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Greece joins four EU states to operationalize offshore migrant return hubs

WORLD & POLITICS GLOBAL

Greece said it is working with Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Denmark to set up “return hubs” in third countries—preferably in Africa—and will hold technical-team talks next week to advance implementation.

Israel moves to widen rabbinical courts’ role in civil dispute arbitration

WORLD & POLITICS ISRAEL

The Knesset’s Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee voted to advance a bill allowing rabbinical courts to arbitrate certain civil disputes when all parties consent, excluding criminal/administrative cases and disputes involving married or formerly married couples.

Danaher expands into telehealth diagnostics via Masimo deal

BUSINESS & MARKETS USA

Danaher agreed to acquire Masimo in an all-cash transaction valued at $9.9bn.

US labor supply hit from falling unauthorized immigration

BUSINESS & MARKETS USA

A newly published San Francisco Fed study finds that the slowdown in unauthorized immigrant worker flows since March 2024 has measurably reduced local employment growth, with the largest effects in construction and manufacturing.

Pfizer posts new Phase III efficacy signal for Braftovi in first-line BRAF-mutant metastatic colorectal cancer

LAW & PUBLIC SAFETY USA

Pfizer reported that the Phase III BREAKWATER trial cohort using Braftovi (encorafenib) + Erbitux (cetuximab) + FOLFIRI improved progression-free survival versus FOLFIRI (with or without Avastin) in previously untreated BRAF V600E–mutant mCRC.

Lower Saxony puts AfD branch under confirmed extremist designation

WORLD & POLITICS GERMANY

Lower Saxony’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution has formally classified the AfD’s state association as a confirmed right-wing extremist organization.

Kenya’s main airport ends strike disruption

WORLD & POLITICS KENYA

Workers at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport called off their two-day strike after signing a return-to-work agreement with Kenya’s transport ministry, and the aviation authority said operations would resume immediately.

China tightens national solid-waste rules that pull packaging into stricter recycling targets

WORLD & POLITICS CHINA

China’s State Council issued a national action plan setting quantified solid-waste reduction, resource-efficiency and recycling targets through 2030 that explicitly cover packaging materials and require stronger source reduction and sorting systems.

Court blocks National Park Service removal of slavery panels at Philadelphia President’s House

WORLD & POLITICS USA

A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to restore the President’s House Site in Philadelphia to its January 21, 2026 physical status, reversing the National Park Service’s removal of slavery-related exhibits.

Riversgold’s Northern Zone lease moves toward approval in Western Australia

LAW & PUBLIC SAFETY AUSTRALIA

Riversgold said all objections to its Mining Lease M25/389 application for the Northern Zone Gold Project have been settled, allowing the application to proceed toward recommendation and grant.

France expands when farmers can shoot wolves to protect livestock

WORLD & POLITICS FRANCE

France will allow farmers to shoot wolves that attack livestock even when the animals are outside protected enclosures, with the change to be formalized by executive order in the coming weeks.

EU finance ministers form a fast-track group on capital markets union

WORLD & POLITICS GERMANY

Germany, France, Italy, the Netherlands, Poland and Spain agreed to push ahead together on harmonising EU capital-market rules and accelerating work on the capital markets and savings-and-investment unions.

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