The edition of Sunday, September 27, 2026
Every news article the Bureau published that day — 14 articles, newest first. Past editions never disappear: the links below are the original, permanent URLs.
Japan hikes, and the yen falls anyway
The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1.25% — and the yen dropped 2% into the 157s. When tightening weakens your currency, the textbook is on fire.
Evening EditionThe war that refused to end: Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again
Four years after a war that killed hundreds of thousands, Ethiopia is fighting in Tigray again — and this time the internet went dark first.
Evening EditionLibya's oilfield, hostage to a valve
One closed valve has cut Libya's biggest oilfield by two-thirds. In a world already short of oil, the Petroleum Facilities Guard just reminded everyone…
Evening EditionThe Rare-Earth Truce: Greenland, Magnets, and the 60-Day Clock
Xi left Washington with a two-month trade truce. Trump got a veto over Greenland's minerals.
Evening EditionThe $110 Question: Central Banks Hike Into a Supply Shock
Brent north of $105, the Fed raising rates for the first time in three years, and a pipeline in flames.
Evening EditionThe OECD stops believing in soft landings
Nine months ago the OECD expected inflation to converge and AI to save growth. Now it sees sticky prices, an AI capex bubble, and trade policy as pure…
Evening EditionThe rivers are winning: South Asia's monsoon turns siege
Fifty-six dead in India, fourteen in Nepal, seventy thousand evacuated — and the rivers are still rising.
Evening EditionThe first handshake in four years
Russia's and Germany's foreign ministers met for the first time since the invasion of Ukraine.
Evening EditionThe customer is now the power
India and OPEC just held their seventh energy dialogue in New Delhi. The subtext: the world's fastest-growing oil customer is done being a price-taker.
Evening EditionThe species is quietly opting out
Mexico's birth rate halved in five years. France now buries more than it births. Humanity may already be below replacement fertility.
Evening EditionExplosives arrests at America's English airbase
Bomb disposal teams, evacuated homes, arrested men — at RAF Fairford, the airbase that hosts America's bombers in England. Nobody will say yet what it was.
Evening EditionBrussels wants to grade the cloud's thirst
The EU wants to triple its data-center capacity while labeling how much water and power each one drinks.
Evening EditionThe cartels want a seat at the ballot box
One week before Brazil votes, prosecutors are trying to keep gang-linked candidates off the ballot.
Evening EditionThe grain war moves north
With the Black Sea a shooting gallery, Russia and Ukraine are both rerouting grain through Baltic ports.