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World leaders gather at UN as wars, AI and climate change dominate agenda

Published: September 22, 2026 04:28

World leaders are gathering in New York on Tuesday for the start of the United Nations General Assembly's annual high-level debate, with wars, climate change, economic pressures and growing concern over artificial intelligence set to dominate a packed week…

Trump returns to UN at a moment of anxiety about Iran, AI and the future of world body itself

Published: September 22, 2026 04:03

NEW YORK (AP) — President Donald Trump is set to address the U.N. General Assembly on Tuesday at a tumultuous moment for the world — and for his presidency. The global economy has been shaken by his decision to launch a war against Iran. Anxiety about the…

Why Russia’s Potemkin Election Actually Matters

Published: September 22, 2026 04:00

In what must be the world’s least surprising election result, parties loyal to President Vladimir Putin have made a clean sweep in elections to Russia’s parliament, the State Duma. There’s little purpose to parsing who won what share of the vote; the point…

EU fails to agree on lifting sanctions on Russian oligarchs

Published: September 22, 2026 02:18

EU countries failed Monday to reach a final deal that would remove Russian billionaires Alisher Usmanov and Mikhail Fridman from the bloc's sanctions list, with diplomats set to resume talks Tuesday. EU countries failed Monday to finalise a deal that…

Searching for Russia’s missing soldiers

Published: September 21, 2026 21:53

While Russia’s president continues to insist that his, “special military operation” in Ukraine is succeeding, the estimated number of Russian soldiers killed and wounded in this war tells another story; 1.4 million casualties since February 2022. For that…

Trump seeks fertilizer deal with Russia ally Belarus amid Canadian tensions

Published: September 21, 2026 20:15

The proposed potash purchases would expand trade with a country that helped Moscow launch its invasion of Ukraine. The United States is seeking to broker a deal to purchase fertilizer from Belarus and rely less on Canada, the U.S. ally with which the White…

Trump gives AI a new name in off-the-rails rant tying guardrails to climate change: ‘Nobody was dead’

Published: September 21, 2026 18:56

Donald Trump attacked skeptics and AI experts who believe the technology is being developed too hastily in a Truth Social post on Monday likening them to environmental activists who warned of ecological collapse resulting from climate change. The…

State of world getting worse as UN Security Council paralysed: Guterres

Published: September 21, 2026 16:46

The UN chief’s mandate ends on December 31 this year, with a successor yet to be named. The state of the world “is getting worse” as wars multiply and become more complex, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres has said, warning that growing geopolitical…

World leaders in New York to grapple with climate. Fuel prices, AI and disasters complicate things

Published: September 21, 2026 13:00

NEW YORK (AP) — World and business leaders gathering this week in New York are being forced to grapple with the increasingly urgent costs of climate change, soaring energy prices and the human toll from this summer’s oppressive heat waves, prolific…

Exiled From Russia, This Actress Finds a Home on Stages Abroad

Published: September 21, 2026 09:03

The Russian actress Chulpan Khamatova was in the Seychelles, enjoying a break with her youngest daughter after a theater stint in Moscow. They were heading out to go watch sea turtles when Khamatova looked at her phone. “I started reading, and I was sure…

Macron to meet Trump in New York ahead of UN General Assembly

Published: September 21, 2026 06:31

French president Emmanuel Macron will meet his American counterpart Donald Trump on Monday in New York on the fringes of the United Nations General Assembly a day after holding talks with the Canadian prime minister Mark Carney in Saint Pierre and…

Axios: Trump and Zelensky agree to meet in New York as U.S. president again asks Ukraine to halt strikes on Russian refineries — Meduza

Published: September 21, 2026 06:15

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he spoke with U.S. President Donald Trump by phone on the evening of September 20. According to Zelensky, …

As Russian strikes destroy millions of books, Ukraine's literary future hangs in the balance

Published: September 21, 2026 04:35

KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Seconds before the Russian drone struck, Viktor Kruglov was thinking about textbooks — tens of thousands of them, and how to get them to Ukrainian schools faster. Minutes later, a second explosive-laden Shahed drone hit, laying waste…

In photos: Russians abroad hold peace rallies on the main day of voting in Russia’s State Duma elections as voters at home write ‘No war’ on ballots — Meduza

Published: September 21, 2026 00:16

September 20 is the final day of voting in Russia’s State Duma elections. The Russian opposition had urged voters to cast their ballots that day at …

Russia's elections had few surprises - but how the Kremlin uses the results is far from clear

Published: September 21, 2026 00:05

Many things about Russia are hard to predict. The result of this election wasn't one of them. In a political system tightly controlled by the Kremlin, the party of power – United Russia – had been widely expected to maintain its grip on parliament. There…

Putin's ruling party set to claim 'victory' in Russian parliamentary election, in results deemed predetermined

Published: September 20, 2026 23:04

Editor's note: This is a developing story. More details will be provided as Russia's Central Election Commission releases additional results. At the …

'Under near-constant attack' - Shropshire MP recounts Kiev visit

Published: September 20, 2026 06:21

Coming under attack is nothing new for army veteran Stuart Anderson. Yet the "brutal" Russian drone and missile bombardment he experienced in Ukraine took him by surprise. "It was like being back in the miliary," he told the BBC once back from a five-day…

Two killed in 'massive' Ukrainian drone attack on Moscow region, says Russia

Published: September 20, 2026 05:04

At least two people have been killed and six injured in a "massive" overnight Ukrainian drone attack on the Moscow region, Governor Andrei Vorobyev has said. Vorobyev said 249 drones had been shot down, and he reported fires in several residential houses.…

The U.N. has documented more than 1,000 cases of sexual violence in Russia’s war against Ukraine. It attributes 89% to Russia, and most of the victims are men. — Meduza

Published: September 20, 2026 02:12

On September 18, the United Nations published a report on conflict-related sexual violence in Ukraine, based on interviews conducted by its …

Older Dog Gets No Peace From His Puppy Sister, Then Slowly Discovers She’s Pretty Good Company

Published: September 19, 2026 17:00

Duke’s first meeting with Odesa is almost comically polite, considering what this puppy has planned for him. Dad holds the tiny Samoyed close so the older dog can have a sniff, and Duke responds with gentle kisses on her nose. A few seconds later, though,…

Here's all the dumb oil wars that electric cars have nothing to do with

Published: September 19, 2026 16:30

We’ve all heard about the Strait of Hormuz, currently closed to most ship traffic as a result of a now six month long war of choice that seems to have no real strategy attached. But that’s just one of many oil conflicts that are currently affecting oil…

Why Air Defense Won’t Save Ukraine: "Strike Russian Factories"

Published: September 19, 2026 16:18

At the YES Forum, MITS Capital CEO Perry Boyle warned that shooting down Russian missiles one-by-one is doomed to fail due to a global shortage of air defense interceptors. To win, Ukraine must strike the root cause: Russian factories and industrial plants…

'Abhorrent acts' — Russian forces committed widespread sexual violence in Ukraine since full-scale invasion, UN reports

Published: September 19, 2026 03:33

Russian forces are responsible for the vast majority of sexual violence in Ukraine since the start of the full-scale war, the UN High Commissioner …

Gas prices approach highest level this year with just weeks to go before midterms

Published: September 18, 2026 15:11

Friday’s national average is 10 cents below its May high, fewer than eight weeks before elections to determine which party controls Congress. U.S. gas prices approached their highest level of the year Friday, after the national average rose another 3 cents…

Russia votes in wartime election set to secure the Kremlin's power

Published: September 18, 2026 09:52

Voting got ⁠underway on Friday in a tightly controlled three-day parliamentary election in Russia which President Vladimir Putin has framed as a barometer of support for Russia's war in Ukraine. It is the first parliamentary election since Russia launched…

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