US officials say delays from China’s anti-corruption purges and Beijing’s interest in Taiwan’s 2028 election have made an invasion before 2028 increasingly unlikely, despite Xi Jinping’s 2027 military readiness order.

President Lula’s remark that girls learn to “get touched” from a young age has triggered a political firestorm days before Brazil’s October 4 election, with his party saying he meant cancer screening and opponents calling the comments sexist and alarming.

Russia has warned NATO it would consider using nuclear weapons if the alliance tried to isolate the Kaliningrad exclave, a claim NATO has rejected as baseless.

Vietnam says an Australian and a Norwegian citizen were arrested trying to enter the country illegally with forged documents; the pro-democracy group Viet Tan says the two men were instead abducted from Cambodia and now face fabricated terrorism charges.

Finnish and Swedish fighter jets scrambled together for the first time on Sept. 24 to intercept Russian military aircraft over the Gulf of Finland, as Putin dismissed Baltic warnings and Danish intelligence said the risk of a limited Russian attack on NATO is low but growing.

A Dutch review committee has approved the euthanasia of a 2-year-old child with severe disabilities, the first reported case under a 2024 law expansion allowing euthanasia for children under 12 in limited circumstances.