# NuseReal
Headlines internationalists can use
Ahead of next week's UN biodiversity summit, COP17, UN chief urges governments to stop propping up polluting fossil fuels: 'Subsidising suicide' (LINK) — 16 October 2026
UN News: Guterres urges faster action and financing to stop biodiversity loss: "every day, humankind saws another branch off the tree of life" — (LINK)
Top global climate science body IPCC suspends meeting without deal on major review timeline: the impasse has lasted nearly three years (LINK) — 16 October 2026
— Governments are set to assess progress toward goals set in the 2015 Paris agreement at the UN climate talks in November 2028, in a so-called "Global Stocktake". The panel's deliberations will resume at the earliest opportunity, the IPCC said, without providing details. Countries including India, Kenya, Saudi Arabia, Russia and China are pressing for more time to prepare the IPCC's next reports to ensure scientists from less-resourced countries can make meaningful contributions.
China moves to curb tech exports, including AI, citing national security risks (ground news LINK) — 16 October 2026
North Korea tests new AI-equipped torpedo, state media says (ground news LINK) — 15 October 2026
Equatorial Guinea rewrites oil law for Monday to encourage investment after production collapses 85% (LINK) — 16 October 2026
Trump pauses new Russia sanctions passed by Congress amid deepening row with Ukraine (LINK) — 16 October 2026
— Guardian: In an executive order on Friday, the US president said he was waiving many sanctions, restrictions and duties on Russia, in a move that comes as he has been publicly criticising Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy, including suggesting that Ukraine needs a new leader. Trump signed the legislation last month, after Congress passed the measure in an act of rare bipartisan agreement. It sought to clamp down more quickly on the flow of financial resources fuelling Russia's war against Ukraine.
Brent oil rises to $110 for the first time since May as Iran escalates Hormuz attacks, Ukraine vows to hit Russian refineries (LINK) — 16 October 2026
Global Dispatches: It's now a three-way race for UN Secretary-General: Grynspan, Grossi, Rodrigues-Birkett (LINK limited) — 16 October 2026
— This latest poll introduced a new dynamic to the race. Unlike the previous four straw polls, the ballots this time were color-coded to distinguish between the preferences of the five veto-wielding members of the Security Council and those of the other ten members. The veto-wielding members were given identical red ballots, while the other ten members were given different colored ballots. On each ballot, members indicated whether they encouraged, discouraged, or had no opinion on each candidate. All 3 received 2 red Discourage votes.
EU and Gulf states postpone summit due in Saudi Arabia next week (LINK) — 15 October 2026
Ukraine hits Russian refinery as Zelenskiy says 'we're done' with Trump's energy truce (LINK) — 15 October 2026
Trump shuts down Hegseth plan to livestream military execution (LINK) — 15 October 2026
US issues fresh Iran-related sanctions, Treasury website shows: targeting 16 individuals and 10 entities in Iran, Iraq, and Hong Kong (ground news LINK) — 15 October 2026
Iraq parliament fills Cabinet posts vacant since Prime Minister Ali Al-Zaidi's government took office in May, naming a US-sanctioned deputy prime minister: Laith al-Khazali, a senior leader of the Iran-backed Asaib Ahl al-Haq movement (ground news LINK) — 15 October 2026
Chile sentences Venezuelan gang member to 20 years for kidnapping and killing dissident Ronald Ojeda, abducted from his Santiago apartment by men posing as police officers: 16 other defendants are set to go on trial next week. (ground news LINK) — 15 October 2026
Elon Musk says Trump is 'ultimately' responsible for any curbs on Ukraine's Starshield systems (LINK) — 15 October 2026
— Ukraine had accused SpaceX of imposing new restrictions on the Starshield internet service without warning, leading to disruptions to Ukrainian military operations amid fresh Russian strikes on its energy infrastructure. On Wednesday, Serhii Beskrestnov, an advisor to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on defense technology, said SpaceX had implemented a speed limit on Starlink terminals in motion, without notifying the country's defense forces. That had disrupted some missions, and the same restrictions also applied to Starshield, a military-grade satellite network, he said on Telegram. Some restrictions appear to have been partially lifted, with former Ukrainian defense minister Mykhailo Fedorov thanking Musk early Thursday morning that Starlink connectivity at speeds of up to 160 kilometers an hour had been restored.
From January 2025-August 2026 US deported more than 16,000 people to third countries with which they may have no cultural or legal ties — Al Jazeera (LINK) — 15 October 2026
FBI arrest of Saudi national for allegedly planting a recording device in OpenAI's headquarters revives fears that U.S. tech companies are hiring spies (LINK) — 15 October 2026
— Last week, President Donald Trump awarded national medals to six tech titans for their contributions to American innovation. Five of them, including Google co-founder Sergey Brin and SpaceX founder Elon Musk, were immigrants.
