# Tuesday 22nd September 2026. Ethiopia alliance. South Africa women killed. Denmark Greenland US deal. Germany election defeat...

An episode of [Simple English News Daily](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1505603790), 21 Sep 2026, 7:44.

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World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 22nd September 2026. Today: Ethiopia alliance. South Africa women killed. Denmark Greenland US deal. Germany election defeat. Russia election result. Pakistan Afghanistan airstrikes. South Korea UN visit. Australia Security Council. United States Haiti trial. Canada synagogue shooting. Canada EU collaboration. Baby brain discovery. With Juliet Martin Become a SEND7 supporter! • Ad-free listening • Bonus quiz episode every Friday • Daily transcripts (written by us, not AI!) • Vocabulary lists • Wednesday worksheets • Ask questions in Ask Me Anything episodes • 10% of our profit goes to Effective Altruism charities. You can become a supporter at send7.supercast.com For more information about SEND7 visit send7.org/contact or send an email to podcast@send7.org

## Transcript

[0:00] Speaker 1: Good morning. This is Send 7 World News in 7 Minutes.
[0:05] Speaker 1: I'm Juliette Martin and today is Tuesday the 22nd of September, 2026.
[0:08] Speaker 1: Starting in Africa today. In Ethiopia, seven armed groups have
[0:31] Speaker 1: formed an anti-government alliance. The Ethiopian People's Forces Alliance for
[0:38] Speaker 1: Survival announced it aims to overthrow Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's government.
[0:45] Speaker 1: It includes the Tigray People's Liberation Front and the Amara
[0:51] Speaker 1: Fano National Movement. According to a government spokesperson, members of
[0:58] Speaker 1: the alliance have had financial backing from Eritrea. Eritrea's government
[1:05] Speaker 1: has not yet commented, though it has previously denied similar claims.
[1:13] Speaker 1: In South Africa, three people have been arrested over the
[1:18] Speaker 1: death of a woman last week. In the last two months,
[1:24] Speaker 1: Police have found the bodies of nine women, mostly in
[1:28] Speaker 1: their 20s and 30s, in and around the Ekahuleni municipality.
[1:35] Speaker 1: Gender-based violence is a long-standing issue in South Africa. Europe Denmark,
[1:46] Speaker 1: Greenland and the United States are expected to sign a
[1:51] Speaker 1: deal on Greenland's security today during the United Nations General
[1:58] Speaker 1: Assembly in New York. United States President Donald Trump has
[2:03] Speaker 1: said that the deal grants the US permanent control. Denmark
[2:09] Speaker 1: and Greenland have said it will benefit Greenland and respect
[2:14] Speaker 1: its sovereignty. According to Denmark's foreign ministry, NATO will be
[2:20] Speaker 1: largely responsible for looking after the Arctic. In Germany, Chancellor
[2:28] Speaker 1: Friedrich Merz's Conservative Party experienced its worst regional election defeat
[2:35] Speaker 1: since the Second World War on Sunday. Mertz said that
[2:40] Speaker 1: the loss of the election in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania is a disaster.
[2:47] Speaker 1: The Alternative for Germany far-right party received the most votes.
[2:55] Speaker 1: In Russia, at the time of recording this podcast, current
[2:59] Speaker 1: election results showed that the ruling United Russia party had
[3:04] Speaker 1: won a record number of parliament seats yesterday. It is
[3:09] Speaker 1: expected to control 355 out of 450 parliamentary seats. Asia
[3:12] Speaker 1: and Oceania Pakistan's government has said it killed at least
[3:16] Speaker 1: 28 militants in airstrikes on the border with Afghanistan yesterday.
[3:34] Speaker 1: According to the Information Ministry, Pakistan struck three targets. Afghanistan's
[3:42] Speaker 1: Taliban has said that Pakistan killed at least three civilians
[3:47] Speaker 1: in strikes overnight. Civilian deaths were confirmed by the United
[3:52] Speaker 1: Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan. South Korea's President Lee Jae-myung
[4:01] Speaker 1: will visit the United States and Mexico this week to
[4:06] Speaker 1: attend the United Nations General Assembly and meet with Mexico's
[4:12] Speaker 1: President Claudia Scheinbaum. Australia plans to campaign to join the
[4:19] Speaker 1: United Nations Security Council from 2029, according to Prime Minister
[4:23] Speaker 1: Anthony Albanese. The Security Council has two non-permanent positions. Australia's
[4:34] Speaker 1: last two-year term ended in 2014. Albanese said, Australia punches
[4:42] Speaker 1: above our weight and we can have an impact on
[4:45] Speaker 1: the world. And that's what I want to see Australia do.
[4:53] Speaker 1: The Americas In the United States, 18 suspects have arrived
[5:00] Speaker 1: from Haiti to face trial over the killing of Haitian
[5:04] Speaker 1: President Jovenel Moïse in 2021. In May, four men were
[5:11] Speaker 1: convicted of plotting the killing. In Canada, a police officer
[5:18] Speaker 1: was wounded in a shooting outside a synagogue in Ontario
[5:23] Speaker 1: on Sunday. which was Yom Kippur. Yesterday, Prime Minister Mark
[5:29] Speaker 1: Carney said, on the holiest night of the Jewish calendar,
[5:34] Speaker 1: a shooting took place outside the Sons of Jacob synagogue
[5:38] Speaker 1: in Belleville. Jewish people must be able to worship safely,
[5:44] Speaker 1: to live free, open, proud Jewish. Canada's Prime Minister Mark
[5:52] Speaker 1: Carney has also said that Canada and Europe will work
[5:57] Speaker 1: together for collective resilience during a meeting in the French
[6:03] Speaker 1: territory of Saint-Pierre and Miquelon.
[6:06] Speaker 2: Today to be sovereign goes beyond being able to feed,
[6:10] Speaker 2: fuel and defend ourselves. It requires secure access to artificial intelligence,
[6:15] Speaker 2: to space, semiconductors, critical minerals, clean energy. And it's in
[6:20] Speaker 2: this context, inspired by your example, that Canada and Europe
[6:25] Speaker 2: will build an alliance for the future that will strengthen
[6:29] Speaker 2: our collective resilience.
[6:32] Speaker 1: And scientists have found a possible explanation for so-called baby brain,
[6:40] Speaker 1: the mental changes that many people experience during pregnancy. In
[6:46] Speaker 1: experiments on laboratory mice, They found that high oestrogen affected
[6:52] Speaker 1: the neuronal pathway between the hypothalamus and the hippocampus in
[6:59] Speaker 1: the brain. The hippocampus is important for memory formation, which
[7:05] Speaker 1: could explain the amnesia that some people experience in pregnancy
[7:11] Speaker 1: and postpartum. That's your World News in 7 minutes. If
[7:18] Speaker 1: you enjoy this podcast, please tell your friends about us.
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[7:30] Speaker 1: at send7. org. I'm Juliet Martin. Tomorrow you will be with
[7:36] Speaker 1: Stephen Devincenzi. Have a great day.

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