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Wednesday, 30 September 2026

US troops leave Iraq as Europe counts a $113bn energy bill from the Iran war

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  • World

    Somali pirates killed five crew on a hijacked tanker, which appear to be the first such killings in more than a decade. Oil shipped this month through the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow sea lane out of the Gulf, is set to reach only about half its pre-war level.

  • Finance

    The price of a barrel of oil is heading for a rise of about 14% in September. Carnival, a cruise company, raised its ticket prices to cover its fuel bill.

  • Climate

    European Union countries say they have paid about $113.5 billion extra for energy since the war began, and got no more fuel for it. Diesel in the UK hit a record 199.18p a litre, and the US government is asking Europe to release some of its emergency diesel.

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  • Tech

    Six AI companies signed the Trump administration's promise to run their own safety checks on their models, and the promise names no penalty. OpenAI's own tests are what stopped its stronger model, GPT-6.1 Astra, from being released on Monday.

  • Biotech

    Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly, two drug companies racing to sell weight-loss drugs, each put out a comparison in which its own drug came out ahead. Neither comparison came from a trial that gave both drugs to one group of patients.

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  • Money

    British banks and other firms closed the accounts of 238,396 people in 2025 who they suspected were letting criminals move stolen money through them, up from 184,935 in 2023. The SEC, the US markets regulator, says two investment schemes run partly through WhatsApp chats took at least $15 million.

  • Cyber

    Two former US airmen stole email logins with fake messages, then used them to divert business payments. They were sentenced to 111 and 78 months in prison and ordered to repay more than $1.3 million.

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  • Biotech

    Novo Nordisk, the drug company that makes Ozempic, paid China's Hengrui $300 million up front for a once-a-week weight-loss pill that no person has taken yet. Novo has been losing ground to its rival Eli Lilly.

  • Mind & body

    A study of 27,885 customers of 23andMe, a DNA-test company, found a gene change linked to losing more weight on drugs like Ozempic. Other researchers found that people with excess weight need very different amounts of food to feel full.

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