This Week In Geopolitics - 13th September 2026

News From Around The World In The Past Week

Africa

• 13 Killed In Sudan Drone Strike

• Algeria Cuts Diplomatic Ties With The UAE

Asia

• Cambodia Planning Resumption of Military Exercises With the United States In 2027

• China Halts New Battery Storage Plant Approvals

• China Injects $56B In Banks To Offset Collapse In New Credit Formation

• China’s Military Prepares Humanoid Robots For Combat

• China’s Crude Buying Drives Prices Higher In Africa, Canada, And Latin America

• China’s Supreme Court Sets AI Rules

• China Threatens To Cancel Trump-Xi Summit If U.S. Approves New Arms Sales To Taiwan

• Japan’s NEC Halts Quantum Computer Project After Decades of Research

• Japan Sold $90B In Treasuries To Fund Yen Interventions

• Qatari LNG Tanker To Ease Pakistan’s Energy Crisis

• Russia Vows To Keep Selling Oil To India Despite U.S. Tariff Threat

• South Koreans Rally Against Hormuz Involvement In Front Of U.S. Embassy

• Xi Visits India To Aid Diplomatic Thaw

Europe

• AfD Wins Saxony-Anhalt Election

• ArcelorMittal Pulls Green Steel Plug

• Deutsche: Bond Selloff Isn’t Fiscal Armageddon, It’s The End Of A Decade of Financial Repression

• EU-Greenland Deal

• Europe’s SpaceX Challenger Isar Reaches Orbit

• Gas And Rates Show Stress In Europe, Is Europe Ready For Winter?

• Google To Invest $15B In AI Infrastructure and Nuclear Power In Finland

• Hungary Expels 10 Russian Diplomats

• Iceland Summons U.S. Ambassador Over Trump’s American Flag Post Covers The Nation

• Lavrov: “Start Of The Real War”, As Russia Deepens Diplomatic Freeze With Germany

• Man Charged In UK With Assisting Russian Intelligence

• Plans For A Unified Nordic Stock Exchange

• Qatar And Weather Will Be Vital To Whether Europe’s Gas Storages Navigate Winter Months

• Russian Undersea Warfare Exercise Broken Up By Norway, the UK, and the United States Near Svalbard In The Spring

• Russia Threatens To Target U.S. Missile Sites In Norway

• Sanctions Loophole Lets UK Insurer Cover Tankers Carrying Russian Gas

• Trump Urges Swift End To Ukraine War And Restoration of Ties In Phone Call With Putin

• UK Announces Ban To Trade With Israeli Settlements In The West Bank

• UK Economy Grew 0.4% In July

• UK Police To Investigate Allegations Reform UK Breached Donation Rules

• U.S. Officials Threaten Retaliation Against UK Over Israeli Settlement Sanctions

• Woman Attacked At Reform UK Party Conference

• Zelenskyy Expects War To Continue Through Winter Despite Upbeat Witkoff-Kushner Assessment

• Zelenskyy’s Plane “Almost Hit” By Drone After Take-Off From Moldova

Middle East

• Activity At Iran’s Pickaxe Mountain Nuclear Site

• Fire Along Saudi’s East-West Pipeline After Alleged Houthi Strikes

• Five of Israel’s Six Desalination Plants Shuttered

• Godi Eizenkot Ahead of Netanyahu In Polling

• Houthis Advance Towards Bab-al-Mandeb

• Houthis Seize Yemeni Port of Mocha

• Houthis Take Perim Island

• Houthis Target Four Saudi Cities, Will Mecca Joint Defence Pact Respond?

• IDF Confirms Hezbollah’s Ali Al-Taher Ridge Complex Was Destroyed

• Iran Announces Blockade Expansion In Strait of Hormuz

• Iran: Basij Force Commander Killed In Insurgent “Terror Attack”

• Iran Fires At U.S. Warship, CENTCOM Denies Successful Hit

• Iran Fires Ballistic Missiles On Jordan Bases

• Iranian Foreign Minister Holds Phone Calls With Saudi and Pakistani Counterparts

• Iran Implements New “Restricted Zone” In Hormuz

• Iran Threatens South Korean Assets If They Join Hormuz Mission

• IRGC Seizes U.S. Smart Submarine In Hormuz

• Israeli Strike On Gaza Kills Family

• Israeli Strike On Lebanon Kills 12

• Israel Shutters UK Consulate For Sanctions Against West Bank Settlers

• Netanyahu Under Pressure Over Reports The UAE Warned Israel Of The October 7th Attack

• Pakistan Mulls Strikes On The Houthis, At Saudi Arabia’s Request

• Rubio and Vance Warn Trump Iran War Could Drag Through Until The End of His Term

• Saudi Aramco Facility Hit Once Again

• Saudis Close East-West Pipeline

• Supertanker Rates Soar To $800,000 A Day

• Türkiye Secures Exemption For Russian Fertiliser

• U.S. Destroys Five Iranian Tankers

• U.S. Sanctions Dozens of Iranian Airlines

• U.S.-Saudi Nuclear Deal Clears Vienna Hurdle As Congress Review Continues

• Yemen’s Saudi-Backed Government Said It Will Retake Sana’a As Houthis Move South

North America

• $10B Canadian Oil Merger

• 25th Anniversary of 9/11

• Appeals Court Blocks IRS Sharing Data With Immigration Authorities

• Bessent: “I Am The House Now”

• Bessent Raises Buyback To $6B, With Yields Rising On Market Disappointment, $10B Expected

• Bessent Warns Of Consequences of Losing AI Arms Race To China

• Canada Joins European Trade Ban On Israeli Settlement Goods

• FCC Chairman: Agency May Issue Guidance On “Fake Polls” Ahead of Midterms

• Goldman: AI CapEx Is Driving Rates Now

• Hunter Biden To Launch Memecoin

• Jack Dorsey’s Block Seeks U.S. Trust Bank Charter For Bitcoin and Stablecoins

• NextEra Secures $1.9B Loan From Department of Energy To Restart Duane Arnold Nuclear Power Plant

• Pentagon Informs Allies To Prepare For “Protracted” Ukraine War

• Six Nuclear Bills Clear House Committee Without A Single “No” Vote

• Supreme Court Blocks Missouri Republicans’ New Congressional Map

• Trump Admin Asks Supreme Court To Allow Voter Citizenship Verification

• Trump Admin Proposes Excluding Illegal Immigrants From Census Count

• Trump Admin Weighs Child Care Subsidies For Stay-At-Home Parents

• Trump Offers $5000 For Midterm Votes

• U.S. Army To Spend $465M On Anti-Drone Laser

• U.S. Embassy Issues Health Alert For Cuba

• U.S. Tool Distributor Warns Tungsten Cost Shock Is Hitting Factories

Oceania

• Australia’s Social Media Censorship Push Could Hurt Trump Relations

South America

• Bolsonaro Investigated by Police In Banco Master Case

• Bolsonaro Overtakes Lula In Brazil Polls

• Brazilian Supreme Court Justices Pursue Sanctions Against Each Other

• Rubio Tours Latin America

Other

• Commodities Hit 14-Year High On Physical Scarcity Warnings

• Copper Price Hits All-Time High

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