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Burnham traveled to Ukraine to meet President Volodymyr Zelenskyy last month. He has since met leaders including France’s Emmanuel Macron and Canada’s Mark Carney and plans to attend November’s COP31 climate summit in Turkey. A decision looms over whether to attend two other major summits — the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Antigua and Barbuda, attended by his foreign secretary and King Charles III, and the G20 summit in December at the Trump National Doral Miami resort.Burnham will host G20 leaders next year in Manchester, the city where he spent nine years as mayor, at a cavernous former railway…

Ed Davey is to call for a global nuclear-style non-proliferation treaty to halt the development of super-intelligent AI when he makes his keynote speech at the Liberal Democrat conference, accusing Andy Burnham of relying on Donald Trump and “tech bros” to solve the problem.When he addresses the faithful on the final day of the gathering in Brighton, the party leader will call for a global pause on super-intelligent AI, comparing it to a nuclear arms race that could result in technology that could “destroy us all”.Davey is expected to lay out plans in his speech on Tuesday for a new…

Stay informed with free updatesSimply sign up to the EU energy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox.French President Emmanuel Macron has called on Brussels to take immediate action to lower energy prices, including by delaying a law on methane emissions.In a letter to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, Macron called on the bloc to bring forward measures to tame energy prices. European gas prices have risen from €27 to €80 per megawatt hour this year due to the crisis in the Middle East, while oil futures recently traded above $100 a barrel. The letter, first reported…

Of all the events in the United Nations General Assembly taking place this week, the most anticipated by far is the upcoming meeting between Donald Trump and Chinese president Xi Jinping.Though the majority of the diplomatic activities are happening in New York, this face-to-face between the two leaders will take place at the White House. Trump is scheduled to personally welcome Xi at Joint Base Andrews on Wednesday, September 23—an unusual diplomatic gesture, as US presidents do not typically go to the airport to welcome foreign leaders.Ahead of that airport reunion, a US delegation led by Treasury secretary Scott Bessent…

The North Korean threat actors behind the Contagious Interview campaign have compromised at least 30,000 devices located in more than 100 countries and siphoned funds or account credentials from over 7,000 cryptocurrency wallets, according to a new joint cybersecurity advisory. The primary targets of the campaign are individual web designers, engineers, and specialists in cryptocurrency, blockchain, and Web3 technologies. In all, the threat actors are estimated to have plundered at least $10.71 million worth of cryptocurrency from victims. The alert comes courtesy of cybersecurity and intelligence agencies from Japan, the U.S., Australia, and Germany. The activity is tracked by the…

In brief Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev believes crypto categories are taking a “disproportionate share” of Robinhood’s prediction markets, and could push sports into the minority within a few years. Robinhood’s event-contract revenue surged more than tenfold year over year to $156 million in Q2 2026. Contracts traded 4.7 billion times in August alone—about 15 times August 2025’s volume. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev thinks crypto is about to do to sports betting what Robinhood once did to Wall Street commissions: eat its lunch.Speaking with Jim Cramer on CNBC’s “Mad Money,” Tenev said crypto-linked contracts are already grabbing an outsized slice of…

As the 2026 El Niño strengthens across the Amazon, new research is drawing attention to a conservation priority that often receives less emphasis: protecting forests that are still standing from damage caused by fires and logging. Efforts to stop deforestation and restore cleared land are central to many conservation programs. But a new study published in Science suggests that preventing disturbances within existing forests, including selective logging and wildfires, can sometimes deliver the greatest benefits for the money spent. An international research team from the UK, Brazil, Sweden and Australia, led by scientists at Lancaster University, carried out what the…

World leaders are about to choose a new United Nations secretary-general. Whoever gets the job will inherit an uncomfortable truth: The world body’s promise to end poverty, hunger, and disease is in retreat because today’s leaders are presiding over an era of multiple and growing forever wars. In September 2015, U.N. member states set 17 Sustainable Development Goals, or SDGs, to be achieved by 2030. These sought to end extreme poverty, promote climate action, and set social and economic targets, all while “leaving no one behind.” But the commitment assumed the existence of functioning states, international cooperation, and development systems…

Claim: Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix responded to U.S. President Donald Trump calling a female reporter a “pig” by releasing a video in which he said that “staying silent makes me part of the problem.” Rating: Throughout 2026, people shared a rumor alleging Denver Broncos quarterback Bo Nix responded to U.S. President Donald Trump calling a reporter a pig. According to social media users’ posts, the NFL quarterback publicly rebuked Trump, saying that “staying silent makes me part of the problem.” For example, on Sept. 20, a Facebook post (archived) read, “BREAKING NFL NEWS: Broncos star Bo Nix breaks his silence in…

Sanna Manjang faces a military court for deserting the country’s army in 2017 after the end of Yahya Jammeh’s 20-year rule.Published On 21 Sep 202621 Sep 2026The former head of the Gambian paramilitary unit known as the “Junglers” has appeared in a military court to face charges of desertion.Sanna Manjang is accused of deserting the armed forces when the lieutenant colonel fled the country in 2017 after the end of the 20-year rule of President Yahya Jammeh.The case in the capital, Banjul, marks another official bid at accountability for killings which happened when Jammeh was in power, after a murder…