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A single line in the 2018 Farm Bill legalised hemp products that now sell at 35,000 locations across the US. A ban taking effect 11 December caps THC at 0.4 milligrams per container, threatening $28 billion in retail revenue and 225,000 jobs.
The council halted its fire-and-rehire plan after talks broke down when Unison refused to ballot its members on the pay offer. Negotiations are due to resume early next week.
Fighting spread to Addis Ababa and towards the pilgrimage site of Lalibela this week after a seven-group rebel alliance launched attacks on 23 September. Egypt, Eritrea, Somalia and Sudan are holding a summit in Alamein on Sunday, as all three countries deny Ethiopian accusations that they are backing the rebels.
An unknown projectile struck the Panama-flagged El Gaia, damaging its engine room and starting a fire. Iran's foreign minister said only negotiations could end the conflict, but warned of a stronger response to any further military action.
Amir Barati was detained in Kotor after Interpol and Montenegrin police acted on a US request. Prosecutors say he helped steal 31 terabytes of data from universities and companies, causing an estimated $3.4 billion in damage.
Ukraine's president says the attacks will stop only if Moscow halts strikes on Ukraine's electricity, heating and water supplies. Russia's defence ministry has promised further attacks on Kyiv in response.
Boulder, Colorado, is one of dozens of local governments trying to hold fossil-fuel producers financially responsible for climate damages. The city hopes its case becomes an environmental counterpart to the litigation that brought billions in settlements from Big Tobacco and opioid makers.
The capture of al-Mazroub, at a crossroads between army-held North Kordofan and the RSF stronghold of West Kordofan, could disrupt supply lines for the paramilitary group. The army says it follows a run of gains across the state.
The 46,000-seat venue, designed to hang 350 metres above ground inside The Line, has been put on hold with no end date. Saudi Arabia's other 14 World Cup stadiums remain in development.
Two young mothers and five children, all aged seven and under, have been living in tents in Gaza after the Home Office wrongly blocked them from travelling to the UK. A tribunal judge ruled their children's best interests must come first.
Simultaneous raids on two sites in Mindanao seized computers, phones and SIM cards. Investigators are now looking into possible human trafficking offences, and all those arrested face deportation proceedings.
The case alleges Google used its grip on Android app distribution to exclude rivals and overcharge developers and consumers for more than a decade. A £260 million settlement for developers was approved just two weeks before trial, but the main claim presses on.
Both crude oil distillation units at Gazprom's Moscow Oil Refinery caught fire after drones crashed into the plant, halting processing for several weeks. The refinery supplies about 40% of Moscow's fuel market, and shortages have now been reported across 92% of Russia's regions.
The London fintech, founded in 2015 with $500,000 of its chief executive's trading earnings, had 68.3 million customers and £1.7 billion in profit before tax in 2025.
Around 3.4 million voters chose members of the presidency and national Parliament. Technical problems with new digital voting technology delayed the opening of several polling places on Sunday morning.
The element, 712 feet long, is the fourth placed in a trench south of the Danish island of Lolland, extending the crossing to 2,950 feet. Separately, the €2.8 billion NeuConnect cable linking Britain and Germany has finished installation in UK waters and is being laid through Dutch waters towards Germany.
The UK Conservatives say removing the £100,000 threshold would cost £700 million a year. They plan to cover it by cutting staff at public bodies such as Arts Council England and the Environment Agency.
Manchester Airports Group was breached over the weekend of 22-23 August after an API key had been sitting exposed in public website code since 2022. The attackers leaked 550GB of data and published it on 2 September after MAG refused to pay a ransom.
The class action alleges the government knew the fires were coming and failed to act. It seeks a national disaster declaration to unlock emergency funds as the haze spreads to Malaysia, Singapore and the Philippines.
Tesla delivered 486,532 vehicles in Q3 2026, topping analyst estimates but coming in below its own result from the same quarter a year ago. Rivian also posted a strong quarter, with deliveries up 45% year on year after its R2 SUV completed its first full sales period.
The system reads engineering drawings and programs itself without human instruction. Commercial shipments begin in December 2026, as Japan and South Korea race to automate yards facing an ageing welding workforce and order books stretching past 2028.
Hundreds of village-town lenders have been absorbed, and bigger banks are following. The six largest state-owned banks now hold 44% of all commercial bank assets, and Beijing is using the shake-up to steer credit toward its own priorities.
The 100-turbine installation sits 121 miles off the English coast, covering 229 square miles of Dogger Bank. At 1.4 gigawatts, it can supply the equivalent of 1.2 million British homes.
Roger Mariaca was detained on drug trafficking and money laundering charges after the US imposed visa restrictions over bribery allegations. His own office called the arrest illegal.
Free users will be left with Flash-Lite only from 9 October. Google AI Plus subscribers will also lose access to Pro, the model built for advanced reasoning, unless they upgrade to a $19.99-a-month plan.
Governor Gavin Newsom signed 21 bills targeting federal immigration enforcement in the state. The package also bans shock gloves for all officers in California, including federal immigration agents.
The IDF published a dedicated website with names, photographs and alleged evidence for each person on the list. No independent verification of the claims has been carried out.
Funds have amassed roughly $4.0 trillion in gross Treasury exposure, financed by $3.0 trillion in repo borrowing. The basis trade at the heart of it runs at up to 70 times leverage, capturing spreads of just a few basis points.
Two safety researchers and a programme manager were dismissed after mishandling sensitive information during external AI analysis. David Robinson, who led OpenAI's safety reporting, resigned this week, arguing that the industry's "iterative deployment" approach guarantees periodic failures as AI systems grow more capable.
Chainalysis traced the funds across four blockchains in hours, saying AI cut what would have been 20 hours of manual work to under 10 minutes. The $387 million left Bitget in 23 transfers within the first three hours of the attack.
A Florida woman charged with voting illegally in 2020 had her case dismissed after the judge found Congress has no constitutional authority to set voter qualifications — only states do. The ruling could complicate the Trump administration's push to prosecute noncitizens for voting, with about 45 similar cases pending across the country.
The currency has repeatedly set new records since the war began in February. Sanctions, collapsed nuclear talks and domestic protests have all weighed on the rial, while inflation ran above 46% as recently as February 2024.
The USDC issuer says mandatory deposit minimums add credit risk and push users toward offshore providers. Only three of the top 25 stablecoins by market value are currently regulated under MiCA.
Governor Newsom signed the No Robo Bosses Act after vetoing similar legislation last year. Employers must have a human independently verify any AI-led discipline or dismissal, and tell workers what data the system used.
Lula cut deforestation by 45% after it surged 60% under Jair Bolsonaro's presidency. Now polls show his son Flávio in a virtual tie with Lula — and experts warn a Bolsonaro win could undo those gains.
The Navy-Marine NMESIS system will arrive on Yonaguni, 110km from Taiwan, during the Keen Sword exercise this month. Japan's own surface-to-ship missiles will also deploy to the island for the first time, as 45,000 troops from both countries take part in the drills.
The drawdown is more than 80 percent of the 400 million barrels agreed by the agency's 32 members after US and Israeli strikes on Iran disrupted supplies. The G7 has separately agreed to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude over the next four months.
A filing has been made against the London Good Delivery system, which sets the standards that determine which refineries can supply gold to the world's largest bullion market. The claimant, the allegations and the stage of proceedings have not been identified.
China now holds more than half of global shipbuilding capacity, up from five percent in 1999. The US builds less than one percent of the world's commercial ships, and all eight yards capable of building large vessels are fully committed.
EV sales rose 52.2% year on year in August 2026, pushing their EU market share to 21.7%. In Türkiye, electric sales fell as unchanged tax thresholds priced out more models, and buyers turned to hybrids instead.
Two reactors would use South Korea's APR1400 design and six would use Westinghouse's AP1000, with all eight targeted to be under construction by 2030. A South Korean consortium may take on the full build, filling a gap left by the near-total absence of US construction capacity for projects of this scale.
More than 47,000 personnel took part in the Tsentr-2026 drills in Chelyabinsk Oblast. Russia said the exercise drew on lessons from the Ukraine war, with troops stationed underground to limit their exposure to drone strikes.
British gene-edited crops would be exempt from EU rules until new European regulations take effect in 2028. The wider agreement would strip away most food and agricultural trade checks, but leave Britain bound by EU rules it no longer shapes.
Washington has licensed Iraqi Airways to carry Iranian religious pilgrims to and from Najaf until late October. The deal excludes Mahan Air, which has been under US sanctions since 2011.
Abdulhamid Dabaiba told clan leaders in Misrata that Haftar directed the cell behind the attacks, which have targeted refineries and substations near Zawiya since July. The accusation complicates a US-backed plan in which Haftar had been discussed for a leading role in a unified Libya.
The Autonomous Warfare Command, or AutoWarCom, is due to be operational by October next year. It will have its own manpower, budget and acquisition authorities, and Hegseth called it the fastest peacetime shift in modern military history.
Greg Lui, owner of Earthmade Computer Inc., allegedly used false documents and routed shipments through Malaysia and Singapore to conceal China as the true destination. Prosecutors say the scheme ran between 2023 and 2024 and are seeking to keep him in custody pending trial.
The gap between French and German borrowing costs is now the widest since the 2011–2012 European debt crisis. France enters the turbulence with debt at 119% of GDP and interest costs set to rise from 62.6 billion euros this year to 91.2 billion euros next year.
The package pairs a $42 billion senior-secured tranche, syndicated by Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley, with an $18 billion junior tranche led by Blackstone. Anthropic has committed $125.2 billion over five years for computing capacity.
Brent crude briefly hit nearly $120 a barrel after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz, cutting passage for 15 million barrels a day. Global growth forecasts have barely moved, but inflation is rising and the supply workarounds won't last forever.
The FBI and EPA issued a joint advisory after attacks spread across at least seven states. Operators lost control of pumps and valves, and some communities received boil-water notices.
A federal judge in Oklahoma ruled the warrantless Flock query gave police a month's worth of a driver's movements and amounted to mass surveillance. She suppressed the camera records and everything found in the subsequent vehicle search.
The container ship cut the China-Europe journey to about twenty days, half the time of a Suez Canal voyage. Asia-to-Europe transits hit a record 103 passages last year, though they still account for less than 9 percent of all cargo on the route.
Brent crude fell by roughly 3% on Friday as markets anticipated the additional supply. Analysts warn that Gulf supply pressures are likely to limit how long the relief lasts.
The North Caterpillar mine in Karaganda Oblast is due to begin production in 2030. It is part of a push to build a tungsten supply chain outside China after Beijing's export controls sent global prices up more than 200% since May 2025.
More than 10 million barrels a day of Gulf production remain shut in, and global demand is falling by 2.5 million b/d this year. The IEA calls 2026–27 'essentially a lost period' for oil demand growth.
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