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“The US president described us as terrorists. We have been the victims of terrorism,” Iran’s president told the UN in New York.He then held up a photo of the country’s late Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed in a strike on his residence when the US and Israel launched a joint attack in late February.He also presented pictures of some of the more than 175 civilians, two thirds of them children, who Iranian authorities say were killed in missile strikes on a primary school in Minab and a sports complex in Lamerd that day. The US has denied…

French national Martin Ryan has been pardoned and his release from prison ordered by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev after he was jailed on charges of spying.His release came hours after the EU agreed to lift sanctions on two Russian billionaires, prompting anger from Ukraine. Diplomats had indicated that France had pushed for an end to restrictions on one of the businessmen, Alisher Usmanov.Ryan, who denied espionage, is one of 20 people pardoned by Aliyev.However, a second Frenchman, Anass Derraz, remains in jail in Azerbaijan accused of accepting a Russian bribe.It was not clear what had led to pressure for sanctions…

Javier Milei has condemned the UN as he warned that Argentina would take “matters into our own hands” in its dispute with Britain over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands.In a caustic speech at the general assembly in New York, the Argentinian president criticised the UN for being ineffective when it came to the long-running tensions over the British overseas territory in the south Atlantic known in Argentina as the Malvinas.“An organisation that set out to defend the territorial sovereignty of its members decided to look the other way regarding the situation of the Falkland Islands,” Milei said of the…

A man has been given a caution by police as part of an investigation into assaults on protesters at the Reform UK party conference in Birmingham earlier this month. Footage appeared to show protesters being manhandled by audience members as they were thrown out. One woman had her hair pulled, and was was hit with a walking stick.West Midlands Police said it was investigating assaults on five people and two other men had been voluntarily interviewed, as inquiries continued.It said the man who was given a conditional caution had also volunteered for interview.The force has asked alleged victims and anyone…

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for freeRoula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter.Mark Zuckerberg is poised to unveil Meta’s latest AI devices on Wednesday, as the social media group rides high on the early success of its new personal AI agent app Muse. Meta is holding its annual Connect event at its Silicon Valley headquarters this week. The event has become Zuckerberg’s main venue for launching its latest hardware, from virtual reality headsets to smart glasses. The Meta chief has doubled down on his bet that smart glasses and other portable devices will become…

Modern life comes with an unending, auto-populating to-do list.It never ceases to amaze me how I can be doing nothing at all, minding my own business, and suddenly something needs to be taken care of. You’re telling me a tree branch fell in the backyard and now I have to figure out what to do with it? The tree just assigned me homework? Oh, our trash collection company canceled our account out of nowhere and now I have to send email about it? Repeatedly? Totally unfair.These are the things that we’ve been told for years that AI will help us…

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed Go-based malware distributed via two Go Modules and two Terraform providers, marking the first time threat actors are using the centralized repository hosted by HashiCorp as a distribution vector for malicious payloads. According to Aikido, the list of Terraform providers and Go modules is below – The malware deployed through these packages demonstrates overlaps with Graphalgo, a campaign that was first documented by ReversingLabs earlier this February and attributed to North Korean (aka DPRK) threat actors. As part of this effort, prospective developers are approached via social platforms like LinkedIn and Facebook, or through job offerings…

The activity had already drawn attention from Beni, a co-founder of research firm Stealth Neolab, who said Kalshi’s ether perpetual recorded about $539 million in 24-hour volume against just $3.1 million in open interest. He later found that trades of exactly $5,500 made up 48% to 58% of notional volume on four days in September. Beni said the figures came from Kalshi’s public API.Diana said the patterns can be explained by Kalshi’s liquidity incentive program, which rewards participants for providing liquidity.“We send our data every day to them [the CFTC], and it’s not that weird for them to sort of…

Arctic sea ice reached its annual minimum extent on Sept. 12, according to NASA and the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) at the University of Colorado Boulder. The ice covered an estimated 1.78 million square miles (4.6 million square kilometers), tying 2008, 2010, and 2025 for the 10th-lowest minimum in the satellite record. The 2026 minimum is consistent with patterns observed in the satellite record. The past 20 years, from 2007 through 2026, have produced the 20 lowest annual Arctic sea ice minimum extents observed since continuous satellite measurements began in late 1978. Arctic sea ice grows during…

Indigenous communities in Malaysia’s Upper Baram Forest Area say a planned conservation area is being eroded by the existence of an active timber concession within the forest area.A new report by civil society groups questions the legality of how the concession was granted, and presents evidence of ongoing logging of primary forest.The Sarawak forest department says the Upper Baram Forest Area was intended from its outset to allow areas for both conservation and timber harvesting, and that the concession was granted legally.See All Key Ideas A conservation park that Indigenous communities from the Malaysian state of Sarawak believed…