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Tehran declared Monday that an upgraded ballistic missile lets it act against threats preemptively, a doctrine Iranian officials have never stated this plainly in public. Mohsen Rezaei, who heads the Supreme National Security Council, said the solid-fueled Qassem Basir had already been tested against a US warship.

Crude answered inside the hour, with Brent climbing to $97.73 a barrel, its highest level since July 23, and WTI up 1.8% to $93.10. Saudi Aramco's Jizan refinery was reportedly hit Monday, two days after US forces sank three Iranian tankers that CENTCOM called a shadow funding network.

The AfD took 43.8% in Saxony-Anhalt on Sunday, burying Chancellor Friedrich Merz's CDU, which finished a distant second on 17.2% of the vote. Initial counts give the party 39 of the state parliament's 83 seats, leaving it three short of governing alone.

Eurasia Group's Mujtaba Rahman called the result possibly the most consequential German state election of the entire postwar era. Bund yields barely moved, with the 10-year at 3.348%, and the European Central Bank meets Thursday with a quarter-point hike close to certain.

Trump barred Bombardier from selling aircraft in the United States on Monday, unless the Canadian planemaker moves production onto American soil. Ottawa's retaliatory tariffs take effect Tuesday, covering roughly $20 billion of goods across more than 700 product lines.

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick told CNBC that Canada blew up a nearly finished trade deal for political reasons alone. Prime Minister Mark Carney answered that talks resume when Washington is ready, leaving wine, cement and hockey sticks stuck under a 50% levy.

Crowds filled central Belgrade on Monday for the funeral of Ratko Mladić, the Bosnian Serb general convicted of genocide over Srebrenica. Mladić died at 84 in a UN prison in The Hague, and the EU had warned Serbia against turning the burial into a celebration.

Moscow ordered the consulate closed on Monday, giving German staff until September 18 to wind down and leave the country. Retaliation follows an attempted drone attack in Leipzig that Berlin blamed on Russia, and the Goethe-Institut closures stand as well.

British police are hunting protesters after officers were hurt in Portsmouth, where a crowd formed following the arrival of 120 migrants in a single dinghy. Policing Minister Sarah Jones told the Commons that Sunday night's scenes were intimidating and thuggish, with vehicles damaged in the disorder.

Candidates worked union halls and parades on Monday as the midterm races entered their last two months of campaigning. In Maine, Democratic Senate nominee Troy Jackson pressed several hundred union members in Portland on the minimum wage and family medical leave.

Lawyers for Daniel Conahan Jr., 72, petitioned the Supreme Court on Monday for a stay of his lethal injection, now scheduled for Thursday. Conahan was sentenced for the April 1996 killing of Richard Montgomery in Charlotte County, and his attorneys want DNA evidence examined first.

NPR spent the holiday inside classrooms around the country as more than 54 million students returned for a new school year. Kindergarten teacher Laurie Hansen leans on a class mascot, Bono the Monkey, who has smoothed the first week for nearly three decades of five-year-olds.

AAA put the national average at $4.15 a gallon on Monday, smashing the previous Labor Day record of $3.82 set back in 2012. Diesel looks worse at $5.90 against $3.71 a year ago, with traffic through the Strait of Hormuz down to 4.9 million barrels a day.

US exchanges were closed, so Friday's 7,718.60 close on the S&P 500, a drop of 0.38%, remains the latest reading. Seoul's Kospi jumped 4.61% and Tokyo's Nikkei added 2.12%, powered by Samsung, SK Hynix and an 11% surge in SoftBank.

The retailer won a key appeal on Monday, with the Employment Appeal Tribunal reversing much of a landmark 2024 decision against it. More than 3,500 current and former staff brought the claim, and Next can now keep paying warehouse workers above shop-floor rates.

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A prototype of Claude produced a machine-checked proof of Fermat's last theorem in eleven days, a job mathematicians expected to take a decade. Kevin Buzzard of Imperial College London called the 13-million-line Lean formalization an order of magnitude harder than February's sphere-packing effort.

Grindr settled allegations it shared users' personal data, including HIV status, with third parties, agreeing to pay £26 million. Litigation began in London's High Court in 2024 and later drew a parallel US class action against the world's largest LGBTQ+ dating app.

Police in Northern Ireland say a victim lost £250,000 after an AI-generated video put a well-known financial personality behind a fake investment pitch. Fraudsters promised significant returns through the fabricated endorsement, which proved convincing enough to move a six-figure sum out of one account.

Zheng Qinwen beat Iga Swiatek to reach the US Open quarterfinals, clawing back another set after trailing 5-0 in it. Zheng has now pulled off that escape in consecutive matches, and she arrives in the last eight as the draw's most stubborn survivor.

New York cut receiver Darius Slayton on Monday afternoon, days before the season opener and with no obvious replacement on the depth chart. Slayton had outlasted every other player on the roster through a long run of coaching and quarterback churn.

Arizona scored five in the 10th and then survived a four-run Kansas City reply to win 5-4 after nine scoreless innings. Lars Nootbaar's pinch-hit sacrifice fly broke the deadlock, and four more runs crossed before the Royals ever came to bat.

Baltimore beat Cleveland 6-4 behind two Coby Mayo home runs, ending a losing streak that had run six games. Trevor Rogers carried the start into the eighth inning and kept Cleveland's lineup quiet through the middle of the game.

Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim's Elizabeth Holmes documentary premiered under night-vision security at Telluride, instantly upending the Oscar race and putting A24 in reach of a 90-year documentary record. Phones were locked in pouches, and the Herzog Theater line stretched the longest of the weekend.

Variety posted the 48-second teaser for "Musk", which asks whether the billionaire is the greatest living inventor or a fascist who has lost his mind. Gibney's film premieres out of competition at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday before travelling on to Toronto.

Ireland's consumer watchdog says Ticketmaster breached consumer law over the way it priced and presented tickets for the Oasis shows at Croke Park. Platinum tickets sit at the center of the case, which covers the reunion nights of August 16 and 17, 2025.

What it is: A letter sent on behalf of King Charles confirms their non-working status, circulated to Harry's team, the government, the armed forces and the Lord Lieutenants who represent the King in every county. Palace correspondence almost never goes to a list that wide, which makes the distribution the real message: one answer, issued everywhere at once, with nothing left to local improvisation.

The detail: Harry and Meghan moved back from California last month with Archie and Lilibet, ending five years abroad and forcing questions that distance had kept comfortably theoretical. Both remain private citizens barred from the His and Her Royal Highness styles, and the letter restores no patronage, no military appointment and no route back to working duties.

Why it matters: Charles has spent his reign running a deliberately slimmed-down monarchy, and a returning couple with enormous global recognition but no official standing is exactly the ambiguity that arrangement cannot absorb. Every county lieutenancy now holds written guidance on how to treat them, so a local ceremonial invitation can no longer harden into an accidental reinstatement. The arrangement also draws a bright line between reconciliation and restoration. Harry can rebuild personal ties with his father and appear at family events without regaining a constitutional role. That distinction gives the Palace room to welcome the Sussexes privately while preventing their celebrity from being mistaken for delegated authority.

What to watch: Watch the guest list for the next state occasion, where attendance as family rather than as working royals is now the only category on offer to them. Security is the harder question, since protection in Britain has always tracked official status, and that status has just been restated in writing for everyone who might have wondered.

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