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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added seven vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. One of them is in the AI stack.&nbsp;CVE-2026-59822, carrying a CVSS score of 8.8, is an authentication bypass in the MCP Streamable HTTP endpoint of LiteLLM — an open-source proxy widely used to sit between applications and the various language model providers they call.&nbsp;What The Listing Means&nbsp;The KEV catalogue is a specific claim, and it is stronger than a vulnerability disclosure.&nbsp;Entries are added when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. This is not a researcher's proof of concept or a theoretical attack path — it means someone has been using it. For US federal civilian agencies, KEV inclusion carries a binding remediation deadline, and most large enterprises treat the catalogue as a de facto patch priority list.&nbsp;Why This Component Matters&nbsp;LiteLLM is infrastructure most people using it never think about, which is precisely what makes it worth attention.&nbsp;A proxy of this kind sits at an unusually sensitive point. To do its job it typically holds provider API keys for every model an organisation calls, and it sees the traffic in both directions — the prompts going out and the completions coming back. That traffic frequently contains exactly the material an organisation would least like to lose: internal documents, customer records, source code, credentials pasted into a prompt by someone in a hurry.&nbsp;An authentication bypass on a component like that is not a peripheral issue. It is access to the keys and the conversation at once.&nbsp;The Broader Point&nbsp;This is the part worth generalising, because it will recur.&nbsp;Enormous attention has gone to whether models themselves can be manipulated — prompt injection, jailbreaks, data extraction from training sets. Far less has gone to the ordinary software assembled around them: proxies, gateways, orchestration layers, vector databases, the connective tissue that turns a model into a product.&nbsp;That layer is conventional software with conventional vulnerabilities. It has often been adopted very fast, by teams under pressure to ship AI features, with less security review than an equivalently sensitive component would normally receive. And it is frequently open source maintained by a small number of people relative to how widely it has been deployed.&nbsp;The attack surface of an AI system is not primarily the model. It is everything that was built around the model in a hurry.&nbsp;What Organisations Should Actually Do&nbsp;The immediate action is narrow: identify whether LiteLLM is deployed anywhere in the estate, patch it, and rotate every provider API key it held. A bypass that may have exposed stored credentials is not remediated by patching alone.&nbsp;The broader action is an inventory. Most organisations that adopted AI tooling quickly do not have a clear list of what is sitting in the path between their applications and their model providers, and cannot answer what any of those components hold.&nbsp;What To Watch&nbsp;Whether further AI infrastructure components appear in the KEV catalogue in the coming months, which would confirm this as a pattern rather than an incident. Whether the AI tooling ecosystem adopts the disclosure and patching discipline of more mature infrastructure software. And whether enterprises begin treating the model-adjacent stack as security-critical, which most currently do not.

CISA has added LiteLLM's CVE-2026-59822, an authentication bypass scoring 8.8, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue — meaning it is being used, on a component that holds API keys and sees every prompt.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added seven vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue. One of them is in the AI stack. CVE-2026-59822, carrying a CVSS score of 8.8, is an authentication bypass in the MCP Streamable HTTP endpoint of LiteLLM — an open-source proxy widely used to sit between applications and the various language model providers they call. What The Listing Means The KEV catalogue is a specific claim, and it is stronger than a vulnerability disclosure. Entries are added when there is reliable evidence of active exploitation in the wild. This is not a researcher's proof of concept or a theoretical attack path — it means someone has been using it. For US federal civilian agencies, KEV inclusion carries a binding remediation deadline, and most large enterprises treat the catalogue as a de facto patch priority list. Why This Component Matters LiteLLM is infrastructure most people using it never think about, which is precisely what makes it worth attention. A proxy of this kind sits at an unusually sensitive point. To do its job it typically holds provider API keys for every model an organisation calls, and it sees the traffic in both directions — the prompts going out and the completions coming back. That traffic frequently contains exactly the material an organisation would least like to lose: internal documents, customer records, source code, credentials pasted into a prompt by someone in a hurry. An authentication bypass on a component like that is not a peripheral issue. It is access to the keys and the conversation at once. The Broader Point This is the part worth generalising, because it will recur. Enormous attention has gone to whether models themselves can be manipulated — prompt injection, jailbreaks, data extraction from training sets. Far less has gone to the ordinary software assembled around them: proxies, gateways, orchestration layers, vector databases, the connective tissue that turns a model into a product. That layer is conventional software with conventional vulnerabilities. It has often been adopted very fast, by teams under pressure to ship AI features, with less security review than an equivalently sensitive component would normally receive. And it is frequently open source maintained by a small number of people relative to how widely it has been deployed. The attack surface of an AI system is not primarily the model. It is everything that was built around the model in a hurry. What Organisations Should Actually Do The immediate action is narrow: identify whether LiteLLM is deployed anywhere in the estate, patch it, and rotate every provider API key it held. A bypass that may have exposed stored credentials is not remediated by patching alone. The broader action is an inventory. Most organisations that adopted AI tooling quickly do not have a clear list of what is sitting in the path between their applications and their model providers, and cannot answer what any of those components hold. What To Watch Whether further AI infrastructure components appear in the KEV catalogue in the coming months, which would confirm this as a pattern rather than an incident. Whether the AI tooling ecosystem adopts the disclosure and patching discipline of more mature infrastructure software. And whether enterprises begin treating the model-adjacent stack as security-critical, which most currently do not.

The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added seven vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalogue, among them an authentication bypass in LiteLLM — a widely deployed proxy that sits between applications and the language models they call. Inclusion in the catalogue means it is not theoretical.

A flaw in a widely used AI proxy is now on the US list of actively exploited bugs

Nvidia's equity investments in AI companies stood at roughly $99 billion as of late July, according to a CNBC tally. A year earlier the figure was about $7 billion.&nbsp;That is a fourteen-fold expansion in twelve months, and it has made the world's most important chip supplier simultaneously one of the largest investors in the companies that buy its chips.&nbsp;Where The Money Went&nbsp;The single largest position is OpenAI, where Nvidia invested $30 billion as part of a $110 billion funding round.&nbsp;Beyond that, its 2026 equity commitments run past $40 billion across the stack, including seven multi-billion-dollar stakes in public companies — among them up to $3.2 billion for Corning and $2.1 billion for IREN. Separately, the company has signed memoranda of understanding targeting more than $500 billion of third-party capital over time.&nbsp;The Structural Detail&nbsp;The most consequential fact about this strategy is what it is not.&nbsp;Nvidia has vertically integrated the AI economy without acquiring any of the participants. Every position is a minority equity stake, not a purchase — which means none of it passes through merger review, in any jurisdiction, at any threshold.&nbsp;An acquisition of comparable scope would attract antitrust scrutiny in Washington, Brussels and Beijing simultaneously. A minority stake attracts almost none, while delivering a substantial share of the strategic benefit: influence over roadmaps, early visibility into demand, and a claim on the upside of customers whose growth Nvidia's own supply enables.&nbsp;This is not a loophole in any illegal sense. It is a straightforward reading of where the regulatory perimeter sits, and a decision to operate just inside it.&nbsp;The Circularity Problem&nbsp;There is a criticism of this arrangement that has been made repeatedly, and it is not baseless.&nbsp;When a supplier invests billions in its own customers, some portion of the revenue those customers generate for the supplier was funded by the supplier. Demand of that kind is real in an accounting sense but is not independent evidence that the underlying market is as large as the revenue suggests.&nbsp;Nvidia's counter is that these are minority positions in companies with substantial independent funding, that it has no control over purchasing decisions, and that the AI infrastructure buildout would proceed with or without its participation. Both readings can be partly true, and the honest position is that nobody outside the companies involved can currently separate the two.&nbsp;What it does mean is that anyone reading Nvidia's demand figures as a clean signal of independent market appetite should discount them somewhat, and the size of that discount is unknown.&nbsp;The Risk It Creates&nbsp;The strategy concentrates a second kind of exposure on top of the first.&nbsp;Nvidia already carries the risk that AI infrastructure demand slows. It now additionally carries the mark-to-market risk on $99 billion of equity in companies whose valuations depend on the same demand. Those risks are not independent — they would arrive together, and a correction in AI valuations would hit both sides of the balance sheet at once.&nbsp;For a company of Nvidia's size that is survivable. It is still a materially different risk profile from selling chips for cash.&nbsp;What To Watch&nbsp;Whether regulators show any interest in minority stakes at this concentration, which would be a novel application of merger doctrine. Whether the $500 billion of memoranda converts into deployed capital or stays aspirational. And how much of Nvidia's reported demand can be traced to entities it has itself funded — a disclosure no one currently requires it to make.

Nvidia's AI equity book went from about $7bn to roughly $99bn in twelve months, $30bn of it in OpenAI. Every position is a minority stake — which keeps the whole strategy outside merger review.

Nvidia's equity investments in AI companies stood at roughly $99 billion as of late July, according to a CNBC tally. A year earlier the figure was about $7 billion. That is a fourteen-fold expansion in twelve months, and it has made the world's most important chip supplier simultaneously one of the largest investors in the companies that buy its chips. Where The Money Went The single largest position is OpenAI, where Nvidia invested $30 billion as part of a $110 billion funding round. Beyond that, its 2026 equity commitments run past $40 billion across the stack, including seven multi-billion-dollar stakes in public companies — among them up to $3.2 billion for Corning and $2.1 billion for IREN. Separately, the company has signed memoranda of understanding targeting more than $500 billion of third-party capital over time. The Structural Detail The most consequential fact about this strategy is what it is not. Nvidia has vertically integrated the AI economy without acquiring any of the participants. Every position is a minority equity stake, not a purchase — which means none of it passes through merger review, in any jurisdiction, at any threshold. An acquisition of comparable scope would attract antitrust scrutiny in Washington, Brussels and Beijing simultaneously. A minority stake attracts almost none, while delivering a substantial share of the strategic benefit: influence over roadmaps, early visibility into demand, and a claim on the upside of customers whose growth Nvidia's own supply enables. This is not a loophole in any illegal sense. It is a straightforward reading of where the regulatory perimeter sits, and a decision to operate just inside it. The Circularity Problem There is a criticism of this arrangement that has been made repeatedly, and it is not baseless. When a supplier invests billions in its own customers, some portion of the revenue those customers generate for the supplier was funded by the supplier. Demand of that kind is real in an accounting sense but is not independent evidence that the underlying market is as large as the revenue suggests. Nvidia's counter is that these are minority positions in companies with substantial independent funding, that it has no control over purchasing decisions, and that the AI infrastructure buildout would proceed with or without its participation. Both readings can be partly true, and the honest position is that nobody outside the companies involved can currently separate the two. What it does mean is that anyone reading Nvidia's demand figures as a clean signal of independent market appetite should discount them somewhat, and the size of that discount is unknown. The Risk It Creates The strategy concentrates a second kind of exposure on top of the first. Nvidia already carries the risk that AI infrastructure demand slows. It now additionally carries the mark-to-market risk on $99 billion of equity in companies whose valuations depend on the same demand. Those risks are not independent — they would arrive together, and a correction in AI valuations would hit both sides of the balance sheet at once. For a company of Nvidia's size that is survivable. It is still a materially different risk profile from selling chips for cash. What To Watch Whether regulators show any interest in minority stakes at this concentration, which would be a novel application of merger doctrine. Whether the $500 billion of memoranda converts into deployed capital or stays aspirational. And how much of Nvidia's reported demand can be traced to entities it has itself funded — a disclosure no one currently requires it to make.

Nvidia's equity investments in AI companies reached roughly $99 billion as of late July, up from about $7 billion a year earlier, according to CNBC's tally. The structure is what stands out: the company has positioned itself across the entire AI stack through minority stakes rather than acquisitions, which keeps it out of the path of merger review.

Nvidia has taken $99 billion in equity stakes across AI in a year

The frontier AI labs have spent years making broadly the same argument about regulation: that they take safety seriously, that they welcome sensible oversight, and that rules should be workable. In Massachusetts, that consensus has visibly broken.&nbsp;A state Senate proposal, carried as part of a larger economic development bill, would require large AI developers to commission independent evaluators to assess catastrophic risks in their models every four months.&nbsp;Anthropic is backing it and has described its preferred version as the most robust AI safety legislation in the nation. OpenAI and Google are opposing it.&nbsp;What Is Actually In Dispute&nbsp;The disagreement is narrower than 'safety versus no safety', and it is worth stating precisely.&nbsp;Nobody in this argument is opposing third-party review. The dispute is about cadence and independence. Anthropic wants independent risk assessments every four to six months. OpenAI favours something closer to the approach Illinois took — annual third-party audits.&nbsp;The gap between four months and twelve months sounds procedural. It is not. Frontier models now ship substantially revised versions several times a year, and an annual audit can assess a model that has already been superseded twice. A four-month cadence is an attempt to make evaluation track the release cycle rather than the calendar.&nbsp;The Case Against, Taken Seriously&nbsp;OpenAI's objection is not obviously self-serving, and it should be engaged with rather than dismissed.&nbsp;Its argument is that aggressive state-by-state regulation produces a patchwork of inconsistent rules, and that the compliance burden of satisfying fifty different regimes delays the release of beneficial models — including, it notes, tools used for cybersecurity defence.&nbsp;That is a real problem. A company shipping into all fifty states under conflicting evaluation regimes faces genuine cost, and there is no federal framework to preempt it. The patchwork concern is the strongest argument available to the opposing side.&nbsp;The weakness is that it is an argument for federal legislation, and the same companies have not conspicuously pushed for a federal standard strict enough to preempt anything. An objection to state rules that does not come with a proposed alternative functions, in practice, as an objection to rules.&nbsp;Why Anthropic's Position Is Also Not Free&nbsp;It would be naive to read Anthropic's stance as pure principle.&nbsp;The company has built its market identity on safety, and a regulation that makes rigorous evaluation mandatory converts that identity into a competitive moat. Compliance costs that are burdensome for a smaller competitor are absorbable for a company already running the evaluations internally.&nbsp;That does not make the position wrong. A rule can be simultaneously good policy and commercially convenient for whoever proposed it, and the coincidence is a reason to examine the rule rather than the motive.&nbsp;What Makes This Consequential&nbsp;State law has become the actual venue for AI regulation in the United States, in the absence of anything federal. What Massachusetts settles on will be copied, adapted or reacted against by other legislatures, in the way California's privacy law set the template a decade ago.&nbsp;It is also the first time the frontier labs have publicly taken opposing sides on a specific binding rule rather than on principles. That breaks the industry's ability to speak with one voice to legislators, which is a more significant development than the bill itself.&nbsp;What To Watch&nbsp;Whether the four-month cadence survives into the final text or is negotiated toward the annual model. Whether other states move before Massachusetts concludes. And whether any of these companies now supports a federal standard with teeth — because that is the test of whether the patchwork objection was about the patchwork.

Massachusetts would require independent evaluations of catastrophic AI risk every four months. Anthropic backs it; OpenAI and Google want annual audits — the first public split between frontier labs on a binding rule.

The frontier AI labs have spent years making broadly the same argument about regulation: that they take safety seriously, that they welcome sensible oversight, and that rules should be workable. In Massachusetts, that consensus has visibly broken. A state Senate proposal, carried as part of a larger economic development bill, would require large AI developers to commission independent evaluators to assess catastrophic risks in their models every four months. Anthropic is backing it and has described its preferred version as the most robust AI safety legislation in the nation. OpenAI and Google are opposing it. What Is Actually In Dispute The disagreement is narrower than 'safety versus no safety', and it is worth stating precisely. Nobody in this argument is opposing third-party review. The dispute is about cadence and independence. Anthropic wants independent risk assessments every four to six months. OpenAI favours something closer to the approach Illinois took — annual third-party audits. The gap between four months and twelve months sounds procedural. It is not. Frontier models now ship substantially revised versions several times a year, and an annual audit can assess a model that has already been superseded twice. A four-month cadence is an attempt to make evaluation track the release cycle rather than the calendar. The Case Against, Taken Seriously OpenAI's objection is not obviously self-serving, and it should be engaged with rather than dismissed. Its argument is that aggressive state-by-state regulation produces a patchwork of inconsistent rules, and that the compliance burden of satisfying fifty different regimes delays the release of beneficial models — including, it notes, tools used for cybersecurity defence. That is a real problem. A company shipping into all fifty states under conflicting evaluation regimes faces genuine cost, and there is no federal framework to preempt it. The patchwork concern is the strongest argument available to the opposing side. The weakness is that it is an argument for federal legislation, and the same companies have not conspicuously pushed for a federal standard strict enough to preempt anything. An objection to state rules that does not come with a proposed alternative functions, in practice, as an objection to rules. Why Anthropic's Position Is Also Not Free It would be naive to read Anthropic's stance as pure principle. The company has built its market identity on safety, and a regulation that makes rigorous evaluation mandatory converts that identity into a competitive moat. Compliance costs that are burdensome for a smaller competitor are absorbable for a company already running the evaluations internally. That does not make the position wrong. A rule can be simultaneously good policy and commercially convenient for whoever proposed it, and the coincidence is a reason to examine the rule rather than the motive. What Makes This Consequential State law has become the actual venue for AI regulation in the United States, in the absence of anything federal. What Massachusetts settles on will be copied, adapted or reacted against by other legislatures, in the way California's privacy law set the template a decade ago. It is also the first time the frontier labs have publicly taken opposing sides on a specific binding rule rather than on principles. That breaks the industry's ability to speak with one voice to legislators, which is a more significant development than the bill itself. What To Watch Whether the four-month cadence survives into the final text or is negotiated toward the annual model. Whether other states move before Massachusetts concludes. And whether any of these companies now supports a federal standard with teeth — because that is the test of whether the patchwork objection was about the patchwork.

A Massachusetts proposal would require large AI developers to hire independent evaluators to assess catastrophic risk in their models every four months — a cadence stricter than anything else at state level in the United States. Anthropic supports it. OpenAI and Google are opposing it, arguing for annual third-party audits instead.

Anthropic has broken with OpenAI and Google over the toughest AI safety bill in America

Greg Brockman ended OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra briefing with a line engineered to be quoted: ‘Welcome to the AGI era.’&nbsp;The evidence offered was a score. On ARC-AGI-3 — a benchmark built specifically to test whether a system can solve problems it has never encountered — Astra was reported at 99.9 per cent.&nbsp;ARC Prize, which runs the benchmark, has since published its own analysis. The number it leads with is 63 per cent.&nbsp;Two Numbers, One Model&nbsp;Both figures are real, and the gap between them is the story.&nbsp;On the shared test, under the conditions every other model is measured in, Astra's best observed score was 62.7 per cent. The 99.9 per cent came from what ARC Prize calls a provider adapter harness — scaffolding that preserves reasoning chains between individual requests and automatically summarises long runs.&nbsp;A third figure, 98.55 per cent, circulated early and was widely rounded to 98.6. It also came from the harness, at maximum reasoning settings.&nbsp;So the headline number does not describe the model. It describes the model plus an apparatus that gives it persistent memory across attempts and manages its context automatically.&nbsp;Why That Distinction Is Not Pedantry&nbsp;ARC-AGI-3 exists to measure something specific: whether a system can build a working model of an unfamiliar environment from scratch. Its value depends entirely on the environment staying unfamiliar.&nbsp;Scaffolding that carries reasoning between attempts changes the nature of the test. The system is no longer solving a novel problem in one pass; it is accumulating knowledge across passes. That may well be the more useful configuration in practice — but it is not the thing the benchmark was designed to measure, and a number produced under it cannot be compared with numbers that were not.&nbsp;This is the oldest problem in benchmarking, and it has not been solved by making the models better.&nbsp;What Astra Genuinely Did Do&nbsp;The result that survives scrutiny is more interesting than the headline, and it is about efficiency rather than accuracy.&nbsp;Astra used fewer actions than the median human tester on 96 per cent of the levels it completed, averaging 51.7 per cent fewer. The human baseline comes from roughly 500 general participants playing the same games.&nbsp;That is a real and unusual finding. It says the model is not brute-forcing its way through novel environments but building a precise internal model of how they work, and then acting on it economically. ARC Prize described it as the most precise symbolic model of novel environments it has seen.&nbsp;Efficiency of that kind is harder to fake with scaffolding than a raw score is, which is precisely why it is the more persuasive number.&nbsp;On The AGI Claim Itself&nbsp;Brockman was more careful than the quote suggests, and this deserves acknowledging.&nbsp;He did not present the score as mathematical proof of anything. He said he personally believes the threshold has been crossed, that looking back people might identify this moment and this model, and left the definition to others. There is no industry-agreed test that separates a very capable model from artificial general intelligence, and he did not claim there was.&nbsp;The claim is therefore not falsifiable, which makes it a statement of belief rather than a finding. That is not dishonest. It is simply a different kind of statement from the one a benchmark score appears to be.&nbsp;What To Watch&nbsp;Whether OpenAI reports harness-assisted and bare scores side by side in future, or continues to lead with the higher one. Whether ARC Prize formalises separate categories so the comparison stops being ambiguous. And whether the efficiency finding replicates on benchmarks that OpenAI did not help design the evaluation conditions for.&nbsp;The honest summary is narrower than either camp will like. Astra is a genuine advance on novel-problem solving, its efficiency result is remarkable, and its most-quoted number is not what it appears to be.

OpenAI's AGI claim rests on a near-perfect ARC-AGI-3 score. The benchmark's own organisers put the bare model at 62.7% — the difference is scaffolding, not capability.

Greg Brockman ended OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra briefing with a line engineered to be quoted: ‘Welcome to the AGI era.’ The evidence offered was a score. On ARC-AGI-3 — a benchmark built specifically to test whether a system can solve problems it has never encountered — Astra was reported at 99.9 per cent. ARC Prize, which runs the benchmark, has since published its own analysis. The number it leads with is 63 per cent. Two Numbers, One Model Both figures are real, and the gap between them is the story. On the shared test, under the conditions every other model is measured in, Astra's best observed score was 62.7 per cent. The 99.9 per cent came from what ARC Prize calls a provider adapter harness — scaffolding that preserves reasoning chains between individual requests and automatically summarises long runs. A third figure, 98.55 per cent, circulated early and was widely rounded to 98.6. It also came from the harness, at maximum reasoning settings. So the headline number does not describe the model. It describes the model plus an apparatus that gives it persistent memory across attempts and manages its context automatically. Why That Distinction Is Not Pedantry ARC-AGI-3 exists to measure something specific: whether a system can build a working model of an unfamiliar environment from scratch. Its value depends entirely on the environment staying unfamiliar. Scaffolding that carries reasoning between attempts changes the nature of the test. The system is no longer solving a novel problem in one pass; it is accumulating knowledge across passes. That may well be the more useful configuration in practice — but it is not the thing the benchmark was designed to measure, and a number produced under it cannot be compared with numbers that were not. This is the oldest problem in benchmarking, and it has not been solved by making the models better. What Astra Genuinely Did Do The result that survives scrutiny is more interesting than the headline, and it is about efficiency rather than accuracy. Astra used fewer actions than the median human tester on 96 per cent of the levels it completed, averaging 51.7 per cent fewer. The human baseline comes from roughly 500 general participants playing the same games. That is a real and unusual finding. It says the model is not brute-forcing its way through novel environments but building a precise internal model of how they work, and then acting on it economically. ARC Prize described it as the most precise symbolic model of novel environments it has seen. Efficiency of that kind is harder to fake with scaffolding than a raw score is, which is precisely why it is the more persuasive number. On The AGI Claim Itself Brockman was more careful than the quote suggests, and this deserves acknowledging. He did not present the score as mathematical proof of anything. He said he personally believes the threshold has been crossed, that looking back people might identify this moment and this model, and left the definition to others. There is no industry-agreed test that separates a very capable model from artificial general intelligence, and he did not claim there was. The claim is therefore not falsifiable, which makes it a statement of belief rather than a finding. That is not dishonest. It is simply a different kind of statement from the one a benchmark score appears to be. What To Watch Whether OpenAI reports harness-assisted and bare scores side by side in future, or continues to lead with the higher one. Whether ARC Prize formalises separate categories so the comparison stops being ambiguous. And whether the efficiency finding replicates on benchmarks that OpenAI did not help design the evaluation conditions for. The honest summary is narrower than either camp will like. Astra is a genuine advance on novel-problem solving, its efficiency result is remarkable, and its most-quoted number is not what it appears to be.

OpenAI president Greg Brockman ended the GPT-6 Astra briefing with the words ‘Welcome to the AGI era’, pointing to a near-perfect score on ARC-AGI-3. But the benchmark's own organisers have published two very different numbers for the same model, and the difference is not the model at all — it is the scaffolding wrapped around it.

Astra's 99.9 per cent came from the harness, not the model

A nuclear reactor built secretly during the rule of the toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in Syria would have been able to produce the needed fissile material for possible use in nuclear weapons, the chief of the UN nuclear watchdog has revealed.&nbsp;Last month, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited two sites, one in Deir ez-Zor and a second in an undisclosed location identified to them by Syrian authorities.&nbsp;IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday it was “obvious that the previous government was pursuing a number of clandestine” activities. “They didn’t want the world to know what they were doing,” Grossi told reporters after opening the Vienna-based agency’s quarterly board of governors meeting.&nbsp;“Given the configuration, the technical features of that type of reactor, this is a reactor that is very efficient in the production of fissile material that could be used directly for the fabrication of nuclear weapons,” he said, adding that building the reactor was a “very important step”.&nbsp;Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/pa-c-k-of-lies-pakistan-s-ai-victory-video-claims-hits-on-32-iaf-bases-8-aircraft-2-s-400s-and-indian-parliament-1788792189590">Pa(c)k of lies: Pakistan’s AI ‘victory’ video claims hits on 32 IAF bases, 8 aircraft, 2 S-400s and Indian Parliament</a><h2>Syria was running an undeclared nuclear programme under Assad</h2>&nbsp;The revelation proves that Syria was running an extensive undeclared nuclear programme under Assad that included a nuclear reactor built by North Korea in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province.&nbsp;After Assad was ousted in December 2024, the new government agreed to give IAEA inspectors access to suspected former nuclear sites.&nbsp;During a visit to Syria in August, IAEA inspectors confirmed that “the cooling infrastructure which has now been uncovered is consistent with that of a nuclear reactor”.&nbsp;&nbsp;Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/man-kills-wife-stores-her-severed-head-and-chopped-fingers-in-fridge-arrested-1788785818077">Man kills wife, stores her severed head and chopped fingers in fridge; arrested</a>&nbsp;Grossi and a team of senior inspectors also visited a previously undeclared site in the country.&nbsp;<h2>‘IAEA finds 73 tonnes of natural uranium metal at site’</h2>&nbsp;In 2018, Israel admitted carrying out a top-secret air raid on the site 11 years earlier.Much earlier, in 2008, less than a year after the Israeli strike, US officials had accused Syria of having sought to build a secret nuclear reactor and acknowledged that Israel had destroyed it in the raid.&nbsp;Syria notified the agency of the site’s existence in a 17 July letter and invited the IAEA “to cooperate with the Syrian authorities in the inspection and verification of the site and of any nuclear material to be potentially found”.In its confidential report circulated to member states last Tuesday, the IAEA said that this new site contained “natural uranium metal in the form of fuel rods with cladding”. The agency verified the material and confirmed “the presence of around 73 tonnes of natural uranium metal”.&nbsp;Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/trending/7-foot-python-found-hiding-in-car-s-engine-in-mumbai-rescue-video-goes-viral-1788800825739">7-foot python found hiding in car’s engine in Mumbai; rescue video goes viral | Watch</a>&nbsp;Grossi said that when the inspectors visited the site in August, they had to “tear down walls” and go through “very difficult and narrow passages” to reach the nuclear material that had been hidden. The site had boxes scattered all over the place, he said.&nbsp;<h2>Syrian govt to decide whether to retain nuclear mterial</h2>&nbsp;“The important thing is that this material now is under safeguards” of the IAEA, Grossi said, adding that agency inspectors had managed to install cameras at the location.Asked if the nuclear material would remain in Syria or be removed, Grossi said this was “a matter that the Syrian government will have to decide”.&nbsp;“We are not requesting them to do this or to do that. For us what’s important is that we know all the time where this [material] is until the last gram,” he added.&nbsp;Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/energy-and-food-security-biggest-combined-population-and-gdp-and-the-two-big-challenges-for-brics-1788809454367">Energy and food security: Biggest combined population and GDP, and the two big challenges for BRICS</a>&nbsp;Logan Mintz, a director for nuclear materials security at the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative, said once deemed safe to move, the material could be “transported in certified containers” to a third country that could “safely and securely disposition it into a more chemically stable and more widely used form” for possible use in nuclear power plants.

During a visit to Syria in August, IAEA inspectors confirmed that “the cooling infrastructure which has now been uncovered is consistent with that of a nuclear reactor”. IAEA chief Rafael Grossi and a team of senior inspectors also visited a previously undeclared site in the country.

A nuclear reactor built secretly during the rule of the toppled leader Bashar al-Assad in Syria would have been able to produce the needed fissile material for possible use in nuclear weapons, the chief of the UN nuclear watchdog has revealed. Last month, inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) visited two sites, one in Deir ez-Zor and a second in an undisclosed location identified to them by Syrian authorities. IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said on Monday it was “obvious that the previous government was pursuing a number of clandestine” activities. “They didn’t want the world to know what they were doing,” Grossi told reporters after opening the Vienna-based agency’s quarterly board of governors meeting. “Given the configuration, the technical features of that type of reactor, this is a reactor that is very efficient in the production of fissile material that could be used directly for the fabrication of nuclear weapons,” he said, adding that building the reactor was a “very important step”. Also Read: Pa(c)k of lies: Pakistan’s AI ‘victory’ video claims hits on 32 IAF bases, 8 aircraft, 2 S-400s and Indian Parliament Syria was running an undeclared nuclear programme under Assad The revelation proves that Syria was running an extensive undeclared nuclear programme under Assad that included a nuclear reactor built by North Korea in the eastern Deir ez-Zor province. After Assad was ousted in December 2024, the new government agreed to give IAEA inspectors access to suspected former nuclear sites. During a visit to Syria in August, IAEA inspectors confirmed that “the cooling infrastructure which has now been uncovered is consistent with that of a nuclear reactor”. Also Read: Man kills wife, stores her severed head and chopped fingers in fridge; arrested Grossi and a team of senior inspectors also visited a previously undeclared site in the country. ‘IAEA finds 73 tonnes of natural uranium metal at site’ In 2018, Israel admitted carrying out a top-secret air raid on the site 11 years earlier. Much earlier, in 2008, less than a year after the Israeli strike, US officials had accused Syria of having sought to build a secret nuclear reactor and acknowledged that Israel had destroyed it in the raid. Syria notified the agency of the site’s existence in a 17 July letter and invited the IAEA “to cooperate with the Syrian authorities in the inspection and verification of the site and of any nuclear material to be potentially found”. In its confidential report circulated to member states last Tuesday, the IAEA said that this new site contained “natural uranium metal in the form of fuel rods with cladding”. The agency verified the material and confirmed “the presence of around 73 tonnes of natural uranium metal”. Also Read: 7-foot python found hiding in car’s engine in Mumbai; rescue video goes viral | Watch Grossi said that when the inspectors visited the site in August, they had to “tear down walls” and go through “very difficult and narrow passages” to reach the nuclear material that had been hidden. The site had boxes scattered all over the place, he said. Syrian govt to decide whether to retain nuclear mterial “The important thing is that this material now is under safeguards” of the IAEA, Grossi said, adding that agency inspectors had managed to install cameras at the location. Asked if the nuclear material would remain in Syria or be removed, Grossi said this was “a matter that the Syrian government will have to decide”. “We are not requesting them to do this or to do that. For us what’s important is that we know all the time where this [material] is until the last gram,” he added. Also Read: Energy and food security: Biggest combined population and GDP, and the two big challenges for BRICS Logan Mintz, a director for nuclear materials security at the Washington-based Nuclear Threat Initiative, said once deemed safe to move, the material could be “transported in certified containers” to a third country that could “safely and securely disposition it into a more chemically stable and more widely used form” for possible use in nuclear power plants.

During a visit to Syria in August, IAEA inspectors confirmed that “the cooling infrastructure which has now been uncovered is consistent with that of a nuclear reactor”. IAEA chief Rafael Grossi and a team of senior inspectors also visited a previously undeclared site in the country.

‘Secret reactor in Syria could have been used for nuclear weapons,’ says IAEA after finding 73 tonnes of natural uranium

The growth of BRICS as a promising and impactful grouping reflects one of the biggest recent transformations in the global order. With its expanded membership, BRICS now represents a substantial share of the world’s population, economic output, natural resources and agricultural capacity. However, this enormous scale also exposes BRICS to two interconnected challenges that could shape its future: energy security and food security.&nbsp;Energy is the foundational requirement of modern economic development, and several BRICS nations are among the world’s largest producers of oil, natural gas, coal and other energy resources, while others are major energy consumers and rapidly growing economies.The group possesses enormous energy resources, but these resources are unevenly distributed. Countries that import energy are exposed to price fluctuations and supply disruptions and are affected by geopolitical tensions and instability in global markets.&nbsp;The energy crisis is therefore more about creating a more secure, affordable and diversified energy system. The BRICS member countries thus have an opportunity to strengthen long-term energy security through greater cooperation in oil and gas, electricity, nuclear power, renewable energy, critical minerals, and energy infrastructure.In this situation, expanding renewable energy and improving energy efficiency could reduce dependence on volatile fossil-fuel markets while supporting industrial growth.&nbsp;Food security also presents an equally serious challenge. BRICS has some of the world’s most important agricultural producers as well as nations with large and rapidly growing populations. Climate and climate change, water shortage, extreme weather, soil degradation, fertiliser costs and disruptions to supply chains can threaten food production and raise prices.&nbsp;However, collaboration and cooperation in agricultural technology, fertilisers, irrigation, grain reserves, logistics and trade mechanisms could make member countries more resilient to global shocks.&nbsp;As climate pressures intensify, sharing technologies for drought-resistant crops, precision agriculture and efficient water use become increasingly important.&nbsp;Besides, energy and food security are deeply connected. Modern agriculture requires energy for irrigation, machinery, refrigeration, transportation and processing, and hence, energy prices influence the cost of producing and transporting food.&nbsp;Due to the close linking and interdependence, any disruption in one system can therefore quickly spread into the other.&nbsp;In today’s world, no country can completely eliminate its exposure to global markets and so stronger intra-BRICS trade, diversified supply chains, strategic reserves, investment and greater use of local currencies can help reduce vulnerability to external shocks.&nbsp;The world's largest emerging economies have the population, resources and economic weight to make a difference. Therefore, if BRICS member nations use their combined strengths effectively, then energy security and food security could become pillars of a more stable multipolar economy. Any lack of this cooperation and collaboration could become major constraints on growth and social stability, thereby enfeebling the BRICS grouping, instead of continuing its growth momentum.

Cooperation in agricultural technology, fertilisers, irrigation, grain reserves, logistics and trade mechanisms could make member countries more resilient to global shocks. As climate pressures intensify, sharing technologies for drought-resistant crops and efficient water use becomes vital.

The growth of BRICS as a promising and impactful grouping reflects one of the biggest recent transformations in the global order. With its expanded membership, BRICS now represents a substantial share of the world’s population, economic output, natural resources and agricultural capacity. However, this enormous scale also exposes BRICS to two interconnected challenges that could shape its future: energy security and food security. Energy is the foundational requirement of modern economic development, and several BRICS nations are among the world’s largest producers of oil, natural gas, coal and other energy resources, while others are major energy consumers and rapidly growing economies. The group possesses enormous energy resources, but these resources are unevenly distributed. Countries that import energy are exposed to price fluctuations and supply disruptions and are affected by geopolitical tensions and instability in global markets. The energy crisis is therefore more about creating a more secure, affordable and diversified energy system. The BRICS member countries thus have an opportunity to strengthen long-term energy security through greater cooperation in oil and gas, electricity, nuclear power, renewable energy, critical minerals, and energy infrastructure. In this situation, expanding renewable energy and improving energy efficiency could reduce dependence on volatile fossil-fuel markets while supporting industrial growth. Food security also presents an equally serious challenge. BRICS has some of the world’s most important agricultural producers as well as nations with large and rapidly growing populations. Climate and climate change, water shortage, extreme weather, soil degradation, fertiliser costs and disruptions to supply chains can threaten food production and raise prices. However, collaboration and cooperation in agricultural technology, fertilisers, irrigation, grain reserves, logistics and trade mechanisms could make member countries more resilient to global shocks. As climate pressures intensify, sharing technologies for drought-resistant crops, precision agriculture and efficient water use become increasingly important. Besides, energy and food security are deeply connected. Modern agriculture requires energy for irrigation, machinery, refrigeration, transportation and processing, and hence, energy prices influence the cost of producing and transporting food. Due to the close linking and interdependence, any disruption in one system can therefore quickly spread into the other. In today’s world, no country can completely eliminate its exposure to global markets and so stronger intra-BRICS trade, diversified supply chains, strategic reserves, investment and greater use of local currencies can help reduce vulnerability to external shocks. The world's largest emerging economies have the population, resources and economic weight to make a difference. Therefore, if BRICS member nations use their combined strengths effectively, then energy security and food security could become pillars of a more stable multipolar economy. Any lack of this cooperation and collaboration could become major constraints on growth and social stability, thereby enfeebling the BRICS grouping, instead of continuing its growth momentum.

Cooperation in agricultural technology, fertilisers, irrigation, grain reserves, logistics and trade mechanisms could make member countries more resilient to global shocks. As climate pressures intensify, sharing technologies for drought-resistant crops and efficient water use becomes vital.

Energy and food security: Biggest combined population and GDP, and the two big challenges for BRICS

Before the emergence of BRICS on June 16, 2009, there was RIC, which stands for Russia, India, and China. This trilateral strategic grouping served as the foundational precursor and core building block for BRICS. The trio, formulated in the late 1990s by Russian statesman Yevgeny Primakov, was aimed at promoting a multipolar world order and countering unipolar global dominance. Brazil joined the group in 2004, transforming the concept into the BRIC framework, which later added South Africa to become BRICS. This trilateral bloc has held over twenty ministerial-level meetings since the early 1990s. While talk of reviving it has intensified through 2025 and 2026, the three powers remain far from acting as a unified bloc capable of standing up to the West. Although there are few instances where Russia and China have pushed to revive the block but outcome still remains far from reality. On January 20, 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that Moscow is striving to revive the activities of the Russia-India-China (RIC) trilateral.&nbsp;Also read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/most-severe-election-defeat-german-chancellor-merz-shocked-after-cdu-s-worst-lost-in-decades-warns-of-consequence-1788803389383">'Most severe election defeat': German Chancellor Merz shocked after CDU's worst lost in decades, warns of ‘consequence’</a> Reports suggest that, according to Russia, the RIC’s revival has become vital as Beijing is rapidly wanting to consolidate absolute dominance. It also indicated that Russia could mobilise the bloc to coordinate the technical mechanisms of sanctions evasion, focusing on the integration of payment systems (SPFS/CIPS/UPI) and the use of national currencies for energy trade. Similarly, China has also echoed this enthusiasm for backing Russia's push to revive the long-dormant format. This has framed it as important for regional and global stability, though the mechanism has remained largely inactive since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 India-China border clashes in Ladakh.<h3>India's caution to join RIC</h3>Reports indicated that India has stayed notably reserved in expressing any opinion on joining RIC. In July 2025, India neither rejected nor explicitly endorsed reviving RIC, suggesting a cautious openness rather than enthusiasm. New Delhi's hesitation is directly linked to its unresolved border tensions with China, as India has continuously emphasised that its relations with Beijing depend on progress at the border first.<h3>Will RIC emerge?</h3>The answer to this question is unclear, as we think Russia and China have clear incentives to formalise the RIC, since it boosts their standing and signals resistance to Western isolation. However, India has structural reasons to keep the mechanism informal due to its border tensions with China, its strategic balancing between Washington and Moscow, and its reluctance to be considered anti-West. These developments indicate that all work against a tightly coordinated trio, which is very hard to push further for its emergence. Meanwhile, the India-Russia-China triangle shouldn't allow other nations to dominate or hurt the others' interests. But China's closeness with the US will threaten Russia's wants of a multipolar world. Therefore, Russia will attempt to keep India engaged regionally. India, too, benefits from staying involved, ensuring coordination among these major powers.&nbsp;

The trio came into existence in the late 1990s by Russian statesman Yevgeny Primakov, aiming to promote a multipolar world order and counter unipolar global dominance.

Before the emergence of BRICS on June 16, 2009, there was RIC, which stands for Russia, India, and China. This trilateral strategic grouping served as the foundational precursor and core building block for BRICS. The trio, formulated in the late 1990s by Russian statesman Yevgeny Primakov, was aimed at promoting a multipolar world order and countering unipolar global dominance. Brazil joined the group in 2004, transforming the concept into the BRIC framework, which later added South Africa to become BRICS. This trilateral bloc has held over twenty ministerial-level meetings since the early 1990s. While talk of reviving it has intensified through 2025 and 2026, the three powers remain far from acting as a unified bloc capable of standing up to the West. Although there are few instances where Russia and China have pushed to revive the block but outcome still remains far from reality. On January 20, 2026, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov announced that Moscow is striving to revive the activities of the Russia-India-China (RIC) trilateral. Also read: 'Most severe election defeat': German Chancellor Merz shocked after CDU's worst lost in decades, warns of ‘consequence’ Reports suggest that, according to Russia, the RIC’s revival has become vital as Beijing is rapidly wanting to consolidate absolute dominance. It also indicated that Russia could mobilise the bloc to coordinate the technical mechanisms of sanctions evasion, focusing on the integration of payment systems (SPFS/CIPS/UPI) and the use of national currencies for energy trade. Similarly, China has also echoed this enthusiasm for backing Russia's push to revive the long-dormant format. This has framed it as important for regional and global stability, though the mechanism has remained largely inactive since the COVID-19 pandemic and the 2020 India-China border clashes in Ladakh. India's caution to join RIC Reports indicated that India has stayed notably reserved in expressing any opinion on joining RIC. In July 2025, India neither rejected nor explicitly endorsed reviving RIC, suggesting a cautious openness rather than enthusiasm. New Delhi's hesitation is directly linked to its unresolved border tensions with China, as India has continuously emphasised that its relations with Beijing depend on progress at the border first. Will RIC emerge? The answer to this question is unclear, as we think Russia and China have clear incentives to formalise the RIC, since it boosts their standing and signals resistance to Western isolation. However, India has structural reasons to keep the mechanism informal due to its border tensions with China, its strategic balancing between Washington and Moscow, and its reluctance to be considered anti-West. These developments indicate that all work against a tightly coordinated trio, which is very hard to push further for its emergence. Meanwhile, the India-Russia-China triangle shouldn't allow other nations to dominate or hurt the others' interests. But China's closeness with the US will threaten Russia's wants of a multipolar world. Therefore, Russia will attempt to keep India engaged regionally. India, too, benefits from staying involved, ensuring coordination among these major powers.

The trio came into existence in the late 1990s by Russian statesman Yevgeny Primakov, aiming to promote a multipolar world order and counter unipolar global dominance.

Will RIC emerge from BRICS? The question of a power trio that hesitates to unite

The Russia-Ukraine War has seen drones become extremely important weapons on the battlefield.... for both sides. A new report has now thrown light on how Beijing is helping Moscow sustain its large-scale aerial warfare...&nbsp;Meanwhile, Russia has expressed willingness for restarting Ukraine talks after US President Donald Trump's envoys visited Kyiv and Moscow in a new push for peace talks.&nbsp;In the latest from the battlefield, Ukraine reported a Russian drone strike at a shopping mall in Zaporizhia.&nbsp;Visuals showed firefighters trying to extinguish a large blaze in the aftermath of the attack, which did not result in any casualties.&nbsp;On the other hand, Russia claimed that one person was killed whereas four others were injured in an Ukrainian drone attack on a residential building in the country's Perm region.&nbsp;According to a joint investigation by the Telegraph and Politico, a Chinese state-owned firm named Jilin Chemical Fibre Group supplied at least 46 tonnes of carbon-fibre chemical to a Russian firm this year.&nbsp;This firm, which is a subsidiary of a Russian state-owned company, used it to produce military-grade carbon fibre which is used for the mass production of Kamikaze drones.&nbsp;These explosive-laden drones are designed to destroy a specific target in a single, self-sacrificial strike.&nbsp;This report also claimed that the shipments were disguised as synthetic chemical fibres to avert sanctions.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/videos/china-secretly-powers-putin-s-killer-drone-war-in-ukraine-1788804297858/embed">https://www.wionews.com/videos/china-secretly-powers-putin-s-killer-drone-war-in-ukraine-1788804297858/embed</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;At present, the Chinese firm in question is not facing any Western sanctions.&nbsp;Experts caution that the material sent by China might be enough for Russia to build at least thirteen hundred Kamikaze drones.&nbsp;According to the report, both the US House Select Committee on China and the Ukrainian government have reviewed the documents and determined they are legitimate.&nbsp;This is crucial, as the US had stated last year that it can impose sanctions to disrupt networks through which Russia procures technology and equipment from abroad to support its war effort.&nbsp;It is worth noting that US sanctioned two Chinese companies in October 2024 for their involvement in making Russia's long-range Garpiya drone.&nbsp;As of March this year, Ukraine claimed that Russia has fired over 57,000 Shahed-type drones on its territory.&nbsp;After the country innovated by producing indigenous interceptor drones designed to shoot down these drones, Russia then turned to jet power.&nbsp;According to the Ukrainian air force spokesperson, Russian forces fired over twenty-eight hundred jet-powered drones in August itself.&nbsp;After initially using Iran's Shahed drones, Russia began mass-producing its own versions called Gerans.&nbsp;Now, its most advanced version- Geran-5 is creating quite a flutter in Ukraine.&nbsp;It flies more like a low-cost cruise missile.&nbsp;According to the country's ministry of defence, its speed can touch 600 kilometres per hour, and it can strike targets close to 950 kilometres away, which is much more than its previous variants.&nbsp;Thus, Ukraine's existing air defence measures are relatively ineffective in intercepting this drone.&nbsp;While Ukrainian officials say four companies have developed interceptors to shoot down jet-powered drones, they are still in the testing phase.&nbsp;Earlier in August, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed a general to head the country's unmanned systems forces, which is its newly established military branch responsible for drone warfare.&nbsp;Now, the report comes just a week after Chinese President Xi Jinping met Putin on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Bishkek.&nbsp;While Xi stated that the prospects of China-Russia ties will be even more brighter, Putin hailed the comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction between the two countries.&nbsp;Although China has denied providing lethal weapons to any party in the Russia-Ukraine War, the report raises uncomfortable questions for the West, with Xi set to meet Trump in Washington later this month...&nbsp;Although China may not have troops fighting alongside Russia, its technology and supply chain can still help power Putin's war machine....

A Chinese state-owned firm named Jilin Chemical Fibre Group supplied at least 46 tonnes of carbon-fibre chemical to a Russian firm this year. This firm, a subsidiary of Russian state-owned company, used it to produce military-grade carbon fibre used for mass production of Kamikaze drones.

The Russia-Ukraine War has seen drones become extremely important weapons on the battlefield.... for both sides. A new report has now thrown light on how Beijing is helping Moscow sustain its large-scale aerial warfare... Meanwhile, Russia has expressed willingness for restarting Ukraine talks after US President Donald Trump's envoys visited Kyiv and Moscow in a new push for peace talks. In the latest from the battlefield, Ukraine reported a Russian drone strike at a shopping mall in Zaporizhia. Visuals showed firefighters trying to extinguish a large blaze in the aftermath of the attack, which did not result in any casualties. On the other hand, Russia claimed that one person was killed whereas four others were injured in an Ukrainian drone attack on a residential building in the country's Perm region. According to a joint investigation by the Telegraph and Politico, a Chinese state-owned firm named Jilin Chemical Fibre Group supplied at least 46 tonnes of carbon-fibre chemical to a Russian firm this year. This firm, which is a subsidiary of a Russian state-owned company, used it to produce military-grade carbon fibre which is used for the mass production of Kamikaze drones. These explosive-laden drones are designed to destroy a specific target in a single, self-sacrificial strike. This report also claimed that the shipments were disguised as synthetic chemical fibres to avert sanctions. https://www.wionews.com/videos/china-secretly-powers-putin-s-killer-drone-war-in-ukraine-1788804297858/embed At present, the Chinese firm in question is not facing any Western sanctions. Experts caution that the material sent by China might be enough for Russia to build at least thirteen hundred Kamikaze drones. According to the report, both the US House Select Committee on China and the Ukrainian government have reviewed the documents and determined they are legitimate. This is crucial, as the US had stated last year that it can impose sanctions to disrupt networks through which Russia procures technology and equipment from abroad to support its war effort. It is worth noting that US sanctioned two Chinese companies in October 2024 for their involvement in making Russia's long-range Garpiya drone. As of March this year, Ukraine claimed that Russia has fired over 57,000 Shahed-type drones on its territory. After the country innovated by producing indigenous interceptor drones designed to shoot down these drones, Russia then turned to jet power. According to the Ukrainian air force spokesperson, Russian forces fired over twenty-eight hundred jet-powered drones in August itself. After initially using Iran's Shahed drones, Russia began mass-producing its own versions called Gerans. Now, its most advanced version- Geran-5 is creating quite a flutter in Ukraine. It flies more like a low-cost cruise missile. According to the country's ministry of defence, its speed can touch 600 kilometres per hour, and it can strike targets close to 950 kilometres away, which is much more than its previous variants. Thus, Ukraine's existing air defence measures are relatively ineffective in intercepting this drone. While Ukrainian officials say four companies have developed interceptors to shoot down jet-powered drones, they are still in the testing phase. Earlier in August, Russian President Vladimir Putin appointed a general to head the country's unmanned systems forces, which is its newly established military branch responsible for drone warfare. Now, the report comes just a week after Chinese President Xi Jinping met Putin on the sidelines of the SCO Summit in Bishkek. While Xi stated that the prospects of China-Russia ties will be even more brighter, Putin hailed the comprehensive partnership and strategic interaction between the two countries. Although China has denied providing lethal weapons to any party in the Russia-Ukraine War, the report raises uncomfortable questions for the West, with Xi set to meet Trump in Washington later this month... Although China may not have troops fighting alongside Russia, its technology and supply chain can still help power Putin's war machine....

A Chinese state-owned firm named Jilin Chemical Fibre Group supplied at least 46 tonnes of carbon-fibre chemical to a Russian firm this year. This firm, a subsidiary of Russian state-owned company, used it to produce military-grade carbon fibre used for mass production of Kamikaze drones.

China secretly powers Putin's killer drone war in Ukraine | Gravitas

After the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffered a massive setback in Saxony-Anhalt, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday (September 7) considered it the “most severe election defeat” in years or decades. Merz said, "We are all deeply shocked. We did not expect it to turn out this way." He added that the election result will have significant repercussions. Pointing to the international attention surrounding the outcome, Merz also said appreciation for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) indicates “the level of international attention this result has garnered.” The ruling coalition of Germany, the CDU, has secured just 17 per cent of the vote, compared with almost 44 per cent for the anti-immigration and Russia-friendly AfD.<h3>CDU's most severe election defeat</h3>Over the inevitable outcome of the election, Merz said, “when nearly 60% of voters … cast their ballots for political parties that fundamentally call into question our country’s democratic institutions … it is an election result we cannot simply move past as if nothing happened.” He conceded that this was “the most severe election defeat the CDU has suffered in years, indeed in decades.” Sven Schulze, the CDU's defeated candidate for premier in Saxony-Anhalt, admitted that the AfD had earned the right to try forming a governing majority, even though it fell just short of the seats needed to govern on its own. “We are the opposition -– the mandate to govern now lies with the AfD,” Schulze said alongside Merz.&nbsp;Read More: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/israel-katz-threatens-full-scale-war-palestinian-authority-1788790189353">Israel Katz threatens 'full-scale war' against Palestinian Authority after Israeli settler stabbed in West Bank</a> Merz also conceded that his own weak approval ratings, along with criticism that his government had been slow to roll out reforms, had played a part in the CDU's poor showing. “I know that I personally was a constant topic in this election campaign. We know that the reforms were a constant topic in this election campaign,” AFP quoted him as saying. “We must try - I myself included - to reach people more effectively, including in the full range of their emotions,” he added.&nbsp;Despite this setback, the 70-year-old chancellor pledged to press ahead with his government's policy overhaul in areas such as the economy, pensions and healthcare, saying his resolve to continue on the reform path remained unshaken. “But I know that we must do more than just justify these reforms, mathematically, economically. We have to explain them better,” he said. “This is about nothing more and nothing less than the future of our country, and the opportunities of our children and grandchildren,” Merz further added.

The ruling coalition of Germany, the CDU, has secured just 17 per cent of the vote, compared with almost 44 per cent for the anti-immigration and Russia-friendly AfD.

After the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) suffered a massive setback in Saxony-Anhalt, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Monday (September 7) considered it the “most severe election defeat” in years or decades. Merz said, "We are all deeply shocked. We did not expect it to turn out this way." He added that the election result will have significant repercussions. Pointing to the international attention surrounding the outcome, Merz also said appreciation for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) indicates “the level of international attention this result has garnered.” The ruling coalition of Germany, the CDU, has secured just 17 per cent of the vote, compared with almost 44 per cent for the anti-immigration and Russia-friendly AfD. CDU's most severe election defeat Over the inevitable outcome of the election, Merz said, “when nearly 60% of voters … cast their ballots for political parties that fundamentally call into question our country’s democratic institutions … it is an election result we cannot simply move past as if nothing happened.” He conceded that this was “the most severe election defeat the CDU has suffered in years, indeed in decades.” Sven Schulze, the CDU's defeated candidate for premier in Saxony-Anhalt, admitted that the AfD had earned the right to try forming a governing majority, even though it fell just short of the seats needed to govern on its own. “We are the opposition -– the mandate to govern now lies with the AfD,” Schulze said alongside Merz. Read More: Israel Katz threatens 'full-scale war' against Palestinian Authority after Israeli settler stabbed in West Bank Merz also conceded that his own weak approval ratings, along with criticism that his government had been slow to roll out reforms, had played a part in the CDU's poor showing. “I know that I personally was a constant topic in this election campaign. We know that the reforms were a constant topic in this election campaign,” AFP quoted him as saying. “We must try - I myself included - to reach people more effectively, including in the full range of their emotions,” he added. Despite this setback, the 70-year-old chancellor pledged to press ahead with his government's policy overhaul in areas such as the economy, pensions and healthcare, saying his resolve to continue on the reform path remained unshaken. “But I know that we must do more than just justify these reforms, mathematically, economically. We have to explain them better,” he said. “This is about nothing more and nothing less than the future of our country, and the opportunities of our children and grandchildren,” Merz further added.

The ruling coalition of Germany, the CDU, has secured just 17 per cent of the vote, compared with almost 44 per cent for the anti-immigration and Russia-friendly AfD.

'Most severe election defeat': German Chancellor Merz shocked after CDU's worst lost in decades, warns of 'consequence'

As Tehran continues to resist US pressure, Pentagon has come in for fresh criticism. It has now been accused of trying to deny benefits to families of US soldiers who have died in the Iran war.This came to light after Libby Klinner, the widow of Major Alex Klinner, voiced her frustration on social media.&nbsp;She was reportedly told by a military officer that she was ineligible for certain combat-related benefits, citing that US is technically not at war.Major Klinner was one of the six crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft that crashed in western Iraq in March.&nbsp;After her social media post went viral, US Air Force officials contacted her to initiate a review of her husband’s pay. Subsequently, they clarified that she would be receiving the full pay and benefits her husband was owed, including hazard pay as well as combat-related tax breaks.&nbsp;In wake of this, Libby Klinner urged everyone to ensure that every martyr's family should get clarity on the benefits from the outset.&nbsp;18 US military personnel have been killed and 780 others have been wounded since the beginning of the Iran war.&nbsp;Also, multiple bases across West Asia have suffered damage running into billions of dollars due to Iranian retaliatory strikes.&nbsp;The American leadership has been trying to downplay the Iran war ahead of November's midterm elections.&nbsp;For instance, US Vice President JD Vance rejected using the word 'war' to characterise US operations in Iran, saying that there was no active shooting.&nbsp;US President Donald Trump also backed Vance's stance, adding that the operation against Iran is 'small potatoes' for America.&nbsp;Now, after CENTCOM forces struck three Iranian crude oil carriers over the weekend in response to IRGC's ballistic missile attack on US warships, Tehran issued a stern warning.&nbsp;Iran's parliament speaker and key negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf emphasised that every violation of his country's security and assets will be met with a faster, heavier and more painful response...&nbsp;This is not all.&nbsp;Iran wants to further strengthen its stranglehold over the Strait of Hormuz.&nbsp;In an interview, Iran's supreme national security council head, Mohsen Rezai, announced that Tehran will soon announce a restricted zone outside Hormuz.&nbsp;Any vessel entering this zone will be placed on Iran's sanctions list.&nbsp;Amid this, Iran also revealed that its negotiations with Oman regarding designating a safe route for passage of ships through Hormuz have reached the final stage...&nbsp;While there has been a temporary lull in attacks between US and Iran, Israel has intensified its attacks on Lebanon. Plumes of smoke were seen after a barrage of artillery fire by Israel.&nbsp;In overnight air strikes by IDF on a village in southern Lebanon, at least eleven people, including two children, were killed. Visuals showed a spate of destruction.&nbsp;Rescuers were seen desperately trying to search for survivors amid the rubble...&nbsp;Now, as depleting weapon stockpiles haunt US and West Asia continues to bear the brunt of Iran's retaliatory strikes, is there a growing rethink on America's role in the region?&nbsp;Qatar, for instance, advocated a focus on self-sufficiency.&nbsp;As US struggles to break the stalemate, former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta issued a warning.&nbsp;He opined that the Iran war risks becoming another 'forever war' in West Asia and is likely to continue for six more months without being resolved...

As many as 18 US military personnel have been killed and 780 others have been wounded since the beginning of the Iran war. Also, multiple bases across West Asia have suffered damage running into billions of dollars due to Iranian retaliatory strikes.

As Tehran continues to resist US pressure, Pentagon has come in for fresh criticism. It has now been accused of trying to deny benefits to families of US soldiers who have died in the Iran war. This came to light after Libby Klinner, the widow of Major Alex Klinner, voiced her frustration on social media. She was reportedly told by a military officer that she was ineligible for certain combat-related benefits, citing that US is technically not at war. Major Klinner was one of the six crew members of a KC-135 refueling aircraft that crashed in western Iraq in March. After her social media post went viral, US Air Force officials contacted her to initiate a review of her husband’s pay. Subsequently, they clarified that she would be receiving the full pay and benefits her husband was owed, including hazard pay as well as combat-related tax breaks. In wake of this, Libby Klinner urged everyone to ensure that every martyr's family should get clarity on the benefits from the outset. 18 US military personnel have been killed and 780 others have been wounded since the beginning of the Iran war. Also, multiple bases across West Asia have suffered damage running into billions of dollars due to Iranian retaliatory strikes. The American leadership has been trying to downplay the Iran war ahead of November's midterm elections. For instance, US Vice President JD Vance rejected using the word 'war' to characterise US operations in Iran, saying that there was no active shooting. US President Donald Trump also backed Vance's stance, adding that the operation against Iran is 'small potatoes' for America. Now, after CENTCOM forces struck three Iranian crude oil carriers over the weekend in response to IRGC's ballistic missile attack on US warships, Tehran issued a stern warning. Iran's parliament speaker and key negotiator Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf emphasised that every violation of his country's security and assets will be met with a faster, heavier and more painful response... This is not all. Iran wants to further strengthen its stranglehold over the Strait of Hormuz. In an interview, Iran's supreme national security council head, Mohsen Rezai, announced that Tehran will soon announce a restricted zone outside Hormuz. Any vessel entering this zone will be placed on Iran's sanctions list. Amid this, Iran also revealed that its negotiations with Oman regarding designating a safe route for passage of ships through Hormuz have reached the final stage... While there has been a temporary lull in attacks between US and Iran, Israel has intensified its attacks on Lebanon. Plumes of smoke were seen after a barrage of artillery fire by Israel. In overnight air strikes by IDF on a village in southern Lebanon, at least eleven people, including two children, were killed. Visuals showed a spate of destruction. Rescuers were seen desperately trying to search for survivors amid the rubble... Now, as depleting weapon stockpiles haunt US and West Asia continues to bear the brunt of Iran's retaliatory strikes, is there a growing rethink on America's role in the region? Qatar, for instance, advocated a focus on self-sufficiency. As US struggles to break the stalemate, former Pentagon chief Leon Panetta issued a warning. He opined that the Iran war risks becoming another 'forever war' in West Asia and is likely to continue for six more months without being resolved...

As many as 18 US military personnel have been killed and 780 others have been wounded since the beginning of the Iran war. Also, multiple bases across West Asia have suffered damage running into billions of dollars due to Iranian retaliatory strikes.

Did US refuse payout for soldier killed in Iran War? Pentagon faces fresh scrutiny | Gravitas

The MAGA movement in the US has celebrated the result in Saxony-Anhalt: the extreme right AfD (Alternative for Germany) secured a historic landslide win for the first time since the fall of the Third Reich. They secured 43.8 per cent of the vote in the ex-communist east, putting them far ahead of the centre-right CDU (Christian Democratic Union). This is their highest-ever percentage in a state election.&nbsp;The AfD explicitly borrowed the Trump playbook during the campaign with catchphrases resembling those of MAGA: “make Germany great again”, using anti immigration, anti-woke, ultra-nationalistic, highly Islamophobic, and Euro-sceptic rhetoric. US President Donald Trump swiftly posted the Saxony-Anhalt exit poll on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, though he did not explicitly respond to the election results on Sunday.&nbsp;Former US ambassador to Germany during Trump's first term, Richard Grenell, celebrated the results as "a huge win and a new day in Germany." He claimed that people are “ready to change”. The richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, also joined in reposting the AfD's co-leader Alice Weidel's post, “Well done!”Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/israel-katz-threatens-full-scale-war-palestinian-authority-1788790189353">Israel Katz threatens 'full-scale war' against Palestinian Authority after Israeli settler stabbed in West Bank</a>The victorious AfD candidate, Ulrich Siegmund, who ran an explicitly Trump-inspired campaign, publicly thanked Musk and expressed eagerness for future "strong and constructive cooperation."&nbsp;“Thank you, @elonmusk, for your support and for your clear and highly important perspective on the political developments of our time — including here in Germany,” said Ulrich Siegmund in a post on X.Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev framed the result as “historic” and total “humiliation” for Friedrich Merz. He said the national government led by the centre-right Friedrich Merz's CDU (Christian Democratic Union) was "discredited." Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán hailed the political developments as "a huge night for Germany and Europe." Spain's right-wing Vox party framed it as a beacon of "great hope." &nbsp;While support from European far-right parties is ideological, Russian support is a more strategic choice. The German government is the single largest donor to Ukraine; in comparison, the AfD is considered more favourable to Russia, as it advocates cutting aid to Ukraine, halting sanctions on Moscow and starting to purchase cheap Russian energy.Similarly, the support from MAGA is not merely ideological but part of the US national security strategy. The December 2025 US National Security Strategy document explicitly advocates for supporting nationalist and populist movements, providing tangible support to the far-right ecosystem in Europe to cultivate a resistance to the current trajectory of European nations. The document claimed that Europe faces "the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure" due to unregulated immigration, cratering birth rates, and "regulatory suffocation" by transnational bodies like the EU.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;

The MAGA movement has celebrated the AfD's landslide victory in Saxony-Anhalt, highlighting growing links between Trump's political movement and Germany's far right.

The MAGA movement in the US has celebrated the result in Saxony-Anhalt: the extreme right AfD (Alternative for Germany) secured a historic landslide win for the first time since the fall of the Third Reich. They secured 43.8 per cent of the vote in the ex-communist east, putting them far ahead of the centre-right CDU (Christian Democratic Union). This is their highest-ever percentage in a state election. The AfD explicitly borrowed the Trump playbook during the campaign with catchphrases resembling those of MAGA: “make Germany great again”, using anti immigration, anti-woke, ultra-nationalistic, highly Islamophobic, and Euro-sceptic rhetoric. US President Donald Trump swiftly posted the Saxony-Anhalt exit poll on his Truth Social platform on Sunday, though he did not explicitly respond to the election results on Sunday. Former US ambassador to Germany during Trump's first term, Richard Grenell, celebrated the results as "a huge win and a new day in Germany." He claimed that people are “ready to change”. The richest man on the planet, Elon Musk, also joined in reposting the AfD's co-leader Alice Weidel's post, “Well done!” Also Read: Israel Katz threatens 'full-scale war' against Palestinian Authority after Israeli settler stabbed in West Bank The victorious AfD candidate, Ulrich Siegmund, who ran an explicitly Trump-inspired campaign, publicly thanked Musk and expressed eagerness for future "strong and constructive cooperation." “Thank you, @elonmusk, for your support and for your clear and highly important perspective on the political developments of our time — including here in Germany,” said Ulrich Siegmund in a post on X. Russian Direct Investment Fund CEO Kirill Dmitriev framed the result as “historic” and total “humiliation” for Friedrich Merz. He said the national government led by the centre-right Friedrich Merz's CDU (Christian Democratic Union) was "discredited." Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orbán hailed the political developments as "a huge night for Germany and Europe." Spain's right-wing Vox party framed it as a beacon of "great hope." While support from European far-right parties is ideological, Russian support is a more strategic choice. The German government is the single largest donor to Ukraine; in comparison, the AfD is considered more favourable to Russia, as it advocates cutting aid to Ukraine, halting sanctions on Moscow and starting to purchase cheap Russian energy. Similarly, the support from MAGA is not merely ideological but part of the US national security strategy. The December 2025 US National Security Strategy document explicitly advocates for supporting nationalist and populist movements, providing tangible support to the far-right ecosystem in Europe to cultivate a resistance to the current trajectory of European nations. The document claimed that Europe faces "the real and more stark prospect of civilizational erasure" due to unregulated immigration, cratering birth rates, and "regulatory suffocation" by transnational bodies like the EU.

The MAGA movement has celebrated the AfD's landslide victory in Saxony-Anhalt, highlighting growing links between Trump's political movement and Germany's far right.

MAGA rejoices as far-right AfD wins in Germany for first time since Third Reich

Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz has threatened a "full-scale war" against the Palestinian Authority if its security mechanisms or any bodies were preparing for an October-7 style against Israeli forces and its settlements. The statement comes after an Israeli settler was stabbed in the occupied West Bank on Monday.“If … the Palestinian Authority’s security mechanisms and related bodies initiate, or we know with certainty that they are about to initiate, a terror attack in the style of October 7 against [Israeli] forces and Jewish settlements — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have instructed the (military)to prepare for the opening of a full-scale war,” said Israel Katz.Katz said that the military campaign will target all "senior leadership and mechanisms" and would include "targeted killings of senior figures" as well as “evacuation of residents from the cities and villages from which all terror activities are carried out”. He said that the operation would emulate the so-called “security zones” in which the Israeli military now operates in the West Bank.Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/who-is-sanjeev-khirwar-mcd-commissioner-delhi-building-collapse-1788783455277">Who is Sanjeev Khirwar? MCD chief involved in dog walking row faces resignation calls after Satya Niketan building collapse</a>The 20-year-old Israeli settler was stabbed multiple times in the early hours of Monday, September 7, at an illegal Israeli settlement near the village of Usarin in the Nablus governorate. The Israeli military, shortly after the incident, shot and killed the 19-year-old Palestinian assailant after chasing him. Al Jazeera reported that several Palestinian villages were in lockdown following the incident. The attack comes amid a flare-up of settler outpost violence in the West Bank. Just hours before the incident, the Israeli military shot and killed a Palestinian during a village raid conducted by Israeli settlers in the nearby village of Hajja."We will continue to eliminate terrorists, hunt down those who dispatch them, and destroy the terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria," he said in a statement, using the Biblical term for the West Bank. He vowed that “No terrorist can hide.” In response to the attack, Hamas have called for escalation of resistance and engaging with the enemy soldiers.&nbsp;&nbsp;

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has warned of a full-scale war against the Palestinian Authority if its security forces prepare an October 7-style attack.

Israel's Defence Minister Israel Katz has threatened a "full-scale war" against the Palestinian Authority if its security mechanisms or any bodies were preparing for an October-7 style against Israeli forces and its settlements. The statement comes after an Israeli settler was stabbed in the occupied West Bank on Monday. “If … the Palestinian Authority’s security mechanisms and related bodies initiate, or we know with certainty that they are about to initiate, a terror attack in the style of October 7 against [Israeli] forces and Jewish settlements — Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and I have instructed the (military)to prepare for the opening of a full-scale war,” said Israel Katz. Katz said that the military campaign will target all "senior leadership and mechanisms" and would include "targeted killings of senior figures" as well as “evacuation of residents from the cities and villages from which all terror activities are carried out”. He said that the operation would emulate the so-called “security zones” in which the Israeli military now operates in the West Bank. Also Read: Who is Sanjeev Khirwar? MCD chief involved in dog walking row faces resignation calls after Satya Niketan building collapse The 20-year-old Israeli settler was stabbed multiple times in the early hours of Monday, September 7, at an illegal Israeli settlement near the village of Usarin in the Nablus governorate. The Israeli military, shortly after the incident, shot and killed the 19-year-old Palestinian assailant after chasing him. Al Jazeera reported that several Palestinian villages were in lockdown following the incident. The attack comes amid a flare-up of settler outpost violence in the West Bank. Just hours before the incident, the Israeli military shot and killed a Palestinian during a village raid conducted by Israeli settlers in the nearby village of Hajja. "We will continue to eliminate terrorists, hunt down those who dispatch them, and destroy the terrorist infrastructure in Judea and Samaria," he said in a statement, using the Biblical term for the West Bank. He vowed that “No terrorist can hide.” In response to the attack, Hamas have called for escalation of resistance and engaging with the enemy soldiers.

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has warned of a full-scale war against the Palestinian Authority if its security forces prepare an October 7-style attack.

Israel Katz threatens 'full-scale war' against Palestinian Authority after Israeli settler stabbed in West Bank

After decades of frustration over its inability to win even a single military conflict with India, Pakistan finally appears to have discovered a revolutionary new way to win a war—via an animation video.&nbsp;On the occasion of Air Force Day on September 7, the Pakistan Air Force released an AI-generated video titled “Fizaon ke Pasban,” an animated extravaganza presenting its “dream version” of the 2025 Operation Sindoor conflict outcomes.&nbsp;In the highly imaginative video, Pakistani missiles and drones perform near-magical feats—penetrating deep into India, hitting 32 Indian Air Force bases, destroying two S-400 systems, crippling fuel supplies and disrupting the national power grid.&nbsp;The cartoon does not stop there, as Indian Parliament, Kandla Port and even INS Vikrant appear as fantasy strike achievements of Pakistan’s digital battlefield triumph.&nbsp;<h2>Video invites ridicule, analysts call it mockery of Pakistan’s Air Force</h2>&nbsp;The video has invited ridicule, with critics questioning whether it was correct to turn to computer graphics on an occasion marking the history and achievements of Pakistan’s Air Force.&nbsp;The animated video released by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) depicts dramatic, heavily fabricated strikes on major strategic targets in Indian territory.&nbsp;Analysts and experts see the video as Pakistan’s response to a highly publicised Discovery documentary on Operation Sindoor that showcased massive verifiable damage to Pakistan’s air assets—including the destruction of multiple Pakistani F-16 and JF-17 jets on the ground and in the air, alongside structural damage to 11 Pakistani airbases.&nbsp;Unlike the satellite imagery documenting damage at Pakistani air bases, the video offers no independent evidence for its sweeping claims.&nbsp;The graphics from the video invoke laughter. One graphic declares “32 IAF BASES HIT”, another one claims four Rafales, one Su-30MKI, one MiG-29, one Mirage-2000 and one Heron UAV were destroyed. Other sequences depict S-400 systems being hit, and missiles flying towards Indian cities.&nbsp;&nbsp;<h2>No satellite imagery, before-and-after photographs, or verifiable images&nbsp;</h2>&nbsp;Quite expectedly, the PAF video does not have any satellite imagery, before-and-after photographs, or verifiable photographs of destruction across the border.&nbsp;&nbsp;The contrast is striking. When India struck Pakistani military infrastructure, satellite imagery provided a very different kind of record. A Washington Post analysis of more than two dozen satellite images and aftermath videos found damage across at least six Pakistani airfields, including three heavily damaged hangars, two runways and two mobile buildings used by the Pakistan Air Force.&nbsp;&nbsp;The Washington Post described the strikes as the most extensive Indian air attacks on Pakistani military infrastructure since the 1971 war.&nbsp;&nbsp;The imagery showed damage at sites including Nur Khan, Bholari, Shahbaz, Sukkur and Mushaf.&nbsp;&nbsp;At Bholari, analysts identified a large hole in an aircraft hangar. At Shahbaz, another large hangar was damaged along with a control tower, while runway craters were visible at Mushaf and Sheikh Zayed International Airport. That is what military damage looks like, but then it is not like Pakistan’s PowerPoint presentation.&nbsp;The video repeats the old claim of destroying two Indian S-400 air defence systems and the claim is not new.&nbsp;&nbsp;<h2>PIB had debunked claims, PM Modi visited Adampur station</h2>&nbsp;India’s Press Information Bureau’s Fact Check unit had debunked reports of destruction or damage to an S-400 as baseless. And just days later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released photographs featuring himself standing in front of an intact S-400 air defence system during a surprise visit to the Adampur Air Force Station in Punjab.&nbsp;The images were a visual and actual rebuttal to false claims by the Pakistani military that it had destroyed the base and the Russian-supplied S-400 battery during Operation Sindoor.&nbsp;&nbsp;The video claims eight Indian aircraft were destroyed, with the graphic specifically listing four Rafales, a Su-30MKI, MiG-29, Mirage-2000 and Heron UAV.&nbsp;India’s Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan had rejected the larger claim, describing the Pakistani figure as “absolutely incorrect” and saying India changed its tactics after the initial losses before carrying out further strikes.&nbsp;&nbsp;The propaganda war eventually produced an interesting reversal. In August 2025, Indian Air Chief Marshal AP Singh said India had shot down five Pakistani fighter jets and one other military aircraft during the conflict, with most of the Pakistani aircraft, according to him, being downed by India’s S-400 system. He cited electronic tracking data as confirmation.&nbsp;&nbsp;The modern war involves cyber operations, electronic warfare and disruption, but it does not resort to the use of animation to project a victory that was never achieved.

The video has invited ridicule, with critics questioning whether it was correct to turn to computer graphics on an occasion marking the history and achievements of Pakistan’s Air Force. Analysts see the video as Pakistan’s response to the Discovery documentary on Operation Sindoor.

After decades of frustration over its inability to win even a single military conflict with India, Pakistan finally appears to have discovered a revolutionary new way to win a war—via an animation video. On the occasion of Air Force Day on September 7, the Pakistan Air Force released an AI-generated video titled “Fizaon ke Pasban,” an animated extravaganza presenting its “dream version” of the 2025 Operation Sindoor conflict outcomes. In the highly imaginative video, Pakistani missiles and drones perform near-magical feats—penetrating deep into India, hitting 32 Indian Air Force bases, destroying two S-400 systems, crippling fuel supplies and disrupting the national power grid. The cartoon does not stop there, as Indian Parliament, Kandla Port and even INS Vikrant appear as fantasy strike achievements of Pakistan’s digital battlefield triumph. Video invites ridicule, analysts call it mockery of Pakistan’s Air Force The video has invited ridicule, with critics questioning whether it was correct to turn to computer graphics on an occasion marking the history and achievements of Pakistan’s Air Force. The animated video released by the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) depicts dramatic, heavily fabricated strikes on major strategic targets in Indian territory. Analysts and experts see the video as Pakistan’s response to a highly publicised Discovery documentary on Operation Sindoor that showcased massive verifiable damage to Pakistan’s air assets—including the destruction of multiple Pakistani F-16 and JF-17 jets on the ground and in the air, alongside structural damage to 11 Pakistani airbases. Unlike the satellite imagery documenting damage at Pakistani air bases, the video offers no independent evidence for its sweeping claims. The graphics from the video invoke laughter. One graphic declares “32 IAF BASES HIT”, another one claims four Rafales, one Su-30MKI, one MiG-29, one Mirage-2000 and one Heron UAV were destroyed. Other sequences depict S-400 systems being hit, and missiles flying towards Indian cities. No satellite imagery, before-and-after photographs, or verifiable images Quite expectedly, the PAF video does not have any satellite imagery, before-and-after photographs, or verifiable photographs of destruction across the border. The contrast is striking. When India struck Pakistani military infrastructure, satellite imagery provided a very different kind of record. A Washington Post analysis of more than two dozen satellite images and aftermath videos found damage across at least six Pakistani airfields, including three heavily damaged hangars, two runways and two mobile buildings used by the Pakistan Air Force. The Washington Post described the strikes as the most extensive Indian air attacks on Pakistani military infrastructure since the 1971 war. The imagery showed damage at sites including Nur Khan, Bholari, Shahbaz, Sukkur and Mushaf. At Bholari, analysts identified a large hole in an aircraft hangar. At Shahbaz, another large hangar was damaged along with a control tower, while runway craters were visible at Mushaf and Sheikh Zayed International Airport. That is what military damage looks like, but then it is not like Pakistan’s PowerPoint presentation. The video repeats the old claim of destroying two Indian S-400 air defence systems and the claim is not new. PIB had debunked claims, PM Modi visited Adampur station India’s Press Information Bureau’s Fact Check unit had debunked reports of destruction or damage to an S-400 as baseless. And just days later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi released photographs featuring himself standing in front of an intact S-400 air defence system during a surprise visit to the Adampur Air Force Station in Punjab. The images were a visual and actual rebuttal to false claims by the Pakistani military that it had destroyed the base and the Russian-supplied S-400 battery during Operation Sindoor. The video claims eight Indian aircraft were destroyed, with the graphic specifically listing four Rafales, a Su-30MKI, MiG-29, Mirage-2000 and Heron UAV. India’s Chief of Defence Staff General Anil Chauhan had rejected the larger claim, describing the Pakistani figure as “absolutely incorrect” and saying India changed its tactics after the initial losses before carrying out further strikes. The propaganda war eventually produced an interesting reversal. In August 2025, Indian Air Chief Marshal AP Singh said India had shot down five Pakistani fighter jets and one other military aircraft during the conflict, with most of the Pakistani aircraft, according to him, being downed by India’s S-400 system. He cited electronic tracking data as confirmation. The modern war involves cyber operations, electronic warfare and disruption, but it does not resort to the use of animation to project a victory that was never achieved.

The video has invited ridicule, with critics questioning whether it was correct to turn to computer graphics on an occasion marking the history and achievements of Pakistan’s Air Force. Analysts see the video as Pakistan’s response to the Discovery documentary on Operation Sindoor.

Pa(c)k of lies: Pakistan’s AI ‘victory’ video claims hits on 32 IAF bases, 8 aircraft, 2 S-400s and Indian Parliament

US President Donald Trump has again switched on his renaming drive, suggesting New Mexico should be called “New America." On Sunday, Trump posted an image on Truth Social depicting the outline of New Mexico, showing “Mexico" crossed out and “America" written in its place. The development unfolded days after he signed an executive order to change Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” Later, the White House reposted the same image on its social media platform X. “Many people suggested changing the name of New Mexico… to NEW AMERICA," Trump wrote. “So much more prestigious and beautiful for the people of that potentially incredible State. Wow, I Love It!!!"&nbsp;Also read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/jamaica-reparations-king-charles-trans-atlantic-slave-trade-1788779699143">Jamaica seeks £7.6billion reparations from King Charles III over trans-Atlantic slave trade</a><h3>No official announcement yet</h3>However, there has been no official announcement from Trump's end or the White House to actually rename the state as it indicates in the post. Trump's post comes after a series of similar decisions and suggestions from the US president that included the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America" for official US use. In addition, he also directed an order last month to call Lake Ontario “Lake America". Unlike some geographic names, a US president can't just change a state's official legal name through an executive order. According to CNN, making such a change official would need more than just a presidential post on social media. This is what sets the New Mexico suggestion apart from Trump's earlier actions involving the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, where his administration had ordered the US government to start using new names. Trump's proposal quickly faced pushback from New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. The state’s name “isn’t up for debate; it’s been ours since before the United States existed," she wrote in a post on X on Sunday. Grisham also accused Trump of attempting to distract attention from other problems, claiming, “While the President tries to distract Americans from his disastrous war in Iran, gas prices keep soaring." “While the White House wastes time colouring on maps, Nuevo Mexico is busy doing the work," she said.&nbsp;

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><a href="https://t.co/Jh3DHXnflT">pic.twitter.com/Jh3DHXnflT</a>&mdash; The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2096657477928448250?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 6, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Donald Trump's post comes after a series of similar decisions and suggestions from the US president that included the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America" for official US use. 

US President Donald Trump has again switched on his renaming drive, suggesting New Mexico should be called “New America." On Sunday, Trump posted an image on Truth Social depicting the outline of New Mexico, showing “Mexico" crossed out and “America" written in its place. The development unfolded days after he signed an executive order to change Lake Ontario to “Lake America.” Later, the White House reposted the same image on its social media platform X. “Many people suggested changing the name of New Mexico… to NEW AMERICA," Trump wrote. “So much more prestigious and beautiful for the people of that potentially incredible State. Wow, I Love It!!!" Also read: Jamaica seeks £7.6billion reparations from King Charles III over trans-Atlantic slave trade No official announcement yet However, there has been no official announcement from Trump's end or the White House to actually rename the state as it indicates in the post. Trump's post comes after a series of similar decisions and suggestions from the US president that included the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America" for official US use. In addition, he also directed an order last month to call Lake Ontario “Lake America". Unlike some geographic names, a US president can't just change a state's official legal name through an executive order. According to CNN, making such a change official would need more than just a presidential post on social media. This is what sets the New Mexico suggestion apart from Trump's earlier actions involving the Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, where his administration had ordered the US government to start using new names. Trump's proposal quickly faced pushback from New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. The state’s name “isn’t up for debate; it’s been ours since before the United States existed," she wrote in a post on X on Sunday. Grisham also accused Trump of attempting to distract attention from other problems, claiming, “While the President tries to distract Americans from his disastrous war in Iran, gas prices keep soaring." “While the White House wastes time colouring on maps, Nuevo Mexico is busy doing the work," she said.

Donald Trump's post comes after a series of similar decisions and suggestions from the US president that included the renaming of the Gulf of Mexico as the “Gulf of America" for official US use.&nbsp;

After Gulf of Mexico and Lake Ontario, Trump now wants to rename New Mexico to 'New America'

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Hafiz Talha Saeed has once again issued a threat to India, saying his outfit will bring jihad to Delhi. In a recent speech, the banned LeT leader also referred to the “legacy" of Muslim rule in the Indian subcontinent.&nbsp;The UN-designated terrorist, who reportedly enjoys the backing of Pakistan’s military, said he was among those who had taken an oath to wage jihad, and pledged that this campaign would go on for as long as they had the strength to continue it. “We are those who took the pledge of jihad at the hands of the Noble Prophet Muhammad," Saeed said. “As long as we are alive and have strength within us, we will continue this jihad and keep offering these sacrifices," he added.&nbsp;He also praised Pakistan's military leadership and claimed that Pakistan has a historic and religious role that stretches beyond its current borders.&nbsp;Also read:<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/is-china-supplying-material-for-1-300-kamikaze-drones-to-russia-here-s-what-report-says-1788781881212"> Is China supplying material for 1,300 Kamikaze drones to Russia? Here's what report says</a><h3>Saeed on India's history</h3>Saeed then turned to India's history, seemingly trying to frame the current political rivalry between India and Pakistan as part of a much bigger historical narrative. “Here, in this subcontinent, Muslims ruled for 500 years," he claimed.&nbsp;He then went on to directly attack the Indian leadership based in Delhi and asked, “On what basis do the anti-Pakistan rulers sitting in Delhi speak today?" adding, “Have they forgotten history who Delhi belonged to, and to whom all these regions of India belonged?"&nbsp;Saeed maintained that his remarks were based on what he called historical facts. “I am not saying anything contrary to history, or anything wrong, or anything against the facts," he said.&nbsp;Also read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/man-kills-wife-stores-her-severed-head-and-chopped-fingers-in-fridge-arrested-1788785818077">Man kills wife, stores her severed head and chopped fingers in fridge; arrested</a>

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Hafiz Talha Saeed said he was among those who had taken an oath to wage jihad, and pledged that this campaign would go on for as long as they had the strength to continue it.

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Hafiz Talha Saeed has once again issued a threat to India, saying his outfit will bring jihad to Delhi. In a recent speech, the banned LeT leader also referred to the “legacy" of Muslim rule in the Indian subcontinent. The UN-designated terrorist, who reportedly enjoys the backing of Pakistan’s military, said he was among those who had taken an oath to wage jihad, and pledged that this campaign would go on for as long as they had the strength to continue it. “We are those who took the pledge of jihad at the hands of the Noble Prophet Muhammad," Saeed said. “As long as we are alive and have strength within us, we will continue this jihad and keep offering these sacrifices," he added. He also praised Pakistan's military leadership and claimed that Pakistan has a historic and religious role that stretches beyond its current borders. Also read: Is China supplying material for 1,300 Kamikaze drones to Russia? Here's what report says Saeed on India's history Saeed then turned to India's history, seemingly trying to frame the current political rivalry between India and Pakistan as part of a much bigger historical narrative. “Here, in this subcontinent, Muslims ruled for 500 years," he claimed. He then went on to directly attack the Indian leadership based in Delhi and asked, “On what basis do the anti-Pakistan rulers sitting in Delhi speak today?" adding, “Have they forgotten history who Delhi belonged to, and to whom all these regions of India belonged?" Saeed maintained that his remarks were based on what he called historical facts. “I am not saying anything contrary to history, or anything wrong, or anything against the facts," he said. Also read: Man kills wife, stores her severed head and chopped fingers in fridge; arrested

Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) terrorist Hafiz Talha Saeed said he was among those who had taken an oath to wage jihad, and pledged that this campaign would go on for as long as they had the strength to continue it.

'Will continue jihad': UN-designated terrorist Hafiz Saeed's son invokes '500 years' of Muslim rule

Latest News Today Live Updates: The death toll from the multi-storey building collapse in South West Delhi's Satya Niketan area has risen to six, while 11 people have been successfully rescued. Delhi CM has ordered magisterial inquiry and has ordered an FIR against building owner.The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rejected claims of a possible move to privatise the agency or reduce its role, days after reports said nine associations representing thousands of ISRO employees had sought clarification over a proposal to hand the space agency’s manufacturing and operational work to private entities.Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India-France relations have entered a new phase, with the two countries strengthening their strategic partnership across technology, artificial intelligence, defence, space and climate action. Addressing the virtual inauguration of the Swaminarayan temple in Paris, Modi said the new temple could become a lasting symbol of cooperation and shared opportunities between India and France.Heavy fighting between Yemeni government forces and Houthi rebels in southwest Yemen has left over 300 people dead, as an offensive by the rebel group forces hundreds of families to abandon their homes. The renewed violence marks the deadliest escalation in the country since a long-standing ceasefire collapsed.Meanwhile, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) launched targeted strikes disabling and destroying three Iranian crude oil carriers (including the M/T Kylo near Kharg Island) in the Gulf of Oman. The strikes were in retaliation for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) firing ballistic missiles at patrolling U.S. Navy warships.Stay with us for more latest news, breaking updates and developments as they unfold.

Rescue operation at the Satya Niketan building collapse site cleared of debris. No further casualties were found at the site.

Rescue operation at Satya Niketan building cleared of debris, no further casualties found

Israeli air strikes across southern Lebanon over the past three days have killed at least 27 people and wounded 69 including children, women, and medical personnel. The deadliest single strike occurred on the town of Kfar Reman in Nabatieh district where an attack on a residential building killed 11 people, the Health Ministry said.

Lebanon toll rises to 27 dead, 69 wounded in 3 days of Israeli strikes

After meeting with French Justice Minister Gerard Darmanin, Lebanese President Joseph Aoun stated that Israel is undermining a US-brokered deal with continued strikes on southern Lebanon. “We entered into direct negotiations and signed a framework agreement under American sponsorship,” Aoun said during their meeting at Baabda Palace. “Unfortunately, Lebanon abides by the agreement while Israel does not stop offering pretexts to justify its aggression.”

Lebanon leader and French minister on Israel’s ongoing attacks

US President Donald Trump has again switched on his renaming drive, suggesting New Mexico should be called “New America." On Sunday, Trump posted an image on Truth Social depicting the outline of New Mexico, showing “Mexico" crossed out and “America" written in its place. The development unfolded days after he signed an executive order to change Lake Ontario to “Lake America.”

Trump now wants to rename New Mexico to 'New America'

In connection with the Satya Niketan building collapse case, Delhi Police have arrested building owner Hariram, his wife Urmila, and their son Mahesh, according to ANI.

Satya Niketan building owner Hariram, his wife Urmila, and their son Mahesh arrested

The Patiala House Courts in New Delhi, on Monday, September 07, sent Hindutva ‘influencer’ Swatantra Bhardwaj to 14-days in judicial custody in relation to the Janatar Mantar assault case on the father of Dalit activist Nishu Azad. The arrest and subsequent judicial remand follow the public outrage over a viral video podcast where Bhardwaj boasted that he had "cracked the skull" of Sanjay Kumar on June 23 and escaped without being arrested.

'Influencer' Swatantra Bhardwaj sent to 14-day judicial custody 

The Delhi High Court on Monday (September 7) ordered the MCD to launch the highest executive-level inquiry into the collapse of the building at Satya Niketan, calling the incident “unfortunate”. The incident has claimed the lives of at least seven people, prompting the MCD to suspend five officials from its South Zone with immediate effect.<a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/delhi-building-collapse-hc-orders-mcd-to-launch-high-level-inquiry-after-incident-claims-7-lives-1788778322846">READ MORE</a>

Delhi building collapse: HC orders MCD to launch high-level inquiry after incident claims 7 lives

The Jamaican Government is seeking £7.6billion in slavery reparations from King Charles III for the ravages of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It has formally petitioned the King to refer the matter to a Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which serves as the highest court for former colonies that retain ties to the British legal system.<a href="The Jamaican Government is seeking £7.6billion in slavery reparations from King Charles III for the ravages of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It has formally petitioned the King to refer the matter to a Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which serves as the highest court for former colonies that retain ties to the British legal system.">READ MORE</a>

Jamaica seeks £7.6billion reparations from King Charles III over trans-Atlantic slave trade

Drone movement at the runway of the Amritsar airport on Sunday night (Sep 6) prompted immediate security response with authorities immediately diverting at least seven flights to New Delhi. The incident was reported as multiple suspected drones were seen around the operational area of Amritsar International Airport, news agency PTI reported. Later, the airport authority confirmed that drones were too close to the runway. Security was tightened at the airport and surrounding areas as Punjab Police and other central security agencies were alerted.<a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/drone-movement-near-amritsar-airport-7-flights-diverted-to-delhi-security-heightened-1788768509659">Read more</a>

Drones spotted near Amritsar airport runway: 7 flights diverted to Delhi, security heightened: What actually happened

The owner of the five-storey boys’ paying guest (PG) accommodation in Delhi’s Satya Niketan area that collapsed on Sep 6 has been apprehended by police. He has been identified as Hariram Bansal and was apprehended by police from Bhiwadi in Rajasthan, near the Haryana border. A case was registered against him in the matter after Delhi CM Rekha Gupta ordered a magisterial inquiry, while MCD ordered action against illegal constructions. The FIR against Bansal was registered under Sections 105, 290 and 125(a) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS), relating to culpable homicide not amounting to murder, negligent conduct in connection with construction or repair of buildings, and acts endangering life or personal safety. He is currently being questioned.<a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/delhi-building-collapse-owner-hariram-bansal-arrested-by-police-in-rajasthan-s-bhiwadi-1788770864963">Read more</a>

Delhi building collapse: PG owner Hariram Bansal apprehended by police in Rajasthan's Bhiwadi

More than a century after magnetic levitation was first conceptualised by early 20th-century inventors, the dream of wingless flight on rails has matured into an intense geopolitical race. In East Asia, floating trains travelling at a staggering 370 mph (600 km/h) are positioning high-speed rail to rival commercial air travel.At the centre of this technological leap are China and Japan, two nations leveraging advanced electromagnetic physics to redefine ground transport. A commercial flight throttles at 550 mph (885 km/h), and the maglev train can almost fly at 370 mph (600 km/h), contrary to the standard high-speed variant, which zooms at 217 mph (350 km/h).<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/faster-than-planes-china-and-japan-s-600kmph-maglevs-trains-aim-to-replace-air-travel-1788770298145">Read more</a>

Faster than planes? China and Japan’s 600kmph maglevs trains aim to replace air travel

In a bid to create a "fair world" with a "fair map", the United Nations voted for a world map to reflect the true size of Africa. While on the current map it appears similar to Greenland, the continent is actually 14 times larger than the island. Its size means that it can fit "the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico and much of Europe" with land to spare, according to online campaign group #CorrectTheMap. Africa can also comfortably fit three Canadas.<a href="https://www.wionews.com/trending/putting-3d-on-2d-surface-why-is-africa-s-true-size-not-shown-on-the-world-map-1788757697609">Read more</a>

Putting 3D on 2D surface - Why is Africa's true size not shown on the world map?

BRICS has evolved from an economic acronym coined by Goldman Sachs into a major forum for political, economic and diplomatic cooperation among countries of the Global South, with its 18th summit set to be hosted in Delhi this weekend. The history of BRICS spans 25 years, while it has crossed two decades as a formal grouping. Starting with four emerging economies, it currently boasts of 11 full members and a growing network of partner countries.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/how-brics-evolved-in-20-years-full-timeline-of-members-expansion-and-major-summits-brics-summit-new-delhi-2026-news-1788767833400">Here is a timeline tracing that story:</a>

How BRICS evolved in 20 years: Full timeline of members, expansion and major summits

Iran’s Foreign Ministry on Monday warned South Korea against deploying military forces or participating in US operations in the Strait of Hormuz, warning that any such involvement could have ‘serious consequences’. Seoul said on Friday that it was considering contributing to US-led security efforts in the strategically vital waterway, which Tehran has largely controlled since the war started.

Iran warns South Korea against involvement in Hormuz

&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;As per the directions of Chief Minister Smt. Rekha Gupta in the Satya Niketan incident.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;MCD Deputy Commissioner, Executive Engineer, Superintending Engineer, Assistant Engineer and Junior Engineer suspended.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; CMO Delhi (@CMODelhi) &lt;a href="https://x.com/CMODelhi/status/2096869761917604241?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;September 7, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

Delhi building collapse: MCD Deputy Commissioner, executive engineer, superintending engineer, assistant engineer and junior engineer suspended

Following the building collapse in Delhi's Satya Niketan area, Delhi's civic body has suspended south zone deputy commissioner and four other officials.

Delhi building collapse: Key officer, four civic body officials suspended

The Trump administration has again appealed to the US Supreme Court to implement its restrictions on mail-in voting after a federal judge blocked the US Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing key parts of the rules ahead of the November midterm elections. Critics say the measures could restrict access to mail-in voting, which is a major and potentially decisive part of US elections. The Trump administration claims the restrictions are intended to ensure that ineligible people, including non-US citizens, do not receive or cast federal-election ballots. The court battle is heating up even as states have started sending ballots for the November 3 polls.<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/is-trump-trying-to-control-midterm-postal-ballots-supreme-court-decision-could-affect-one-third-of-votes-1788514262043">Read here</a>

Is Trump trying to control midterm postal ballots? Supreme Court decision could affect one-third of votes

In a bid to create a "fair world" with a "fair map", the United Nations voted for a world map to reflect the true size of Africa. While on the current map it appears similar to Greenland, the continent is actually 14 times larger than the island. Its size means that it can fit "the United States, China, India, Japan, Mexico and much of Europe" with land to spare, according to online campaign group #CorrectTheMap. Africa can also comfortably fit three Canadas.<a href="https://www.wionews.com/trending/putting-3d-on-2d-surface-why-is-africa-s-true-size-not-shown-on-the-world-map-1788757697609">Read here</a>

The widow of a US Air Force major has raised concerns over how military benefits and combat classifications are communicated to families after the death of her husband during a US military operation in Iraq. Libby Klinner, whose 33-year-old husband, Major Alex Klinner, was killed in March, said she was initially told that she was not eligible for additional benefits because Congress had not formally declared war.<a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/is-us-not-paying-soldiers-fighting-against-iran-conflict-vs-war-debate-amid-widow-s-claim-of-not-getting-benefits-1788761337179">Read here</a>

Is US not paying soldiers fighting against Iran? 'Conflict vs war' debate amid widow's claim of not getting benefits

The Delhi High Court is set to hear a public interest litigation concerning the tragic Satya Niketan building collapse on Monday, with the petitioner seeking a series of urgent directions, including Rs 1 crore compensation for the families of each deceased student, a comprehensive safety audit of PGs and hostels across Delhi, and an independent inquiry into the cause of the disaster. The PIL has been filed by Aniket Kumar Gupta, a law student at Delhi University, through advocate Umesh Kumar, against the Government of NCT of Delhi and other authorities. The petition seeks protection of the fundamental right to life and safety of students under Article 21 of the Constitution.&nbsp;

Satya Niketan building collapse: PIL seeks Rs 1 crore compensation, safety audit of PGs

US Ambassador Sergio Gor on Monday hailed how the India-US space partnership has moved beyond cooperation to “co-creation”, with the two countries “co-designing instruments, co-funding startups, and co-authoring the future of human discovery.” Speaking at the Bengaluru Space Expo 2026, Gor said the two countries were bringing complementary strengths to the partnership, with the US contributing private capital and mature commercial ecosystems, while India brings engineering expertise, scientific talent and a strong startup sector. “A few weeks ago, at the 9th U.S.-India Civil Space Joint Working Group, right here in Bengaluru, we saw profound transformation taking place. Those discussions affirmed that our partnership is no longer just about cooperation; it is about co-creation. We are no longer just sharing data; we are co-designing instruments, co-funding startups, and co-authoring the future of human discovery,” Gor said.

US Envoy Sergio Gor hails India-US space sector cooperation, says ties expanded into co-creation

Donald Trump flooded Truth Social with AI fantasies, from George Washington and Hulk Hogan to robots, Iran, ‘New America’ and the Moon. <a href="https://www.wionews.com/photos/from-the-moon-is-ours-to-bye-bye-kharg-trump-goes-full-ai-in-truth-social-frenzy-1788758308260">READ MORE</a>

From 'The Moon is ours' to 'Bye Bye Kharg': Trump goes full AI in Truth Social frenzy

A pyrotechnic material exploded during the festival for a patron saint in a town in Mexico State, killing at least 10 people and injuring 64 more, Mexican authorities said. The explosion occurred next to the Nuestra Señora de la Luz church in Temascalcingo, a municipality in central Mexico with 66,000 residents. The municipality is about 100 miles northwest of Mexico City. <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/at-least-10-killed-in-mexico-fireworks-blast-during-festival-1788752410592">READ MORE</a>

At least 10 killed in Mexico fireworks blast during festival

Iran expects to sign an agreement establishing a controlled shipping corridor through the Strait of Hormuz in the coming days, alongside plans to declare a new maritime ‘exclusion zone’ in adjacent waters. The announcements come amid heightening regional tensions and ongoing naval disruptions in the vital trade choke point. <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/iran-plans-new-maritime-transit-corridor-and-exclusion-zone-near-strait-of-hormuz-1788755880218">READ MORE</a>

Iran plans new maritime transit corridor and exclusion zone near Strait of Hormuz

University of Delhi South Campus colleges have opened their premises for students in need of food and shelter in the aftermath of the collapse of a five-story PG building in Satya Niketan. The surrounding accommodations have been evacuated and power lines disrupted. The building which collapsed on Sunday was called ‘Hostel Daze’. <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/satya-niketan-collapse-du-colleges-food-shelter-students-1788718384188">READ MORE</a>

Satya Niketan building collapse: DU South Campus colleges open doors for stranded students

&lt;blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560"&gt;&lt;p lang="en" dir="ltr"&gt;DELHI: SATYA NIKETAN BUILDING COLLAPSE: CCTV FOOTAGE EMERGES&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;CCTV footage from opposite the building captures the moment a person rushes out of his shop to save his life as the collapse unfolds.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Search and rescue operations continue at the site. &lt;a href="https://t.co/svxVTwDYhW"&gt;pic.twitter.com/svxVTwDYhW&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&amp;mdash; Subodh Kumar (@kumarsubodh_) &lt;a href="https://x.com/kumarsubodh_/status/2096777195335352576?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"&gt;September 7, 2026&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/blockquote&gt; &lt;script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

CCTV captures Delhi building collapse

A chilling 11-second video from the Satya Niketan building collapse captured the terrifying ordeal of a student trapped beneath several layers of rubble. The student, visibly frightened, was seen seeking help as rescue teams worked through the debris. As Sunday night progressed, several people were still feared trapped beneath the remains of the five-storey boys' paying guest (PG) accommodation in south-west Delhi. Officials, however, were unable to establish the exact number of people inside the building when it collapsed. <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/please-save-or-i-will-die-desperate-calls-for-help-from-students-trapped-under-rubble-after-satya-niketan-building-collapse-1788751491137">READ MORE</a>

'Please save or I will die': Desperate calls for help from students trapped under rubble after Satya Niketan building collapse

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rejected claims of a possible move to privatise the agency or reduce its role, days after reports said nine associations representing thousands of ISRO employees had sought clarification over a proposal to hand the space agency’s manufacturing and operational work to private entities.

ISRO rejects reports of privatisation 

After the incident, the MCD has started taking action against other properties in the area. In one such order, MCD stated, ”It has been noticed that the premises of Building/House No. 13, Satya Niketan, New Delhi has been occupied at the site. The property is in a ruinous, dangerous condition and in any way dangerous to any person occupying, resorting to, or passing by such building." It ordered the owners to “demolish” the property within three days or the MCD will do so. <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/delhi-building-collapse-mcd-orders-immediate-sealing-of-illegal-structures-over-4-floors-1788751155388">READ MORE</a>

MCD orders demolition of a property in Satya Niketan

As the building collapse in Delhi's Satya Niketan claimed six lives, the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) has made a big announcement saying that all illegal constructions with more than four floors would be “immediately sealed.” Rescue operation at Satya Niketan is underway on Monday morning as well as five-storey building, which was a boys PG came crashing down on Sunday afternoon. The decision by MCD came after Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta ordered a magisterial inquiry into the incident and directed authorities to register an FIR against the building owner. <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/delhi-building-collapse-mcd-orders-immediate-sealing-of-illegal-structures-over-4-floors-1788751155388">READ MORE</a>

Delhi building collapse: MCD orders 'immediate' sealing of illegal structures over 4 floors

Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has ordered a magisterial inquiry into the collapse of a boys’ PG building in Satya Niketan and directed authorities to register an FIR against the building owner. Gupta visited the incident site after being informed about the collapse and reviewed the ongoing rescue and relief operations with senior officials. She instructed the concerned agencies to make every possible effort to safely rescue those trapped inside the building and ensure that the operation was conducted without any lapse. "Those found responsible will be held fully accountable and dealt with under the strictest provisions of the law," said the CM. <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/delhi-building-collapse-cm-rekha-gupta-orders-magisterial-inquiry-fir-against-building-owner-1788746755757">READ MORE</a>

Delhi building collapse: CM Rekha Gupta orders magisterial inquiry, FIR against building owner

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Latest News Today Live Updates: The death toll from the multi-storey building collapse in South West Delhi's Satya Niketan area has risen to six, while 11 people have been successfully rescued. Delhi CM has ordered magisterial inquiry and has ordered an FIR against building owner. The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) rejected claims of a possible move to privatise the agency or reduce its role, days after reports said nine associations representing thousands of ISRO employees had sought clarification over a proposal to hand the space agency’s manufacturing and operational work to private entities. Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday said India-France relations have entered a new phase, with the two countries strengthening their strategic partnership across technology, artificial intelligence, defence, space and climate action. Addressing the virtual inauguration of the Swaminarayan temple in Paris, Modi said the new temple could become a lasting symbol of cooperation and shared opportunities between India and France. Heavy fighting between Yemeni government forces and Houthi rebels in southwest Yemen has left over 300 people dead, as an offensive by the rebel group forces hundreds of families to abandon their homes. The renewed violence marks the deadliest escalation in the country since a long-standing ceasefire collapsed. Meanwhile, U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) launched targeted strikes disabling and destroying three Iranian crude oil carriers (including the M/T Kylo near Kharg Island) in the Gulf of Oman. The strikes were in retaliation for Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) firing ballistic missiles at patrolling U.S. Navy warships. Stay with us for more latest news, breaking updates and developments as they unfold.

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Latest News India and World LIVE Updates: Delhi building collapse death toll rises to 7, owner Hariram Bansal apprehended by police

Amid ongoing escalations between Russia and Ukraine, a Chinese state-owned company supplied Moscow with sufficient specialised material to potentially manufacture carbon fibre to use in nearly 1,300 kamikaze drones, according to documents obtained by POLITICO from internal Russian shipping records. The development has raised fresh questions over the role of China in sustaining Moscow’s war machine despite Western sanctions. According to documents, China’s Jilin Chemical Fibre Group transported 46 tonnes of polyacrylonitrile, or PAN precursor, to Alabuga-Volokno, a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom that produces high-specification carbon fibre for the defence industry of Russia. POLITICO’s investigation confirmed that the consignment was shipped using a customs classification in connection with civilian synthetic fibres including nylon and polyester, despite the code that would have identified PAN precursor as a dual-use product. Basically, PAN precursor is the base material needed to make high-performance carbon fibre, a material valued for being both lightweight and very strong. This makes it especially useful for building aircraft and drones.<h3>Carbon fibre for as many as 1,300 long-range kamikaze drones</h3>In response to the report, the weapons expert David Albright, founder and president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, claimed that the shipped quantity could have produced sufficient carbon fibre for as many as 1,300 long-range kamikaze drones. Albright stated that the firm was supplying “a critical part of making the carbon fibre necessary" for weaponised drones. “Without it, you can’t build the airframe," he said, noting this material is utilised to strengthen wings and internal structures, along with the fuel tank and engine. These findings could be quite significant for China, which has consistently denied sending military supplies to Russia. Chinese-made parts have been found in downed Russian drones before, but this shipping data reportedly gives a clearer, more direct link between a Chinese state-owned company and Russia's production network. David Albright, who founded and leads the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, stated that this evidence could give space for US sanctions against the Chinese company, as the shipments went to a Rosatom subsidiary even after several Western governments had already blacklisted it.&nbsp;Also read:<a href="https://www.wionews.com/trending/carbon-bomb-explodes-as-indonesia-wildfires-ravage-ancient-reserves-1788775585761"> 'Carbon bomb' explodes as Indonesia wildfires ravage ancient reserves</a>&nbsp;Along with the US House Select Committee on China, Ukrainian officials have also confirmed the authenticity of the documentation. In response, &nbsp;Serhii Kuzan, head of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre, claimed that the records provided clear evidence of Chinese state-controlled companies supplying raw materials to Russia, which are being utilised for weapons manufacturing. Dennis Wilder, a former CIA deputy assistant director, claimed that the number of shipments couldn't be possible without the knowledge of Chinese authorities. “The idea that Chinese state-owned enterprises can hide things from the Chinese government just doesn’t wash.” The statement comes after former US intelligence officials challenged Beijing's continuous claim that Chinese state companies are not involved in supporting Russia's war machine. This news comes at a time when Western countries are increasingly worried about China's part in keeping Russia's defence industry running. China insists it hasn't given Moscow any lethal weapons, but Western officials have repeatedly pointed out concerns that Chinese firms are supplying "dual-use" goods and technology, items that can be used for both civilian and military purposes, which can end up being used in Russian weapons.

The weapons expert David Albright, founder and president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, claimed that the shipped quantity could have produced sufficient carbon fibre for as many as 1,300 long-range kamikaze drones.

Amid ongoing escalations between Russia and Ukraine, a Chinese state-owned company supplied Moscow with sufficient specialised material to potentially manufacture carbon fibre to use in nearly 1,300 kamikaze drones, according to documents obtained by POLITICO from internal Russian shipping records. The development has raised fresh questions over the role of China in sustaining Moscow’s war machine despite Western sanctions. According to documents, China’s Jilin Chemical Fibre Group transported 46 tonnes of polyacrylonitrile, or PAN precursor, to Alabuga-Volokno, a subsidiary of Russian state nuclear corporation Rosatom that produces high-specification carbon fibre for the defence industry of Russia. POLITICO’s investigation confirmed that the consignment was shipped using a customs classification in connection with civilian synthetic fibres including nylon and polyester, despite the code that would have identified PAN precursor as a dual-use product. Basically, PAN precursor is the base material needed to make high-performance carbon fibre, a material valued for being both lightweight and very strong. This makes it especially useful for building aircraft and drones. Carbon fibre for as many as 1,300 long-range kamikaze drones In response to the report, the weapons expert David Albright, founder and president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, claimed that the shipped quantity could have produced sufficient carbon fibre for as many as 1,300 long-range kamikaze drones. Albright stated that the firm was supplying “a critical part of making the carbon fibre necessary" for weaponised drones. “Without it, you can’t build the airframe," he said, noting this material is utilised to strengthen wings and internal structures, along with the fuel tank and engine. These findings could be quite significant for China, which has consistently denied sending military supplies to Russia. Chinese-made parts have been found in downed Russian drones before, but this shipping data reportedly gives a clearer, more direct link between a Chinese state-owned company and Russia's production network. David Albright, who founded and leads the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, stated that this evidence could give space for US sanctions against the Chinese company, as the shipments went to a Rosatom subsidiary even after several Western governments had already blacklisted it. Also read: 'Carbon bomb' explodes as Indonesia wildfires ravage ancient reserves Along with the US House Select Committee on China, Ukrainian officials have also confirmed the authenticity of the documentation. In response, Serhii Kuzan, head of the Ukrainian Security and Cooperation Centre, claimed that the records provided clear evidence of Chinese state-controlled companies supplying raw materials to Russia, which are being utilised for weapons manufacturing. Dennis Wilder, a former CIA deputy assistant director, claimed that the number of shipments couldn't be possible without the knowledge of Chinese authorities. “The idea that Chinese state-owned enterprises can hide things from the Chinese government just doesn’t wash.” The statement comes after former US intelligence officials challenged Beijing's continuous claim that Chinese state companies are not involved in supporting Russia's war machine. This news comes at a time when Western countries are increasingly worried about China's part in keeping Russia's defence industry running. China insists it hasn't given Moscow any lethal weapons, but Western officials have repeatedly pointed out concerns that Chinese firms are supplying "dual-use" goods and technology, items that can be used for both civilian and military purposes, which can end up being used in Russian weapons.

The weapons expert David Albright, founder and president of the Washington-based Institute for Science and International Security, claimed that the shipped quantity could have produced sufficient carbon fibre for as many as 1,300 long-range kamikaze drones.

Is China supplying material for 1,300 Kamikaze drones to Russia? Here's what report says

The Jamaican Government is seeking £7.6billion in slavery reparations from King Charles III for the ravages of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It has formally petitioned the King to refer the matter to a Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which serves as the highest court for former colonies that retain ties to the British legal system.&nbsp;The campaign led by the country's culture minister Olivia Grange will seek answers to three questions regarding Britain's historical responsibility and financial liability for the transatlantic slave trade: whether the enslavement of Africans in Jamaica was legal under English law, whether it broke international law, and whether Britain now has a legal duty to provide redress. Grange said it could pave the way for a "long outstanding settlement for the hundreds of years of the most horrific abuse that our African ancestors endured".&nbsp;This petition coincides with the anniversary of the horrific massacre of the 1781 Liverpool-registered ship Zong, which set sail from West Africa with 442 enslaved Africans on board. When water and supplies ran low, the crew threw 132 men, women and children overboard because the insurance claim would be more profitable for lost property than selling them in a weakened state. The outrage that followed the incident hastened the abolition of the slave trade by 1807.Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/satya-niketan-collapse-du-colleges-food-shelter-students-1788718384188">Satya Niketan building collapse: DU South Campus colleges open doors for stranded students</a>“In relation to the wrongs that were done, we want answers,” Jamaican Culture Minister Olivia Grange told The Associated Press on Sunday. “Once we get those answers, then our attorneys, our lawyers, will determine what the next move is,” she added.Jamaica is a leader of the Caribbean community of 23 states from the Bahamas to Guyana for the effort to get Britain and other European nations to apologise for their role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and pay reparations, both for the enslavement of individuals and for the continuing impact on their descendants around the world.

Jamaica has formally petitioned King Charles III to refer questions over Britain's legal responsibility for the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the Privy Council.

The Jamaican Government is seeking £7.6billion in slavery reparations from King Charles III for the ravages of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. It has formally petitioned the King to refer the matter to a Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, which serves as the highest court for former colonies that retain ties to the British legal system. The campaign led by the country's culture minister Olivia Grange will seek answers to three questions regarding Britain's historical responsibility and financial liability for the transatlantic slave trade: whether the enslavement of Africans in Jamaica was legal under English law, whether it broke international law, and whether Britain now has a legal duty to provide redress. Grange said it could pave the way for a "long outstanding settlement for the hundreds of years of the most horrific abuse that our African ancestors endured". This petition coincides with the anniversary of the horrific massacre of the 1781 Liverpool-registered ship Zong, which set sail from West Africa with 442 enslaved Africans on board. When water and supplies ran low, the crew threw 132 men, women and children overboard because the insurance claim would be more profitable for lost property than selling them in a weakened state. The outrage that followed the incident hastened the abolition of the slave trade by 1807. Also Read: Satya Niketan building collapse: DU South Campus colleges open doors for stranded students “In relation to the wrongs that were done, we want answers,” Jamaican Culture Minister Olivia Grange told The Associated Press on Sunday. “Once we get those answers, then our attorneys, our lawyers, will determine what the next move is,” she added. Jamaica is a leader of the Caribbean community of 23 states from the Bahamas to Guyana for the effort to get Britain and other European nations to apologise for their role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and pay reparations, both for the enslavement of individuals and for the continuing impact on their descendants around the world.

Jamaica has formally petitioned King Charles III to refer questions over Britain's legal responsibility for the trans-Atlantic slave trade to the Privy Council.

India's BRICS presidency comes at a time when the global balance of power is changing rapidly. The September 12–13 summit in New Delhi is not just another meeting of emerging economies. It will test how India manages its relationships with China and Russia while keeping its strategic space open with the United States. For China and Russia, BRICS has increasingly become a platform to push for a more multipolar world and reduce Western dominance. But India has a different calculation. New Delhi wants a stronger voice for the Global South, greater cooperation among developing economies and reforms in global institutions, but it does not want BRICS to become an anti-US alliance.&nbsp;&nbsp;Recent analysis has also highlighted the differences within the grouping, with India and Brazil favouring a more practical and economic approach. That puts India in a delicate position. China remains India's biggest strategic challenge, even as both sides work to stabilise ties after years of border tensions. Russia, meanwhile, remains a critical partner for India in energy, defence and other strategic areas. At the same time, the US remains an important economic and strategic partner for New Delhi.&nbsp;Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/brics-summit-2026-delhi-police-traffic-advisory-affected-roads-and-travel-tips-for-commuters-all-you-need-to-know-1788767380283">BRICS Summit 2026: Delhi Police traffic advisory, affected roads and travel tips for commuters. All you need to know</a>&nbsp;The presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Delhi would therefore give the summit an added geopolitical weight. The fact that India, China and Russia have appeared together at the SCO just weeks before the BRICS summit makes the coming meetings even more significant. For Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the challenge is not to choose one side over another. It is to make sure India can work with all sides without becoming dependent on any one of them.&nbsp;This is where India's idea of strategic autonomy becomes important. New Delhi wants BRICS to speak for the Global South on issues such as development, trade, technology, climate change and reform of global institutions. But it also wants to prevent the grouping from being defined mainly by opposition to Washington.&nbsp;The question at the Delhi summit, therefore, will be bigger than whether BRICS can challenge the West. Can India help create a more multipolar world without becoming part of a China-Russia-led geopolitical camp? That may be the biggest test of India's BRICS presidency, and of its foreign policy in an increasingly divided world.

BRICS Summit 2026 tests India's strategic autonomy as New Delhi balances ties with China and Russia while maintaining its relationship with the US

India's BRICS presidency comes at a time when the global balance of power is changing rapidly. The September 12–13 summit in New Delhi is not just another meeting of emerging economies. It will test how India manages its relationships with China and Russia while keeping its strategic space open with the United States. For China and Russia, BRICS has increasingly become a platform to push for a more multipolar world and reduce Western dominance. But India has a different calculation. New Delhi wants a stronger voice for the Global South, greater cooperation among developing economies and reforms in global institutions, but it does not want BRICS to become an anti-US alliance. Recent analysis has also highlighted the differences within the grouping, with India and Brazil favouring a more practical and economic approach. That puts India in a delicate position. China remains India's biggest strategic challenge, even as both sides work to stabilise ties after years of border tensions. Russia, meanwhile, remains a critical partner for India in energy, defence and other strategic areas. At the same time, the US remains an important economic and strategic partner for New Delhi. Also Read: BRICS Summit 2026: Delhi Police traffic advisory, affected roads and travel tips for commuters. All you need to know The presence of Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Delhi would therefore give the summit an added geopolitical weight. The fact that India, China and Russia have appeared together at the SCO just weeks before the BRICS summit makes the coming meetings even more significant. For Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the challenge is not to choose one side over another. It is to make sure India can work with all sides without becoming dependent on any one of them. This is where India's idea of strategic autonomy becomes important. New Delhi wants BRICS to speak for the Global South on issues such as development, trade, technology, climate change and reform of global institutions. But it also wants to prevent the grouping from being defined mainly by opposition to Washington. The question at the Delhi summit, therefore, will be bigger than whether BRICS can challenge the West. Can India help create a more multipolar world without becoming part of a China-Russia-led geopolitical camp? That may be the biggest test of India's BRICS presidency, and of its foreign policy in an increasingly divided world.

BRICS Summit 2026 tests India's balancing act as it works with China and Russia while keeping its strategic ties with the United States

BRICS Summit 2026: How India is trying to shape a multipolar world without choosing sides

India is all set to host the BRICS Summit on September 12–13, but there's no clarity if its neighbour Bangladesh will attend the international event. While Bangladesh is not a member of BRICS, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman was invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a special guest to attend the summit in his capacity as chair of BIMSTEC. With an aim to improve the ties, India had not only invited Rahman to attend the outreach session of the BRICS Summit but also an invitation for a bilateral visit. However, the issue surrounding former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been a major source of friction between the two nations. With Bangladesh improving ties with China and Pakistan under Rahman, all eyes are set on Bangladesh PM's final decision.&nbsp;<h2>MEA's latest response on Rahman's visit</h2>The Indian government still does not know whether Bangladesh Prime Minister Rahman will attend the upcoming BRICS Summit or, if he does not, whether someone else will represent Bangladesh at the event. Responding to a question on the matter at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs’ briefing on Friday, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said he had no new information on the issue.<h2>Bangladesh's latest response on Rahman's visit</h2>State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir &nbsp;said that the possibility of such a visit before the upcoming UN General Assembly session was very slim. Bangladesh wants engagement and a good working relationship with India despite existing challenges, stressing that the door to dialogue will always remain open, he said. “When the time is right, the prime minister will be visiting India, but the possibility is very slim before the UNGA as the prime minister will be attending the UNGA,” he added.&nbsp;Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/global-turbulence-and-brics-2026-can-intra-brics-trade-replace-the-west-1788763855320">Global turbulence and BRICS 2026: Can intra-BRICS trade replace the West?</a><h2>The Hasina angle</h2>Former PM Hasina who is in India has been active in teh last few days and has given several interviews to Indian pnews publishers detailing about her possible retun, her political life and the situation in Bangladesh after Rahman took over as PM. This has not gone well with Dhaka. When the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) was asked whether the timing of Hasina’s interviews was “quite interesting,” Jaiswal replied that he had no comment. When asked if Hasina has shared the details of her return and sought any assistance, Jaiswal said he had no information on the issue. Moreover, as Hasina’s first press conference since her ouster and subsequent stay in India prompted a sharp response from officials in Rahman’s government in Dhaka, India restricted up large-scale public or political events planned by the Awami League network. The Bangladeshi government has aggressively double down on its demands for her formal extradition under the 2013 India-Bangladesh Extradition Treaty, going to an extent of saying that India-Bangladesh relations will depend on it.&nbsp;Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/world/brics-summit-2026-how-four-chairmanships-reshaped-india-s-global-strategy-1788678978071">BRICS Summit 2026: How four chairmanships reshaped India’s global strategy</a>&nbsp;Meanwhile, in an interview with The Hindu, Bangladesh’s former PM invoked the right to free speech. Defending her right to hold press conferences and meet her Awami League party colleagues while in India, Hasina&nbsp;said that she had no intention of damaging India-Bangladesh ties. This comes after her virtual press conference held on August 5, 2026, &nbsp;ignited a major diplomatic row between India and Bangladesh. While Dhaka strongly condemned the event, New Delhi sought distanced itself from it.&nbsp;<h2>The other neighbourhood angle&nbsp;</h2>As the Hasina factor rocks the ties between India and Bangladesh, Dhaka is eyeing closer strategic and defense engagement with Pakistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, moving toward a post-Hasina foreign policy. Bangladesh has officially expressed strong interest in joining the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, an emerging trilateral mutual-defense security pact formed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan. Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman told the Bangladeshi parliament that Dhaka will view an invitation to join the pact "positively," framing it as a measure for the self-defense of the global Muslim community.&nbsp;&nbsp;Additionally, Bangladesh-China ties have moved into a deeper strategic phase. During Rahman’s June 2026 visit to China, both sides agreed to elevate their Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and build a China-Bangladesh community with a shared future in the new era. Dhaka and Beijing also agreed to deepen cooperation in defence, trade, investment, connectivity, agriculture, technology and education, while China backed Bangladesh’s participation in BRICS and its bid to become a partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Bangladesh is also moving towards talks with China on acquiring J-10CE fighter jets and other military equipment. China is already Bangladesh’s largest source of military hardware, underscoring the growing strategic importance of the relationship.<h2>Why Rahman's visit matters?</h2>For India, Tarique Rahman’s participation in the BRICS Summit could offer an important opportunity to reset the bilateral ties and prevent the relationship from drifting further. His presence in New Delhi would allow the two governments to maintain high-level political contact at a time when the Sheikh Hasina issue remains a major irritant. It could also provide India an opportunity to engage directly with Bangladesh’s new leadership on trade, connectivity, border management, security and regional cooperation. More broadly, Rahman’s attendance would signal that Dhaka remains open to engagement with New Delhi—not just diplomatically, but also on broader geopolitical and strategic issues.&nbsp;

Tarique Rahman’s uncertain BRICS attendance reflects widening India-Bangladesh tensions over Sheikh Hasina, even as Dhaka keeps dialogue open. With deeper China, Pakistan, ties, all eyes are set on Bangladesh's final decision 

India is all set to host the BRICS Summit on September 12–13, but there's no clarity if its neighbour Bangladesh will attend the international event. While Bangladesh is not a member of BRICS, Prime Minister Tarique Rahman was invited by Prime Minister Narendra Modi as a special guest to attend the summit in his capacity as chair of BIMSTEC. With an aim to improve the ties, India had not only invited Rahman to attend the outreach session of the BRICS Summit but also an invitation for a bilateral visit. However, the issue surrounding former Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has been a major source of friction between the two nations. With Bangladesh improving ties with China and Pakistan under Rahman, all eyes are set on Bangladesh PM's final decision. MEA's latest response on Rahman's visit The Indian government still does not know whether Bangladesh Prime Minister Rahman will attend the upcoming BRICS Summit or, if he does not, whether someone else will represent Bangladesh at the event. Responding to a question on the matter at the Indian Ministry of External Affairs’ briefing on Friday, MEA spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal said he had no new information on the issue. Bangladesh's latest response on Rahman's visit State Minister for Foreign Affairs Humaiun Kobir said that the possibility of such a visit before the upcoming UN General Assembly session was very slim. Bangladesh wants engagement and a good working relationship with India despite existing challenges, stressing that the door to dialogue will always remain open, he said. “When the time is right, the prime minister will be visiting India, but the possibility is very slim before the UNGA as the prime minister will be attending the UNGA,” he added. Also Read: Global turbulence and BRICS 2026: Can intra-BRICS trade replace the West? The Hasina angle Former PM Hasina who is in India has been active in teh last few days and has given several interviews to Indian pnews publishers detailing about her possible retun, her political life and the situation in Bangladesh after Rahman took over as PM. This has not gone well with Dhaka. When the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) was asked whether the timing of Hasina’s interviews was “quite interesting,” Jaiswal replied that he had no comment. When asked if Hasina has shared the details of her return and sought any assistance, Jaiswal said he had no information on the issue. Moreover, as Hasina’s first press conference since her ouster and subsequent stay in India prompted a sharp response from officials in Rahman’s government in Dhaka, India restricted up large-scale public or political events planned by the Awami League network. The Bangladeshi government has aggressively double down on its demands for her formal extradition under the 2013 India-Bangladesh Extradition Treaty, going to an extent of saying that India-Bangladesh relations will depend on it. Also Read: BRICS Summit 2026: How four chairmanships reshaped India’s global strategy Meanwhile, in an interview with The Hindu, Bangladesh’s former PM invoked the right to free speech. Defending her right to hold press conferences and meet her Awami League party colleagues while in India, Hasina said that she had no intention of damaging India-Bangladesh ties. This comes after her virtual press conference held on August 5, 2026, ignited a major diplomatic row between India and Bangladesh. While Dhaka strongly condemned the event, New Delhi sought distanced itself from it. The other neighbourhood angle As the Hasina factor rocks the ties between India and Bangladesh, Dhaka is eyeing closer strategic and defense engagement with Pakistan, Turkey, and Saudi Arabia, moving toward a post-Hasina foreign policy. Bangladesh has officially expressed strong interest in joining the Mecca Joint Defense Agreement, an emerging trilateral mutual-defense security pact formed by Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan. Foreign Minister Khalilur Rahman told the Bangladeshi parliament that Dhaka will view an invitation to join the pact "positively," framing it as a measure for the self-defense of the global Muslim community. Additionally, Bangladesh-China ties have moved into a deeper strategic phase. During Rahman’s June 2026 visit to China, both sides agreed to elevate their Comprehensive Strategic Cooperative Partnership and build a China-Bangladesh community with a shared future in the new era. Dhaka and Beijing also agreed to deepen cooperation in defence, trade, investment, connectivity, agriculture, technology and education, while China backed Bangladesh’s participation in BRICS and its bid to become a partner of the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO). Bangladesh is also moving towards talks with China on acquiring J-10CE fighter jets and other military equipment. China is already Bangladesh’s largest source of military hardware, underscoring the growing strategic importance of the relationship. Why Rahman's visit matters? For India, Tarique Rahman’s participation in the BRICS Summit could offer an important opportunity to reset the bilateral ties and prevent the relationship from drifting further. His presence in New Delhi would allow the two governments to maintain high-level political contact at a time when the Sheikh Hasina issue remains a major irritant. It could also provide India an opportunity to engage directly with Bangladesh’s new leadership on trade, connectivity, border management, security and regional cooperation. More broadly, Rahman’s attendance would signal that Dhaka remains open to engagement with New Delhi—not just diplomatically, but also on broader geopolitical and strategic issues.

Tarique Rahman’s uncertain BRICS attendance reflects widening India-Bangladesh tensions over Sheikh Hasina, even as Dhaka keeps dialogue open. With deeper China, Pakistan, ties, all eyes are set on Bangladesh's final decision&nbsp;

BRICS Summit 2026: Will Bangladesh PM Tarique Rahman travel to New Delhi and why it matters?

The White House has posted an AI video depicting US President Donald Trump as the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern. The AI video shows Trump wearing a suit while wielding a glowing green power ring like a Lantern. This happens just ahead of HBO airing the 4th episode of the series Lantern, based on the Green Lantern characters Hal Jordan and John Stewart.The cringeworthy post was also accompanied by a caption: the oath of the hero Green Lantern, “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might beware my power... Green Lantern's light!”Also Read: <a href="https://www.wionews.com/india-news/satya-niketan-collapse-du-colleges-food-shelter-students-1788718384188">Satya Niketan building collapse: DU South Campus colleges open doors for stranded students</a>

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-media-max-width="560">In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil&#39;s might beware my power... Green Lantern&#39;s light! <a href="https://t.co/mXWr0zeyLC">pic.twitter.com/mXWr0zeyLC</a>&mdash; The White House (@WhiteHouse) <a href="https://x.com/WhiteHouse/status/2096764958713274657?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2026</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.x.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The White House has shared an AI-generated video portraying Donald Trump as DC superhero Green Lantern, highlighting his manufacturing policies.

The White House has posted an AI video depicting US President Donald Trump as the DC Comics superhero Green Lantern. The AI video shows Trump wearing a suit while wielding a glowing green power ring like a Lantern. This happens just ahead of HBO airing the 4th episode of the series Lantern, based on the Green Lantern characters Hal Jordan and John Stewart. The cringeworthy post was also accompanied by a caption: the oath of the hero Green Lantern, “In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might beware my power... Green Lantern's light!” Also Read: Satya Niketan building collapse: DU South Campus colleges open doors for stranded students

The White House has shared an AI-generated video portraying Donald Trump as DC superhero Green Lantern, highlighting his manufacturing policies.

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