Iran’s foreign minister meets with UN nuclear watchdog in bid to avert sanctions

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Abbas Araghchi will likely also meet with European officials, as window for reaching an agreement narrows

Iran’s foreign minister has met the head of the UN’s nuclear watchdog at the start of a frantic round of diplomatic meetings in New York in a bid to avert the reimposition of a wave of UN sanctions on Iran starting on Sunday.

The crisis could rapidly spiral into fresh Israeli calls to attack Iran for failing to cooperate over its nuclear programme. The Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, warned on Monday: “We must destroy the axis of evil Iran and we have the power to do so. This is what lies ahead of us in the coming year, a year that could be a historic one for Israel’s security.”

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Greenlandic Woman Wins Her Baby Back in Denmark – The New York Times

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  1. Greenlandic Woman Wins Her Baby Back in Denmark  The New York Times
  2. Denmark plans payout for Greenlandic women affected by forced IUD scandal  The Guardian
  3. Ivana Bronlund is getting her baby back. Bronlund, a young Greenlandic woman, found herself thrust into the national spotlight after the authorities in her small Danish town forced her to give up her infant daughter an hour after she was born. On Monday, a nati  facebook.com
  4. She Held Her Baby for an Hour. Then the State Took Her Away.  The New York Times
  5. Denmark’s apology to Greenlandic women  JusticeInfo.net
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Netanyahu may struggle to find response that matches rhetoric on Palestine recognition

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Israeli PM has threatened bilateral action and annexation of occupied Palestinian land but there are risks in either

Benjamin Netanyahu was quick to denounce the recognition of a Palestinian state by many of Israel’s historic allies, but the prime minister may be struggling to decide how to turn rhetoric into a concrete response.

His options are perhaps more constrained than he would have his supporters believe. He has variously threatened annexation of occupied Palestinian land and bilateral action against countries that joined the tide of recognition.

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Chinese Aircraft Carrier Fujian Launches Stealth Jet, Early Warning Aircraft in Catapult Tests – USNI News

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  1. Chinese Aircraft Carrier Fujian Launches Stealth Jet, Early Warning Aircraft in Catapult Tests  USNI News
  2. China’s latest aircraft carrier showcases new fighter jet launch system. Only the US has the same tech  CNN
  3. China Showcases Electromagnetic Carrier Catapult For First Time  Bloomberg
  4. China shows catapult launches of carrierborne aircraft for the first time  Breaking Defense
  5. China flexes western Pacific muscle with Fujian launches: analysts  South China Morning Post
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Denmark plans payout for Greenlandic women affected by forced IUD scandal

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Mette Frederiksen announces ‘reconciliation fund’ plan on same day decision to remove Greenlandic woman’s baby is reversed

Denmark intends to pay reparations to Greenlandic women who were fitted with contraceptive coils by Danish doctors and to other people in its former colony who were subjected to “systematic discrimination because they are Greenlanders”, the Danish prime minister has said.

In a historic move for relations between Copenhagen and Nuuk, Mette Frederiksen said on Monday she would discuss a planned “reconciliation fund” when she visited Greenland on Wednesday for an event to mark Denmark’s official apology for the IUD (intrauterine device) scandal.

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UK and Poland vow to confront Russian aircraft violating Nato airspace

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Russia shrugs off criticism as Poland and Estonia speak about incursions at emergency meeting of UN security council

European allies have vowed to shoot down any Russian aircraft violating their airspace after Nato members accused Moscow of repeated incursions into the alliance’s territory in recent weeks.

“If another missile or aircraft enters our space without permission, deliberately or by mistake, and gets shot down and the wreckage falls on Nato territory, please don’t come here to whine about it,” Poland’s foreign minister, Radosław Sikorski, told an emergency meeting of the UN security council in New York on Monday that was called to discuss a Russian airspace incursion over Estonia.

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Netanyahu vows retaliation ahead of more Palestine recognitions at U.N. – The Washington Post

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  1. Netanyahu vows retaliation ahead of more Palestine recognitions at U.N.  The Washington Post
  2. What countries recognize a Palestinian state in 2025?  Axios
  3. A glut of VIPs and a heckled minister see Palestinian flag raised at London’s newest embassy  The Guardian
  4. How Israel could retaliate against the growing push for recognition of a Palestinian state  AP News
  5. The overdue recognitions of a Palestinian state  Financial Times
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‘A surreal journey’: Palestinian students evacuated from Gaza arrive in UK

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First 34 students, who have full scholarships, welcomed after months of campaigning by academics and others

A group of Palestinian scholars who have been awaiting evacuation from Gaza to take up their places at universities across the UK finally arrived on Monday after “a surreal journey from devastation to opportunity”.

The 34 students, who all have fully funded scholarships, arrived in London and Manchester onboard three flights from Queen Alia international airport in Jordan. A number took onward flights to Northern Ireland and Scotland where they will purse their studies.

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Disruption across Italy as tens of thousands protest against Gaza war – The Guardian

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  1. Disruption across Italy as tens of thousands protest against Gaza war  The Guardian
  2. Pro-Palestinian protesters fight police in Milan, Italian ports blocked  Reuters
  3. Clashes break out as Italians strike demanding action over Gaza  BBC
  4. In Italy, tens of thousands hold protests in solidarity with Gaza  Le Monde.fr
  5. Italian roads, ports blocked as anti-Israel protesters try to bring country to ‘standstill’  The Times of Israel
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Fall officially arrives with the autumnal equinox. What to know. – The Washington Post

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  1. Fall officially arrives with the autumnal equinox. What to know.  The Washington Post
  2. Fall is here, Californians. When does winter start in 2025?  Yahoo
  3. Today’s daily horoscopes: Sept. 22, 2025  AL.com
  4. Ask the Meteorologist: Why isn't daylight exactly equal on the equinox here?  WRAL.com
  5. Sept. 22 is the autumnal equinox: What to know  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
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