Source: Republic of South Africa (video statements)
Border Management and Immigration Anti-Corruption Forum’s event.
AI: Managing risks has global scale – Anthropic Briefing | United Nations
Source: United Nations (video statements)
The Chief Executive Officer of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, said, “managing these risks is ultimately bigger than any one company, and it has an industry wide and global scale.”
Amodei said, “I believe that this is the most important global security issue facing the world today. For all the differences of the people in this room, we must put aside those differences in order to confront this global opportunity and global threat that is being presented to us at the same time.”
Protect Democracy: Join the Debate
Source: European Commission (video statements)
Great ideas can come from any one of us, anywhere.
Ideas discussed in European Citizens’ Panels are already shaping Europe.
Yours can too.
Bring your perspective, share what matters to you, and help shape what comes next.
Protect democracy.
Join the debate https://link.europa.eu/
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Born in 2008? Apply now to explore Europe
Source: European Commission (video statements)
#eunews #europeancommission #DiscoverEU
Born in 2008? DiscoverEU applications are open from 1 to 15 October 2026 (12:00 midday Brussels time) 🇪🇺
DiscoverEU is part of the Erasmus+ programme. It gives 18-year-olds the chance to explore Europe’s cultures, heritage and history, and to meet young people from across the continent.
✅ Who can apply? • Anyone born between 1 January and 31 December 2008 • Citizens or residents of an EU Member State (including the outermost regions), an Overseas Country or Territory associated with the EU, or Iceland, Liechtenstein, North Macedonia, Norway, Serbia or Türkiye
🎒 What you get if you’re selected: • A travel pass for up to 7 days of travel within one month, mainly by train • A DiscoverEU discount card for accommodation, culture, sports, local transport and more • Travel any time between 1 March 2027 and 31 May 2028
👥 Travel solo or with up to 4 eligible friends. Your friends use your application code to apply.
📝 How to apply: fill in the online form with your ID, passport or residence permit number, then take the quiz. For groups, only the group leader takes it.
👉 Apply now: https://youth.europa.eu/discovereu_en
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International Coffee Day
Source: United Nations (video statements)
1 October is International Coffee Day. The famous beverage is consumed everywhere in the world, but do you know how to say coffee in other languages?
Attorney General’s Summit on Victims of Violent Crime
Source: United States Department of Justice (video statements)
Last week, Attorney General Todd Blanche held the first Attorney General’s Summit on Victims of Violent Crime at the Justice Department. Our prosecutors are spending every day focused on violent crime and illegal immigration for the first time in history. This wasn’t the end of the conversation, it is just the beginning.
ICC Yekatom&Ngaissona Rearations Hearing 2nd session FLOOR
Foreign Aid
Source: International Monetary Fund – IMF (video statements)
How do you measure foreign aid? In this episode of The Economy – How Do You Measure That, Jim Tebrake speaks with Foyzunnesa Khatun about how grants and loans between governments are recorded in government finance statistics, how they affect deficits and debt, and why tracking these flows matters, particularly for developing economies.
Situation in southern Lebanon
Source: United Nations (video statements)
Daily Press Briefing (1 Oct 2026)
Turning to the situation in southern Lebanon, our UNIFIL colleagues tell us that Monday saw the highest daily number of Israeli airstrikes recorded by peacekeepers, while six IDF naval vessels crossed into Lebanese territories over Naqoura in the course of two days.
UNIFIL patrols were also blocked or stopped on several occasions at roadblocks in Sector East, preventing our peacekeepers from completing their missions. Nearby demolition activity also caused minor damage inside a UNIFIL position at Meiss al Jebel. On the humanitarian front, between Monday and Wednesday, UNIFIL facilitated five humanitarian missions across both of their sectors, working closely, obviously, with our humanitarian colleagues at OCHA to ensure that the assistance reaches everyone that needs to receive it.
FlyDubai, Ethiopia, Sudan & other topics – Daily Press Briefing (1 Oct 2026) | United Nations
Source: United Nations (video statements)
Noon Briefing by Stéphane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the Secretary-General.
Full Highlights: https://www.un.org/sg/en/content/noon-briefing-highlight?date=2026-10-01