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• Trump signed sweeping new Russia sanctions legislation — the Lindsey O. Graham Sanctioning Russia and Iran Act — authorizing tariffs of up to 100% on major buyers of Russian oil and gas and targeting Russia's energy and defense sectors, financial institutions, Putin and senior officials, and sanctions-evasion networks — kyiv post
• A Russian attack on Sumy killed two and injured seven when guided aerial bombs hit an apartment building, while an elite Russian drone unit pulled back from northern Donetsk Oblast amid a Ukrainian offensive — kyiv post
• The EU's chief warned of a wider conflict as border incursions stoke fears the Ukraine war is spilling into neighboring states — kyiv post
• Russia is reportedly contacting the families of Ukrainian prisoners of war on social media to torment them and demand favors — npr
• The Houthis' biggest land grab in years reignited Yemen's 12-year civil war and pushed up global fuel prices, extending their reach toward a key maritime chokepoint and threatening Saudi Arabia's oil exports — npr
• The Trump administration approved a potential $24.3 billion sale of nearly 50 F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia, including 48 Lockheed Martin jets and 49 Pratt & Whitney engines — yahoo finance
• Iran's air defenses are assessed as degraded to roughly 90%, with no new Iranian attack on any host state reported for nine straight days — globalsecurity.org
• Iranian state media broadcast the demolition of Gohardasht Prison in Karaj, while PMOI resistance units carried out anti-regime activities marking the fourth anniversary of Iran's 2022 uprising despite heightened security — ncri
• Turkish authorities detained 175 suspects across 286 addresses in Istanbul and Muğla in coordinated raids on an Israel-linked international fraud network running fake cryptocurrency and forex schemes — aa
• Erdoğan formally approved a defense-industry cooperation agreement with Brazil, enabling joint development projects — aa

• Anthropic formalized a $1 billion-plus "embedded evaluation" partnership with Accenture's Faculty AI division, giving independent evaluators employee-level access inside Anthropic's model-development pipeline — hipther
• Anthropic and OpenAI are reportedly also pursuing smaller data-center agreements alongside the giant capacity commitments that dominate headlines — hipther
• OpenAI published a framework for reporting model misalignment and announced scaled storage for ChatGPT users — openai

• Stocks closed higher Friday to end Fed-hike week: the S&P 500 rose 0.17% to 7,650.50 and the Nasdaq gained 0.39% to 26,522.55, while the Dow slipped 95.40 points to 51,682.64 — thestreet
• Warren Buffett announced he is stepping down as chairman of Berkshire Hathaway to become chairman emeritus, with his son Howard Buffett taking over as chairman — yahoo finance
• Netflix slipped almost 5% after Wells Fargo downgraded the stock, citing declining viewership — yahoo finance
• Erdoğan said Istanbul Airport's planned fourth runway and further infrastructure investment will strengthen its global connectivity, as Türkiye's air passenger traffic surpassed 167.5 million in the first eight months of 2026 — aa

• Indonesia's Anak Krakatau erupted for more than 24 hours in early September, sending ash up to 50,000 feet and shutting down eight airports while disrupting nearly 3,000 flights — sciencedaily
• Arctic sea ice may move in unexpected ways because individual ice floes are constantly colliding and transferring energy to one another — sciencedaily
• Greenland and Antarctica have together lost 11 trillion metric tons of ice since the 1970s — sciencedaily
• GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic improve blood sugar, weight and cardiovascular health, but researchers found little evidence they also improve mental health, employment, marriage or overall wellbeing — sciencedaily
• A sound-wave therapy commonly used to dislodge kidney stones is gaining traction as a treatment for erectile dysfunction — sciencedaily
• The 77th International Astronautical Congress, set for Antalya in October, received a record 8,330 research abstracts from 108 countries, with Turkish scientists contributing the highest submission total in the event's history — aa

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