THE WASHINGTON POST (USA): Trump seeks to rally support after possible second assassination attempt. Email to campaign staff urges vigilance about security as golf course episode raises new concerns. Donald Trump on Sunday sought to rally his supporters with news of a possible second attempt on his life, blasting out a campaign fundraising appeal that said “there are people in this world who will do whatever it takes to stop us” as his advisers urged campaign staff to be “vigilant” about security.
LA LIBRE (BELGIUM) : Soutien à l’Ukraine, démêlés avec la justice... Un homme a été arrêté après la tentative d’assassinat présumée contre Trump. Selon trois sources policières relayées par CNN, il s'agirait d'un certain Ryan Wesley Routh, âgé de 58 ans. Un homme aurait été arrêté en lien avec la potentielle nouvelle tentative d’assassinat du candidat républicain Donald Trump survenue dimanche, sur son terrain de golf en Floride. Ryan Wesley Routh serait ainsi un fervent détracteur de Trump, ayant notamment publié sur X (ex-Twitter) un article sur sa première tentative d’assassinat, survenue en juillet dernier. Toujours selon CNN, Routh aurait déjà eu affaire à la justice par le passé, lorsqu’il avait été arrêté en 2002 en possession d’une arme à feu avant de se barricader dans un commerce. L’homme exprimerait aussi régulièrement son soutien à l’Ukraine, toujours sur le réseau social X. En 2022, il y avait même affirmé être “prêt à mourir au combat” et qu’il fallait “réduire le Kremlin en cendres”.
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST (HONG KONG, CHINA): A second apparent assassination attempt on former US president Donald Trump – this time as he played golf in Florida – has rocked a presidential campaign already marred by unprecedented violence and raised questions about how such a thing could have happened for the second time in as many months. US Secret Service agents opened fire Sunday afternoon on a man who was spotted pointing an AK-style rifle through a fence while hiding in the bushes as Trump golfed at his club in West Palm Beach. While the Secret Service has grappled with how to keep Trump safe as he campaigns across the country, holding rallies that often draw thousands, less attention has focused on his protection when he is off the trail, often at his own clubs and properties.
KOMMERSANT (RUSSIA): Благодаря успешному выступлению на дебатах с Дональдом Трампом кандидат в президенты США от Демократической партии Камала Харрис укрепила свои позиции в предвыборной гонке: ее лидерство в общенациональных опросах достигло 3–5 процентных пунктов. Однако ее преимущество в ключевых штатах, решающих исход гонки, крайне незначительно. Избиратель по-прежнему не слишком доверяет ей в вопросах экономики, и это может стать серьезным препятствием на ее пути к победе. К тому же у ее соперника есть козырь в рукаве: среди избирателей имеется немалое число его “тайных” сторонников — людей, не участвующих в опросах. Недооценивать эту “скрытую электоральную поддержку” было бы крайне неосмотрительно, предупреждают эксперты.
THE NEW YORK TIMES (USA): Ukraine has asked to use Western long-range weapons to strike deeper into Russia for months. It argues that it needs those weapons to hit military sites that house Russian warplanes and that launch missiles into Ukrainian cities. Those entreaties were a major topic of discussion on Friday as President Biden met with Prime Minister Keir Starmer of Britain, who is trying to nudge the United States to give more latitude to the Ukrainians. Mr. Starmer would especially like Mr. Biden’s support for Britain to allow Ukraine to use British Storm Shadow missiles to fire farther into Russia. Neither leader announced any policy changes after that meeting. Leaving the White House, Mr. Starmer told reporters, “We had a wide-ranging discussion about strategy,” and a White House summary of the meeting said that the two countries had “reaffirmed their unwavering support for Ukraine”. Mr. Biden has been reluctant to approve deep strikes in the past, fearing escalation with Russia. But in May, he allowed Ukraine to fire a number of U.S.-supplied weapons just over the border to attack Russian military bases from which attacks into Ukraine have been launched, and he later expanded that permission.
NEZAVISIMAYA GAZETA (RUSSIA): Вероятность ударов по РФ западным дальнобойным оружием возросла. Атаки России американскими и британскими ракетами – больше не запретная тема для Вашингтона и Лондона. Хотя британский премьер-министр Кир Стармер и президент США Джозеф Байден по окончании встречи в пятницу, 13 сентября, не дали Украине по крайней мере публичного разрешения бить западным оружием вглубь российской территории, велика вероятность, что скоро ей это все же разрешат. Давление на лидеров двух стран возрастает. На разрешении настаивают самые разные западные политики, считающие, что только таким путем Кремль удастся принудить сесть за стол переговоров.
INDEPENDENT (GB): Starmer wants us to believe that he is the prime minister who “will make the tough decisions” but his trip to Washington DC proved that he finds this much easier in regards to Britain’s pensioners than dealing with Putin. Both Downing Street and the Foreign Office (FCDO) staff at the embassy did their best to play down the significance of the trip. But - despite their denials - this meeting of an outgoing lame-duck US president and the recently elected prime minister was mostly about one major issue: whether to allow Ukraine to use long-range Storm Shadow missiles against targets in Russia. The decision to allow it was supposed to be made but not announced. Instead, it was delayed for further discussions at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. All this happened and it was clear to most observers with an ounce of experience that this was a carefully choreographed series of events heading to a “tough decision” which would not only change the course of the war but ensure that Donald Trump, if he is elected, would struggle to reverse Nato support for Ukraine. While outwardly Sir Keir looked satisfied on the plane home there was that classic feeling to it that “you had one job” and did not do it. What is not clear is whether it was the UK or US who blinked at Putin’s threats. But one or both did. Now Starmer is in danger of looking tough at home but weak or a ditherer abroad. All is by no means lost but the prime minister may need to find the same backbone he had with pensioners and, for that matter, arms sales to Israel, for his dealings with Putin.
THE TIMES (GB): Five ex-defence secretaries tell PM: let Ukraine fire our missiles. After talks in Washington reached a stalemate, Sir Keir Starmer is urged to go it alone. Five former defence secretaries and an ex-prime minister have urged Sir Keir Starmer to allow Ukraine to use its long-range Storm Shadow missiles to strike inside Russia — even without US backing.
THE ECONOMIC TIMES (INDIA): The Narendra Modi government will complete its first 100 days of the third term on Tuesday, which coincides with the PM’s birthday. Several infrastructure projects were approved, including connecting 25,000 unlinked villages to road networks and developing a mega port at Wadhawan in Maharashtra. In agriculture, the government increased the minimum support price (MSP) for Kharif crops, removed the minimum export price (MEP) on onions and basmati rice, and raised duties on the import of crude palm, soybean, and sunflower oils. Another milestone in the first 100 days is the addition of 75,000 new medical seats, expected to improve healthcare and reduce reliance on foreign medical education. Disaster management was another focus area: to manage urban floods, improve firefighting services, handle glacial lake outbursts, control floods, and other disaster mitigation efforts.
THE ASAHI SHIMBUN (JAPAN): Pope Francis reminds world he can still draw a crowd. It was the farthest trip of his pontificate and one of the longest papal trips ever in terms of days on the road and distance traveled. But Pope Francis, age 87, hobbled by bad knees and bent over with sciatica, appeared to be having the time of his life. The moment seemed to serve as proof that, despite his age, ailments and seven hours of jet lag, Pope Francis still could pope, still likes to pope and has it in him to pope like he used to at the start of his pontificate.
THE WASHINGTON TIMES (USA): House Republicans passed 28 bills last week with the aid of Democrats to counter the Chinese Communist Party, but the Democratic-run Senate is unlikely to act on their top priorities. The House measures seek to combat China’s influence in U.S. agricultural land, educational institutions, intellectual property, the electric vehicle market and other areas. Republicans, trying to draw a contrast with Democrats, highlighted five bills that received some bipartisan support but nowhere close to a majority of Democrats. The chances of the Senate taking up the bills are slim. The White House opposed four bills and expressed reservations about the others. That only adds to the House Republicans’ hurdles, especially with only two legislative weeks remaining before the November elections and five after that before the current Congress ends.
NIKKEI (JAPAN): Washington pledges aid as caretaker government pushes toward elections. Bangladesh’s new caretaker government has wrapped up its first key diplomatic meeting with a call to “reset, reform and restart” after a student-led uprising ousted longtime Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina last month. Interim leader Nobel Laureate Muhammad Yunus and other officials held talks in Dhaka on Sunday with a six-member delegation including Donald Lu, the U.S. government's assistant secretary for South Asia and Brent Neiman, deputy undersecretary for international finance at the Department of the Treasury.
ARAB NEWS (SAUDI ARABIA): Israeli leaflets tell south Lebanon residents to evacuate. It was the first time Israelis had told residents of south Lebanon to evacuate in 11 months. The leaflet read in Arabic: “Anyone present in this area after this time will be considered a terrorist”.
LE FIGARO (FRANCE): Un missile houtiste a explosé au-dessus de la zone centrale d’Israël, allumant des incendies. C’est la deuxième fois en deux mois que la milice chiite parvient à toucher le pays. Benyamin Netanyahou menace de représailles. Le conflit menace plus que jamais de prendre une tournure régionale. À 6 h 20, dimanche matin, les alarmes ont résonné entre Tel-Aviv et Jérusalem. Cette fois, ce n’est pas une roquette en provenance de Gaza qui a déclenché les sirènes mais un missile tiré par les houthistes, depuis le Yémen. Nouvelle illustration de la tournure régionale que ce conflit menace de prendre, pour la deuxième fois en deux mois, la milice chiite est parvenue à viser le cœur du pays. Dans un message publié sur X, le porte-parole militaire des houthistes, Yahia Sari, s’est félicité de ce “triomphe” dans la lutte contre “l’oppression du peuple palestinien et de ses moudjahids”. Il affirme que l’opération, qui visait « une cible militaire » a été réalisée à l’aide “d’un nouveau missile balistique hypersonique” qui aurait parcouru une distance de 2040 kilomètres en moins de 12 minutes, prenant de vitesse le système de défense israélien et suscitant “peur et panique parmi les sionistes”.
THE JERUSALEM POST (ISRAEL): How did a Houthi missile evade Israeli and American hi-tech radar? It is still unclear whether the missile was detected in time and why the Arrow system did not intercept it as planned. A Houthi missile seemingly evaded Israel’s advanced detection systems on Sunday morning. Despite advanced systems, it wasn’t until the missile was over Israeli airspace that it was finally brought down, raising questions about potential failures in the security systems in place. The Houthis do not have their own ballistic missile industry. Their entire stock comes from Iran. What is known in Yemen as “Tufan” is essentially the Iranian Ghadir missile, itself a development of the Shahab-3. For 25 years, the Arrow system has been developed and upgraded to be able to intercept it.
EL PAIS (SPAIN): El Congreso mexicano aprobó, tras una turbulenta votación en el Senado, la ley más controvertida del mandato de Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Cuando faltan menos de tres semanas para la sucesión, el presidente saliente sacó adelante por mayoría cualificada (dos tercios) una reforma judicial que pone fin al sistema actual e introduce la elección directa por voto popular de los jueces (unos 1600, incluidos los de la Suprema Corte y el Tribunal Electoral). El cambio, que iba incluido en el programa de reformas que ganó las elecciones de la mano de Claudia Sheinbaum, ha sido rechazado frontalmente por los partidos de la oposición y amplios sectores de la administración de justicia. Es un cambio radical que abre un escenario de incertidumbre en un elemento básico para el funcionamiento de cualquier país. Junto a la obvia discusión de si el voto popular es la mejor forma de elegir a un cuerpo con un altísimo componente técnico, el escollo de esta ley reside en que pocos creen que las elecciones a jueces conciten realmente la participación del votante. No es descartable que quienes acudan a las urnas sean demasiado pocos como para dar legitimidad real a este cambio. Bolivia, que en 2009 implantó una medida similar, aunque limitada a 26 altos magistrados, sufrió precisamente este problema y ha llegado a registrar porcentajes de voto nulo del 60%. Otros problemas evidentes son el riesgo de un incremento de la politización en la judicatura, así como el peligro siempre presente de que el narco, grandes bufetes de abogados y grupos de presión aprovechen para introducir aún más sus tentáculos.
RENMIN RIBAO (CHINA): The Global South, including China, is playing an increasingly pivotal role in world peace and security, according to officials, strategists and scholars from around the world who participated in the 11th Beijing Xiangshan Forum this week. At a time when the world faces increasingly interconnected challenges, the theme of this year’s forum, “Promoting Peace for a Shared Future”, is a “powerful reminder of our collective responsibility” in the world security system, which includes the responsibility of the Global South, said Kamal Gunaratne, defense secretary of Sri Lanka, at the forum. In recent years, the collective rise of the Global South countries has gained remarkable momentum, playing a pivotal and constructive role in advancing human progress and serving as a key force for global peace and development. This year’s Beijing Xiangshan Forum was attended by more than 1,800 guests from over 100 countries and international organizations, including many from the Global South countries.
TEHRAN TIMES (IRAN): The head of the Chamran-1 satellite development team says the successful launch of Chamran-1 microsatellite marked a major breakthrough in Iran’s space sector. Moharram Ghiyasvand shared details of the mission. He highlighted that Iran Electronics Industries, a key player in the country’s space technology sector, has developed over 20 satellites of various sizes—ranging from nanosatellites to microsatellites and minisatellites—since the launch of the Omid satellite in 2009. These satellites have been tasked with a range of missions, including imaging, telecommunications, positioning, and space research. Chamran-1, named in honor of the late Mostafa Chamran, a renowned Iranian scientist and martyr, is a 60-kilogram microsatellite with a diameter of approximately 90 centimeters. The satellite is part of a series developed by Iran Electronics Industries.