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🇬🇧 LNG exporters are looking for ways around the disruption in Hormuz, with three Gulf cargoes recently moved using ship-to-ship transfers (STS) as Qatar and UAE exports remain far below pre-war levels. Source: euronews Country: United Kingdom

🇬🇧 French artificial intelligence company Mistral AI has raised €3 billion in a round led by Samsung Electronics, nearly doubling its valuation to more than €21 billion in what the company says is the largest equity fundraising ever completed by a European technology firm. Source: euronews Country: United Kingdom

🇬🇧 France’s far right responded in markedly different ways to the AfD’s sweeping victory in Germany’s regional elections, with the National Rally (RN) maintaining a conspicuous silence on Monday while Éric Zemmour’s Reconquête! openly celebrated the result. Source: euronews Country: United Kingdom

🇬🇧 Good morning, readers. Angela Skujins here holding the pen for this week’s newsletter, where a seismic regional election in Germany’s east has seen the far-right, anti-migration Alternative for Germany (AfD) sweep to power, with the blow ricocheting as far as Berlin. Source: euronews Country: United Kingdom

🇬🇧 There was no immediate word on casualties in the incident involving a Boeing 767 operated by Amazon Prime Air, according to the Federal Aviation Administration and Miami International Airport. Source: euronews Country: United Kingdom

🇬🇧 On 13 August the Mediterranean averaged 28.54°C, its highest level since comparable records began in 1940, Aemet reports, capping a summer with the warmest July on record at sea and in mainland Spain. Source: euronews Country: United Kingdom

🇬🇧 The new plan would see the creation of a “Cyberdome,” a network of digital sensors that would help seek out and intercept hacking attempts, Bild reported. Source: euronews Country: United Kingdom

🇬🇧 Axios reported that the plan remains in its early stages but that it could set out US policy towards the Middle East for the remainder of Trump’s term. Source: euronews Country: United Kingdom

🇬🇧 Iranian media reported that an Iranian oil tanker was struck by US forces on Saturday morning, a day after Iran reportedly fired missiles towards the Strait of Hormuz. Source: euronews Country: United Kingdom

🇬🇧 The announcement came as Russian strikes on Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region killed four overnight, per local authorities. Source: euronews Country: United Kingdom