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14 September3 min read
Red kill switch among server racks

" Gen Z quits job! " is not ordinarily worth a headline, unless they're leaving millions of unvested equity on the table to warn that we're all going to die.

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  1. 01

    IRAN

    The latest.

    Oil’s back up around $110 after another rollercoaster weekend: Friday’s briefing hit your inbox with (now confirmed) reports that drones hit Saudi Arabia’s one east-west pipeline that had long curbed oil dependence on Hormuz. Then a rare Iran-Gulf sit-down planned for Oman today got parked — the Iranians say at Riyadh’s request. Meanwhile, NYT reporting suggests Iran’s own hardliners purposefully sank US talks earlier this year. (Reuters)

  2. 02

    UNITED KINGDOM

    US yoinks embassy staffer?

    US authorities have detained one of their own embassy staffers in London and flown him home on allegations he owned child abuse material. (BBC)

  3. 03

    RUSSIA

    Train attack.

    A Russian drone has destroyed a train engine at the Ukraine-Polish border shortly after former British PM Boris Johnson, former CIA chief David Petraeus, and other Western security luminaries had departed a security conference in Kyiv. (BBC)

  4. 04

    SWEDEN

    Election drama.

    Sweden’s Sunday election is a photo finish, with the centre-left opposition enjoying the slightest of leads over PM Kristersson’s pan-right coalition. Final results might not be out until Wednesday. (Al Jazeera)

  5. 05

    TURKEY

    Crackdown on LGBTQ groups.

    Turkish police spent the weekend raiding gay bars, NGO offices, and activist homes under an operation branded “My Family is Safe”. The justice minister is framing it all as part of President Erdogan’s wider ‘Decade of Family and Population’, aimed at reviving declining birth-rates. (DW) Comment: The birthrate story is real, but pinging it on a small (and legal) minority feels familiar and political — define the nation as a tradition, anyone else as foreign, and thereby maybe distract from your own issues like rent and wages. The EU will either mutter something about rights or hold its nose to keep the Turkey file quiet. Watch which.

  6. 06

    INDIA

    BRICS summit.

    Narendra Modi’s big weekend BRICS summit has wrapped with a joint declaration hailing their “unprecedented unity”. (Al Jazeera)

  7. 07

    ALGERIA

    Cutting ties.

    After years of tensions, Algiers has formally severed ties with the UAE and closed its airspace to Emirati-flagged aircraft. (EuroNews)

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