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International News Bulletin — August 29, 2026
Politics Trump announces a US-Venezuela oil agreement – President Donald Trump said on Friday that Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of War Pete Hegseth had secured majority United States control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven Venezuelan oil reserves, at what he called no cost to the American taxpayer, describing it […]
Scientific Breakthroughs of the Week — August 29, 2026
🧬 Life Sciences & Medicine Ketogenic diet cut liver fat most in a 42-person trial – A randomised trial in 42 people with obesity, prediabetes and fatty liver disease found the ketogenic arm lost 67 percent of its liver fat, against about 45 percent on the two comparison diets. All food was provided and each […]
International News Bulletin — August 27, 2026
Politics Qatar’s prime minister presses Iran on reopening Hormuz – Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani met Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, President Masoud Pezeshkian, parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf and security chief Mohsen Rezai in Tehran on Thursday, the first high-level Qatari visit since the war began on 28 February. The talks covered a proposed […]
International News Bulletin — August 26, 2026
Politics UN envoy warns Gaza faces a point of no return – Nickolay Mladenov, head of the US-led Board of Peace for Gaza, told the Security Council on Wednesday that the territory “does not have another catastrophe left in it” and that a resumption of fighting “would be a point of no return for everyone”. […]
International News Bulletin — August 25, 2026
Politics Kurdish-led SDF dissolves after merging into Syria’s army – Commander Mazloum Abdi announced at the presidential palace in Damascus on Tuesday “the end of the mission of the Syrian Democratic Forces” and their dissolution as an independent military force, describing a shift “from the battlefields to the fields of construction”. Interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa […]
International News Bulletin — August 24, 2026
Politics US launches Operation Economic Outcast sanctions campaign against Iran – Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced the programme on Monday, describing it as an economic D-day and saying the aim was to “sever every economic lifeline that sustains this tyrannical regime”. The Office of Foreign Assets Control designated more than 60 entities, individuals and vessels, […]
International News Bulletin — August 23, 2026
Politics Kazakhstan votes for its new single-chamber parliament – Voters chose the 145 members of the Kurultai on Sunday in the first election held under the constitutional changes that took effect on 1 July. Seven parties competed under a 5 percent threshold, and pre-election surveys pointed to a commanding win for the newly formed pro-presidential […]
Weekly AI Review — August 23, 2026
🚀 Model & Product Releases DeepSeek opens a multimodal API with an experimental vision model – DeepSeek released DeepSeek-V4-Flash-Vision-Exp on August 21 and opened its multimodal API to developers. The company describes a sparse mixture-of-experts model with 13 billion active parameters out of 284 billion total, adding image understanding while matching the text-only V4-Flash on […]
Scientific Breakthroughs of the Week — August 22, 2026
🧬 Life Sciences & Medicine Individualised mRNA cancer vaccine meets its phase 3 endpoints – Merck and Moderna reported that adding intismeran autogene, an individualised mRNA neoantigen therapy, to pembrolizumab lengthened recurrence-free survival after melanoma surgery. The INTerpath-001 trial randomised 1,137 patients with resected stage IIB to IV melanoma 2 to 1, and met its […]
Weekly Financial News — August 21, 2026
🌍 Dominant theme of the week The week of 17 to 21 August 2026 was governed by the long end of government bond curves, everywhere at once. The US 30-year yield touched 5.336% on Tuesday 18 August, its highest since 2007 according to CNBC, the French 10-year OAT reached 4.10% the same day, a record […]