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• Putin anticipates friendly reception at India Brics summit

  11-09-2026 10:20 via ft.com
  Kremlin chief to pursue defence and investment deals with New Delhi at first in-person attendance abroad since Ukraine war
  
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• Putin given friendly reception at India Brics summit

  11-09-2026 14:05 via ft.com
  Kremlin chief to pursue defence and investment deals with New Delhi at first in-person attendance abroad since Ukraine war
  
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• Hong Kong imprisons Tiananmen vigil organisers

  11-09-2026 12:10 via ft.com
  Pro-democracy activists handed jail terms of more than 5 years as authorities snuff out political dissent
  
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• Anglo nickel deal tests EU resolve over Chinese control of resources

  11-09-2026 11:59 via ft.com
  China-backed MMG urges Brussels to approve $500mn transaction as European regulators prepare formal warning
  
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• Philippine rescuers board ferry 40 hours after blaze began

  11-09-2026 08:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Thick, toxic fumes and extreme temperatures pose a challenge to rescuers who have boarded the ship.
  
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• Bessent’s intervention risks damaging BoJ’s credibility, bankers warn

  11-09-2026 07:51 via ft.com
  US Treasury secretary’s claims of insider knowledge could erode market perceptions of Japanese central bank’s independence
  
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• Hong Kong's Tiananmen activists sentenced to up to seven years in prison

  11-09-2026 07:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Hong Kong used to be one of the only places in Chinese territory where people could gather to mark the 1989 crackdown.
  
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• Time for the Brics

  11-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The developing world’s answer to the G7 sees a unique moment of opportunity to remake the global order. But divisions and existential questions remain
  
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• Brics on the rise

  11-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  The grouping accounts for a bigger share of the world economy than the G7
  
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• How China is extending its long arm abroad

  11-09-2026 05:17 via ft.com
  Growing judicial web threatens multinationals and individuals, even for actions taken outside China
  
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• How China is extending its legal reach abroad

  11-09-2026 05:17 via ft.com
  Growing judicial web threatens multinationals and individuals, even for actions taken outside China
  
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• China extends its long legal arm across the world

  11-09-2026 05:17 via ft.com
  Growing judicial web threatens multinationals and individuals, even for actions taken outside the country
  
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• India’s Adani bids for foreign airports

  11-09-2026 03:30 via ft.com
  Also in this newsletter: Brics in the shadow of Donald Trump
  
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• Twenty-five dead after fire on cargo ship in eastern China

  10-09-2026 14:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Of the 42 people on board, 17 were were evacuated, CCTV reports.
  
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• Drug use may have begun 25,000 years ago in Indonesia, research finds

  10-09-2026 14:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists have found evidence that early human foragers in Indonesia were using the betel nut as a drug.
  
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• Presidential pardon for controversial Sri Lankan monk overturned

  10-09-2026 14:13 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Galagodaatte Gnanasara was sentenced in 2018 to six years for contempt of court and intimidating the wife of a missing cartoonist.
  
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• Is now really the time to worry about a new China shock?

  10-09-2026 13:00 via ft.com
  Be careful what you wish for
  
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• 'People were trampling me': Philippine ferry fire survivor recalls narrow escape

  10-09-2026 11:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A survivor has told the BBC of the chaos onboard as the ferry caught fire near the popular tourist spot of Coron.
  
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• The rock guitarist whose killing shocked India's north-east

  10-09-2026 09:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A renowned Manipuri guitarist's killing has sparked anger - and an outpouring of memories about his life and music.
  
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• Abu Dhabi buys into China’s Luckin Coffee with $1bn deal

  10-09-2026 08:43 via ft.com
  Mubadala widens presence in world’s second-largest consumer market
  
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• Five dead and 86 missing as 'heartbreaking' fire breaks out on Philippines ferry

  10-09-2026 08:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The fire broke out as the vessel nearing its destination at the tourist hotspot of Coron in Palawan.
  
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• Japan must raise rates, central banker says

  10-09-2026 06:07 via ft.com
  Hawkish BoJ comments follow pressure from Scott Bessent and volatility in currency and bond markets
  
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• Bank of Japan must raise rates further, board member says

  10-09-2026 06:07 via ft.com
  Hawkish comments follow pressure from US Treasury secretary Scott Bessent and volatility in currency and bond markets
  
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• The end of the ‘win-win’ era

  10-09-2026 06:00 via ft.com
  In these zero-sum times, the sunny optimism of the post-cold war phrase seems a quaint and distant memory
  
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• US-China borrowing costs diverge to widest level ever

  10-09-2026 05:54 via ft.com
  Rising Treasury yields threaten to accelerate shift in capital flows between world’s two largest economies
  
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• Will South Korea follow through on $350bn deal with Trump?

  10-09-2026 03:29 via ft.com
  Frustration builds in Washington one year after agreement sealed
  
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• Watch: Crews race to rescue passengers from burning ferry in Philippines

  10-09-2026 03:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Emergency teams were still searching for at least 86 missing people in the waters off the coast of Coron, in the Philippines.
  
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• China warns bankers not to flood IPO market

  10-09-2026 02:45 via ft.com
  Regulators say they want listings to remain priced cheaply amid push to boost investors’ faith in stock markets
  
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• Inside Thailand's school shooter drills following recent attacks

  10-09-2026 00:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police say they hope the drill will help prepare students, as concern grows over the increase in school shootings in South East Asia.
  
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• American football is coming to Australia - can it succeed?

  10-09-2026 00:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The LA Rams will face the San Francisco 49ers in the first regular season American football game to be played Down Under.
  
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