The attack in Qatar fulfils the greatest fear of many Gulf officials I spoke to in June. Even while privately welcoming Israel’s attack on Iran, some said they now regarded Israel as the greatest threat regional stability and spoke of their fear of an attack on Doha.

Eduardo Bolsonaro tells us his father’s trial is a “farce”, a view echoed by Silas Malafaia, his powerful evangelical adviser whom we also speak to for this piece looking at the extraordinary coup attempt Brazil’s ex-president is accused of plotting. telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/1…

Cármen Lúcia: "Escrevi 396 páginas, mas não vou ler, não se preocupem." Cutucando o voto de 14 horas do Fux?

Donald Trump makes peace-making look so easy

A Chinese mining company kidnapped representatives of Rendeavour in DRC today, including Tatu City Kenya director Preston Mendenhall, a company rep tells me. Rendeavour, Tatu’s developers, has a project near Lubumbashi. The employees were threatened with violence but later freed

Michelle Bolsonaro tells us that she will “rise like a lioness” to defend Brazil’s conservatives, claiming that her husband’s conviction was engineered by an authoritarian state. She hints at a run for office and indicates support for Trump tariffs. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…

Netanyahu has spoken of Israel embracing autarky and becoming a “super-Sparta” - yet Israel is deeply plugged into global supply chains, which gives Europe leverage, while Gulf states are increasingly anxious about Israel’s military hegemony in the Middle East.

Trump's periodic rhetorical shifts on Ukraine seem to mean little beyond a desire to generate coverage and project unpredictability. The reality is that he has been remarkably consistent on Russia by not taking a single concrete step against Putin. nytimes.com/2025/09/23/us/…

Jair Bolsonaro has recently been sentenced to over 27 years in prison What does that tell us about the possible fortunes for other political leaders, and where does Brazil go from here? Roland Oliphant is joined by Adrian Blomfield to discuss ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/09/2…

I wondered if this would have further implications- and whether it there were geopolitical motives behind the kidnapping

Power has been cut to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant for the past 10 days, raising the risk of a nuclear accident. But perhaps something else is afoot, with Russia preparing to steal Europe's largest nuclear power plant from Ukraine. An interesting report.

Seventeen of the 27 EU member states have paid more to Russia in energy sales since 2022 than they have contributed to the Ukrainian war effort. thetimes.com/article/dd9d32…

Quite the saga. Russian influence operations in Kenya are real. Whatever the Russian embassy says, it appears Lyapin was working under Russian diplomatic cover to lure Kenyans onto the battlefield with false promises of lucrative civilian jobs.

Returning to Israel and Palestine after 13 years was an unsettling and rather depressing experience, as I write here. I would agree with those who told me that the only chance for a lasting peace now is one that is imposed from the outside. telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…