Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic has announced his resignation ahead of parliamentary elections scheduled for October, a move widely viewed as the country’s most significant political reshuffle in years, with substantial implications for Balkan stability and the EU accession process.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei is set to dine with President Trump at the White House, with AI industry policy, regulatory frameworks and frontier model development on the agenda, reflecting tightening ties between frontier AI labs and the executive branch.
SpaceX announced its Starship megarocket will attempt its first-ever orbital launch on Sept 28, a pivotal milestone in the development of the giant reusable launch vehicle that, if successful, will open a new chapter in commercial crewed deep-space exploration.
Swiss voters have rejected a stricter interpretation of the country’s neutrality policy in a nationwide referendum, with the result carrying significant implications for Switzerland’s future role in EU and NATO cooperation and signaling continuity of Switzerland’s traditional flexible neutrality.
Venezuela’s interim government has released dozens of long-detained political dissidents days after the country’s interim leader met with the US president, as international calls for fresh elections grow, viewed as a key milestone in Venezuela’s political transition.
According to The Guardian, the forced eviction of an 87-year-old woman from the home she had lived in for seven decades has triggered nationwide protests across Spain’s largest cities. Demonstrators in Madrid and Barcelona are demanding urgent government action on housing affordability and speculative rental practices.
According to The Washington Post, the Trump administration is exploring plans to build a roughly 15,000-seat baseball stadium inside Wyoming’s Grand Teton National Park as part of a pilot effort to bring professional baseball events into the national park system. The proposal has drawn immediate pushback from environmental groups and members of Congress.
According to The New York Times, President Trump has publicly targeted Florida Republican Congresswoman María Elvira Salazar after she broke with the administration’s immigration stance. The episode has fueled fresh debate within the Republican Party and exposed the tension between moderates and hardliners ahead of the midterms.
The Guardian reports that Pennsylvania is experiencing its most serious measles outbreak in years, with state health officials confirming 55 new cases since Wednesday and a cumulative total above 200. Emergency vaccination drives and contact tracing have been launched in multiple southern counties.
The New York Post reports that a coalition of biotech firms and university labs has announced a major breakthrough: using artificial intelligence to assist genome editing, the team has cultivated cells carrying key mammoth cold-tolerance gene traits, bringing the dream of resurrecting an extinct large mammal closer to reality.