Every news article the Bureau published that day — 23 articles, newest first. Past editions never disappear: the links below are the original, permanent URLs.
High energy prices keep driving inflation and stoking voter anger around the world. But with more crude flowing through the Strait of Hormuz and governments tap
EnvironmentThe first hurricane of the 2026 Atlantic season is tracking toward the Gulf Coast, and BBC Weather warns it could bring dangerous winds, storm surge and heavy r
CultureThe Swedish Academy honoured the Canadian poet, essayist and translator of ancient Greek for work in playful dialogue with the classical tradition. She learned
SecurityAnkara has proposed a plan to both sides to stop the attacks and protect grain shipping. The strikes are getting worse anyway, and winter is closing in.
AfricaCars torched in Durban and gunshots in Soweto mark the most violent day yet in South Africa's anti-migrant wave, as a reopened asylum system buckles under stree
Middle EastWashington told its war planners to be ready to hit Iran again before the midterms, as fresh sanctions, Houthi strikes and $102 oil push the Gulf toward a new w
EconomicsA quarter-point rate hike from the Reserve Bank of India, its first in more than three years, sent stocks tumbling on Thursday and pushed the rupee to its secon
EuropeAthens agreed to spend up to $4 billion on F-16 Viper upgrades and advanced U.S. missiles, a day after Secretary of State Marco Rubio's visit sealed a joint cou
AfricaDrone strikes targeted Eritrean vehicles near Adigrat as Addis Ababa demanded an immediate withdrawal and Asmara denied any incursion, pulling the Horn of Afric
TechnologyTSMC's revenue jumped 51% on AI demand, Samsung forecast a record profit, GlobalFoundries won a $2B TSMC packaging deal, and Huawei claimed its AI chips outsell
EuropeTwo city buses caught fire and public transport was halted in Kramatorsk and Sloviansk after the Thursday morning strike, a day after Russian attacks on Ukraine
CultureA group show at the Centre Culturel Irlandais turns Ireland's housing emergency into sculpture, film and mould-grown cheese, as Europe's housing crisis spills f
Middle EastUKMTO says a tanker was struck 94 km north of Madinat ash Shamal, with casualties reported: the first such attack in the western Gulf in weeks.
Middle EastIsrael says the consul general and 19 diplomats will leave; Miliband insists the building stays open as the 'UK Mission, Jerusalem'.
EconomicsEnergy Minister Alparslan Bayraktar wants the Development Road to carry oil, gas and power from the Gulf to Europe. Ankara is opening rails, courting Baghdad an
PoliticsTwenty-six days from the midterms, Donald Trump turned the threat of a third impeachment into his closing argument: keep Congress, he told supporters, or the De
EconomicsOn October 5, Rapidus unveiled CORE, a 17-company design alliance to fill a 2-nanometre fab with no commercial wafer yet. The technology is IBM's, the money is
EconomicsRecord August numbers: 97.9 billion dirhams of travel receipts, two million visitors in a single month. The money is growing faster than the crowds, and it is f
EconomicsWashington cut roughly a fifth of the pipeline gas Mexico imports, citing a critical situation. Mexico absorbed the shock without blackouts, but in a full cutof
PoliticsOn October 7, France's finance committee killed the 2027 budget's flagship pensioner savings measure on day one of review, and minister David Amiel warned the d
GeopoliticsSefcovic meets Wang Wentao in Beijing on October 8 and 9 under an October deadline. On the table: a cap on Chinese hybrid-car exports that Beijing rejected, and
Asia-PacificThe State Department has publicly designated Zhao Fugang, director of an Overseas Chinese Service Center, accusing him of bribing Fijians to advance Chinese gov
AfricaSouth African civil society wants a pause on new data centers until their water, electricity and land footprint is investigated. With the country hosting 70 per
