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Apple weighed its options Wednesday after Europe’s top court took a large bite of its money by demanding 13 billion euros ($14.4 billion) in back taxes from the U.S. tech giant.

Mario Draghi has warned that the European Union needs a roughly 800 billion euros ($883 billion) annual spending boost combined with rapid decisions and coordinated industrial policies if it wants to keep pace economically with rivals the United States and China.

Many in Vietnam were grieving Tuesday after a busy bridge in the north collapsed as it was being hit by Super Typhoon Yagi, which has killed more than 60 people since making landfall on Saturday.

Rescue workers searched for people beneath rubble, but hope was fastly evaporating in areas of Morocco and Algeria where floods from record torrential rains killed more than 20 people, officials said.

Germany’s government announced it would reintroduce tighter passport controls at all of its land borders shortly after Hungary threatened to send buses with “illegal migrants” to Brussels.

The chief of the United Nations atomic watchdog said Monday he hopes to hold talks with new Iranian president Masoud Pezeshkian by November amid mounting concerns about the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program.

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan urged the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to convene an emergency summit to discuss the Gaza war and Israel’s actions in Jerusalem. He also called for Islamic nations to unite against what he described as Israel’s “expansionism.”

An international team of researchers from Scotland and China have created nanoscale robots that may be used to treat bleeds in the brain caused by aneurysms. An aneurysm is a blood-filled bulge on a brain artery which, if it ruptures, can cause a stroke, disability, or death.

A tense calm returned to the streets of Brazil’s most populous city on Sunday after thousands protested against a ban on X, formerly known as Twitter.

Asia’s most powerful storm this year hit northern Vietnam on Saturday after tearing through China’s southern island of Hainan, where it killed two people, injured dozens, and forced hundreds of thousands to flee, officials said.

Europe’s leading human rights watchdog says Britain, the European Union, the United States, and others an artificial intelligence (AI) treaty amid concerns the technology threatens fundamental freedoms and human rights.

Britain’s recently elected prime minister, Keir Starmer, faced political turmoil Thursday as a public inquiry into the devastating 2017 London Grenfell Tower blaze that killed 72 people blamed the disaster in part on failings by the government.

A prominent Russian physicist began serving a lengthy prison sentence as part of a more extensive crackdown on scientists allegedly aiding Ukraine and threatening Russia’s security.

NATO military alliance member Turkey has requested to join the BRICS bloc of major emerging market nations despite concerns it will move away from the West amid significant global security challenges.

U.S. President Joe Biden’s administration has seized what it says are “Kremlin-run websites” and charged two Russian state media workers as part of what critics view as a crackdown on media with non-Western views.

A group of United Nations human rights experts has reported “extreme concern” that innocent people may have been killed during an “alarming” surge in executions carried out by the Islamic Republic of Iran last month, the UN Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) stated in a press release on Monday (September 2).

Ukraine was grieving late Tuesday as the extent of one of Russia’s deadliest attacks of the war became clear, with scores of people killed in a massive Russian missile strike.

Kyiv has condemned Mongolia for refusing to arrest visiting Russian President Vladimir Putin despite being a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC).

Six children and a pregnant woman were among at least 12 people who died after a boat carrying dozens of asylum seekers to Britain was “ripped open, authorities confirmed Tuesday.

Two US researchers believe they have discovered the probable deployment site of Russia’s 9M730 Burevestnik, a new nuclear-powered, nuclear-armed cruise missile, Reuters reported exclusively on September 2. Described by Russian President Vladimir Putin as “invincible,” the 9M730 Burevestnik missile is referred to by NATO as “SSC-X-9 Skyfall.”