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US President Donald Trump insists the American forces hold "virtually unlimited" ammunition and is producing munitions at record levels, rejecting reporting that the war with Iran is straining US firepower.

Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva's lead over rival Flávio Bolsonaro narrowed in a potential runoff, according to an AtlasIntel/Bloomberg poll released this week.

Questions over procurement controls undermine public confidence as Estonia accelerates defence investment in response to the security threat from Russia.

Troubles reflect broader systemic friction within Turkish corporate landscape as high interest rates constrain liquidity.

A massed Russian missile and drone attack on Odesa region's backbone energy assets cut power to more than 350,000 families, grid operator DTEK Odesa Grids said, on September 2.

Tech

Taiwanese electronics maker Liteon Technology strengthens its position in infrastructure supporting the rapidly expanding AI data centre market.

Israeli defence tech company XTEND will begin trading on the Nasdaq on September 4 after completing a $1.5bn business combination with real estate developer JFB Construction Holdings.

Satellite to provide data for monitoring and forecasting space weather, including geomagnetic storms and high-energy particle emissions that can disrupt satellites, navigation systems, power grids and communications.

Partnership could strengthen Romania’s position as a logistics gateway for Central and Eastern Europe while giving Romanian merchants selling through Temu access to a wider European delivery network.

Croatia's finance minister said the government would assess whether funds awarded to a robotaxi project backed by state and European Union financing could be recovered or redirected, after developer Verne offered to repay...

Opinion

Kremlin leader may harbour lengthy list of potential grievances.

Tajikistan’s new medium-term macro framework looks like a development manifesto dressed up as a macro table.

Nature Conservancy’s director of biodiversity and infrastructure policy releases closing statement after Ulaanbaatar conference.

As Brazil heads to the polls on October 4, Washington's 'Donroe Doctrine' is turning tariffs, rare earths and a homegrown payments system into fronts in a struggle over America's own backyard.

With trade talks turning “nasty”, Canada’s negotiating position is beginning to emulate that of Iran’s and that is bad news for the US.

Data

Debt-servicing costs hit a record JPY36.64 trillion. The assumed interest rate used to calculate those payments was lifted to 3.8% from 3.0% in the fiscal 2026 budget.

Ankara's new medium-term economic programme will be released on September 6, he adds.

Petrol prices hit records in Germany and the Netherlands and European gas futures reached a three-year high, as the Iran-US war escalation drove oil higher, landing the Gulf conflict directly on European household budgets.

Figure marks moderate deceleration from July and comes in slightly below consensus forecasts.

BNM has maintained the 2.75% benchmark since delivering a preemptive 25 basis point rate cut in July 2025 to shield domestic growth from US trade tariff headwinds.

Features

Iran left in lurch.

Croatia's banks were making more money than a year earlier when the first quarter closed. By the end of June that gain had gone.

President Vladimir Putin has ordered the Russian armed forces to prepare massive strikes on Ukraine's energy infrastructure, in what he cast as retaliation for Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries.

Controversial businessman Alejandro Betancourt's NABEP wins 100-year rights to 17 fields, but contradictions over ownership terms and unresolved legal questions cloud the "biggest oil deal in history."

Russia has driven shipping out of Ukraine's Black Sea ports, cutting vessel calls from seven or eight a day to one and shutting the Orlivka ferry crossing on the Romanian border, while Ukrainian drones reached a logistics centre in Yekaterinburg

Blogs

A fresh corruption scandal broke out in Ukraine – this time, it was racketeering by relative junior members of the Zelenskiy administration. Corruption is not a problem of the system in Ukraine; corruption is the system.

At the ancient Egyptian obelisk outside the Blue Mosque, looking along what was once the Hippodrome of Constantinople, I found myself thinking about a tent.

Ukraine's power generation capacity has fallen from 60GW before the war to 12GW today, and a renewed Russian bombing campaign this winter could push the shortfall toward 10GW, even as European gas storage sits near a 15-year low.

Dubious rise to the top is questioned. Watchdog says remarks “incompatible with foreign policy vision”.

Tourist visas denied based on highly subjective assessments of financial means and intentions to use “return” section of plane ticket.

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The slow-moving system is set to combine with an autumn rain front stalled along the southern coast of Honshu, drawing warm, humid air northwards and raising the risk of sustained downpours across Japan through about September 7.

Fires swept across Serbia in August, burning land including more than 3,500 hectares of the Deliblato Sands Special Nature Reserve.

Deal also includes zero-cost land, tax exemptions and offtake assurances.

In another boost to the solar power sector, the Indian Union Cabinet recently approved the Pradhan Mantri Surya Sarovar Yojana, a scheme for the development of floating solar photovoltaic projects.

Acute respiratory infections in West Kalimantan, Indonesia, reached 165,727 cases between January 1 and August 22, the local health office reports.

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