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Uber cuts 3,300 jobs and exits Nigeria and Uganda: platforms retreat toward robotaxis

Uber is cutting about 3,300 jobs — nearly 10% of its workforce, its deepest cut since 2020 — and ending operations in Nigeria and Uganda after twelve years. The savings fund its robotaxi pivot, while Bolt says it will stay and Delivery Hero recommends Uber's takeover offer.

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JUSTICE INTERNATIONALE

John Ternus takes over from Tim Cook at Apple, as the company races to catch up on AI

On 1 September 2026, John Ternus, 51, took over as chief executive of Apple, ending Tim Cook's fifteen-year tenure, during which the share price rose by roughly 2,300%. A hardware engineer by background, he arrives ahead of a major launch — including a foldable iPhone — and at a time when the company is seen as lagging on artificial intelligence. He opened a Weibo account within hours.

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DIPLOMATIE & GOUVERNANCE

Trump announces a deal giving the United States control of 65 billion Venezuelan barrels

On 28 August 2026 Donald Trump announced a deal with Caracas covering, according to both governments, 17 fields with a proven potential of 65 billion barrels and an expected $100 billion in investment. Axios, which had revealed the talks the day before, puts the figure at 90 billion barrels across a dozen fields. The US strategic reserve is at a forty-year low.

Washington suspends immigrant visa appointments worldwide

The US State Department has suspended immigrant visa interviews at its embassies and consulates worldwide, with no announced resumption date, citing in-depth training for its consular staff. Diplomatic posts say they will contact applicants to reschedule. The measure comes four days after a federal judge struck down the visa freeze targeting nationals of seventy-five countries, and a day after the announced revocation of two hundred thousand tourist and business visas.

DIPLOMATIE & GOUVERNANCE

Washington prepares to revoke 200,000 visas held by asylum seekers

The Trump administration is preparing the largest mass visa revocation in American history: up to 200,000 tourist and business visas held by foreigners who have filed for asylum in the United States. The measure targets nationals already on US soil and has drawn reactions from Mexico to Colombia, from Nigeria to India and Thailand.

JUSTICE INTERNATIONALE

TikTok pays $400 million to settle US children's privacy investigation

TikTok and its Chinese parent ByteDance agreed to pay 400 million dollars to the US Justice Department to close an investigation into the collection of minors' data. The settlement is described as one of the largest ever reached in the United States over children's privacy. The figure reported varies from country to country.

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Colombia decrees a second state of emergency, economic and ecological, across 15 departments

On 19 August, Colombian President Abelardo de la Espriella signed decree 1261, establishing a second state of economic, social and ecological emergency for thirty days across 15 of the country's 32 departments. Ten days after the magnitude 7.4 earthquake, the toll stands at 319 dead and reconstruction financing has become the central issue.

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Trump Claims '100%' Control of Hormuz as the US Navy Strikes a Cargo Ship with Missiles

"The only one that has control of the Strait of Hormuz is the United States Navy," Donald Trump said from the Oval Office, claiming to have swept it entirely for mines. The next day a CENTCOM helicopter fired two Hellfire missiles at a Panama-flagged cargo ship running the blockade. Tehran is holding to its conditions; Pakistan and Qatar simultaneously report a diplomatic breakthrough. Oil is climbing.

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Magnitude 7.4 Earthquake in Colombia: National Disaster Declared Three Days After Espriella's Inauguration

At 7:34 a.m. on Monday, a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia, with its epicentre in Chocó. Felt as far as Quito, Panama and Caracas, it collapsed Pereira's airport and damaged hundreds of buildings. The president, in office for three days, declared a national disaster. Depending on the newsroom, the toll runs from 111 to 138 dead — and more than 2,000 people are registered as missing.

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Explosive Attacks Mark Abelardo de la Espriella's First Day Leading Colombia

Sworn in on Friday at an army barracks in Cali, Colombia's new president saw his first day in office marked by two explosive attacks: a police officer killed by drones in Cesar, a toll booth destroyed in Cauca. By Sunday the Defensoría del Pueblo was counting attacks across eleven departments. Washington is pledging a billion dollars; Caracas reads it as a sign of its own turn to come.

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Abelardo de la Espriella sworn in as Colombia's president, in Cali not Bogotá

On 7 August 2026, millionaire lawyer Abelardo de la Espriella was sworn in for 2026-2030 before Milei, Kast, Noboa, Felipe VI and Infantino — but not Gustavo Petro. The ceremony was moved to Cali, the first speech delivered in a barracks, 11,000 personnel deployed. Fifteen countries describe the same man under fifteen different names: Trump ally, far-right president, anti-establishment outsider.

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