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Welcome back to Foreign Policy’s Situation Report, on the ground for Day 2 of UNGA. Here’s what’s on tap for the day: Trump’s speech, Guterres’s swan song, and Zelensky’s press conference. U.S. President Donald Trump used his speech to the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday to dial up the pressure on Iran, threatening to “annihilate” the country if it does not make a deal with the United States to end the war. “I have a big decision to make: Will a deal be made with Iran that lets them rebuild and create a far greater country than it ever…

Claim: Former U.S. President Barack Obama banned Fox News from White House press briefings. Rating: What’s True Obama often criticized Fox News. He also did fewer interviews with Fox News and took fewer questions from its correspondents compared to other news networks. His administration also said it was willing to exclude Fox News from interviews. Some accused his administration of blocking the network’s access in one instance, but a spokesperson claimed it was a communication error and the administration backtracked. What’s False However, the Obama administration never outright blocked, banned or ejected Fox News reporters from press briefings. In September…

Disillusioned young voters in Morocco were courted with viral football slogans, promises of one million jobs and anti-Israel rallying calls ahead of Wednesday’s parliamentary elections.Yet, for many young Moroccans, politics remains deeply disconnected from reality.”I have no hope for this election. I’m ashamed of our political scene. It’s a complete circus,” Siham Azeroual, 32, an environmental activist who lives in the Atlas region, tells the BBC.The outcome of the vote will decide the make-up of the next government, just weeks after 60,000 people risked their lives to cross from the North African country to the Spanish enclave of Ceuta -…

The European Union is to remove sanctions on two oligarchs imposed after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, according to reports, prompting anger in Ukraine.France had campaigned for Russian-Uzbek billionaire Alisher Usmanov to be taken off the list, citing “national security concerns”. Luxembourg called for the removal of Russian-Israeli businessman Mikhail Fridman, who is suing the country for the release of frozen assets.Latvia initially opposed the deal but agreed to a compromise, part of which involved extending sanctions on nearly 3,000 other individuals and entities for three years.Ukrainian officials said the move was “unacceptable” and sent the wrong signal…

Snorkel AI, a startup that helps AI labs and corporations build training datasets and simulated environments, has raised a $350 million Series E at a $3.5 billion valuation. The new round, which was led by Insight Partners and S32, valued the seven-year-old startup at nearly triple the $1.3 billion valuation it garnered when it raised $100 million in a Series D 17 months ago. Existing investors, including Addition, Lightspeed, Greylock, GV, and Wells Fargo, also participated in the round. While Snorkel originally provided software for data-labeling automation, it shifted last year to providing customers with completed datasets, an offering it calls…

Security researchers developed an attack that lets hackers with privileged access register a rogue external MFA provider that steals users’ passwords during legitimate login attempts. The technique, dubbed TrustSink by Varonis Threat Labs, can work with any provider that relies on this external authentication model, though the researchers demonstrated the attack using Microsoft Entra. Microsoft Entra supports external MFA providers, which allow organizations to use third-party authentication services to satisfy multifactor authentication requests. According to Microsoft, when a user signs in with a first factor, such as a password, Entra can redirect them to an external MFA provider to complete…

Fomopeek, a malicious iPhone app distributed through Apple’s App Store, has been linked to nearly $580,000 in stolen USDT.Blockchain security firm SlowMist began investigating the app over the weekend after receiving reports of stolen assets linked to exposed private keys.Some victims had previously installed versions 1.1 or 1.2 of the Fomopeek app, which was marketed as a read-only tool for tracking large cryptocurrency transactions across Ethereum, Solana and Tron.What is Fomopeek?Working with security researchers at crypto exchange OKX, SlowMist found two modules embedded in those versions that had no connection to FomoPeek’s advertised monitoring functions.One communicated with external command-and-control infrastructure,…

Tiny flying robots may one day help rescuers search for people trapped beneath collapsed buildings after earthquakes. Because of their small size, these robotic insects could potentially move through narrow spaces that larger drones cannot enter while avoiding walls, debris, and falling objects. Until recently, however, aerial microrobots have been far less nimble than the insects that inspired them. They typically moved slowly and followed relatively simple flight paths. Researchers at MIT have now demonstrated a new approach that gives an insect-scale flying robot much greater speed and agility. The team developed an AI-based controller that allows the robotic bug…

The U.S. state of California has returned 55 hectares (136 acres) of Northern California coastline, including Blues Beach and the village site of K’etim, to three Coastal Yuki tribes.It is the first land Caltrans, the state transportation department, has ever returned to Indigenous ownership.Tribes first asked for the site in 2005, after learning looters were digging into archaeological sites and uncovering ancestral remains.The tribe hopes to use the land for education and gatherings, but the beach will remain open to the public.See All Key Ideas On the Northern California coast, where the tall trees meet the sea, ancestors…

What happens when a major development project comes to a rural community and residents feel they aren’t being heard?That’s the question at the center of our first Rooted Coffee Chat.Andy and Tammy Orem help run Orem Family Farm, a fifth-generation farm in Shelby County, Indiana. Their family has farmed regeneratively for about 25 years, raising grass-finished Angus cattle, pastured pigs and chickens, eggs and honey.Their main farm is about 10 miles from the proposed data center site. But farmland owned by Tammy’s family is adjacent to the land where the project is planned. On Oct. 7 at 10 a.m. CT…