Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

Over the last eight years, my country has opposed all wars of aggression wherever they have started, whether it's in Ukraine, in Lebanon or in Iran.

We have refused to increase our military spending to 5% of GDP, and we've done everything possible to avoid aggressions that run counter to the UN Charter — placing sanctions on the Russian aggressors, imposing an arms embargo on the Netanyahu government in Israel, and prohibiting the use of our territory to deploy an aggression that was against international law, and unequivocally condemning the genocide that Netanyahu is still perpetrating in Gaza.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

We must impose strict regulations on the tech oligarchs who control the functioning of social networks and the development of artificial intelligence, because at the end of the day, the future of our children is more important than the pockets of these tech oligarchs.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

We must strengthen bodies like the International Criminal Court so that they can investigate, prosecute and punish those that break the rules.

It took humanity centuries to replace "might is right" with the rule of law. And we must not be the generation that backtracks on this.

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

How can an organization that claims to speak on behalf of the whole of humanity never have had a woman leading the organization?

The time has come for a woman from Latin America to become United Nations Secretary-General.

This is a historic debt that we must settle.

NEW: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore White House press access for CNN, MS NOW and Politico, ruling the ban was likely unconstitutional.

Judge Tim Kelly ordered the press passes restored immediately and blocked the ban for 14 days, rejecting the national security argument.

Source: Reuters

A fire broke out at a ground-based Starlink satellite station in Poland’s Masovian region on Wednesday evening.

The station provided connectivity for Poland and Ukraine, including Ukrainian military users.

Source: Reuters

El Mundo reports that U.S. intelligence has warned several European governments that Russia may be preparing a drone operation against Spain, France or Italy.

According to the report, Russia could launch Gerbera drones from merchant ships in the Mediterranean, potentially hidden in containers.

The drones have a range of up to 600 km and carry relatively small explosive payloads, making them more suited to disrupting airports, ports or military facilities than causing large-scale destruction.

Lithuania, Spain, France and Italy were reportedly briefed after CIA Director John Ratcliffe visited Moscow on August 25, where he was said to have warned Russia against attacks or provocations targeting NATO.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman:

I believe there are two ways that AI progress could go very badly that we have to avoid. First, we could lose control of the future to AI.

The risk is that it moves so fast that people can no longer follow what’s happening or intervene when needed. This would obviously be terrible.

The industry must not accept too much technological risk just because the benefits are too great and that they feel too important to slow down.

Iranian Varesh Airlines flight from Tehran to Dushanbe was cancelled and returned to Imam Khomeini Airport after its route through Azerbaijani airspace was denied/disrupted.

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman:

It doesn’t matter whether people put the risk of catastrophe at 10% or 1% or 12% or 0.1%. None of these levels are remotely acceptable, and we should not train models that we cannot make an extremely strong case that we will be able to keep under human control.

Czech President Petr Pavel:

We need rules. Not because all states are equally powerful, but precisely because they are not. Rules have value only if they bind everyone, especially those powerful enough to break them.

When rules are cast aside, raw power fills the vacuum. A world dominated by great power competition is a volatile world, less able to address the most pressing challenges of our time. It is a world where a single spark can ignite a fire.

Instead, we should insist that with greater power comes greater responsibility. Responsibility in the use of force, responsibility to exercise restraint, but also responsibility to use one’s influence to prevent force from becoming necessary in the first place.

This applies particularly to permanent members of the UN Security Council. China has the power, influence, and responsibility to help prevent conflicts, to de-escalate tensions, and contribute to ending wars.

This includes using its influence to help bring Russia’s aggression against Ukraine to an end.

Russian drone/missile strike on Kyiv hit multiple data centers, knocking out internet for ~100,000 households.

ISPs UTELS, Pavutina, Crazy Network, and Etherlink all reported major node damage.

Hosting providers Cityhost and MiroHost lost Kyiv-based equipment, with MiroHost's local facility destroyed entirely (95% of clients unaffected on foreign servers).

Providers are warning of significant price increases, saying current ~300-350 UAH rates are no longer viable given the cost of maintaining resilient infrastructure under constant attack.

Russia claimed the sites supported military communications; Ukraine says they were civilian telecom infrastructure.

Bessent:

We will get to the other side of this Iran conflict. The energy prices will drop and you will pick your purchasing power back up.

Bessent on Iran:

The tankers, they may get hit. Many of them just sail on. They just sail on.

You know, the Iranians may launch three, four, five, six drones after them. Our great navy is blocking them.

Bessent on Iran:

I don't know whether it's going to be a week, a month or two months, but they are going to yell uncle.

The goal here can be one of three states of the world: the regime turns on each other; we get some kind of uprising for the Iranian people; or we get the Iranians to, if they want to make a deal, to stick to the deal.

This time, if there is a deal, I guarantee you they're going to stick with it.

Kremlin:

It is too early to talk about Putin’s trip to the G20 and a meeting with Trump.

We will provide our response to the invitation later.

Denmark’s defense intelligence service warned that Russia is expected to intensify hybrid warfare against Western countries and NATO in the coming months.

“The Danish defence intelligence service assesses that in the coming months, Russia will further intensify its hybrid warfare by carrying out more frequent attacks against the West and NATO, with greater consequences for the affected countries than in the past.”

Source: Reuters

NEW: All flights operated by Iranian airlines to the UAE have been canceled since midnight, according to Iran’s Civil Aviation Organization, ISNA reported.

Denmark’s Defence Intelligence Service (FE) says a Russian invasion of a NATO country is unlikely but can no longer be ruled out.

FE chief Thomas Ahrenkiel said there are no signs of an imminent attack, but the threat has increased.

Iran's Security Council Secretary Rezaei:

A new US escalation could open a second front at Bab el-Mandeb alongside Hormuz.

Linking the two chokepoints will change the battlefield.