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Australia« Canberra denounces the three-month delay before OpenAI's alert on the intrusion into Medicare. »
Belgique« Belgium is particularly focused on OpenAI's belated admission to Canberra: four platforms of the Australian government were… »
Canada« Ottawa is closely monitoring the Australian flaw and is linking the episode to its own consultation on AI transparency. »
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On its fourteenth test, SpaceX's Starship reached orbit and deployed 26 next-generation Starlink satellites despite an engine shutting down early. Planned to last ten hours, the flight was cut short after about three hours without explanation. The milestone is key to NASA's Artemis moon programme and to making the rocket fully reusable.
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Benjamin Netanyahu secretly met Mohamed bin Zayed in Abu Dhabi, as Haaretz and the New York Times report that the Emirati president warned him of a Hamas attack ten days before 7 October 2023. According to sources, he asked him to deny it; he rejects that account. Other outlets report Egyptian warnings, a month before Israel's election.
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British police arrested five men near RAF Fairford after three suspicious vans were reported; army bomb-disposal experts examined the vehicles and 85 households were evacuated. London allows Washington to strike Iran from the base. According to the Daily Telegraph, an Iranian lead is among those being examined; police have not named anyone behind the plot.
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Overnight from 26 to 27 September, gunmen killed 17 people at a tavern in Wedela township near Johannesburg, then 10 more in Lwandle near Cape Town. Police are examining a turf war between illegal miners and a business rivalry; no arrests have been announced. "This cannot go on like this," Cyril Ramaphosa said, five days after another mass shooting near Durban.
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Barred from a third presidential term, Aleksandar Vučić resigned to lead his party's list in the 25 October snap election and seek the head of government. He faces the student movement born of the Novi Sad station disaster, which killed 16 people in 2024 and has been protesting against corruption for nearly two years. Ana Brnabić is acting president.
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Exceptional rain has killed at least 56 people in India and 14 in Nepal, where 11 people are missing. Uttar Pradesh received nearly nine times its normal rainfall in two days; the Ganges and several major rivers are above danger levels. Nepal fears flash floods in 49 districts, a month after floods there killed more than 1,450 people.
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Governor Chadchart Sittipunt declared all 50 of Bangkok's districts disaster areas after nearly 300 mm of rain in 48 hours: submerged roads, flooded neighbourhoods, panic buying. Floods hit some twenty provinces and two deaths were reported in Chanthaburi. The army opened shelters; waters began receding on Saturday, less than a year after deadly floods in the country's south.
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Donald Trump rejected the Iranian proposal passed on by Qatar: seven days of halted hostilities across the region, then the reopening of Hormuz, in exchange for lifting the US blockade and oil sanctions and unfreezing at least $12 billion in assets. Tehran says it is waiting for an official answer; according to the Wall Street Journal, Trump sees renewed bombing as likely after the midterm elections.
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