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Flydubai flight FZ1073, carrying more than 160 Israeli passengers, made an emergency landing in Tabuk, Saudi Arabia, on Wednesday after a pilot stabbed the captain. Israel calls it an attempted attack; passengers and a relief crew regained control of the aircraft. Flydubai has suspended its flights to Israel.
The first papal visit to France in eighteen years: at the Élysée, Leo XIV warned of a "paradise of machines" and raised secularism and end-of-life issues, before speaking at UNESCO. Some 300,000 people cheered him in Paris according to the Vatican, and 80,000 young people heard him at the Stade de France. The four-day trip continues to Lourdes and Metz.
At the General Assembly rostrum, Benjamin Netanyahu rejected the genocide accusation over Gaza, called the dozens of delegations who walked out as he arrived "moral cowards", and cast the war on Iran as protecting their countries. He attacked Qatar, Turkey and New York's mayor. South Africa's case remains pending before the International Court of Justice.
On the second day of Xi Jinping's state visit, Donald Trump hailed a "truly great friendship": under two hours of talks, a state dinner with the heads of Apple, Nvidia and AMD, and two pandas promised to Atlanta's zoo. No progress was announced on trade, Taiwan, rare earths or AI; the trade truce is only extended to January 10.
The US Justice Department asked a federal judge to reject the three outlets' request to restore their reporters' credentials, arguing the ban is lawful. Trump says he will let them back if a judge so decides. Legal scholars see long odds: US courts hold that a government cannot condition press access on favourable coverage. The White House launched "Trump TV", which opened with a speech from July.
The three outlets said on Monday they were suing Donald Trump and his administration, three days after the president ordered them barred from the White House and their reporters' credentials were revoked. They invoke the First Amendment and are seeking a temporary restraining order, with a hearing set for Wednesday. Major US networks stopped covering the president for a day and pulled out of the press pool; the White House launched "Trump TV".
Diesel hit a new record in France at close to 2.41 euros a litre, and topped 6.50 dollars a gallon in the United States for the first time. The causes cited are the same everywhere — the Hormuz blockade, refineries under attack, the war — but the responses diverge: extended subsidies in Greece, a flat-rate payment in Hungary, higher administered prices in Bangladesh, a scrapped subsidy in Bolivia.
Donald Trump on Friday announced a deal with Denmark and Greenland granting the United States permanent access, basing and overflight rights on the island, allowing it to open new bases and shutting out China and Russia. Copenhagen stresses that it recognises Danish sovereignty; it is due to be signed next week at the UN, then approved by the Danish and Greenlandic parliaments.
The Saudi-led coalition says thirteen civilians were wounded and seven houses damaged by Houthi missile and drone fire on Khamis Mushait, Abha and Taif; its spokesman, Major General Turki Al-Malki, invokes Article 51 of the UN Charter. At the same time shipping traffic is collapsing in the Strait of Hormuz, and the meeting due between Iran and Gulf states on navigation arrangements was postponed at Riyadh's request. In Yemen, the Houthis have taken the port of Mokha and then Mayyoun island.
Iran has announced it will discuss navigation in the Strait of Hormuz with Gulf states at a meeting in Oman on Monday 14 September, according to its foreign ministry. The meeting comes as the United States says it has loosened Iran's grip on the strait without the war being over, and as crude prices and tanker safety hinge on this passage.
On 10 September, Algeria announced it was severing diplomatic relations with the United Arab Emirates, citing "provocative or hostile actions", and gave the Emirati ambassador 48 hours to comply. Algerian airspace is closed to Emirati aircraft from 11 September. The Emirates say they hope the decision is temporary; the two countries already differ over Western Sahara, the Sahel and Libya.
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