Wednesday, 16 September 2026
Wed 16 Sept · At a glance
Wednesday, 16 September 2026
A pipeline strike put oil at $109, and central banks in three countries moved on rates
303 stories in 12 beats
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- Fuel and shipping routes shut by the warHigh ↑ · 4 beats
- Rules being taken awayBuilding ↑ · 4 beats
- Countries putting conditions on what they will buyBuilding ↑ · 3 beats
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Fuel and shipping routes shut by the war
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World
A tanker called the El Gaia was attacked in the Strait of Hormuz and two of its crew are missing. Saudi Arabia's East-West pipeline, which was carrying 4 to 5 million barrels a day, is shut after a drone strike.
The World stories →Finance
Brent crude, the main world oil price, reached $109.39 on Tuesday. Drivers in the United States have paid about $107 billion extra for fuel since 28 February.
The Finance stories →Food
Mogadishu's port, in Somalia, brought in a ship of sugar straight from Sri Lanka, avoiding the fighting at the mouth of the Red Sea.
The Food stories →Tech
Amazon says it cannot restore its cloud computing region in Bahrain, six months after strikes during the war with Iran.
The Tech stories →Rules being taken away
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Climate
The US Environmental Protection Agency finalised the repeal of carbon limits on coal and gas power stations on Monday. It also proposed cancelling every remaining greenhouse-gas rule for the power sector.
The Climate stories →Cyber
The US Federal Trade Commission removed the statement that made health apps warn their users about a breach. From next month US airlines need not pay for a hotel when a cyberattack cancels a flight.
The Cyber stories →Mind & body
A gene therapy for deafness was approved on a single study of twelve children. The head of the US drug regulator says one trial rather than two will become the default for approving a medical product.
The Mind & body stories →Biotech
The US drug regulator opened a pilot on Tuesday to cut the wait before a medicine is first tested in people.
The Biotech stories →Countries putting conditions on what they will buy
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Tech
The US commerce secretary has threatened tariffs of up to 100% on South Korean and Taiwanese chipmakers that do not build in America. SK Hynix is in talks to make memory chips inside Intel's unfinished Ohio plant.
The Tech stories →Climate
The US Commerce Department set anti-dumping rates of 123% on Indian solar producers and 94% on Indonesian ones. BYD, the Chinese company that sells more electric cars than anyone, said it will build electric trucks inside Europe to get past tariffs.
The Climate stories →Food
Ivory Coast made an electronic card compulsory for every cocoa purchase on 1 September, because Europe will soon refuse beans it cannot trace to a plot of land.
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World · 40 stories
The US war on Iran has cost $38bn and left it short of missiles, two official reports say
- Republican files impeachment articles against Hegseth
- US prepares to sell Israel 40,000 heavy bombs
- Tanker attacked in Hormuz, two crew missing
Finance · 30 stories
The US central bank is expected to raise rates today. Lenders already charge it the most since 2007, and its 20-year debt just sold at a 1986 high.
- Oil tops $109 after Saudi cargoes are cancelled
- Houthis take two more islands by the Red Sea exit
- Americans have paid $107bn extra for fuel
Tech · 28 stories
SK Hynix is in talks to make memory chips inside Intel's Ohio plant. Production there was meant to start in 2025 and is now due in 2030.
- Amazon says a cloud region cannot be restored
- Russian ships caught rehearsing a cable attack
- China ties leaving the country to export rules
Mind & body · 39 stories
These children's ears detected sound perfectly and passed none of it on - the missing piece was one protein, and a virus has put it back
- London's clean-air zone and children's lungs
- Pollution slowed lung growth to age 24
- The commonest deafness gene gets a first patient
Climate · 26 stories
The EU put its carbon border fee on scrap aluminium, four days after dropping a duty on the same metal
- US wipes out its power plant carbon limits
- The US electric-car factory boom went into reverse
- US sets solar panel duties above 100%
Space · 10 stories
The US says it has weapons in orbit. It will not say what they are, or when they went up.
- A second secret launch in five days
- Two private craft meet 200 metres apart
- Europe's yearly count of orbit gets worse
Biotech · 26 stories
The first psychedelic medicine is close. The argument is over who may sit in the room.
- Aid cuts fell on preventing disease
- Congo's Ebola outbreak slows, without a peak
- A buying route for the twice-yearly HIV shot
Money · 23 stories
A car dealer could pick the interest rate on the loan he was selling. The higher he picked, the more the lender paid him.
- Lenders will not pay tax on the payouts
- The complaints queue restarts before the money does
- Lloyds set aside almost 2bn pounds
Sports · 23 stories
The NBA is in talks to buy control of European basketball. It says it will start its own league either way.
- Las Vegas bids must beat $10bn
- Silver explains the Clippers punishment
- The league says it saw no red flags
Gaming · 18 stories
A colleague told Rockstar the union was 12 members short. Twelve days after it crossed the line, 34 people were fired.
- Wardogs boss screens out crunch critics
- European studios rent more of their staff
- Bungie rebuilds Marathon after the cuts
Food · 15 stories
Ivory Coast's new cocoa tracking system is stalling, and Ghana just raised the price across the border
- UN report: closing borders makes a shortage worse
- Only one timber firm in nine can show where its wood came from
- Japan's power stations are burning Indonesian forest
Cyber · 25 stories
Three governments named the program Iran uses to spy on its critics. It arrives as a file from a trusted contact.
- Thirteen years for the man who wrote the ransomware
- Apple closes a record 326 flaws
- A ten-out-of-ten GitLab flaw is under attack
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