The U.S. House of Representatives on September 16 gave final approval to a bill tightening sanctions on Russia, named after the late Republican Senator Lindsey Graham. The measure passed 262–159. The Senate approved it in August, so the bill will now be sent to President Donald Trump for his signature....
Nine EU countries ask Brussels to delay full biometric border checks
Nine Schengen countries, including France, Italy, Greece and Portugal, have asked the European Commission to postpone the full rollout of the Entry/Exit System (EES). The system requires fingerprints and facial images from travellers who are not EU citizens. Germany, Malta, the Netherlands, Belgium and Switzerland have also requested more time....
Finnish Customs investigates €5.9 million in shipments to Russia that circumvented sanctions
Finnish Customs is investigating an alleged circumvention of EU sanctions: goods worth about €5.9 million may have been exported to Russia in 2022–2023. Finnish broadcaster Yle reported this, citing Customs. According to investigators, the case involves two companies from eastern Finland. One handled export operations; the other stored the goods....
Large-scale sabotage paralyzes railways across the Netherlands
A large-scale act of sabotage hit the Dutch railway network on the morning of 15 September. Unknown individuals attached metal and plastic pipes to the tracks at more than 30 locations. The safety system mistakenly registered those sections as occupied, signals switched to red, and train traffic in the central...
US officially confirms deployment of weapons in space for the first time
The United States has publicly acknowledged for the first time that it has placed weapons systems in near-Earth orbit. U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Troy Meink made the statement on September 14 at the Air, Space & Cyber Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. According to Meink, the systems are...
UK, US and Netherlands warn of Iran-linked spyware
On Tuesday, 15 September, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Netherlands issued a joint cybersecurity advisory detailing spyware they say is used by Iran-linked actors in attacks. National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) announced the warning. According to the joint advisory from the NCSC, the FBI and the Dutch...
German military counterintelligence says sabotage and hybrid-attack threats have risen
Over the past year, the threat of sabotage and hybrid attacks in Germany has increased markedly. That assessment appears in the 2025 annual report of the Bundeswehr Military Counterintelligence Service (MAD). The service links a substantial share of suspicious sabotage cases to Russia with a high degree of probability, Der...
Poland launches website to find nearest emergency shelters
Poland has launched the service gdziesieukryc.pl (“Where to Hide”), which helps people quickly find the nearest places for temporary shelter in case of danger. The platform is meant to help residents get their bearings faster in an emergency and reach a safe location. The service points to temporary shelter sites...
Putin-linked oligarch secretly paid for Trump Jr.’s Bahamas wedding
A Russian businessman close to Vladimir Putin and president of the International Boxing Association (IBA), Umar Kremlev, secretly covered hundreds of thousands of dollars in expenses for the wedding of U.S. President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. That was reported on September 14, 2026, by the investigative outlet...
In Germany, more than 31% of volunteers deemed unfit for Bundeswehr service
According to internal statistics from Germany’s Ministry of Defence, more than 31% of those seeking to join the new military service were found unfit during medical examinations in the second quarter of 2026. Der Spiegel reported this citing the ministry’s data. The figures were obtained by the Left Party parliamentary...