September 2026
All columns and Brief analyses.
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Pezeshkian is ready to give up uranium enriched to 60 percent under the NPT
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Tehran is willing to give up uranium enriched to 60 percent under the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Iran International published that statement on 25 September. Fox News wrote that in a Thursday interview the same president said Tehran is willing to dilute the material and open it to verification. Those sentences are the Iranian state's claim. No outside inspection has confirmed them.
Radiotherapy after surgery halved atypical meningioma recurrence
The ROAM/EORTC-1308 trial, presented on 25 September at the European Association of Neuro-Oncology meeting and published in The Lancet, found that radiotherapy after complete removal of an atypical meningioma held recurrence at 14 percent over a median five-year follow-up, against 30 percent with observation alone.
Schnabel leaves the European Central Bank (ECB) board on 3 January for an IMF post the next day
The European Central Bank said Isabel Schnabel will step down from the Executive Board on 3 January 2027. IMF Managing Director Kristalina Georgieva intends to appoint her Financial Counsellor and director of the Monetary and Capital Markets Department from 4 January 2027. The Governing Council, after an Ethics Committee opinion, required no cooling-off period, and Schnabel will not handle IMF matters during the rest of her ECB term. ZAWYA's headline states the same 4 January IMF start. A successor is for the European Council to appoint.
Stanford pulls a dining-hall banner after an AI edit replaced a student
Residential and Dining Enterprises replaced Billy Ramirez in a dining-hall photograph with an AI-generated image of a woman, and also changed his classmates' faces and clothes. Stanford said the edit and the missing disclosure broke university rules. The banner came down. Ramirez said the change made him feel erased, and the other two students filed a civil-rights report seeking an apology and a ban on AI images of students.
Stroke sped glioma invasion into injured tissue in human and mouse models
A peer-reviewed Baylor and Texas Children's study in Nature Cancer shows that stroke pushed tumors into injured regions in human and mouse glioma models and lowered survival in those models. Tumor-associated astrocytes with weaker calcium activity appeared at the invasive front, and microglia and macrophages accumulated. Restoring that calcium activity, or depleting those immune cells, suppressed the advance in the models.
Stubb asks Musk to open Starlink over Russian missile launchers
Finnish President Alexander Stubb asked Elon Musk to let Ukraine use Starlink where Russian ballistic missile launchers sit, including occupied territory and Russia, The Straits Times and Yle reported from his Thursday comments in New York. He said Kyiv lacks air defences that can stop those missiles. Starlink does not work over Russian territory, and neither report says Musk has agreed.
Tesla opened its Semi factory in Nevada as deliveries started
CNBC reported that Tesla opened its first high-volume Semi factory in Sparks, Nevada, on 24 September. The Verge reported that Tesla showed the Semi at that new factory and named customers. Semi director Dan Priestley described a plan for 50,000 trucks a year, about 1,000 a week, and more than 3,000 jobs during the ramp. ZET SCALE said it selected Tesla as the primary manufacturer for an initial 2,500 Semis.
The U.S. placed second in 2025 factory-robot installations, ahead of Japan
The International Federation of Robotics counted a factory robot stock of 5 million after a 9 percent rise during 2025. Second place went to the U.S., at almost 38,500 installations. Japan dropped 19 percent and finished at 36,219. Installations for the year climbed 11 percent and cleared 600,000. China put in 354,000.
The US Supreme Court lets the SAVE citizenship check proceed for now
The US Supreme Court on Friday paused a lower-court order that had blocked the expanded SAVE database, which states can use to check whether registered voters are citizens. CBS News reported a 6-3 vote. The order does not lift the federal bar on systematic voter-roll purges in the 90 days before an election. The midterm election is on 3 November.
Trump raised yen weakness with Takaichi in New York
Finance minister Satsuki Katayama said Donald Trump raised yen weakness with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in New York, Reuters and Jiji via Nippon.com reported on 25 September. Takaichi said she called an undervalued yen problematic and that monetary and fiscal policy were not discussed. Reuters said the yen firmed from 158.60 per dollar to about 158 and the 10-year yield hit 3.1150 per cent, a 30-year high.