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Record July shipments show DRC cathode becoming a meaningful part of the US physical copper market despite lacking COMEX approval, broadening US supply beyond Latin America and giving Congolese producers a larger outlet outside China.

Iran Air aims to restore European flights nearly two years after EU sanctions barred the flag carrier, but a lapsed EU authorisation

Czech police protection unit investigates Petr Macinka's interview with masked online activist Vojtěch Pšenák.

No clear outcome has yet emerged as President Nicușor Dan embarks on his third attempt to form a government.

Iranian authorities executed an Afghan man who was unable to walk at Rafsanjan Central Prison, carrying out the sentence while he was in a wheelchair, the Kurdish human rights organisation Hengaw said.

Tech

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, TWSE: 2330) is expanding production capacity five times faster than usual this year and still cannot meet demand driven by artificial intelligence.

Private equity investor says Central Europe is a rapidly growing private equity market with fast growth and a wide range of investment exit opportunities.

Lithuania aims to grow its life sciences sector to 5% of GDP by 2030.

Dubai Chambers announced the launch of a specialised Agentic AI training initiative for more than 14,000 private sector companies.

Uzbekistan's central bank writes the fintech rules, supervises the market, runs an incubator and has created a $50mn fund to invest in the sector. Inside the most interventionist fintech strategy anywhere.

Opinion

Election result in Saxony-Anhalt has triggered a strong response across Central Europe.

Hrowing Russian hybrid activity is exposing energy infrastructure, ports, shipping and air navigation to new risks, Poland's Centre for Eastern Studies warned.

President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won every immediate fight over Ukraine's government reshuffle and still came out of it weaker, a Carnegie Politika analysis argues.

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.

Data

Japan's Nikkei 225 stock average closed 2.12% higher at 66,399.84 on September 7, up 1,378.90 points from the previous week's close.

Construction was the only major sector to make a substantial positive contribution to Q2 and H1 economic activity.

Thailand received 20,935,135 foreign tourists in the first eight months of 2026, down 3.08% year on year.

New numbers are released – but the reliability and seriousness of the data presented, as well as the government's seriousness in the presentation, are questionable.

Taiwan's Hon Hai Precision Industry (TPE: 2317) reported its highest-ever August sales, driven by global demand for artificial intelligence applications.

Features

Uzbekistan's hard currency comes from four places. Two of them are cyclical. The Central Bank of Uzbekistan buys around nine tenths of the gold mined in the country, sells it abroad and uses the foreign currency it earns to mop up printed soum.

Leader of seven years has brought back the position of vice-president and appointed longtime aide Yerlan Karin to it.

Iran left in lurch.

Peru's break with Iran cost almost nothing economically but sends a clear geopolitical signal. As Lima moves closer to Washington and Israel, its roughly $50bn annual goods-trade relationship with China creates a much harder strategic dilemma.

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.

Blogs

“We expect the war will continue,” Zelenskiy said in Kyiv on September 6, after US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner left without a deal.

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”.

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A woman in her 60s died after her car became submerged at an underpass in Iwaki, northeastern Japan, as torrential rain swept the country.

The eruptions span multiple island chains across the Pacific Ring of Fire, from the Sunda Strait and East Java to East Nusa Tenggara and North Maluku.

Hungary is establishing a powerful new environmental authority from January 1, 2027, tasked with tighter oversight of the country’s expanding electric vehicle battery industry.

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.

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