Economies thrown into renewed turmoil as AI debt, Iran war and soaring government bond yields fuel alarm来源 2
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In the past week the US government’s borrowing costs climbed to the highest level since 2007, with knock-on consequences for the finances of households, businesses, and other governments worldwide. The fear is that Donald Trump’s war is igniting higher levels of inflation. The president’s tax and spending plans – driving Washington’s debt levels above $40tn (£29.9tn) – also have investors worried.来源 2
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Such is the worry over the Iran war stoking inflation that the US Federal Reserve defied Trump this week with its first interest rate rise since 2023. As households and businesses come under pressure from rising energy bills and surging fuel prices, central banks elsewhere are also taking action.来源 2
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The first worry is the sheer scale of debt issuance being used to fund the hectic pace of the datacentre rollout by the hyperscalers building them – Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta and Oracle – $132bn (£99bn) this year alone on one estimate.来源 1
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It sets out the $1.5tn “compute commencement wall” faced by the AI labs over the next couple of years, drawing a comparison with the moment when cut-price “teaser” mortgage rates began to run out in 2007 and 2008.来源 1
BERLIN — Germany’s embattled Chancellor Friedrich Merz and his conservatives suffered a second major defeat to the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) in a regional vote Sunday — a result Merz conceded was a “disaster.”来源 1
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The AfD won around 38% of the vote in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania — the second-best result in its history, just ahead of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) on 35%, according to preliminary results.来源 1
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Merz’s conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffered its worst result in a state or national election since the end of World War II, coming in near 5%, according to a preliminary count, hovering at or below the vote threshold required to make it into the state parliament.来源 1
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The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party won the state election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, while the conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) failed to secure any parliamentary seats.来源 2
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According to the preliminary results announced by the election commission early Monday morning, the AfD secured 38.2% of the vote on Sunday. The Social Democratic Party (SPD), which is led by state premier Manuela Schwesig, garnered 35.5% of the vote.来源 2
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In the north-eastern state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, the party was initially projected to only just scrape through, with its worst ever election result. A few hours later, however, it had dipped below the 5% threshold needed to stay in parliament. Merz called the result "a disaster" for his party.来源 3
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In northeastern Germany, projections suggest that the CDU narrowly failed to clear the 5% threshold for representation in parliament, a historic first in the party's history.来源 4
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng began talks Sunday (Sep 20), setting the stage for possible agreements on trade, AI and other issues before a summit of the countries' top leaders on Thursday.来源 1
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The talks, which also include President Donald Trump's top trade official Jamieson Greer, are expected to last all day at JPMorgan Chase's headquarters in New York.来源 1
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Both sides will be looking to ease tensions on trade, technology and other strategic concerns. These include the possible extension of a trade truce expiring in November and guardrails for artificial intelligence development.来源 1
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US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng began talks at JPMorgan Chase’s Manhattan headquarters on Sunday morning, with US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer also taking part.来源 2
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“I’m looking forward to having focused, fulsome and constructive talks today that will set the stage for our leaders’ meeting,” Bessent told reporters as he arrived.来源 2
Ukraine has fired its largest drone attack on the Moscow region, the mayor has said, hitting the city's main oil refinery and a residential building.来源 2
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Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said 450 drones heading for the capital had been shot down in what he called "the most massive" attack. The region's governor said at least two people were killed and 20 injured.来源 2
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed Kyiv had hit a "key" Russian oil facility and a logistics site in the region with drones and missiles, representing "billions of dollars that sustain the war machine".来源 2
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Russia's ruling United Russia party on Sunday was projected to win the country's tightly controlled parliamentary elections, according to exit polls. Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on Moscow, killing three people, said city officials, on the third and final day of Russia's wartime vote.来源 1
Iran and the United States exchanged new threats on Sunday, with President Donald Trump warning Iran would fail economically or face its leadership being wiped out if it didn't make a deal, and the Iranian military saying it would retaliate harshly to any fresh attack. The conflict has looked stalemated for months, with no sign either side was ready for concessions even as it has deepened a global energy crisis, cratered swathes of Iran's economy and spilled over into new regional escalations. In a phone call with a Fox News reporter, Trump said Iran's leaders should make a deal, rot economically or be wiped out, the reporter said. However, with Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian expected in New York this week for the United Nations General Assembly, Trump said he would be open to meeting him, the Fox reporter added. Trump has repeatedly made vague threats of major military escalations during the conflict that began with US and Israeli strikes on February 28, without carrying them out. Earlier, Iran's military central command said any new attack would trigger sustained retaliation against US bases and interests and that Washington's regional allies would be considered parties to the conflict. The Iranian military added that it had information that an attack was being prepared, without elaborating on what that information might be. Houthis target Riyadh US Gulf allies have already been badly scarred by a war that the US and Israel launched with no warning, bringing their cities under Iranian fire and hammering their economies with the crucial Strait of Hormuz waterway blockaded. On Saturday their predicament worsened further, with Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi group launching missile and drone strikes at the Saudi capital after having made sudden military gains in Yemen's reignited civil war earlier this month. Reuters video showed a massive plume of black smoke billowing from the area of Riyadh's main international airport following booms overnight. The US State Department issued a security alert citing the Houthi hostilities. It said there was potential for unforeseen escalation in the Middle East, and Americans should exercise more vigilance and be aware of possible flight cancellations and airspace closures. Saudi Arabia did not comment on the incident, though a Saudi-led coalition fighting the Houthis said it had foiled other attacks on the kingdom. Recent escalation by the Houthis has forced Riyadh into a painful dilemma: continue airstrikes on the group to stop it seizing more Yemeni territory or step back in the hopes of averting drone strikes on critical infrastructure. Energy exports blockaded The Houthi gains along the coast mean the group's forces now sit on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, giving them easier control over shipping travelling between the Red Sea and Asia and the ability to blockade the crucial waterway. With Iran already having blockaded most shipping in the Strait of Hormuz, the oil-rich Gulf's energy exports are now almost entirely cut off from global markets, adding to pressure on oil prices. A US blockade of Iranian ports is meanwhile stopping Iran from selling its own oil, contributing to major problems in the Islamic Republic's economy. Despite the economic damage, there is little sign of a return to the interim ceasefire agreement that was struck in June but fell apart in July amid disputes over its terms. Iran reiterated on Sunday that it would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the terms of that June agreement, as it interpreted them, were met. Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf said Iran would have to keep on fighting as well as negotiating, to push back its enemies and to consolidate any gains with diplomacy.来源 2
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When addressing the available options for ending the war, Trump candidly said the United States had three options: "Obliterate Iran, letting it rot economically or reach a deal."来源 4
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Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf on Sunday said in a Telegram post that the key Strait of Hormuz shipping channel between Iran and Oman would not open until all of his country's conditions are met.来源 3
MOSCOW - Russians headed to the polls on Sunday for a third and final day of tightly controlled parliamentary elections set to strengthen the Kremlin's grip on power, as the Ukraine war grinds through its fifth year.来源 1
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The ruling United Russia party, which backs President Vladimir Putin and has won every parliamentary election in Russia since 2003, is widely expected to secure another victory.Russia's Supreme Court struck the anti-war Yabloko party off the ballot weeks before the vote, while all other parties cleared to run back Putin and the Ukraine offensive.While the results are unlikely to offer many surprises, the election is the first since Moscow launched its Ukraine military campaign in 2022 and could offer clues about public opinion towards the conflict, Europe's deadliest since World War II.Putin has urged Russians to take part, casting the vote as a show of support for Moscow's troops and an "answer to those who want to weaken Russia".As the final day of voting began, Moscow's Mayor Sergei Sobyanin accused Ukraine said that Russian air defences had shot down more than 1,600 drones, 450 of which were heading towards the Russian capital."The unprecedented attack was clearly planned with the aim of disrupting the elections. The enemy did not succeed," he said on Telegram.The polls, which will determine all 450 seats for Russia's lower house State Duma, are set to run until 1800 GMT on Sunday.- Mobilisation rumours -Campaigning has been limited.United Russia's main challengers -- the Communist Party, the ultra-nationalist LDPR, A Just Russia and New People -- all support the war and Putin.Yabloko, a liberal party that has called for an end to the fighting, was barred from running its federal list by Russia's Supreme Court, although its candidates remain on the ballot in some single-mandate constituencies.Police arrested one of the party's election observers on Saturday, Yabloko said, while one of its former regional chairs was jailed last month for 11 years.Some fear the post-election period in Russia will bring about a new military mobilisation, similar to the 2022 call-up of 300,000 reservists that triggered an exodus of draft-age men from Russia.Putin has denied such plans.The election also comes at a time when Ukrainian drone strikes have caused increased disruption and fuel shortages inside Russia, hitting as far as Siberia and the Urals.In Moscow, one voter told AFP on Saturday they were frustrated by the state of the economy."Many people have lost their jobs. Wages are now falling rather than rising," Diana, 30, said.Another voter, 71-year-old Tatiana, said she had voted for United Russia."It is the largest party, the hardest-working and most productive," she said.- Cyberattacks -Putin's political opponents have mostly been driven into exile, while his main rival Alexei Navalny died in an Arctic prison in 2024.Russia's exiled opposition has urged anti-Kremlin Russians not to boycott the elections but instead vote "against Putin's party".Navalny's widow Yulia Navalnaya called on anti-war Russians to collectively cast their ballots at noon on Sunday, a tactic that drew crowds in the 2024 presidential election.Yabloko disagreed, arguing that it was better not to vote."You are suggesting that we once again go, like sheep, dancing to their tune, and vote for those who have caused the deaths of people in Russia and Ukraine?" party chairman Nikolay Rybakov said earlier this week.Russian officials reported few anomalies.Russia's top electoral official said Saturday that the electronic voting system in Moscow had been hit by "powerful" cyberattacks.She also warned that saboteurs had severed communication lines in Russia's far east, in an apparent attempt to frustrate the voting."We view the incident as a deliberate act of sabotage and an attempt to disrupt voting in the region," Ella Pamfilova, chair of Russia's Central Election Commission, was quoted as saying by the state TASS news agency.Voter turnout was around 40 percent as of 6:00 pm Moscow time (1500 GMT) on Saturday, according to Russia's Central Election Commission.来源 1
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Russia's ruling United Russia party on Sunday was projected to win the country's tightly controlled parliamentary elections, according to exit polls. Ukraine launched a massive drone attack on Moscow, killing three people, said city officials, on the third and final day of Russia's wartime vote.来源 2
Moscow is moving to expand its capacity to make tens of thousands of the killer drones it deploys in attacks on Ukrainian cities, according to plans from a Russian state company obtained by POLITICO.来源 1
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The expansion of state firm Rosatom’s Alabuga-Volokno factory in Russia’s Tatarstan region would allow Moscow to make an additional 500 tons of military-grade aerospace carbon fiber each year by 2029. The strong lightweight material is key to building the drone’s airframe.来源 1
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The production increase would translate to an additional 28,000 weaponized drones every year, according to one expert estimate — a 78% increase in production of weapons like the one that struck a passenger train on the Polish border this month and others that have left scores of Ukrainian civilians dead. Ukraine estimates Russia can currently produce more than 36,000 kamikaze drones, known as “Gerans,” annually.来源 1
The Houthis have declared what they call an "equation of blockade for blockade and escalation for escalation", vowing that Riyadh will face consequences for restrictions imposed on Yemen.来源 2
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Separately, Houthi political bureau member Mohamed al-Bukhaiti said in an interview with the Associated Press on Sunday that the group had given the Trump administration assurances it would not strike American ships in the Red Sea.来源 2
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The Houthis said Sunday that Saudi Arabia launched 28 strikes in several areas of Yemen in the past 24 hours, as the group and Yemeni government clash in the revived civil war.来源 1
U.S. President Donald Trump's administration last week approved the potential $24.3 billion sale of nearly 50 F-35 warplanes to Saudi Arabia, seen as a major boost for the kingdom.来源 2
Trump signed a sanctions bill on Friday that targets Russia's economy by implementing tariffs on the biggest buyers of the country's oil and gas which include China and India.来源 1
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The US legislation gives the US president powers to impose 100% tariffs on major purchasers of Russian energy.来源 1
Chinese technology giant Huawei is facing a landmark criminal trial in the United States amid Washington’s long-running tech rivalry with Beijing.来源 1
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The trial began in federal court in Brooklyn, New York, on September 9, with US prosecutors portraying Huawei as a criminal enterprise that spent two decades stealing technology from US companies, deceiving banks and circumventing sanctions on Iran.来源 1
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Huawei has pleaded not guilty and says the US government is attempting to turn ordinary business disputes and the actions of individual employees into evidence of a company-wide conspiracy.来源 1
14. 第十四条，亚洲新闻台报道：印度尼西亚搜救机构9月20日说，潜水员在爪哇海沉没客船“Virgo Transport 8”船体内再打捞出一具遗体，确认死亡人数升至10人；仍有125人失踪，108人获救。该船9月13日在恶劣天气中沉没，当时载有243人，搜救行动已延长一周，并将在9月21日使用遥控潜水器协助搜索。
JAKARTA – The Indonesian authorities will continue searching on Sept 21 for more than a hundred people still missing after a passenger ship sank in the Java Sea last weekend, with the confirmed death toll now at 10, its search and rescue agency Basarnas said.来源 1
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The divers recovered one more body on Sept 20 from inside the ship’s hull, after finding three victims on Sept 18. Following the latest operation, which Putu said was hampered by strong currents, 125 passengers remained unaccounted for and 108 people had survived.来源 1
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JAKARTA: Indonesia's search and rescue agency said on Sunday (Sep 20) it had recovered one more victim from the wreck of a passenger ship that capsized and sank in the Java Sea last weekend.来源 2
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"The victim was found by divers during a search inside the ship's hull," the agency said, adding that the victim will be airlifted out for identification.来源 2
A 50 percent tariff has disrupted dairy exports, leaving Canadian farmers with milk that cannot be redirected overnight.来源 1
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Those sales have largely come to a standstill since US President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariff on $20bn in Canadian goods, including dairy products, came into effect on August 22.来源 1
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Pruim said if processor demand is squeezed, farmers would be forced to dump the milk. In the worst-case scenario, the herd has to be cut.来源 1
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Canada has also imposed retaliatory tariffs, which came into effect on September 8 and cover $20bn worth of US products.来源 1
Donald Trump’s latest executive order is expected to establish a board responsible for approving National Institutes of Health grant funding, marking another attempt by the Trump administration to censor topics that do not align with the president’s agenda.来源 1
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The executive order, reported by outlets including the Washington Post and Politico, was discussed in a meeting on Friday where senior administration officials accused the NIH of funding “woke” initiatives that went against Trump’s political priorities.来源 1
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Russell Vought, the director of the White House’s office of management and budget (OMB), and other administration officials proposed an executive order that would create an external committee that could veto awards in biomedical research that do not align with Trump’s goals, according to several people who spoke to the Washington Post.来源 1
Donald Trump’s sons, through a series of AI-linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up a $620m Pentagon loan, a Marine Corps robotics contract and an undisclosed air force drone deal in the past year. His longtime friend Michael Dell won a Pentagon contract worth nearly $9bn. And this week, as public support for artificial intelligence sinks to some of the lowest levels ever recorded, the president went to bat for the industry.来源 1
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Trump is resisting new restrictions on AI at a moment when his family and some of his closest allies have accumulated financial interests in the infrastructure and defense-technology ecosystem expanding alongside the AI boom, an overlap that has now drawn scrutiny from Democratic lawmakers, government ethics watchdogs and, by some accounts, his own senior aides. It’s not clear that financial interests are driving Trump’s policy, but the two have moved in close parallel.来源 1
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Since then, the brothers have moved from infrastructure into defense contracting, most notably through Vulcan Elements, a rare-earth magnet startup whose products are used in AI datacenters, drones and defense systems. Three months before the Pentagon announced its $620m loan to Vulcan in December – the largest the defense department’s office of strategic capital has ever issued – 1789 Capital, the venture firm where Trump Jr is a partner, quietly took a stake in the company. A ProPublica investigation found the loan request came not from Vulcan or the Pentagon but from Peter Navarro, a senior White House adviser and close friend of Trump Jr’s, and that Pentagon staff were told to move at an “unusually rapid pace”.来源 1
SEOUL – North Korea launched two missiles off its eastern coast on Sept 20, its second set of tests in roughly a week and days after Pyongyang accused the US of driving tensions on the Korean Peninsula through a series of military drills.来源 1
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South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said it detected the first test firing from the Wonsan area around 3pm, identifying the weapon as a ballistic missile.来源 1
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North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles into the sea off its eastern coast on Sunday, South Korea's military said, with the second flying more than 600 kilometres (370 miles).来源 2
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The second missile "flew more than 600 kilometres, and South Korean and US authorities are conducting a detailed analysis to determine its exact specifications", it said.来源 2
Qatar’s Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al Thani has called on states to respect sovereignty as a condition for security in the Middle East, warning against “cycles of escalation” after “an earthquake” caused by the US-Israeli war on Iran.来源 1
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Qatar is working to restart negotiations between the United States and Iran, its foreign ministry said on Sunday, as the prime minister warned that regional security cannot rest on repeated confrontation.来源 2
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Egypt's President Abdel Fattah El Sisi met CIA director John Ratcliffe on Sunday as part of what sources say are continuing efforts by Egypt to bridge the gap between the US and Iran on the terms for ending their war. News of the previously unannounced meeting came in an Egyptian presidential statement that quoted the CIA director as saying the US appreciated the “pivotal role played by Egypt in support of efforts to reach peaceful and comprehensive resolutions to the region's crises”. “The American administration is keen to continue to work and closely co-ordinate with Egypt to achieve security and stability in the Middle East,” Mr Ratcliffe was quoted as saying. According to the statement, the Egyptian leader told Mr Ratcliffe that Cairo supports “efforts to reach a comprehensive settlement that ends the Iran crisis and contributes to restoring security and stability in the region, as well as the freedom of international maritime shipping. Mr El Sisi also conveyed to the CIA director Egypt's rejection of attacks on Arab nations, a reference to drone and missile attacks launched by Iran and its regional proxies on their neighbours. Egypt, the most populous Arab nation with the largest armed forces in the region, has been walking a tightrope since the conflict began in February, balancing its close, historical bonds to its Gulf Arab allies and benefactors while maintaining good working relations with Iran. According to the sources, Egypt is keen to maintain its channels of communication with Tehran to safeguard its credentials as an effective and reliable mediator able to speak with all stakeholders. Egypt is also a close and reliable US ally whose relations with Washington date back to the late 1970s, and receives $1.3 billion in US military aid every year. It also has close relations with Russia and China. The sources, who are briefed on Egypt's deliberations with stakeholders in the Iran war, said Cairo was in close and regular contact with Washington, Tehran and Arab nations attacked by Iran to find a basis for a compromise that ends the war and turns a new page in Arab-Iranian ties. “Egypt is pursuing an end to attacks on Arab nations as well as an understanding under international maritime laws that govern and protect shipping in the Red Sea and through the strait of Bab Al Mandeb,” said one of the sources. “It's passing on messages between all parties and holding separate talks with them behind closed doors.” Egypt has a vested interest in ending the war. The steep rise in oil prices from the latest flare-up in the war will probably force its government to hike domestic petrol prices, a move likely to deepen discontent over the handling of the economy. Disrupting Red Sea shipping, whether through attacks on vessels or closing the Bab Al Mandeb strait, would also hurt Egypt's vital revenue from the Suez Canal, the strategically important waterway linking the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. Mr El Sisi met Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on the sidelines of the Brics summit in New Delhi last week. Their meeting was followed by the latest in a long series of talks between Egypt's Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty and his Iranian counterpart Abbas Araghchi. The Egyptian Presidency said Mr El Sisi told the Iranian leader that Cairo was looking to Tehran to make “all possible efforts to stop escalations and reach a comprehensive, peaceful and sustainable settlement to the crisis”. Mr El Sisi's talks with the CIA director on Sunday come at a critical juncture in the regional conflict. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels said on Saturday they attacked “sensitive” sites in Saudi Arabia’s capital Riyadh with ballistic and cruise missiles and drones. The Saudi-led military coalition fighting the Houthis said its air defences had destroyed a missile fired by the Yemeni group towards Riyadh early on Saturday. The coalition also said Houthi attacks on civilian infrastructure in Bisha, Farasan, Taif and Yanbu were thwarted. Iran, for its part, refuses to reopen the Strait of Hormuz, another maritime chokepoint through which about one-fifth of the global energy shipments are exported. Tehran will not do so until its demands are met and US commitments are implemented, Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said on Sunday. Iran must both fight and negotiate, the semi-official Fars news agency quoted Mr Ghalibaf as saying.来源 3
The crisis over the Strait of Hormuz could delay some QatarEnergy expansion projects, as critical equipment is unable to reach Qatar, CEO Saad al-Kaabi said Sunday, adding that the company is currently producing only a "very minute" volume of liquefied natural gas.来源 1
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Some LNG trains under QatarEnergy's North Field East (NFE) expansion are due to start up in 2027, with the North Field South (NFS) expansion set to begin production in 2028, Kaabi added.来源 1
This week China released the third iteration of its AI safety governance framework – a document that functions as a “mapping of the AI risk landscape and roughly what one should do about it”, said Gabriel Wagner, a researcher at Concordia, a Beijing-based AI safety consultancy.来源 1
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Included in the updates are the risks posed by agents, the cybersecurity threats from frontier models and the issue of recursive self-improvement – an as-yet hypothetical scenario where AI becomes advanced enough to improve itself.来源 1
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That contrasts with US president Donald Trump, who this week called fears AI could wipe out humanity a “hoax”.来源 1
As the technology advances, developers say it is approaching "recursive self-improvement," or RSI, in which AI models find ways to improve themselves and build their successor. It could bring the promise of advances in science and medicine, tech company executives say, but also risks.来源 1
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Anthropic this week detailed how its model Claude is helping the company to develop the next, more intelligent version of itself. Claude is now leading 26% of Anthropic's model research and development, which the company said means it can complete most of a given task "end-to-end from a high-level prompt" while still being under human supervision. The models are not working completely autonomously -- at least not yet.来源 1
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ChatGPT maker OpenAI announced this month that it has developed an automated "research intern," which it defines as a system that can carry out well-defined research tasks under human direction, including "tasks that would take a skilled researcher a few days." The company has said it is moving forward with the goal of creating an automated AI "researcher" by March 2028.来源 1
Adults with severe mental illness are nearly five times more likely than their peers to die from serious physical diseases before the age of 75, according to research.来源 1
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Rethink’s calculations show that adults under 75 with serious mental ill health – defined as those referred to specialist secondary mental health services – are 6.3 times as likely to die from liver disease, 6 times more likely from respiratory illness, 3.8 times more likely from cardiovascular disease and 2.3 times as likely from cancer. They are also 14.6 times as likely to die due to suicide, compared with those who were not referred. Overall, they are 4.8 times more likely to die before the age of 75 than the general population.来源 1
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The report identifies a number of factors driving this excess mortality, including poverty, poor housing, higher rates of smoking, weight gain from medication, physical inactivity, and fragmented care. But the authors conclude that “diagnostic overshadowing” – where physical symptoms are wrongly attributed to mental illness – means potential illnesses are not always properly investigated and treated.来源 1
SEOUL, Sept. 20 (Yonhap) -- The government will brief the National Assembly next week on the first investment project under South Korea's US$350 billion investment commitment to the United States, officials said Sunday.来源 1
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The industry ministry is scheduled to hold a closed-door briefing at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday for the National Assembly's trade, industry, energy, SMEs and startups committee on the planned U.S.-bound investment, according to committee officials.来源 1
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• The industry ministry is scheduled to hold a closed-door briefing at 9:30 a.m. (1330 GMT) on Tuesday for the National Assembly's trade, industry, energy, SMEs and startups committee on the planned U.S.-bound investment, the report said.来源 2
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• "Our key negotiating principle is that investments can only be made when commercial viability is guaranteed," Yonhap News reported, citing a government official. "The two sides remain divided over the issue, which has made the negotiations difficult. If no agreement is reached, the talks could ultimately fall apart."来源 2
28. 第二十八条，卫报报道：澳大利亚上市公司Viridis Mining and Minerals负责人说，结束中国对稀土供应的主导地位“至关重要”，并呼吁特朗普与习近平本周会晤时就中国放松稀土出口限制达成协议。该公司已在巴西开设示范工厂，计划到2028年底开始生产，目标占全球稀土市场约5%，并正与法国索尔维合作加工。欧盟担心对华贸易逆差每日达10亿欧元，正寻求关键原材料替代供应。
The head of a mining company hoping to supply the EU with rare earths in two years’ time has said it is “paramount” to end China’s stranglehold on the supply of the raw materials used in everything from cars to wind turbines and military jets.来源 1
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As Donald Trump and China’s president, Xi Jinping, prepare to meet on Thursday in their second summit of the year, Rafael Moreno said it was also “imperative” that they do a deal for Beijing to ease up, once again, on its threat to ban exports of rare earths.来源 1
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It has opened a demonstration plant to scrape the surface of its mine in Minas Gerais, Brazil, and produce a crumbly powder, which will then be further separated, potentially in France, to isolate the rare earths.来源 1
Meta has launched a fresh legal challenge against Britain’s media regulator in the latest of a slew of actions by social media companies who are accused of using the courts to slow down implementation of the Online Safety Act.来源 1
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Lawyers for the parent company of Facebook served notice during the week in an appeal against placing WhatsApp and Instagram, which are also owned by Meta, in a category that subjects them to additional duties.来源 1
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Speaking about the latest legal challenge, a spokesperson for Meta said: “Like many others in the industry, including TikTok, Roblox, X and Quora, we are challenging specific aspects of implementation.来源 1
BEIJING – Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong’s first chief executive after the territory’s handover from Britain to China, was laid to rest in a state funeral on Sept 20.来源 1
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Tung, who took office in 1997 as Hong Kong emerged from more than 150 years of British colonial rule, died on Sept 8 at the age of 89.来源 1
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Shi Taifeng, Politburo member and head of the Communist Party’s Organisation Department, which oversees personnel decisions, delivered a eulogy, lauding Tung as an “outstanding contributor to ‘one country, two systems’” and a “close friend of the Communist Party of China”, Xinhua reported.来源 1
It’s a starkly different stance from those of his former adviser Steve Bannon, the Republican Texas senator Ted Cruz and even the heads of the world’s leading AI companies. But it’s directly in line with the opinion of David Sacks – a prominent billionaire venture capitalist and Trump’s onetime AI and crypto czar, who has pushed back publicly and forcefully against recent claims of an impending AI apocalypse.来源 1
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Sacks, who believes regulation will erase the US lead in the global AI race, is seen as Trump’s AI whisperer – the adviser with the greatest influence in the White House on the topic. Time and again, he’s counseled the president to give a soft touch to AI regulation, helping push executive orders and other measures aimed at loosening restrictions on the technology. He also maintains direct financial stakes in multiple AI companies.来源 1
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Last December, Trump signed an executive order to halt state laws that limited AI. It was one of the first of several actions by the president that put his alignment with Sacks on full display. The proclamation assigned a federal taskforce to have the “sole responsibility” of challenging states that attempt to pass laws restricting the technology. The order spelled out an influential role for Sacks to direct the taskforce’s litigation against states.来源 1
On Friday, the International Organization for Migration, a UN body, reported that the number of people displaced as a result of recent fighting had passed 104,796, external.来源 1
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According to an unconfirmed report from AFP news agency, quoting military sources on both sides of Yemen's civil war, fighting between the Houthis and Saudi-backed government forces claimed 48 lives on Saturday.来源 1
Next month’s budget will be made more difficult by Donald Trump’s war with Iran, one of Andy Burnham’s cabinet ministers has said, while adding she did not expect the prime minister’s previous disparaging comments about the US president to be an issue.来源 1
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She nonetheless repeated UK condemnation of Trump’s on-and-off military campaign against Iran, which has disrupted global oil supplies, causing significant inflationary pressures, saying this would make life more difficult for John Healey, the chancellor, as he plans the budget.来源 1
PARIS (FRANCE) - Pope Leo XIV is set to begin an official visit to France on September 25, with several thorny issues hanging over the trip, from clerical sexual abuse to the country's new assisted dying law.来源 1
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Here are some of the key issues the pontiff is expected to face while on the first official visit to France by a head of the Catholic Church in 18 years:- Clerical abuse -The Vatican announced in August that Pope Leo XIV will meet victims of clerical sexual abuse during his visit.The leader of the world's 1.4 billion Catholics has promised to further efforts to reform the Church in the wake of the global sexual abuse scandal.A 2021 inquiry found that clergy or lay members of the Church had abused about 330,000 people as minors in France, over the span of 70 years.The Church's reputation has since been hit by further scandals, including a raft of sexual abuse accusations against charity icon Abbe Pierre and widespread physical and sexual abuse at the Notre-Dame de Betharram school in southwestern France.The first pontiff from the United States is due to meet seven victims on September 27 in the southwestern town of Lourdes, including a former student at Betharram.The format has been heavily criticised by victim support groups and is similar to one used in Spain in June, where Pope Leo promised the Church would make "additional efforts" to change.- Assisted dying law -France's parliament in June passed legislation establishing a right to assisted dying for some adults suffering from an incurable condition.The move drew strong criticism from the Catholic Church in France, which denounced the bill as a serious "rupture".Cardinal Jean-Marc Aveline, head of the French bishops' conference, said on Tuesday that "the defence of the dignity of human life is at the heart of the Pope's message"."How will he convey this in France? We shall see," he added.Martin Dumont, the secretary-general of a religion research institute in France, said it was possible Pope Leo would raise the subject."But I would be very surprised if he took a confrontational stance," Dumont said, suggesting the pope could instead highlight the need to care for the elderly and vulnerable.- Presidential election -France is just seven months away from the first round of its presidential election, making Pope Leo's visit unusual as pontiffs rarely travel to a country so close to a major vote.The trip comes as far-right leader Marine Le Pen's anti-immigration National Rally party views next year's contest, when President Emmanuel Macron steps down, as its best chance yet to take power.Migration, which is set to be a hot-button issue in the election, was a key focus on Pope Leo's trip to Spain in June, where he condemned "indifference" towards migrants.In France, he is due to visit an association providing support for migrants, a "strong signal", according to Dumont.- Europe's role -Pope Leo's trip will be the first papal state visit to France since Benedict XVI's in September 2008.Coming after his visit to Spain, it highlights the pope's interest in engaging with historically Catholic but increasingly non-religious European countries that were largely overlooked by his predecessor, Francis.Pope Leo is due to deliver several speeches, including at the UN culture agency UNESCO and in the northeastern city of Metz, near the German border.His programme in Metz includes a meeting entitled "To the roots of Europe for peace and unity".While he is unlikely to single out any political actors during his visit to France, his message will inevitably carry political weight, said Charles Mercier, a director at France's Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes."By choosing to defend European integration, the Pope is already giving his visit a political direction," said Mercier.The pope also places considerable importance on multilateralism and sees Europe as a counterweight to global powers, said Francois Mabille, director of the Geopolitical Observatory on Religion.That includes "Europe's role in relation to what he calls 'imperial logics' -- namely the United States, China and Russia," Mabille said.来源 1
With the debate about regulating artificial intelligence raging in Washington this week, President Donald Trump picked up the phone to call his top ally on the subject: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang.来源 1
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In public appearances over the past week, the Nvidia CEO brushed off concerns about AI's risks. He said that predictions of doom aren't grounded in science, and that model developers are responsible for securing their products before releasing them.来源 1
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Nvidia's ambitions in China will loom large during the state dinner on Thursday, when Trump, Huang and Xi will all be in the same room. The White House is also planning a meeting with major AI executives to coincide with the event, according to CNN. Other industry executives, including Altman, are expected to attend.来源 1
SEOUL – South Korea will allow AI researchers to fulfil their military obligations at large corporate laboratories from 2027, reopening a route closed for 14 years.来源 1
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The plan sets aside 240 positions for master’s-level AI researchers in 2027, with 120 at large-company laboratories and 120 at government-funded and defence industry research institutes. Allocations to large companies will run for three years till end-2029.来源 1
On 8 September, OpenAI claimed that its AI agents had solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the most famous and difficult challenges in mathematics. Had a human solved it, they would have collected both prize money and plaudits from their fellows. The announcement instead ignited what some mathematicians have called an “existential crisis” in their field over the power of AI, and accusations that OpenAI misused human work.来源 1
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The maths behind Navier-Stokes is difficult to understand, but the critiques levelled by mathematicians will be familiar to artists, office workers, or anyone else concerned about AI. OpenAI’s results, like any arising from a large language model, depend on digesting work by human mathematicians. The OpenAI paper cites sources, but many believe the company didn’t give sufficient credit, especially to several mathematicians believed to be very close to a solution – bad form that erases human ingenuity and hogs all the glory. The mathematician Tristan Buckmaster also has concerns that work he was doing on Navier-Stokes using OpenAI’s Codex model was seen by the OpenAI team. OpenAI has denied directly accessing this material, but could not rule out that data from Buckmaster’s use of their products “helped improve our model”.来源 1
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This lack of attribution and compensation for the human labour that AI is built on has turned many against the companies that develop these systems. It has yet to be adequately addressed. This is a particular misstep in the case of mathematics. As many mathematicians have pointed out, AI firms are keen to use their models’ maths prowess as an advertisement. But they rely on mathematicians to check their – often sloppy and baffling – work, and to tell them if it is useful and how it might be applied. An AI-produced movie or vaccine would have a clear and obvious use, whatever its merits, but it will take time and human intellectual labour to tell whether OpenAI’s purported solution contains any novel mathematical tools or insights. This should be an opportunity for collaboration. It has instead become yet another source of alienation and resentment.来源 1
Sir Ed Davey is calling on the government to immediately cut fuel duty by 10p a litre until Christmas as part of a package of policies aimed at cutting the cost of living.来源 1
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The Lib Dems claim cutting 10p from fuel duty now would mean fuel would drop by 12p per litre at the pump.来源 1
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The policy would cost about £2bn, he said, adding: "It's a three-month package, a temporary package, but if you look at the extra money the government will get through the energy profits levy, from gas taxes, from VAT and fuel duty, it's self-funding."来源 1
Angus Taylor says the Coalition would cut the tobacco excise to fund halving the fuel excise, despite health experts sounding the alarm about the move.来源 1
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Speaking on Nine’s Today, the opposition leader said his party’s policy to slash the fuel excise in half when global prices hit US$100 over two weeks “won’t put pressure on inflation, despite what the treasurer is trying to say, he has it wrong”.来源 1
"Now, the securities issued as part of efforts to address the 1997-1998 crisis were fully settled in August. This is also an achievement for us," he said in a statement cited in Jakarta on Sunday.来源 1
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He said the central bank's audited 2025 financial statements showed a surplus that was subsequently transferred to the state treasury in accordance with applicable regulations. As a result, the Finance Ministry received Rp58 trillion ($3.25 billion) in income from separated state assets, he said.来源 1