. “The question is whether the international community will accept for one of the world's most important gateways for trade and energy to become a blackmail card in the hands of a transnational terrorist group,” Mr Al Saadi said “Yemen is not asking the world to defend it. Yemen is already defending the interests of the world." The meeting was requested by Greece, Bahrain, Britain, France, Latvia and Denmark. Mr Al Saadi said that while the Bab Al Mandeb strait lies within Yemen's territory and waters, its security has consequences far beyond the country. “Every ship that crosses this strait, every shipment, every energy shipment, and every supply chain that depends on it makes its security part of the economic security of countries thousands of kilometres away from Yemen,” he said. “Yemenis who are defending their coasts, waters and the Bab Al Mandeb strait today are standing on the front lines of defence of an international corridor on which the entire world's interests hinge,” he added. The Houthis have been fighting Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces since the country's civil war flared again in July. The Iran-backed group also declared a maritime blockade of Saudi Arabia and began attacking Saudi-linked ships in the Red Sea. The Houthis made rapid territorial gains last week, seizing Yemen's entire Red Sea coastline and control of the Bab Al Mandeb strait. The waterway has taken on greater importance for Saudi oil exports as the wider regional war disrupts shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Britain's deputy UN ambassador Kate Foster said the Houthi escalation "did not occur in a vacuum". "Iran’s longstanding support to the Houthis continues to enable attacks that threaten civilians, neighbouring states, maritime security and prospects for peace," Ms Foster said. She called on all member states to "fully implement" their obligations, including measures to prevent the transfer of arms and military support to the Houthis. Pakistan's UN ambassador Asim Iftikhar Ahmad supported Saudi Arabia's right to defend itself and warned that the expansion of Houthi attacks around the Bab Al Mandeb posed a growing threat to international shipping. “The problem also lies in the fact that this initially internal conflict is now spilling beyond national borders and has repercussions affecting the entire Middle East,” he said. “We're very concerned by the consequential stabilisation of navigation in the Red Sea and the Bab Al Mandeb strait.”来源 3
The benchmark 10-year Treasury yield climbed to its highest levels in 19 years on Tuesday as oil prices surge from the Iran conflict and expectations grow that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates on Wednesday. The rate milestone could ripple through the economy as the 10-year yield is a benchmark for consumers loans and corporate funding.来源 1
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The 10-year yield was last up more than 3 basis points at 5.00%. Earlier in the session, it scaled to 5.041%, the highest since July 2007. One basis point equals 0.01 percentage point, and yields and prices move in opposite directions.来源 1
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The yield on the longer-dated 30-year Treasury bond, more sensitive to geopolitical risks, rose more than 3 basis points to 5.367%. The yield had hit a high of 5.401% — also its highest level since June 2007.来源 1
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The move comes at the start of the Fed's two-day policy meeting, with markets pricing in higher chances of a quarter-point rate hike when the meeting concludes Wednesday after August inflation remained well above the central bank's 2% target. Traders are pricing in a more than 94% chance that the Fed will raise rates by 25 basis points in its latest meeting, according to the CME FedWatch tool.来源 1
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US government borrowing costs climbed to their highest level since 2007 after a jump in oil prices further fuelled concerns about inflation.来源 2
WASHINGTON: The war with Iran cost the US military around US$38 billion as of Aug 1, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Tuesday (Sep 15), with billions more potentially added to the price tag each month the conflict wears on.来源 1
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"As of Aug 1, 2026, the armed conflict with Iran has cost (the Department of Defence) approximately US$38 billion," said the CBO in a report, referring to the war that started after US-Israeli strikes targeting Iran from late February.来源 1
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It added that depending on the intensity of violence, costs per month could range between US$2-$3 billion or more if the conflict continued.来源 1
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The price of replacing munitions used through Aug 1 was estimated at US$21.7 billion, with CBO noting that such replacements have been the largest single component of costs incurred by the Defence Department in the conflict.来源 1
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The "main opportunity cost" for the department meanwhile has been the depletion of missile defence interceptors, leaving the United States with reduced inventory for several years.来源 1
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The Iran war had cost the US taxpayer at least $38 billion by August 1 and expenses are projected to run at about $3 billion a month if the conflict continues, a new report has found. The $38 billion tally reflects the costs of replacing expended munitions and equipment lost in battle, increased flying hours, other operations, and increased fuel costs, the Congressional Budget Office report on Pentagon spending on the war said in its report, released on Tuesday. The figure is about square with the costs outlined by Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth to Congress in July. The report from the CBO, a federal agency charged with providing budget and economic information to Congress, added that depending on the level of violence, the Pentagon's costs could come in at about $3 billion a month. "Monthly costs could be higher still if the violence escalated further," it said. The CBO report said its estimate does not include costs borne by other parts of the federal government, such as how the increased cost of fuel has affected various agencies. It also does not include costs already accounted for in the federal budget. It highlighted that the main cost of the conflict has been the large expenditure of missile defence interceptors, which it said will leave the US with a reduced inventory "for several years". "The shortfall would become especially problematic if a conflict arose with an opponent whose arsenal included large numbers of ballistic and cruise missiles," it added, pointing to the arms held by China. The Pentagon inspector general's report, released last week, acknowledged "strategic inventory shortfalls" and industrial bottlenecks for resupply. The shortfalls have been widely reported over the past several months, though President Donald Trump's administration has consistently rejected it. Mr Trump said said in a social media post last week that the US is “producing more exquisite and elite weapons than at any time in our history". The Pentagon has announced tens of billions of dollars in production deals with defence contractors in recent weeks. Last month, it announced deals with Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin to boost production of missiles and missile parts. Democratic Congressman Adam Smith, who sits on the House Armed Services Committee, called the war "disastrous". “The American people, and a majority in Congress, have made it overwhelmingly clear that Trump’s war must end now," he said in a statement. "The longer it drags out, the more likely we will find ourselves embroiled in another prolonged war, which is precisely what Trump promised voters he would never do.”来源 2
The United States has weapons deployed in spatial orbit, the US Space Force announced, confirming the existence of such capabilities for the first time.来源 1
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"The US has on-orbit space control weapons capable of defending the Joint Force against hostile adversary action," a US Space Force spokesperson said in a press release. The statement did not provide specifics on the weapons in question.来源 1
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"Space control encapsulates the mission areas required to contest and control the space domain — employing kinetic and non-kinetic means to affect adversary capabilities," it said, adding that "these capabilities can be employed for offensive and defensive purposes."来源 1
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China "develops and operates space and counterspace capabilities as part of a military modernization strategy," while Russia "views space as a warfighting domain and believes space supremacy will be a decisive factor in future conflicts," the statement read.来源 1
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In response, China urged Washington to "stop preparing for war" in outer space.来源 1
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"We urge the US side to stop expanding its military capabilities and preparing for war in outer space," Foreign Ministry spokesman Guo Jiakun said, warning against an "arms race" in space.来源 1
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The United States has confirmed for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space, a remarkable revelation after previous warnings about countries such as Russia possibly weaponizing a global frontier long agreed in treaties to be used for only peaceful purposes. FRANCE 24's Emerald Maxwell reports.来源 2
The Digital Asset Market Clarity Act failed on Tuesday to secure the 60 votes needed to advance to a debate in the Senate, with safeguards governing Trump’s extensive crypto interests among the biggest obstacles to a deal.来源 1
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Four Republican senators – Jerry Moran, Rand Paul, Josh Hawley and Thom Tillis – joined all the Democrats in voting against it. The vote was 50-49 in favour.来源 1
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The defeat dealt a major blow to efforts to establish the first comprehensive federal framework for digital-asset markets – and offered another illustration of Congress’s struggle to keep pace with disruptive new technologies as lawmakers wrestle with a similarly fraught debate over artificial intelligence.来源 1
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Bitcoin, the world’s largest cryptocurrency, fell more than 5 percent as the vote appeared set to fail, its biggest daily percentage decline since June. Shares of crypto exchange Coinbase and stablecoin issuer Circle fell as much as 10 percent.来源 1
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The vote on the motion to proceed attracted 50 votes for and 49 against, far below the 60 votes needed to clear the procedural hurdle.来源 2
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The bill would establish a framework for crypto, divide oversight between the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, set registration requirements and strengthen protections against money laundering.来源 2
Average diesel prices in the United States struck a record high of just under $6.27 a gallon Tuesday, pressuring President Donald Trump ahead of midterm congressional elections. Diesel prices have soared as Washington's war with Iran disrupts the world's flow of fuel, though Trump has repeatedly downplayed the effects of the war, pinning the blame on Kyiv instead for its attacks on Russian oil refineries.来源 2
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On Tuesday morning, Brent crude oil rose 1.17% to $106.92 a barrel. The average price of diesel in the US hit $6 per gallon for the first time last week, as the Iran war, combined with Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries, squeezed supply.来源 1
When the world's largest pension fund changes its investment strategy, the financial world pays close attention, especially when it plans to drastically reduce its holdings of US government bonds.来源 1
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According to Reuters, Norway's sovereign wealth fund wants to cut its US bond holdings — which totaled about $215 billion (€186 billion) at the end of June — by $80 billion.来源 1
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Global investors are increasingly viewing the debt binge with suspicion, especially as the US's national debt passed $40 trillion in August. This week, the yield on 30-year US Treasury bonds climbed to nearly 5.4%, the highest level since 2007.来源 1
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The US now spends over $1 trillion annually on interest payments — more than $3 billion per day — according to calculations by the Congressional Budget Office. Since 2024, Washington has spent more annually on servicing its debt than on its entire military.来源 1
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent has said he expects to hold talks with Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng this weekend over Beijing's financial relationship with Iran. The dialogue comes before a summit between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping later this month. With the US-Iran war now in its seventh month, Washington has been seeking to rally global support for its latest sanctions, aimed at severing Iran's financial lifelines and bringing the regime to the negotiating table, as diplomatic efforts to reopen the Strait of Hormuz remain stalled. “We have had some very good private discussions, and I look forward to those continuing this weekend when I meet my Chinese counterpart ... and I'm sure it will continue during President Xi's state visit,” Mr Bessent told legislators during his annual testimony on Capitol Hill. He did not specify the date or location of the meeting, and Beijing has not yet confirmed the date of the visit. The US announced last month that it was broadening secondary sanctions, aimed at businesses and countries that continue to carry out transactions with Iran. The Treasury Department has warned that companies doing business with Tehran risk being cut off from the dollar-based global financial system. While the US has introduced measures against China's “teapot refineries”, which purchase Iranian crude at a steep discount, it has so far not taken what is considered to be a more escalatory measure: taking aim at Chinese financial institutions. China was Iran's trading partner in 2025. Beijing previously said it would “take all necessary measures to safeguard its own interests firmly”. The EU said during the G20 finance gathering in North Carolina earlier this month that it backed the new US sanctions campaign against Iran, adding the bloc remained ready to take additional action. The UAE had announced before Mr Bessent's “Operation Economic Outcast” programme that it was suspending its trade and financial transactions with Iran because of the threat Iran poses to the region. “I think that we have seen some very forward-facing statements from the UAE,” Mr Bessent said during a question-and-answer portion of his testimony. He also said a Treasury official “was just there and had a very good discussion with all the members of their financial system”. The Treasury Department did not immediately provide additional details when contacted by The National. His comments come a day after the Treasury Department targeted Russia's second-largest financial institution, VTB Bank, for moving billions of dollars in Iranian assets. VTB had already been placed under heavy sanctions following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022. The US Treasury has also targeted a Turkish investment bank and its subsidiaries, as well as a Banque Misr branch in the UAE. The UAE Central Bank said on August 30 that it would conduct a “special and urgent examination” into the branches' activities.来源 2
COPENHAGEN - Denmark and Russia were at a war of words Tuesday after Danish authorities accused a Russian frigate of firing flares at a Danish military helicopter.来源 1
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The armed forces said in a statement late Monday that “one of the air force’s Fennec helicopters was today fired at with flares during a routine photographic operation of a Russian frigate, which was located in international waters off Gedser,” Denmark’s southernmost town.The frigate had fired “two flares towards the helicopter. One of the flares passed at close range to the helicopter,” it added.Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen on Tuesday slammed the incident as “reckless action from Russia”.“Russian actions are meant to intimidate and divide. They will not succeed. We will not waver,” Frederiksen said in a statement on X.However, Vladimir Barbin, the Russian ambassador to Denmark, fired back saying it was the helicopter that had been at fault.“The Danish side’s attempts to explain the helicopter’s provocative actions against the Russian frigate as ‘routine practice’ give rise to serious concern about the possible consequences of such recklessness,” Barbin said in written statement to AFP.“The Russian side will thoroughly investigate all the circumstances of the incident,” Barbin said while adding that “this is not the first time that Danish Air Force helicopters have carried out dangerous manoeuvres near Russian warships, when they were at sea and outside Denmark’s territorial waters.”Barbin said he had last year informed the Danish foreign ministry of “dangerous flyovers and low-altitude hovering” by a Danish Air Force helicopter over a large anti-submarine vessel.Ambassador summonedForeign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen said the actions were “completely unacceptable and could have put human lives at risk”.“I have therefore summoned the Russian ambassador for a discussion about the incident,” he said in a statement sent to AFP.“Russia is gradually shifting the boundary for what they consider acceptable behaviour,” he warned.“That is something we cannot accept,” he said.Danish media reported that Defence Minister Jeppe Bruus had summoned representatives of the parties in parliament for a briefing on the incident at the defence ministry.Tensions over the Baltic Sea have risen sharply since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.Denmark, a member of NATO and staunch supporter of Ukraine, has accused Russia of conducting hybrid operations on its territory.In the autumn 2025, unidentified drones flew over several Danish airports and the Skrydstrup air base — where Ukrainian pilots are trained on F-16 fighter jets.The flights began just days after Denmark announced that it would acquire long-range precision weapons for the first time, due to the threat posed by Russia.While investigators failed to identify those responsible for the drone flights, Frederiksen at the time pointed to finger at Russia.The Danish intelligence agency PET warned recently that Russia was “actively preparing acts of sabotage targeting the defence industry in Denmark”.The agency told AFP that Russia was recruiting “ordinary Danes” on social media to take photos that could be used in planning acts of sabotage.The Scandinavian country has also accused hacker groups linked to the Russian state of carrying out cyberattacks against Denmark.来源 1
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NATO fighter jets shot down a drone that entered Lithuanian airspace overnight, officials said Tuesday, the day after the head of the alliance said strikes close to its territory would only increase its support for Ukraine in the war against Russia's full-scale invasion.来源 2
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Separately, Denmark said Tuesday that one of its air force helicopters was fired on with flares as it was carrying out surveillance of a Russian frigate in the Baltic Sea.来源 2
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Writing on Facebook on Tuesday, Lithuanian Defence Minister Robertas Kaunas said an explosive device was detected on the drone and neutralized by bomb-disposal experts.来源 2
STRASBOURG: The European Union is set to propose curbing access to social media, video-sharing platforms, chatbots, and online games to children under the age of 15, according to a draft legal document seen by AFP.来源 1
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A proposed new law - to be formally presented on Thursday (Sep 17) - would mean banning minors under 15 from opening their own accounts, with a tiered system of access under parental supervision for younger children.来源 1
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As well as age limits, the new EU KIDS Act would force digital giants to make their platforms "safe by design" for children, meaning certain "addictive" features such as so-called infinite scrolling would have to be removed, the draft showed.来源 1
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Minors aged 13 and 14 will have to ask their parents to set up "introductory" accounts on social media, AI or gaming platforms, with limited features and strict screen time use.来源 1
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Below the age of three, children in the 27-nation bloc would have no access at all to social media and other "risky services", the draft says.来源 1
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The proposal will become law after negotiations between the EU parliament and member states.来源 1
Mark Carney said Canada will pursue a “unique security and economic alliance” with Europe as he positions his country as a base to build in the “new global economic order”.来源 1
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Speaking to investors, company executives and government ministers at the inaugural Canada Investment Summit on Tuesday, the prime minister pitched Canada as a “safe harbour” and lucrative home for foreign capital as his government looks to reduce its reliance on trade with the United States.来源 1
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Carney will be the guest of honour at the European parliament’s plenary meeting in Strasbourg this week. He will attend European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen’s annual state of the union speech on Wednesday, where she is expected to sketch out new areas for EU-Canada cooperation. On Thursday, Carney will address MEPs in von der Leyen’s presence. The commission president hastily changed her plans to stay in Strasbourg, after being criticised over her initial “unacceptable” decision to skip Carney’s speech and return to Brussels.来源 1
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The prime minister has pledged to bring in C$1tn ($720bn; £530bn) in investments in the next five years as he seeks to reduce Canada's reliance on the US, and the summit he convened this week is a test of whether he can deliver on promises to strengthen economic resilience.来源 2
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More than 160 projects were on offer, from data centres to pipelines and port expansions.来源 2
The three technology companies are considering a self-regulatory body to set AI safety standards.来源 1
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OpenAI said it was working with Anthropic and Google on an idea that originated from a proposal by Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis for a self-regulatory body modelled after the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority that oversees US brokers and investment firms.来源 1
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The chief of Canadian AI company Cohere recently accused the dominant American AI labs of forming a "cartel" under the guise of safety.来源 1
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OpenAI said it was working with Anthropic and Google on an idea originated from a proposal by Google DeepMind's Demis Hassabis for a self-regulatory body modeled after the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority that oversees US brokers and investment firms.来源 2
The performance gap between frontier AI models from US tech companies and the best open-weights models from Chinese companies has closed to just 4.4 months, according to a Mozilla report. That explains why many companies are shifting to the significantly cheaper open models for routine work—and helps reveal a narrow band of workloads where frontier models are worth the cost.来源 1
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Most organizations should ideally be using open models as the default for the majority of their work, according to the latest State of Open Source AI report from Mozilla, published on September 15 and shared with Ars prior to publication. The report highlights how a leading open model, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K3, achieves a composite AI performance score on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index that is just three points behind Anthropic’s Fable 5 closed frontier model, all while costing just 30 percent of the latter.来源 1
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“[A Closed model] earns its premium in a few places: expert professional work, high-intensity retrieval, and long context,” Raffi Krikorian, chief technology officer at Mozilla, said in an email to Ars. “We see the decision to pay for closed [models] as workload-specific rather than organization-specific.”来源 1
US House Speaker Mike Johnson has rejected calls to pause artificial intelligence development, arguing that doing so could give China an advantage over the United States.来源 1
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“We cannot have a moratorium on the development of AI,” Johnson told reporters on Tuesday. “Because then we will lose our edge to China, and that has serious national security implications for every American family.”来源 1
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In a series of posts, he dismissed fears that AI could pose an existential threat as a “hoax” and argued that existing government powers were enough to keep companies in check.来源 1
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Anthropic’s CEO took to the stage at a conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to reiterate his call for a slowdown of AI development. Following shortly after, Nvidia’s CEO argued against such deceleration.来源 2
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Nvidia’s Jensen Huang countered not long after, “Run as fast as you can.”来源 2
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The heads of artificial intelligence (AI) firms should decide if new versions of the technology should be released, Nvidia boss Jensen Huang has said in response to growing concerns about AI's threat to humans.来源 3
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"We don't need new laws or regulations," Huang said, adding that there should not be a "false choice" between the speed of innovation and the safety of AI products.来源 3
BEIJING: Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will visit Beijing this week and meet with his counterpart Wang Yi, China's foreign ministry said on Tuesday (Sep 15).来源 3
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China is a top economic partner of Iran, buying much of its oil output, and also an important diplomatic backer.来源 3
Figures published on Tuesday showed that average UK wages rose by 3.9% in the three months to July, signalling that pensioners will receive an uplift of the same percentage next year under the triple lock.来源 1
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This implies the full new state pension will rise from £241.30 a week (about £12,500 a year) to £250.70 a week (about £13,000 a year) from next April. For the two-thirds of pensioners who reached qualifying age before April 2016 in receipt of the old basic state pension, it will mean a rise to £192.10 a week (about £9,990 a year).来源 1
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However, ministers moved to reassure pensioners with no other income this would not happen as the government faced the prospect of a political backlash, in a development that will add to the challenges facing the chancellor, John Healey, at next month’s budget.来源 1
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City investors expect Threadneedle Street will keep the base rate on hold at the current level of 3.75%. Financial markets anticipate at least four increases to 4.75% before the end of next year.来源 1
Brazil’s supreme court has been thrust into what experts consider the greatest crisis since the return of democracy in the 1980s, as two rival judges lock horns on the eve of the presidential election with unpredictable consequences for Latin America’s largest democracy.来源 1
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The politically charged dispute exploded into public view on Tuesday as judges traded insults and accusations during a heated supreme court hearing that was livestreamed into millions of Brazilian homes.来源 1
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During one of the most ferocious exchanges, one of the judges at the eye of the storm, Alexandre de Moraes, berated his rival, André Mendonça: “You’re at the service of a political group that tried to launch a coup in this country!”来源 1
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With less than three weeks to go until the election, the two judges have gone to war, as Brazil’s biggest-ever banking scandal has snowballed into a judicial and political crisis of similarly shocking proportions.来源 1
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The judicial scandal has exploded just as Brazil’s election campaign is coming to a head, with polls suggesting a dead heat between Lula and Bolsonaro, who are likely to face off in a second-round run-off on 25 October.来源 1
Authorities in Turkey have launched an unprecedented crackdown on the LGBTQ+ community, arresting and detaining hundreds of journalists, campaigners, HIV organisations and members of the public.来源 1
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Turkish Justice Minister Akin Gurlek says legal proceedings have been started against more than 160 people and organisations across the country.来源 1
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A major target was Kaos GL, Turkey's most prominent LGBTQ+ organisation, which the Ankara chief prosecutor's office said had seen 21 arrests as part of an investigation. Journalist Tugba Tekerek was detained over a single article she wrote for Kaos GL's news portal about the LGBTQ+ community in Georgia.来源 1
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A further 150 people were detained on Tuesday outside Istanbul's Caglayan courthouse while protesting against the crackdown.来源 1
United States Republican Representative Thomas Massie, an outspoken critic of the Trump administration’s war on Iran, has sought to force a long-shot vote in the US Congress on the impeachment of Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth.来源 1
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Massie read articles of impeachment against Hegseth in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday, accusing the Pentagon chief of waging war without congressional approval, carrying out extrajudicial killings, and paying little mind to civilian casualties in military operations.来源 1
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The resolution for Hegseth’s impeachment could receive a vote in the coming days, but faces long odds of success in the Republican-majority US House of Representatives.来源 1
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The Pentagon has said that it supports Hegseth.来源 1
The AI race has grown so frenzied that, by 2035, U.S. data centers are projected to consume more natural gas than Germany and Japan combined.来源 1
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Over the next decade, data centers are expected to be the second-strongest driver of natural gas demand growth after LNG exports. The facilities could consume about 18 billion cubic feet per day, according to a new report from BloombergNEF, nearly double the amount the organization predicted just nine months ago.来源 1
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Burning one cubic foot of natural gas releases the equivalent of 60 grams of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, including extraction, processing, and distribution, according to the IEA. The additional demand from data centers will generate 1 million metric tons more greenhouse gas pollution daily. That’s about 12% of total U.S. greenhouse gas emissions today.来源 1
PATNA, India: Flooding in India's eastern Bihar state has affected nearly five million people, officials said on Tuesday (Sep 15) as aid was being sent to the worst-hit areas.来源 1
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Bihar is among India's most flood-prone states and all seven of its key rivers measured above their "danger level" on Tuesday after heavy rain, according to the state water resources department.来源 1
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Chief Minister Samrat Choudhary said 7,000 rupees (US$72) each had been transferred to more than 827,000 flood-affected families in the state.来源 1
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Nearly five million people have been affected by floods, according to figures from Bihar's Disaster Management Department.来源 1
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Flooding began this month and local media have reported 20 deaths, while officials said swaths of farmland have been swamped. Bihar is downstream from Nepal, which suffered deadly flooding last month.来源 1
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It said it had opened 13 relief camps, with more than 1,000 community kitchens and nearly 1,800 boats deployed in flood-hit areas.来源 1
Amazon Web Services said Tuesday it can't restore access to cloud-computing facilities in Bahrain and parts of the United Arab Emirates, more than six months after the sites were damaged by drone strikes in the early days of the Iran war.来源 1
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The company said in an update posted to AWS' health dashboard that the damage at multiple Bahrain-based sites exceeded what its services are designed to withstand.来源 1
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"After a thorough assessment, we have determined that we are unable to restore access to the resources and data hosted exclusively in this region," AWS wrote.来源 1
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In a separate post, AWS said it's similarly been unable to recover resources and data stored in one of its availability zones in the UAE. It continues to work to restore two other UAE zones that were affected.来源 1
Yoon Hu-duk, a lawmaker from the ruling Democratic Party (DP), made the assertion during the hours-long questioning of Lee Hyoung-il, in which he also asked about details of projects being discussed under Seoul's proposed $350 billion U.S. investment commitment.来源 1
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"Trump is due to announce South Korea's investment in the U.S. on the 18th," said Yoon.来源 1
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Yoon also said during the hearing that projects already reported in the media included a gas project in Texas, the construction of eight nuclear reactors and an Alaskan liquefied natural gas scheme.来源 1
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Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung reached a trade deal last October under which South Korea committed $350 billion of investments to U.S. manufacturing in return for Washington capping tariffs on Korean imports at 15%. Of that, $150 billion was earmarked for shipbuilding.来源 1
Chancellor Friedrich Merz will not fly to New York next Tuesday to attend the United Nations General Assembly as planned.来源 1
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The cancellation comes amid intense discussions about Merz’s political future and a possible change in German leadership following Sunday’s elections in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and Berlin, in which his party is expected to perform poorly.来源 1
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“Contrary to original plans, the Chancellor will not travel to New York next week, as his presence is required in Berlin,” a German official familiar with the Chancellor’s schedule told POLITICO.来源 1
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The fact that the entire trip has now been canceled underscores just how serious even the Chancellor’s Office views the domestic political crisis and the need to grapple with the future of the government and its leadership. Instead of Merz, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul will address the United Nations. Merz had already been represented by Wadephul at last year’s U.N. General Assembly.来源 1
UK's National Cyber Security Centre warns state-linked cyber actors steal messages and sensitive information来源 1
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Iranian government spyware snoops on dissidents, activists and journalists on messaging platforms including WhatsApp and Telegram, the UK, US and the Netherlands warned on Tuesday. Britain's National Cyber Security Centre said the cyber actors had used a spyware family known as Chosen Brick to steal emails, messages and other sensitive information through “spear-phishing” campaigns. “The details of this cyber campaign reveal how Iran ruthlessly uses digital surveillance in pursuit of its aim to repress critics of the regime, stealing emails and messages and accessing devices,” Paul Chichester, NCSC Director of Operations, said in a statement. Iran's embassy in London did not immediately respond to a request for comment. The malware can collect information from contact lists, emails and social media accounts, capture screen content and access microphones, the advisory warned. Some of the victims' personal details had later appeared on pro-Iranian leak sites, the NCSC said. Attackers often posed as trusted contacts on messaging apps and tailored their approach to individual targets, the NCSC said. This went so far as using fake documents and fabricated MRI test results to convince victims to download the malware. The NCSC, alongside the FBI and the Netherlands' AIVD intelligence service, said Iran “almost certainly” uses cyber operations to help suppress people it sees as threats. Last year, the UK, US and France were among more than a dozen countries to condemn what they called a surge in assassination, kidnapping and harassment plots by Iranian intelligence services against people in Europe and North America. “We are united in our opposition to the attempts of Iranian intelligence services to kill, kidnap and harass people in Europe and North America in clear violation of our sovereignty,” the countries said. The UK government previously said it had disrupted more than 20 Iran-linked plots to kidnap or kill people in the country since 2022, including British citizens and others Tehran views as threats.来源 1
Sept 15 : SpaceX said on Tuesday it was preparing to launch its next Starship flight test as soon as September 22, a mission expected to send the vehicle into orbit for the first time and deploy Starlink V3 satellites.来源 1
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The company plans to place Starship into orbit around Earth, a milestone that would allow it to test the vehicle over a longer-duration flight and deploy the first batch of Starlink V3 satellites.来源 1
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The mission, pending regulatory approval, is expected to last nearly 10 hours, with Starship flying about 275 km above Earth and completing about six orbits before splashing down in the Pacific Ocean west of Chile.来源 1
Iranian strikes have damaged and destroyed "hundreds of buildings and structures" at U.S. bases in the Middle East as well as "dozens" of U.S. aircraft as of the end of June, according to a government report.来源 2
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The Iran war cost an estimated $33.4 billion as of June 29, according to the U.S. Department of Defense, which released a lead inspector general report to Congress on the Iran war Monday tracking the conflict up to the end of June. That includes $184 million in physical damage to U.S. diplomatic facilities in four countries — Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — from Iranian strikes, it said.来源 2
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The report showed a fifth-generation F-35A damaged by enemy fire, the first time any aircraft of its type had suffered battle damage. Four F-15E fighter jets and an A-10 ground attack aircraft were destroyed as of the end of June.来源 2
Two years ago, the idea of a large-scale war breaking out felt like a distant hypothetical to the experts who help chart the world’s dangers. Today it tops their list of fears, according to a new UN Global Risk Report.来源 1
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Large-scale war climbed 16 places up the rankings compared with 2024 – the steepest rise of any risk on the list. More than a third of those surveyed, 36 per cent, think its effects could touch a significant share of humanity within a year; 76 per cent expect that within seven years.来源 1
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Artificial intelligence draws particular attention in the report. Concerns about AI, other frontier technologies and the concentration of power they enable have grown sharply in two years – even as respondents say the multilateral system is the least prepared to handle technological threats.来源 1
Policy issued in May by China's cyberspace regulator, economic planner and industry ministry identifies "operational loss of control" as a security risk for AI agents, systems that can plan and carry out multi-step tasks more independently than conventional chatbots.来源 1
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The rules require developers to improve their ability to discover, intervene in, block and recover from improper agent behaviour.来源 1
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China has also begun drafting a mandatory national standard for AI agent safety, which Concordia's Tse said would be the world's first of its kind.来源 1
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Wang Lihong, a senior official at the cyberspace regulator, said on Sep 1 that particular vigilance was needed over frontier models bypassing sandbox environments, circumventing safety boundaries and attacking external real-world production systems.来源 1
The Albanese government is considering giving AI companies access to Australian creatives’ works by default as it pursues a compromise with American tech giants.来源 1
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The independent senator David Pocock said the compromise would throw protections for creatives and copyright holders “under the bus” in pursuit of datacentre funding.来源 1
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It suggests requiring rights holders “digitally protect” their material if they do not want AI models trained on it – a proposal rightsholders say is not feasible.来源 1
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Under one option it proposes, AI companies would gain the right to access and train models on any unprotected online material as long as they made deals with enough businesses.来源 1
A study by a US foreign policy think tank advocates a major military pullback from the western Pacific, prompting concern among long-standing allies of the United States across the Indo-Pacific, analysts say.来源 1
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The report was authored by Jennifer Kavanagh, a senior fellow and director of military analysis at the right-of-center Defense Priorities Foundation. Kavanagh calls for the US to "narrow its defense commitments in the region" by ending mutual defense alliances with South Korea, Japan, Australia and the Philippines.来源 1
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The priority for Washington, she states, is to defend the US homeland and safeguard access to key economic markets and trade routes. That would be best served by pulling back from the "first island chain," which runs from Okinawa in southern Japan, through Taiwan and on to the Philippines.来源 1
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Despite Kavanagh's reassurances, many analysts suggest that a withdrawal of US support in the region would prompt China to quickly seize Taiwan and nuclear-armed North Korea to make greater demands on South Korea. It is also likely to trigger a region-wide spike in defense spending and, ultimately, a rupture in regional nuclear non-proliferation efforts.来源 1
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The Japan Air Self-Defense Force said Tuesday one of its Global Hawk unmanned aircraft went missing over the Sea of Japan and is presumed crashed following a search operation.来源 1
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The ASDF said photos of debris seen floating in the sea off the western prefecture of Tottori in the search operation led it to conclude that the reconnaissance aircraft had crashed. There were no reports of damage to ships in the area.来源 1
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A Japan Air Self-Defense Force (JASDF) RQ-4B Global Hawk is presumed to have crashed into the Sea of Japan (East Sea) on September 15 after experiencing communication problems and disappearing from radar. It’s the first such incident involving a JASDF Global Hawk, a high-altitude, unmanned surveillance aircraft manufactured by U.S. defense firm Northrop Grumman.来源 2
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The JASDF operates three RQ-4Bs, all based at Misawa. Morita said this was the first time a JASDF Global Hawk had gone missing.来源 2
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It is also an expensive asset. Japanese Defense Ministry documents put the unit cost of a Global Hawk at approximately 17.3 billion yen ($111.7 million). If the aircraft is ultimately confirmed lost, it would represent not only a significant financial loss but also the loss of one-third of Japan’s small Global Hawk fleet.来源 2
Americans' inflation-adjusted incomes rose and poverty declined in 2025, according to new Census Bureau data released Tuesday, as the Federal Reserve meets to decide whether inflation still requires higher interest rates.来源 1
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Real median household income rose by 2.6% to $87,460 last year, the Census Bureau reported as part of a suite of data releases Tuesday. The poverty rate fell by a nearly half-point to 10.2%. The poverty threshold for a family of four last year was $32,970.来源 1
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The Census data covers 2025 and doesn't account for recent changes in inflation or other economic shifts since the Iran war started. But for the first year of Trump's presidency, the data show the median American household's income rose even after adjusting for inflation.来源 1
SEOUL, Sept. 15 (Yonhap) -- The union representing Seoul city bus workers said Tuesday it will launch a general strike starting with the first buses the following morning after wage talks with management ended without an agreement.来源 1
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The labor and management held their second round of mediation talks at the regional labor relations commission in the day, but their eight-hour talks failed to produce a breakthrough, according to the union.来源 1
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Accordingly, the union plans to begin the strike at 4 a.m. Wednesday as threatened earlier. About 7,000 city buses operated by 64 companies run on roughly 390 routes in Seoul.来源 1
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The Seoul city government said it will implement emergency transportation measures in response to the strike, including deploying up to 1,500 free shuttle buses to and from subway stations and increasing subway services during rush hours.来源 1
Gemini 3.8 Live and Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking are our most advanced live dialogue models yet, built for natural conversation.来源 1
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Today, we’re introducing two new models that bring advancements in near real-time reasoning to more effectively enable voice agents and make conversing with AI feel more intuitive and intelligent.来源 1
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Gemini 3.8 Live Extended Thinking provides enterprise-grade task completion and intelligence, capturing the #1 overall spot on Artificial Analysis' Speech to Speech Quality Index (82.6), and leads in agentic task completion with 68.6% on τ-Voice and 35.1% on Sierra’s τ-Voice-banking benchmark. It also provides strong reasoning capabilities, scoring 97.7% on Big Bench Audio, while maintaining a highly competitive price point compared to other frontier models.来源 1
The Kennedy Center board voted Tuesday to close most of the Washington performing arts complex for safety repairs, hours after a judge again blocked efforts to add President Donald Trump’s name to the…来源 1
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The Trump-aligned Kennedy Center board voted on Tuesday to close most of the iconic performing arts venue just hours after a federal judge blocked the institution from returning President Donald Trump's name to the building.来源 1
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In a social media post, Trump said the closure was needed for safety repairs. But he said the repairs, which Congress has allocated $257 million to cover, would only happen if the board was allowed to move forward with plans to add his name to the building. A federal judge has twice said that can't happen without the approval of Congress.来源 1
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“Simply put, Defendants cannot install memorials for President Trump or anyone or anything else at the Kennedy Center without Congress’s blessing," US District Judge Christopher Cooper said in the latest ruling on Tuesday.来源 1
Meta on Tuesday introduced a new subscription service called Meta One, offering expanded AI usage and other premium features across Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The new plans let users access a number of AI tools, like those for creating and editing images and generating videos, as well as in-app tools like the AI-powered Restyle editing tool on Instagram.来源 1
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In the first set, there are the $7.99/month Core and $19.99/month Premium plans, both of which include the Facebook Plus, Instagram Plus, and WhatsApp Plus features. The primary selling point of these plans is expanded AI usage, with Premium offering more usage than Core, as its pricing indicates.来源 1
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Meanwhile, businesses and creators can choose from several different plans: Essential ($14.99/month and up), Advanced (starting at $49.99/month), Expert (starting at $149/month), and Max (starting at $499/month). Meta noted that the plan benefits, pricing, and availability may vary by region, app, and account.来源 1
Jaguar Land Rover is in talks with Nato countries about selling them the newly revamped Defender military vehicle, as the UK-based carmaker seeks to tap into Europe’s defence spending boom.来源 1
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It is also among carmakers bidding for a UK defence ministry contract worth £900m to replace an ageing fleet of Land Rovers that have been out of production since 2016, competing with General Motors and the UK’s Ineos Automotive, which builds the Grenadier 4x4 for the civilian market.来源 1
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JLR, owned by India’s Tata Motors, has set up a new Defender defence division to explore new partnerships to supply vehicles for people and equipment transportation to defence sectors around the world.来源 1
Channel 4 has poached the Channel 5 owner Paramount’s £300m-plus TV advertising sales business from Sky, in a huge boost days after the broadcaster announced it is to cut 340 jobs.来源 1
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The deal with Channel 4 marks the first time that the advertising for the two public service broadcasters has been sold together.来源 1