# Friday 25th September 2026. Ethiopia war. UN General Assembly. Xi in US. Poland stabbing. Italy apology. Germany Nazi. Australia AI hack...

An episode of [Simple English News Daily](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1505603790), 24 Sep 2026, 8:07.

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Become a SEND7 supporter at send7.supercast.com World news in 7 minutes. Friday 25th September 2026. Today: Ethiopia war. CAR leader guilty. UN General Assembly. Xi in US. Mexico storm. Chile mine. Poland stabbing. Ukraine attacks. Germany Nazi investigation. Italy apology. Australia AI hack. Japan Asian Games. With Stephen Devincenzi 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 Sign up for the free newsletter at send7.org/newsletter 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 Send7, world news in seven minutes.
[0:06] Speaker 1: I'm Stephen Devincenzi. Today is Friday, the 25th of September, 2026.
[0:11] Speaker 1: Today we are starting in Africa.
[0:13] Speaker 2: In Ethiopia, there has been increasing fighting between government.
[0:17] Speaker 1: Forces and opposition groups led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front.
[0:32] Speaker 1: Analysts say that there is a risk that Ethiopia falls
[0:35] Speaker 1: into another full-scale civil war similar to the 2020-2022 civil war,
[0:42] Speaker 1: which was also mostly fought between government forces and the TPLF,
[0:48] Speaker 1: which was previously the ruling party of Ethiopia. Earlier this week,
[0:53] Speaker 1: the TPLF announced that it had joined forces with some
[0:57] Speaker 1: other ethnic groups with the intention of overthrowing the Ethiopian
[1:02] Speaker 1: government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Yesterday, the Ethiopian government
[1:07] Speaker 1: said that it had killed 272 Tigrayan fighters. Central African
[1:14] Speaker 1: Republic militia leader Mahmat Saeed Abdul Kani has been found
[1:19] Speaker 1: guilty of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court
[1:23] Speaker 1: in the Netherlands. Said was a leader of the Seleka
[1:27] Speaker 1: Alliance of Rebel Groups and is accused of participating in
[1:31] Speaker 1: illegal imprisonment and torture. Americas In the United States, the
[1:40] Speaker 1: United Nations General Assembly general debate is continuing. Yesterday, during
[1:46] Speaker 1: his speech, President of the European Council Antonio Costa said
[1:50] Speaker 1: that Russia was threatening the security of European countries and
[1:55] Speaker 1: called for a two-state solution to the Israel-Palestine conflict. Palestinian
[2:01] Speaker 1: President Mahmoud Abbas said that Palestinians will not accept displacement
[2:06] Speaker 1: and will not allow others to choose their future. Abbas
[2:11] Speaker 1: spoke to the conference by video link, saying that the
[2:14] Speaker 1: Trump administration had refused to give him a visa. Before
[2:19] Speaker 1: the speech of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, many delegates
[2:23] Speaker 1: walked out of the room with some chanting pro-Palestine comments.
[2:29] Speaker 1: Netanyahu called them moral cowards.
[2:32] Speaker 2: Before I begin, just a quick announcement. If there are
[2:38] Speaker 2: any other moral cowards who haven't yet left this hall,
[2:42] Speaker 2: please do so now. Thank you very much.
[2:47] Speaker 1: Outside the General Assembly building, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
[2:52] Speaker 1: was walking, a Russian journalist asked him if he would
[2:56] Speaker 1: travel to Moscow for talks. Zelensky replied, on a missile.
[3:02] Speaker 1: Chinese President Xi Jinping is in Washington for his first
[3:06] Speaker 1: state visit to the US since 2015. In a speech yesterday,
[3:10] Speaker 1: Xi said that China and the US have a responsibility
[3:15] Speaker 1: to manage AI for good. There were some protests against
[3:20] Speaker 1: Xi's visit, mostly from ethnic Chinese people. Some protesters dressed
[3:25] Speaker 1: as the cartoon character Winnie the Pooh in reference to
[3:29] Speaker 1: censorship of Winnie the Pooh in China after social media
[3:34] Speaker 1: users mocked President Xi by comparing him to the Disney
[3:38] Speaker 1: character Many protesters also called for the liberation of Tibet.
[3:44] Speaker 1: Also in the United States, the tech company Meta has
[3:47] Speaker 1: released AI glasses without a camera after widespread criticism of
[3:53] Speaker 1: people secretly recording using previous versions of the glasses, which
[3:58] Speaker 1: have received the nickname pervert glasses. In Mexico, many ports
[4:04] Speaker 1: on the Pacific Ocean have been closed as Hurricane Polo
[4:09] Speaker 1: continues to bring strong winds and rain along the west coast.
[4:15] Speaker 1: In Chile, the world's biggest copper mine, Escondida, has stopped
[4:20] Speaker 1: operating after the death of a worker in an accident,
[4:24] Speaker 1: the managing company has said. Europe In Poland, there was
[4:31] Speaker 1: a mass stabbing at a Catholic monastery yesterday, with one
[4:35] Speaker 1: person killed and four others injured. Police have said that
[4:39] Speaker 1: the attacker was a 31-year-old Ukrainian man who had crossed
[4:44] Speaker 1: into Poland from Germany earlier yesterday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said, quote,
[4:51] Speaker 1: we are shaken by this evil. Justice must be done.
[4:55] Speaker 1: In Ukraine, at least eight people were killed in Russian
[4:58] Speaker 1: drone and missile attacks yesterday. In Germany, a man is
[5:04] Speaker 1: being investigated. Suspected of being a Nazi concentration camp guard,
[5:10] Speaker 1: the man, who is 105 years old, is under investigation
[5:16] Speaker 1: of accessory to multiple murders by being a guard at
[5:20] Speaker 1: the Stalag concentration camp that held Soviet prisoners of war
[5:25] Speaker 1: during World War II. In Italy, Deputy Prime Minister Antonio
[5:30] Speaker 1: Tajani has apologised after receiving criticism from for a comment
[5:35] Speaker 1: about how women dress a few days ago. During a speech, Tajani,
[5:41] Speaker 1: who is also foreign minister, said that young men should
[5:45] Speaker 1: choose women who dress more conservatively, saying that a woman
[5:49] Speaker 1: wearing a longer skirt would make a better mother. Asia
[5:56] Speaker 1: and Oceania. Australia's government has said that an AI agent
[6:01] Speaker 1: from the company OpenAI has hacked a government website. Prime
[6:06] Speaker 1: Minister Antony Albanese said yesterday that the hack had affected
[6:10] Speaker 1: a medical statistics portal of Australia's universal health insurance programme.
[6:16] Speaker 1: Albanese said that he had expressed his concern to OpenAI
[6:21] Speaker 1: CEO Sam Altman, especially because it took months for OpenAI
[6:26] Speaker 1: to tell Australia that the hacking had occurred.
[6:29] Speaker 3: Today I spoke with the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman,
[6:34] Speaker 3: to express Australia's extreme concern about this incident. And I
[6:39] Speaker 3: also expressed my disappointment that it took the company way
[6:42] Speaker 3: too long to inform the government of what had occurred.
[6:47] Speaker 1: And in Japan, at the Asian Games in Tokyo, Afghani
[6:52] Speaker 1: cyclist Fariba Hashimi won a silver medal in the women's
[6:56] Speaker 1: cycling road race. Hashimi, has said that she used to
[7:00] Speaker 1: pretend to be a man in order to practice cycling
[7:04] Speaker 1: in Afghanistan. She left in 2021 after the Taliban takeover.
[7:10] Speaker 1: Also at the Asian Games, Japanese swimmer Shin Ohashi has
[7:15] Speaker 1: broken the 200m breaststroke world record. Ohashi, who is only
[7:21] Speaker 1: 17 years old, also won the gold medal in the
[7:25] Speaker 1: 100m breaststroke. A big thank you to Adriana in Germany
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