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Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu made an unannounced weekend visit to Abu Dhabi to meet with UAE leadership. The undisclosed trip comes amid ongoing regional tensions.

OpenAI paused the public rollout of a new AI model after internal reviews flagged unresolved safety issues, underscoring tensions between rapid AI deployment and risk management.

The US and Iran have separately engaged multiple mediators in an attempt to revive indirect talks aimed at ending the prolonged military confrontation. The new mediation effort comes amid escalating regional tensions.

The Washington Post reports that Senate Republicans are mounting a final legislative sprint ahead of the US midterm elections, packing multiple items onto the Senate floor as the chamber abandons an early exit from Washington. The fast pace reflects Republican leadership’s reading of the political stakes of the midterms.

CNN reports that the White House has been expanding a taxpayer-funded promotional campaign that critics describe as a muscular political-style pitch for President Trump, drawing fresh bipartisan criticism over the boundary between official communications and political promotion. Some lawmakers and press-freedom groups are calling for stricter oversight of government communications spending.

An international research team has reported the first laboratory observation of a long-theorised form of quantum entanglement, a result with potential implications for fault-tolerant quantum computing. The work appears in the latest issue of Nature Physics.

The Block reports that Citi is expanding its partnership with Coinbase to build infrastructure connecting traditional fiat payments with stablecoins, offering corporate clients cross-border settlement, liquidity management and compliance services. The deal is a flagship example of collaboration between a global systemically important bank and a leading crypto exchange, and signals that the convergence of traditional finance and crypto assets has entered a more operational phase with major implications for enterprise stablecoin adoption.

Ethiopian federal forces have retaken Mekelle, the capital of the Tigray region, after opposition fighters briefly held the city. Four African heads of state have issued a joint declaration calling for an immediate ceasefire.

The FBI has arrested an individual accused of acting on behalf of Chinese government intelligence and targeting family members of Taiwan’s senior leadership, the latest flashpoint in an intensifying US-China shadow war over the Taiwan Strait.

NBC News reports that US Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito has recused himself from a major climate case, a reversal that comes after complaints about his financial interests in oil and gas holdings in the area at issue. The decision marks an important reversal of position for Alito and brings judicial ethics back to the center of public debate. It will also have a meaningful impact on the case’s proceedings and on the Supreme Court’s posture on climate regulation.