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Karpowership, Türkiye’s floating power solutions provider and owner and operator of powerships, has finished its multi-vessel liquefied natural gas (LNG) carrier-to-floating storage and regasification unit (FSRU) conversion program with the completion of the seventh FSRU at a yard belonging to Singapore-headquartered Seatrium, an offshore engineering, shipbuilding, and marine infrastructure company. LNGT Türkiye sets sail as the seventh FSRU delivered by Seatrium for Karpowership, completing an eight-year conversion program; Source: Seatrium The two companies have held the naming and sailaway ceremony for the LNGT Türkiye, the seventh and final FSRU delivered under their seven-vessel conversion program at Seatrium’s Admiralty Yard. Alvin…

In the waters off the British coast, volunteers with the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) are doing what they’ve always done: rescue people in trouble. But these days, some Brits are getting upset with the rescuers—to the point of attacking them or those they’re saving—because many of the people that they’re trying to save are attempting to enter the United Kingdom illegally. In the Caribbean and the Pacific, the U.S. military has attacked numerous so-called drug boats. There has long been an obligation, moral and legal, to save the lives of those at risk at sea; today, the RNLI upholds…

Claim: In September 2026, a Trump-branded gas station opened in Branson, Missouri, selling gasoline for around $20 a gallon. Rating: A claim that a new, Trump-branded gas station in Branson, Missouri, is selling gasoline at close to $20 a gallon spread online in September 2026. For example, a Sept. 19 Facebook post spreading the claim featured a headline reading “‘Trump Fuel’ Station Turns Heads With Eye-Popping Prices.” (Facebook user Thomas Jay Osadsky) The story spread amid an extended period of high gas prices across the world as a result of the U.S. war with Iran, and seemingly referenced the Freedom Fuel stations promoted…

Nestled in the foothills of the Pyrénées, the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes is one of Catholicism’s most important pilgrimage sites, drawing millions of visitors each year, including sick and disabled believers hoping for a cure from its famed spring waters. The hallowed site is also a flashpoint in a decades-long dispute dividing the Catholic world, which threatens to put a damper on Pope Leo’s visit to the shrine on Sunday – a highlight of the first papal state visit to France in almost 20 years. Read morePope Leo XIV to trace back French ancestry, spiritual roots on visit…

A core question is how many countries should be admitted to the Made in Europe club, which would give their products privileged access to public contracts for everything from wind farms to the steel and cement used in highways and metro systems. Germany, the bloc’s export powerhouse, is pushing for a broad “Made with Europe” group broadly in line with the original Commission proposal. That foresees admitting partners that have free-trade or public procurement agreements with the EU, or are in a customs union with the bloc. The eligible pool could run to as many as 80 countries. “Germany rejects…

Australia is investigating whether OpenAI broke the law after an agent hacked into its health statistics portal in the first widely known incident of an AI agent hacking a government website.The Australian government is reviewing whether it should involve the federal police after the agent accessed non-public files from the social and health services agency, Services Australia, in June.Australia only found out about the incident when OpenAI alerted the government on September 10—almost three months after the hack—by sending an email to a public mailbox. Sam Altman had reportedly not mentioned the incident when he met Australia’s deputy prime minister,…

AI agents performing routine data-gathering tasks resorted to hacking techniques in at least three cases when conventional methods failed, according to new research linking some of the activity to agent swarms previously attributed to OpenAI. The report, from researchers at Transluce, Corridor, MIT and AIUC, is built on public records from urlquery.net, a URL scanning service that loads submitted web pages in a remote browser.  The researchers found that AI agents used the service to get around access restrictions. On three occasions in May and June 2026, the agents also probed public data providers for security flaws, including an Australian…

In brief Rachel Conlan joins the Solana Foundation as chief strategy officer after three years as Binance’s global chief marketing officer. Jamal Raees becomes general manager of payments, arriving from Polygon Labs. The appointments come as Solana cuts block times, with the third of four planned reductions taking effect last week. The Solana Foundation has hired Binance’s former global chief marketing officer as its chief strategy officer, and a Polygon Labs executive to run payments, as the non-profit builds a senior team focused on institutional adoption and payments.Rachel Conlan spent three years as Binance’s global CMO and previously held senior…

During NASA’s SpaceX Crew‑13 mission aboard the International Space Station, astronauts will support a series of biomedical and human performance investigations, including a new collaborative effort to study how spaceflight affects blood flow and clotting. NASA also is testing crew members’ manual piloting skills, evaluating methods to counter vision and brain changes, gathering essential health data to inform future missions, and measuring forces astronauts experience during return‑to‑Earth to help refine re-entry hardware and procedures. Among upcoming research, a new collaboration with ESA (European Space Agency), called Venous Haemostasis, builds on previous studies of blood flow in space by combining the…

The consultancy firm One Earth Partners has published an analysis of the environmental consequences of USAID’s closure.One Earth Partners was founded by Monica Bansal and Hadas Kushnir, two former senior employees at the U.S. international development agency.The report is based on interviews with 150 people in five countries who were familiar with USAID’s conservation and environmental work.It finds that a large number of projects in fragile ecosystems have stalled or collapsed, and is accompanied by a list of 100 that are looking for new funders.See All Key Ideas Nearly two years after U.S. President Trump’s decision to dismantle…