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Daily recap — Sep 9, 2026: Israel closes UK consulate and expels diplomat after Britain sanctions settlement goods
Britain's new sanctions on goods made in Jewish settlements in the occupied West Bank took effect this week.
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Daily recap — Sep 8, 2026: Trade fight with Canada widens, Germany debates banning AfD, India blocks BRICS members
Canada's new tariffs on $20 billion of US goods took effect, and Trump threatened to ban Canadian planemaker Bombardier from the US market.
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Daily recap — Sep 7, 2026: Taiwan uses its chip lead against US and EU as China patrols nearby, while Europe tightens defenses against Russia
Taiwan is using its dominance in advanced computer-chip manufacturing as bargaining power against US and EU demands, while China increases military patrols near Taiwan's Pacific coast.
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Daily recap — Sep 6, 2026: US envoys meet Putin in Moscow, then fly to Kyiv as Russia strikes its airports
American envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner spent three hours talking with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow, then flew on to Kyiv, Ukraine's capital.
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Daily recap — Sep 5, 2026: Iran nuclear file heads back to UN Security Council as UK cites war costs in budget warning
The US, UK, France and Germany have drafted a plan to send Iran's nuclear program back to the UN Security Council, a move that could bring back international sanctions; no vote date has been set.
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Daily recap — Sep 4, 2026: Trump's team to hold Ukraine talks in Kyiv and Moscow as Europe hardens against Russia
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says Donald Trump's team will hold peace talks in both Kyiv and Moscow, the most direct American push yet to end Russia's war in Ukraine, though no date or place is set.
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Daily recap — Sep 3, 2026: Iran strikes a fifth country as Trump opens new trade fights with Canada and Brazil
Iran attacked Kuwait on Thursday, the fifth country allied with the United States it has hit since an American bombing raid on Iranian sites earlier in the week, though Kuwait says it shot down the missiles and drones.
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Daily recap — Sep 2, 2026: Iran and US strike each other's forces as Gulf war turns open, Europe toughens stance on Russia
Iran and the United States began openly attacking each other's forces in the Gulf region after weeks of hidden conflict, and two sailors on a tanker died in the fighting, pushing oil prices above $90 a barrel.
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Daily recap — Sep 1, 2026: Ukraine war spreads to oil markets as EU debates ending its veto power
Russia bombed Kyiv for a sixth straight night, killing at least nine people and prompting NATO, the Western alliance, to scramble jets.
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Daily recap — Aug 31, 2026: US ramps up Iran sanctions and claims a major oil-terminal strike
The US Treasury says it will now sanction an Iran-linked bank every week, and President Trump claims a strike destroyed Iran's Kharg Island oil terminal, which normally handles about 90 percent of the country's oil exports — but no one has independently confirmed the claim, and Iranian state media hasn't reported it either.
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Daily recap — Aug 30, 2026: Ukraine plant runs on generators as Russia threatens grid strikes; Putin and Xi meet non-Western leaders
Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has had no outside power for over a week and is relying on backup generators, while Russia's military says it is preparing large strikes on Ukraine's power grid before winter.
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Daily recap — Aug 29, 2026: Deadly Kyiv strike, Belgian veto on frozen assets, and US deals from Venezuela to China
A Russian strike on a weapons storage site near Kyiv killed at least 37 people, one of the deadliest single attacks of the war this year.