EGYPT - Egypt has firmly rejected Israeli plans to displace Palestinians from their historical homeland, warning that such actions would amount to the "liquidation" of the Palestinian cause. Egyptian Foreign Minister Badr Abdelatty has been unequivocal in his condemnation of any displacement efforts. In a recent interview with CNN, he stated, "Displacement is a red line. We will not accept it, we will not participate in it and we will not allow it to happen." Abdelatty emphasized that the displacement of Palestinians would be a "one-way ticket" out of Gaza, leading to the "liquidation" of their cause and the end of the Palestinian goal.

USA - Donald Trump may send thousands of National Guard troops to Chicago within weeks as he extends his control of Democrat-run cities. The Pentagon has drawn up plans to deploy troops to the third-largest city in the US as early as September, although this has not yet been signed off by the president, The Washington Post reported. Earlier this month, Mr Trump mobilised the National Guard in Washington DC and became the first president in history to take federal control of its police force, claiming the capital was being taken over by “bloodthirsty” gangs. Now, for the first time, hundreds of National Guard troops deployed in Washington are to be armed, two US officials said. From Sunday night, personnel patrolling the city will be authorised to carry M17 pistols or M4 rifles.

UK - Home Office data reveal 18 percent rise in number of investigations closed by police with no suspect identified. Nearly 800 shoplifting offences reported to police are going unsolved each day, official figures show. Fewer than one in five (18 per cent) shoplifting cases reported to the police led to a suspect being charged, despite pledges by forces to investigate any crime where there is a viable lead. The data comes as the shoplifting epidemic has hit record levels, with nearly three offences a minute – or 530,643 in total – reported to police in the year to March, at an estimated cost of £1.8 billion to retailers.

VIETNAM - Vietnam has ordered more than half a million people to evacuate as Typhoon Kajiki barrels towards the country with gales as strong as 100 miles per hour. The storm skirted China’s southern coast of Hainan Island late on Sunday, before racing towards Vietnam – where the memory of Typhoon Yagi, a devastating storm that killed at least 300 people last year, looms large. In China, more than 20,000 people evacuated the popular tropical resort destination Hainan Island at the weekend, which was pounded by strong winds and heavy rain as the typhoon travelled over the nearby ocean. But Vietnam is set to be hit directly by Typhoon Kajiki – which will be the fifth typhoon to strike the south-east Asian country so far this year.

SAUDI ARABIA - Riyadh in talks to move 2029 event to China as costs mount and construction deadlines slide. Saudi Arabia is reportedly in discussions to relocate the 2029 Asian Winter Games amid delays to the construction of ski slopes in the middle of the desert. The Trojena ski resort, where the games would be held, is part of the kingdom’s $500 billion (£373 billion) efforts to construct the futuristic glass city of Neom. But cost over-runs and engineering hurdles mean it is unlikely to be finished in time for the competition, the Financial Times reported. The work has been delayed in part because of the area’s mountainous terrain, sitting 2,600m above sea level near the border with Jordan. The road to the resort has just one carriageway in each direction, with sharp turns and a steep gradient posing challenges to construction vehicles.

UK - Millions of devices will vibrate and make a siren sound for around 10 seconds - this is everything you need to know. A message that will be sent to phones across the country in a national test of the UK’s emergency alert system has been published in advance as the Government seeks to ready the public for the drill. Millions of devices will vibrate and make a siren sound for around 10 seconds as they receive the text of fewer than 100 words at around 3PM ON SEPTEMBER 7. It will assure the public that they “do not need to take any action” and include a message in both English and Welsh.

RUSSIA - Russian President Vladimir Putin has demanded three conditions to achieving peace with Ukraine — he wants it to give up all of the eastern Donbas region, give up its NATO ambitions and remain neutral and keep Western forces out of the war-torn country, according to a report. The Russian strongman outlined what it would take to end the more than three-year war during his high-stakes summit meeting in Alaska with President Trump last week, three sources familiar with top-level Kremlin thinking told Reuters. Russian sources insisted to Reuters that Putin has cut down on his territorial demands from June 2024 that included four provinces that Moscow believes is part of their country: Donetsk and Luhansk, which encompasses the Donbas in eastern Ukraine, and Kherson and Zaporizhzhia in the south.

USA - In a June episode of The Diary of a CEO podcast, he said that the engineers behind today’s AI systems don’t fully understand the technology and broadly fall into two camps: one that believes in a dystopian future where humans are displaced, and the other, dismissing such fears as science fiction. “I think both of those positions are extreme,” Hinton said. “I often say 10 percent to 20 percent chance [for AI] to wipe us out. But that’s just gut, based on the idea that we’re still making them and we’re pretty ingenious. The hope is that if enough smart people do enough research with enough resources, we’ll figure out a way to build them so they’ll never want to harm us.”

GERMANY - Berlin has begun testing open source tools to replace Microsoft software in pursuit of digital sovereignty. Germany is considering abandoning Microsoft software in favor of open-source alternatives, Bild has reported. The move has come as countries across the world seek to boost their digital autonomy and reduce dependence on American technology firms. Germany’s Federal Ministry for Digital Affairs has confirmed that it intends to increase the use of European solutions and open-source software in government operations, according to the report, which was released on Wednesday. In a statement to Bild, the ministry said it is already testing Open Desk as an alternative to Microsoft Office, which could replace Outlook, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

EUROPE - US President Donald Trump has delivered a “brutal wake-up call” to the EU, shattering the bloc’s illusion of geopolitical power rooted in its economic might, ex-Italian Prime Minister and former European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi has said, warning that the bloc must undergo major reforms to remain relevant. “For years, the EU believed that its economic size, with 450 million consumers, brought with it geopolitical power and influence in international trade relations. This year will be remembered as the year in which this illusion evaporated,” Draghi said at a conference in Rimini on Friday. Trump’s broader policies have left the EU with only a “marginal” role in Ukraine peace efforts, reduced it to a passive “observer” in Gaza and Iran, and prompted China to “make it clear that it does not consider Europe an equal partner,” he added.“ Trump has given us a brutal wake-up call – the thing to do is to pull ourselves together.”