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France: after 1,800 arrests, Emmanuel Macron vows firmness against "seditious" groups
In a ten-minute address, the president spoke of his "anger" and "shame" but announced nothing on the cost of living; one protester died and hundreds of shops were looted.
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IMF raises 2026 global growth forecast to 3.1%, but warns of a 'highly uneven' outlook between AI winners and energy importers
Released in Bangkok, the International Monetary Fund's forecasts describe growth propped up by AI and held back by the oil shock, debt and interest rates.
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Pope Leo XIV undergoes lung cancer surgery: the Vatican confirms an adenocarcinoma after a lobe is removed
The first American pope had the lower lobe of his right lung removed at Rome's Gemelli hospital; further tests will show whether the cancer has spread.
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India: thousands detained in New Delhi to stop the "cockroach" movement's protest against the chief election commissioner
Mobile internet cut, metro shut, thousands detained: authorities sealed off the capital to stop the Cockroach Janta Party's rally against a voter-roll revision that removed more than 130 million names. The UN voiced concern and the Supreme Court took up challenges.
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Paramount completes its takeover of Warner Bros. Discovery: Skydance, Hollywood's new giant led by David Ellison
The deal, valued at about 110 billion dollars including debt, brings together Paramount and Warner Bros., CBS and CNN, Paramount+ and HBO Max. Donald Trump welcomed the merger; Hollywood fears job cuts and higher subscription prices.
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Trump rejects Iran's seven-day plan to reopen Hormuz and renames the strait "Trump Strait"
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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Trump calls AI warnings a “hoax” and says its only guardrail is “a strong and smart president”
A day after Anthropic's chief executive called for slowing down artificial intelligence, Donald Trump calls fears of an AI that would destroy humanity a “hoax”, says its only guardrail is “a strong and smart president” and repeats that “whoever wins AI wins” against China. In Congress, the Republican Senate leader claims a role and Democrats want to slow down. Twenty countries, from Washington to Islamabad, read the response.
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Saudi Arabia shuts its East-West pipeline after drone attacks launched from Iraq
Riyadh temporarily shut the East-West pipeline, its bypass around the Strait of Hormuz, after drone attacks on Friday night. Baghdad admits the drones came from Iraq, dismisses two officials and closes three border crossings with Iran; Donald Trump names Iran as the likely culprit. Twenty countries tell the same night, from crude above $100 to Iraqi militias.
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The UN drops Mercator for Equal Earth: Africa at its true size, the United States the only vote against
On September 4 the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution encouraging member states to move away from the Mercator projection, in use since 1569, in favor of Equal Earth. Togo led the initiative on behalf of the African Union: on Mercator, Greenland appears almost as large as Africa though it is fourteen times smaller. The United States was the only country to vote against.
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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.
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Hakainde Hichilema re-elected in Zambia with 60% of the vote as opposition figures are arrested
Zambian president Hakainde Hichilema was re-elected on 13 August 2026 with 60.49% of the vote against 37.87% for Brian Mundubile. Counting was briefly suspended after violence against electoral staff, and eleven people, including several opposition figures, were subsequently arrested and accused of plotting an armed insurrection. Six countries cover the sequence — four of them African — but no Zambian outlet appears in the corpus analysed.
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