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An attack on a UK Airbase that also hosts American forces was stopped by British authorities. Five Islamist men were arrested and promptly released on bail. Now, the U.S. and the UK are claiming Iran is behind the attacks. Given Iran’s promise to attack British airbases, it is no surprise such a deduction was made. The President has called the UK’s handling of this attack inadequate.

UK PM Burnham: ‘Strong Indications’ Iran is Linked to RAF Fairford Plot– legalinsurrection.com
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United Kingdom Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the BBC that the government believes Iran had a part in whatever plan the five men wanted to execute at the RAF Fairford air base.

“There are strong indications that Iran played a part in what happened over the weekend at RAF Fairford,” the prime minister said.

Multiple riots have broken out across France, triggered by immigrants demanding more resources for the schools they don’t pay for. The Islamist immigrants have taken to the streets to burn churches, people, and businesses, as well as assault French women who are caught in the mob rush. French progressives, aligned with Islamists, are assisting the insurrection. The Islamists are also demanding all calls to deport them be cancelled, or the beatings will continue.

Thousands of French students clash with cops & hurl projectiles in nationwide riots– www.thesun.co.uk
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THOUSANDS of French students have clashed with cops and hurled projectiles in nationwide riots – with hundreds of teenagers arrested.

Furious pupils torched bins, unleashed fireworks and battled riot police as protests erupted outside schools across France on Tuesday.

A staggering 48 members of the security forces were injured as cops fought back with batons Credit: Storyful
Furious pupils torched bins, unleashed fireworks and battled riot police Credit: Storyful

At least 440 people – most of them minors – were detained as the school revolt descended into violent clashes.

Some protesters even hurled hydrochloric acid at officers in seven terrifying incidents, according to Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez.

‘Neo-communist tactics’ – Former PM Viktor Orbán warns of wave of political repression after arrest of his former minister– rmx.news
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The former prime minister of Hungary, Viktor Orbán, has denounced a new political offensive against his Fidesz political formation following the arrest and 30-day pretrial detention for Miklós Seszták, a lawmaker and former national development minister under Orbán.

A Budapest court on Wednesday ordered 30 days of pre-trial detention for Seszták following a corruption investigation that may just be beginning of a wave of prosecutions targeting the former Orbán government.

Orbán accused Magyar’s Tisza government of “neo-communist tactics.”

“The Tisza authoritarian rulers are raising taxes, fuel prices are soaring, and they are wrecking the Hungarian economy. Authoritarianism creates new victims every day. Today it’s them, tomorrow it’s you. They would rather stage political theatre than face reality. Our message to every Hungarian is this: the Tisza authoritarian rulers will not break our patriotic community. We will not let them. They cannot imprison half the country,” he continued.

British Intelligence Accuses China Of Spying On UK’s AI Research– dailycaller.com
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British security officials warned that a Chinese research body is funding academic work that aids Beijing’s spy agency.

Britain’s MI5 security service on Wednesday named the China General Technology Research Institute (CGTRI) as a funder of work by more than 100 academics based in the UK, including artificial intelligence research, according to an espionage alert the agency published. The service said CGTRI is closely tied to China’s civilian spy agency — the Ministry of State Security (MSS) — and exists mainly to bankroll research that sharpens that agency’s technical tools.

“MI5 has identified that the primary purpose of CGTRI is to fund academic research that directly improves MSS technical capability for espionage,” the alert stated in part.

U.K. academics have contributed to CGTRI-funded projects on AI, cybersecurity, covert communications systems and steganography, according to the MI5 alert. The agency said some universities and researchers likely did not know CGTRI’s link to Chinese intelligence when they took the money, Reuters reported. (RELATED: As Trump Meets Xi, Experts Say China Targets Weak Spots In Western Tech)

Researchers who keep working with the institute could be prosecuted under Britain’s National Security Act, a 2023 law aimed at foreign spying and hostile state activity, MI5 warned.

Le Pen hails ‘victory’ as French far right secures record 14 seats in Senate– www.france24.com
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The EU is ordering AI agents like ChatGPT to enforce its recently enacted (and now in-effect) Online Censorship laws. These laws protect favored classes like Muslims, homosexuals, and people of color from “offensive” language. They also penalize positive expressions of unfavored classes like Christians, heterosexuals, and whites.

EU Orders ChatGPT, Reddit, Roblox to Enforce Sweeping Online Censorship Rules– slaynews.com
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Unelected European Union bureaucrats are tightening their grip on American technology platforms, ordering ChatGPT, Reddit, and Roblox to comply with the bloc’s sweeping online speech regulations or risk crippling financial penalties.

The European Commission has officially designated ChatGPT as a “Very Large Online Search Engine” (VLOSE) under the EU’s controversial Digital Services Act (DSA).

Reddit and Roblox have meanwhile been classified as “Very Large Online Platforms” (VLOPs).

The designations place all three American services under the DSA’s most stringent regulatory regime.

The companies now have until January 2027 to comply with additional requirements governing how they assess, monitor, and mitigate what EU regulators classify as “systemic risks.”

Those requirements extend beyond material that is actually illegal.

Under the DSA, regulators can also scrutinize lawful information they determine contributes to broader “systemic risks,” including content deemed “misleading,” “deceptive,” or “disinformation.”

That sweeping authority has fueled warnings that Brussels has created a censorship mechanism capable of pressuring American companies to suppress perfectly legal speech.

Is Russia preparing to unleash autonomous killer robots? They’re recent announcement of their intentions to remove key UN AI safeguards from their own AI development suggests they might be. America appears to be going down a similar path, though not officially so… yet.

‘Killer robots’ one step closer as Russia strips safeguards from UN pact | World | News– www.express.co.uk
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Russia has taken a major step toward regulating “killer robots,” after the Kremlin alongside the US pushed to strip ethical and human-oversight safeguards from a U.N. treaty. The draft agremement on autonomous weapons took place during closed door talks in Geneva earlier this month.

US and Russian negotiators pushed through the changes during a closed-door session after three years of talks under the U.N. Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW). This marks the furthest progress yet toward establishing international rules for autonomous weapons, according to HRW. The rights group said the revised draft also removed language on predictability, reliability and design standards and narrowed the treaty’s scope from all international law to international humanitarian law.

Cameras were turned off and observers were excluded during the agreement, according to people familiar with the talks cited by The Washington Post.

Russian and US delegations also deployed legal teams nearly twice the size of those from other countries during about 15 hours of last-minute negotiations.

Nicole van Rooijen, executive director of the advocacy coalition Stop Killer Robots, accused Washington and Moscow of seeking to weaken the draft, while human rights groups warned that the changes could reduce accountability for civilian casualties caused by autonomous weapons.

The Washington Post also reported that the US and Russia removed a provision that would have required humans to review AI-generated targets before a weapon carried out a strike.

Speaking to reporters this morning Trump told Fox News: “You know what I want him to do? Make a deal. I want him to settle with Putin and I want Putin to settle with him.”

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic resigns to run for prime minister in October elections– www.france24.com
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic resigned Sunday ahead of the upcoming October 25 parliamentary elections.

Vucic, who has been Serbia’s prime minister or president since 2014, had announced that he would resign the presidency so he can formally pursue a bid to become prime minister if his right-wing populist Serbian Progressive Party wins the October vote.

Vucic’s second presidential term would otherwise end in May next year. He is banned by the Serbian Constitution from seeking a third term

Hundreds of Vucic’s supporters cheered him in front of the Presidency building in Belgrade’s city ​centre.

“This is the last evening for me ‌in this building,” he told the flag-waving crowd minutes before resigning.

“I have faithfully served you and my fatherland, Serbia …  I ‌am proud of what we have done together,” he said.

The snap elections were a key demand of a student-led movement sparked by the November 2024 collapse of a canopy at Novi Sad railway station that killed 16 people and was widely blamed on corruption.

South Korea demands apology from Ukraine over North Korean prisoners of war disclosure– www.channelnewsasia.com
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According to the statement, Ukraine later disclosed the transfer in President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s address to the United Nations General Assembly without sufficient prior consultation and subsequently denied the existence of any confidentiality agreement.

Seong said the denial had seriously damaged trust between the two governments and could harm bilateral relations.

Ukraine’s embassy in Seoul did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.

Zelenskyy told the UN General Assembly last week that Ukraine had transferred two captured North Korean soldiers to South Korea. He said the men had recently been sent there after being captured while fighting for Russia in the war against Ukraine.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung days earlier said Ukraine had disclosed the transfer in breach of a non-disclosure agreement.

In a post on X, Lee said “it was appropriate in every aspect not to disclose” the transfer, given the potential consequences, and that the two sides had agreed to keep it confidential.

“I do not know what circumstances led the Ukrainian side to disclose the matter despite the confidentiality agreement, but it is deeply regrettable,” he wrote.

Ukraine captured the two North Koreans in Russia’s Kursk region in January 2025. They were the first North Korean soldiers to be captured alive since Pyongyang entered the war in 2024, assisting Russia.

Muslim group fears ‘France will become Catholic again’– www.lifesitenews.com
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A French Muslim apologetics group that actively opposes a Catholic revival has predicted that France could “become Catholic again” within a few generations, following the Pope’s enthusiastic reception in Paris.

On September 25 the group Miséricorde pour l’Houmanité (“Mercy for Humanity”) published a message on X predicting that “France will become Catholic again” amid what it described as a growing Catholic revival, strengthened by American Catholic influence. The group lamented that such a revival could undermine Islam’s spiritual influence in Western Europe.

On Poland’s border with Ukraine, residents brace for a possible Russian hybrid attack– abcnews.com
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DOROHUSK, Poland — Three times in one day, phones lit up across this Polish border community with a warning: A drone or a missile could cross from Ukraine, and residents should stay vigilant in case they might need to take cover.

Above the village of Dorohusk in eastern Poland, vapor trails cut across the pale blue sky and military helicopters rumbled overhead. Just 2 kilometers (1.24 miles) away, traffic at the border crossing into Ukraine was suspended three times, and staff were even evacuated once.

The alerts and disruptions on Thursday came as The Associated Press was visiting the village. They reflected a new reality along Poland’s eastern frontier, where the war in Ukraine — now 4 1/2 years old — has felt increasingly close.

Russia isn’t at war with Poland, but over the past few years European leaders say it’s mounted a series of so-called hybrid attacks to pressure to pressure adversaries in the West and NATO that include sabotage, disinformation and cyberattacks. Poland is worried that the drones or missiles strikes could spill over from Ukraine, whether by accident or as part of a Russian strategy of ambiguous attacks.

The anxiety intensified after two Russian drones exploded on the Ukrainian side of the Dorohusk-Yahodyn crossing in the early hours of Sept. 13. The explosions could clearly be heard in Dorohusk.

“There is new restlessness and fear because you could hear those explosions very well on that night in our village,” said Wojciech Sawa, the Dorohusk mayor. “We had never had something like that before. This was the first time the sirens wailed.”

Putin humiliated as Russia heads for worst monthly losses of year in w | World | News– www.express.co.uk
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Vladimir Putin is on course for his worst monthly losses of the war this year in Ukraine. By Sunday, he suffered a staggering 41,420 killed and wounded in September, according to Kyiv’s General Staff.

At this rate, the month’s total will be around 46,000, with statistics indicating losses of 1,534 per day. It would make it one of the three bloodiest months of the war for Putin, who refuses to halt his conflict despite the horrific toll suffered by Russians.

Despite making little headway on the frontline and losing territory in the Donetsk region, Putin pummelled Ukrainian civilians overnight.

Kyiv suffered a hellish 24 hours of near constant Russian attacks, with petrol stations, mobile service operators and logistics hubs being targeted. It was the seventh consecutive day of intense strikes on the Ukrainian capital.

Russia claimed to have hit Ukrtelcom, a fixed-line telephone and broadband internet operator, and the DreamLine data centre in Kyiv, as well as fuel infrastructure facilities. There are also fears that Putin aims to cut internet access for Ukrainians.

Moscow claimed overnight to have targeted Vasylkov military airfield, near Kyiv, home of Ukraine’s Air Force’s 40th Tactical Aviation Brigade. Early today, Putin’s jet-powered Geran drones exploded at least two filling stations in the city.

More than 20 people, including eight children, were injured during a Russian attack on civilians in Kharkiv. More were injured in a strike on Izium, Kharkiv region.

AfD, party that pulled off stunner in German polls, backs probe into Nord pipelines– timesofindia.indiatimes.com
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Tino Chrupalla said the party wanted the attacks to be investigated at the international, national and European levels. (Reuters photo)

Germany’s right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) has called for an international investigation into the “sabotage of the Nord Stream and Nord Stream 2 pipelines”, while also backing their repair and reopening.AfD co-chairman Tino Chrupalla said the party wanted the attacks to be investigated at the international, national and European levels and for those responsible to be held accountable. The party has previously called for a parliamentary inquiry into the blasts.The latest comments came four years after explosions damaged three of the four Nord Stream pipeline strings in the Baltic Sea on September 26, 2022.

Labour must reunite progressive voters to win the next election, says Lucy Powell | Labour– www.theguardian.com
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Labour must “reunite the progressive voter coalition” if it is to take advantage of a split on the right and win the next election, the party’s deputy leader has said.

Lucy Powell, who won the race to be deputy leader 12 months ago with a warning that Labour was losing the fight to be heard as Reform UK surged, said the government now had a second chance under Andy Burnham.

In an interview with the Guardian, Powell said the party had clearly required a “change of leader” to revive its fortunes and tell a better story, after becoming “too technical and pessimistic”.

Labour’s improved poll ratings have led to speculation this week that Andy Burnham will call a snap election, but the prime minister rejected that on Friday and said the next contest would be in 2029.

However, the Labour conference will get underway this weekend with polls beginning to show for the first time in almost two years that Labour might be within touching distance of winning a majority at the next election – 12 months on from polls that suggested Reform UK could win a huge victory.

Russia accuses Europe of blocking Ukraine peace talks as Trump calls on Zelenskyy to “settle with Putin”– www.cbsnews.com
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Russia’s foreign minister used his address at the United Nations General Assembly to accuse Europe of blocking efforts to resolve the conflict in Ukraine.

Both Moscow and Kyiv have stepped up attacks after the deadliest summer since 2022 — the year Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine. On Saturday, Russian attacks killed four people across Ukraine, officials said, while Kyiv continued to target Russian oil refineries and industrial sites with long-range drones.

Efforts led by the U.S. have failed to produce a permanent ceasefire and peace deal, with President Trump saying on Saturday that he hoped Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy would “settle” with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Meanwhile, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused Europe of actively trying to block talks supported by the U.S. government.

Russia is warning Ukrainians it plans on escalating its assault on civilians. President Putin threatened Ukrainians, declaring he will bring them “to their knees.” The rhetoric follows concerns Russia might be preparing to launch sea drone attacks on NATO members.

‘Massive, maximum destruction’: Putin seeks to bring Ukrainian civilians ‘to their knees’– www.france24.com
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Germany: Merz government may use radical ‘federal coercion’ power if AfD party controls Saxony-Anhalt– rmx.news
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The anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) won the Saxony-Anhalt state election by a wide margin but fell short of an absolute majority. Nevertheless, the party may still come to power if it can garner enough support from BSW or peel off a few MPs from rival parties. This possibility has thrust an unused and radical clause of the German constitution, federal coercion or “Bundeszwang,” to the center of a fight over how far Berlin can go if the right-wing party takes power.

The AfD took 43.8 percent of the vote in the Sept. 6 election, but the AfD remains three seats short of an absolute majority. However, Ulrich Siegmund, the AfD’s 35-year-old lead candidate, could still become minister-president. The German government has plenty of tools for dealing with Siegmund if he steps out of line.

Germany’s establishment threatens to use “federal coercion” clause

Federal coercion is one of the most radical mechanisms in the German constitution. Article 37 allows the federal government or a representative it appoints to issue binding orders to the states and their agencies. The Federal Republic of Germany has never resorted to this clause before.

Anna-Bettina Kaiser, a law professor at Humboldt University in Berlin, told Deutsche Welle the bar is extremely high.

Romanian Regime Arrests Presidential Election Winner — Raid Drags Georgescu to Jail in Front of His Son After Annulled Election– www.thegatewaypundit.com
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Romania’s Calin Georgescu filmed handcuffed outside the courthouse in Bucharest

DIICOT, Romania’s law enforcement agency tasked with investigating and prosecuting organized crime, drug trafficking, cybercrime, financial crimes, and terrorism-related offenses, and the national police ambushed Călin Georgescu in traffic before 7 a.m. Monday in Bucharest.

According to reports from the European press, authorities yanked him from the car with his son, Petru, still inside and raced both to the family house in Mogoșoaian. Masked police units then smashed the front door with a ram while Cristela Georgescu and their youngest boy, Pavel, stood inside getting ready for school. The raid dragged on for nine hours.

Officers hit five addresses that morning in Bucharest, Mogoșoaia, Ciolpani, and Buftea.

They filmed themselves storming the property and claimed they found €5,000. Georgescu was then hauled to DIICOT headquarters and marched out in handcuffs that evening. He spent the night in Bucharest’s central jail.

Will the Russia-Ukraine War End Soon? Trump Meets Again With Zelensky.– townhall.com
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President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky held a bilateral meeting at the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday afternoon as the president would like to see an end to the war in Eastern Europe.

“I think they’re gonna make a deal, and I don’t want to say what the deal is, and we talk about it a lot, including with President Putin,” he said when asked by a reporter if he still believes Ukraine can keep all of its original territory. The leaders spoke with reporters prior to the meeting, so it’s unknown what exactly will be the outcomes as of now.

“And I think something’s gonna happen, certainly they are good fighters,” he continued.

Zelensky and Trump last met at the White House on July 28, as the Ukrainian leader was in Washington for the funeral of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC). The president recently signed a Russian sanctions bill in honor of the late senator, which Zelensky thanked him for. The meeting comes as leaders in Poland are concerned about strikes from Russia as well.

“I hope we will end this war, and President Trump will help us end this war,” Zelensky said, wanting a solution “before winter.” Recent prior conversations with Zelenskyy have centered around providing Patriot air defense systems to the country.

The president was also asked about whether he would invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the G20 summit in Miami later this year.

“I know that he will meet, and we’ve had a meeting already in Alaska. I don’t know about Miami […] he would like to see the war end,” Trump said, as he sent special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to meet with Zelensky and Putin earlier this month in different conversations.