Breaking news of Tuesday, 1 September 2026
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- 21:01
Leipzig, German press: Berlin ready to attribute bomb-drones to a Russian service
Bild and Spiegel report that the German government intends to publicly attribute the August 5 attack with explosive-laden drones on Leipzig-Halle Airport to a Russian intelligence service (Euronews Deutschland, Merkur/IPPEN.MEDIA). According to dpa, Foreign Minister Johann Wadephul interrupted his trip from Algiers to the EU ministers’ meeting in Dublin for an urgent meeting with Interior Minister Alexander Dobrindt. Until now Berlin had refrained from a direct attribution (Just Security). At the moment there is no official announcement from the two ministries: the account comes from German press sources.
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- 12:01
Nepal, drones in power plant tunnel: empty, 93 workers still missing
On Monday, Nepalese soldiers pushed drones into the flooded tunnel of a hydroelectric power plant on the border with China, finding it empty: 93 people from the plant remain unaccounted for. Kathmandu’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs reports more than 10,000 people rescued, including over 323 foreigners, with around 590 foreigners from 38 countries not yet found. Search operations continue at other plants along the border with Indian and Chinese specialists assisting. The report currently comes from a single source (WORLD Radio, citing the Nepalese army, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Associated Press); no independent confirmation available.
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- 12:01
Hormuz, Pezeshkian opens to the memorandum; IRGC claims, Centcom denies
On Tuesday, September 1, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated that Tehran would return to the commitments set out in the memorandum of understanding if the United States did so as well, according to the CBS News liveblog. Overnight, the Revolutionary Guards claimed to have forced a tanker to reverse course in the Strait; on Monday Centcom had rejected the claim of a supertanker hit by mines, calling it disinformation. On Sunday, Iranian missiles hit Jordan and a drone struck the UAE following US strikes on Larak (Al Jazeera, CNN). Iran’s mission to the UN wrote to the Security Council (Mehr, Iranian news agency).
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- 12:01
Brent above $91, London reopens flat after holiday
Brent is quoted at $91.28 a barrel on September 1st, +0.87% on the previous session, +8.96% over one month and +32.02% over one year; WTI rises to $86.57, +0.94% (Trading Economics, Wti). On Monday crude oil had posted its largest gain in three weeks (Bloomberg). The FTSE 100, returning from the Summer Bank Holiday after closing at 10,824.26, was indicated at the open as almost unchanged, with global bond yields rising and selling on European government bonds (The Sunday Guardian).
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