Category: World
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EU rules now require AI providers to publish what they trained on, including whether copyrighted material was ingested. Publishers spent August reading those summaries. Lawyers expect the filings to start in September.
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US customs found forced-labour indicators at one of the world’s biggest bicycle makers and stopped its Taiwanese exports. Taiwan issued forced-labour guidelines afterwards. Researchers had documented the problem for years.
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Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Programme ties a worker’s immigration status to one employer. Amnesty made 32 recommendations; the closed permit remains. A minister once visited and saw nothing wrong.
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Six members of Taiwan’s legislature are facing corruption proceedings this term, across both major parties. One first-instance sentence of seven years, one conviction overturned on appeal — and almost no coverage outside Taiwan.
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Polish police logged 180 hate-crime reports involving Ukrainians in six months, up more than 30 per cent. ACLED counts one physical attack in 2024 and thirteen so far this year. The trigger, repeatedly, is hearing Ukrainian spoken.
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A medical group says SPLM-N fighters killed 27 people, four of them children, in Otoro villages in South Kordofan. The movement built on Nuba self-determination is now killing Nuba civilians, and almost nobody is reporting it.
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Incidents in north-west Nigeria rose 78 per cent in the first half of 2026 and kidnappings nationwide doubled. The word “banditry” is doing a lot of work, and it is part of why nobody covers this.
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Seventeen fields, 65 billion barrels, 25 years, a 55 per cent US stake and the right to buy at cost. No text has been released, and the terms that decide whether it is worth anything are the ones not published.
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US forces struck two Iranian rocket launchers on Larak Island after spotting preparations to fire sea mines into the Strait of Hormuz. Iran answered with ballistic missiles at American bases in Jordan.
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Harald V died on Friday at 89. His son became king at that moment, takes the oath before parliament tomorrow, and will not be crowned — Norway abolished the coronation in 1908. The state funeral is on 9 September.