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The commission says lessons from the 2024 floods should guide preparations to ensure low-income families receive equal protection, shelter and emergency support.
Read briefingHeavy rain has triggered deadly floods and landslides across Nepal, killing at least 21 people and leaving five missing, according to the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Authority. An avalanche on Himlung Himal has left 12 local workers missing.
Read briefingFrom energy crisis to energy transition: How renewables are reshaping energy security UN NewsImporters paid roughly $75 billion for Chinese batteries and grid equipment in 2026's first seven months MarketScaleThe energy transition: Progress and challenges CEPRCOMMENTARY: The global energy transition shifts from generation to integration Reuters
Read briefingA French investigative website on Monday alleged that far-right National Rally leader Jordan Bardella made antisemitic comments in writing in 2013, but the close ally of presidential frontrunner Marine Le Pen dismissed the claims as fake. The allegations emerged as Le Pen's prospects for the 2027 elections appear stronger than at any point in her previous campaigns. FRANCE 24's Jennie Shin speaks with Dr Andrew Smith, Lecturer in History and Liberal Arts at Queen Mary University of London.
Read briefingOn the men's side, German Alexander Zverev, ranked No.2, the American Ben Shelton (4), Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime (5), Italian Lorenzo Musetti (25) and Frenchman Arthur Rinderknech (33rd) have volunteered to join Djokovic on the new body. Novak Djokovic of Serbia fields questions during Media Day ahead of the US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Center on August 20, 2025 in New York City. Matthew Stockman/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by MATTHEW STOCKMAN / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)A dialogue between the four tennis Grand Slam tournaments and disgruntled players has moved a step closer, as sources confirmed to AFP on Monday the 12 members of a proposed advisory council.Novak Djokovic, who has won a record 24 Grand Slam singles titles, and women's No.1 Elena Rybakina head the list posted on social media earlier Monday by Jon Wertheim of Sports Illustrated.The four Grand Slams - the US Open, Australian Open, French Open and Wimbledon - announced the creation of the council on the eve of the US Open in August. The move followed protests at the French Open and Wimbledon by players demanding a greater share of tournament revenue along with investment in pensions and player welfare.At the time, the slams said the exact shape of the council would be decided after discussions with players but, they added that the new body "will examine all sporting mat...
Read briefingNvidia sets biggest-ever buyback plan as AI chip competition weighs on stock performance ReutersNVIDIA Announces a $150 Billion Share Repurchase Authorization Increase NVIDIA NewsroomOil Rises; Meta’s Muse Trade Extends To CPU Stocks Like Intel, AMD, Arm, Qualcomm BenzingaNvidia's Record Buyback Couldn't Keep the Nasdaq Out of the Red on Monday Morning Currently.comNvidia's $150B buyback fails to keep chip stocks buoyant TradingView
Read briefingDRC politician beaten to death after radio appearance about Ebola outbreak peopledaily.digital
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Read briefingAgency used video of Hall of Fame player Brian Dawkins to show readiness for border protection.The National Football League (NFL) has asked the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to stop using a video of a retired star player on social media, after the agency used highlights of his career to show its readiness to protect the United States border against a purported caravan of immigrants that was heading towards it.“The league has requested the DHS take down the video,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy said on Monday.The video, posted on Sunday, shows Brian Dawkins, a former player for the Philadelphia Eagles and Denver Broncos, walking out before a game and chanting “the time has come”. It then features a montage of him tackling opposing players on the field, set to heavy metal music. The DHS post includes the caption: “Our time has come.”Dawkins was a highly celebrated NFL player who retired in 2011 after playing 16 seasons in the NFL.US President Donald Trump has made immigration a central part of his second term in office, terming the inflow of migrants across the border from Mexico an “invasion” and deploying federal forces in cities across the country to round up undocumented people.During his first term, Trump deployed thousands of troops along the border with Mexico to stop a caravan of Central American migrants who had been making their way north. Critics called the deployment a vast overreaction and dismissed it as a political stunt ahead of the 2018 midterm elections.
Read briefingThree suspects in planned cash-in-transit robbery killed in shootout in South Africa — TimesLIVE UA.NEWS
Read briefingThe Sudanese Armed Forces said it respected international law and the principle of non-interference, while warning that it would defend Sudan’s sovereignty and national security.
Read briefingThe security officials were tried in absentia 10 years after the Italian student was found dead after being tortured.An Italian court has convicted three Egyptian security officials for their involvement in the kidnapping of student Giulio Regeni, who was later found dead.The men were sentenced to 10 years in prison for aggravated kidnapping on Monday, while a fourth defendant was acquitted. They were tried in absentia and are unlikely to face extradition given the strained relations between Italy and Egypt as a result of the case.“We achieved this result despite what can be described as less than wholehearted cooperation from the Egyptian authorities,” Rome Chief Prosecutor Francesco Lo Voi told reporters.Regeni, a postgraduate student at the United Kingdom’s University of Cambridge, disappeared in the Egyptian capital in January 2016. His body was later found on the side of a road with broken teeth, cigarette burns and broken bones. A post-mortem determined he had been tortured.Human rights activists said his injuries were similar to those found on people who have been tortured in Egyptian security agency facilities.Egypt has denied any involvement in his death. The four men, Major Magdi Sharif, from General Intelligence; police Colonel Hisham Helmy; Colonel Ather Kamal, a former head of investigations in Cairo; and former head of state security Major General Tarek Sabir, who was acquitted, have never responded to the accusations against them.The judge dismissed the accusation of “conspiracy to commit aggravated murder” levelled against Sharif on Monday.Egyptian and Italian prosecutors initially investigated the case together. However, Egypt then said that members of a criminal gang were responsible for the murder and had been killed in a police shootout. It has subsequently maintained that Regeni’s killers are unknown.Italian prosecutors said that Egyptian security officials kidnapped and tortured Regeni because of his academic research into trade unions. He had been researching union activities among street vendors in Cairo at the time he disappeared. They accused Egypt of undermining their investigation and refusing to disclose the men’s whereabouts.Italian legislation allows for the prosecution of crimes committed abroad against Italian citizens. However, an earlier trial of the four men was suspended in 2021 after the judge questioned its legitimacy, given that the accused may not have known whether they had been charged.This decision was dismissed in 2023 by Italy’s top court, which said the trial should not be impeded by Egypt’s failure to cooperate. Egypt denied it had refused to cooperate with Italian officials.
Read briefingUAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan (left) discussed bilateral relations during a visit on Sept 27 by Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu.CAIRO - UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan discussed bilateral relations during a visit on Sept 27 by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to the Gulf country, the Emirati state news agency WAM reported on Sept 28.
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Read briefingKenya News Agency - KNA. . 𝗧𝗮𝗻𝗮 𝗥𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗶𝘃𝗶𝗹 𝗦𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗲𝘁𝘆 𝗢𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗱 𝗢𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗮 has expressed disappointment over the Senate Public Accounts Committee’s failure to visit the county last week to list facebook.com
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Read briefing2027 Election: Are Votes Being Smuggled Across the Kenya-Uganda Border? standardmedia.co.ke
Read briefingKenya's 5G connections grew 69% to 2.1 million, and each uses four times the data of a 4G one tech-ish.com
Read briefingTwo generators will provide temporary relief in Habaswein as Kenya Power repairs faulty engines blamed for the prolonged power outage.
Read briefingNvidia CEO Jensen Huang believes that tech firms would not keep pushing the technology forward if they did not believe the risks could be managed.SAN FRANCISCO - Nvidia on Sept 28 unveiled a system designed to stop autonomous AI programmes from straying beyond what they were instructed to do, after a wave of incidents raised alarm about the technology’s risks.AI “agents” are designed to act on their own – browsing the web, writing and running code or handling files – rather than simply answering questions like a chatbot.The technology has been hailed as the next stage of the AI revolution, but several leading companies have recently reported cases of agents breaking out of the test environments meant to contain them.According to ChatGPT-maker OpenAI, websites accessed by its agents include those of US federal agencies, an Australian government health statistics portal and Hugging Face, a repository of AI models.Amid the alarm, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang insisted that the problems can be solved.“I believe it’s an engineering problem ... and we all need to hope that’s an engineering problem,” Huang told CNBC on Sept 28.In Huang’s view, tech firms would not keep pushing the technology forward if they did not believe the risks could be managed.Nvidia has a lot riding on that bet: its graphics processing units, or GPUs, power much of the AI boom, and the company’s fortunes are closely tied to the revolution continuing at full speed.Huang likened the challenge to the early days of the internet, when websites could load programs onto people’s computers and spread viruses.The answer then, he said, was to turn the web browser into a “containment system” that limited access.Nvidia’s system similarly places each agent in a sealed-off digital space, or “sandbox,” and lets companies spell out exactly which files, networks and tools it may use.A separate monitor, running on Nvidia hardware beyond the agent’s reach, watches its behaviour and can cut it off if it goes astray.Nvidia said the system could have prevented the Hugging Face breach, in which the platform reported more than 17,000 agents attacking its infrastructure over days and weeks.More than 100 organisations are working with Nvidia’s platform at launch, the company said, including Microsoft, Cisco, Salesforce and SAP.Anthropic has connected its Claude agents to the system and SpaceXAI is applying it to its Grok models. AFP
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Read briefingRussian drones struck Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences in the historic heart of Kyiv on Monday, in the latest deadly daytime attack on the capital. Volodymyr Zelensky has long been pleading with Ukraine’s allies for more military aid to fend off Russia. But Ukrainian weapons producers say the country could be bringing in significant revenue of its own, if only they were allowed to export their products. FRANCE 24's Gulliver Cragg reports from Kyiv.
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