# Tuesday 8th September 2026. Singapore minister salaries. North Korea Freedom Edge. Bangladesh dengue. Denmark Greenland EU support...

An episode of [Simple English News Daily](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1505603790), 7 Sep 2026, 7:08.

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Sign up for the free email newsletter at send7.org/newsletter World news in 7 minutes. Tuesday 8th September 2026. Today: Singapore minister salaries. North Korea Freedom Edge. Bangladesh dengue. Denmark Greenland EU support. Germany explosives. Russia German consulate. Kenya Burundi traders. Congo US copper. Brazil Independence Day. United States New Mexico. Venice Film Festival. 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 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 7 Minutes.
[0:07] Speaker 1: I'm Juliette Martin and today is Tuesday the 8th of September, 2026.
[0:13] Speaker 1: Starting in Asia today. In Singapore, ministerial salaries are due
[0:29] Speaker 1: to be discussed in Parliament today. Singapore's political leaders have
[0:34] Speaker 1: the highest salaries of any country. The Prime Minister earns 2.2
[0:41] Speaker 1: million Singapore dollars per year. North Korea's new defence minister,
[0:50] Speaker 1: Kim Song-gi, has said that joint military drills by South Korea,
[0:55] Speaker 1: Japan and the United States are a provocation. The annual
[1:01] Speaker 1: Freedom Edge exercise began yesterday in international waters. In Bangladesh, 42,590
[1:14] Speaker 1: people have been hospitalised with dengue fever this year, according
[1:20] Speaker 1: to the health ministry. 117 people have died. The disease
[1:26] Speaker 1: is spread by mosquitoes. According to health experts, numbers could
[1:32] Speaker 1: surge in September.
[1:34] Speaker 2: Europe.
[1:39] Speaker 1: The European Union has announced plans to invest 200 million
[1:45] Speaker 1: euros in Greenland and to form closer ties with the territory.
[1:51] Speaker 1: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen arrived in Greenland
[1:57] Speaker 1: on Sunday for a two-day visit, which comes as United
[2:02] Speaker 1: States President Donald Trump said the territory should belong to
[2:06] Speaker 1: the US. Von der Leyen said... The EU stands in
[2:11] Speaker 1: full solidarity with the Kingdom of Denmark and the people
[2:16] Speaker 1: of Greenland. In Germany, authorities in the Saxony state found
[2:24] Speaker 1: 21 explosive devices near the power grid, according to prosecutors.
[2:31] Speaker 1: The devices were found during an investigation into attacks on
[2:36] Speaker 1: the electricity grid last week. According to police, they are
[2:41] Speaker 1: searching for a man who sent letters claiming responsibility for
[2:46] Speaker 1: a series of attacks. Russia has said it will close
[2:53] Speaker 1: its German consulate in St Petersburg after the Russian consulate
[2:58] Speaker 1: in Bonn was closed. The closing of the Russian consulate
[3:04] Speaker 1: and a Russian cultural centre in Berlin is came after
[3:09] Speaker 1: Germany accused Russia of an attempted drone attack on an airport.
[3:15] Speaker 1: Russia said this accusation was an absurd fabrication. Africa In Kenya,
[3:26] Speaker 1: hundreds of Burundians are trying to acquire travel documents to
[3:31] Speaker 1: leave the country after last week's order by President William
[3:36] Speaker 1: Ruto that small-scale businesses operated by foreign traders should be
[3:43] Speaker 1: closed down. Kenya's trade ministry has said that the order
[3:48] Speaker 1: concerns traders without work permits. According to the United Nations,
[3:54] Speaker 1: there are around 16,000 Burundian refugees and asylum seekers in Kenya.
[4:04] Speaker 1: The Democratic Republic of Congo is supplying more and more
[4:09] Speaker 1: copper to the United States. According to United States data,
[4:15] Speaker 1: Congo provided a record 53,290 metric tons of copper cathode
[4:19] Speaker 1: in July, 23.9% of overall imports. In the whole of 2024,
[4:33] Speaker 1: Congo provided less than 32,000 tonnes of copper to the
[4:38] Speaker 1: United States. The Americas Brazil celebrated its Independence Day yesterday.
[4:50] Speaker 1: The opposition planned to protest against President Luiz Inésio Lula
[4:56] Speaker 1: da Silva's government. Current polls show right-wing presidential candidate Senator
[5:02] Speaker 1: Flavio Bolsonaro, son of former President Jair Bolsonaro, equal with
[5:09] Speaker 1: Lula in the election next month. United States President Donald
[5:16] Speaker 1: Trump has promoted the idea of renaming the state of
[5:21] Speaker 1: New Mexico as New America. He posted pictures on social
[5:26] Speaker 1: media of maps with the name changed. New Mexico's governor,
[5:32] Speaker 1: Michel-Johan Grisham, said, New Mexico's name isn't up for debate.
[5:38] Speaker 1: It's been ours since before the United States existed. And
[5:45] Speaker 1: at the Venice Film Festival yesterday, United States actor Ellen Burstyn,
[5:52] Speaker 1: who is 93 years old, received the Lifetime Achievement Award.
[5:59] Speaker 1: She spoke about how gender parity on film sets has
[6:03] Speaker 1: improved during her career.
[6:07] Speaker 2: When I first started working, which was 150 years ago,
[6:15] Speaker 2: there were no women on the set. There were no
[6:17] Speaker 2: women crews. There was nobody, no woman behind the camera.
[6:22] Speaker 2: It was all men. If a woman was on the set,
[6:25] Speaker 2: that meant she was an actress. And then slowly, thanks
[6:31] Speaker 2: to Blessed Gloria Steinem, who just died, the consciousness started
[6:38] Speaker 2: to be changed.
[6:40] Speaker 1: That's your World News in seven minutes. If you enjoy
[6:45] Speaker 1: this podcast, please tell your friends about us. You can
[6:49] Speaker 1: get in touch with us at send7. org or by sending
[6:54] Speaker 1: an email to podcast at send7. org. I'm Juliet Martin. Tomorrow
[7:00] Speaker 1: you will be with Stephen Devincenzi. Have a great day.

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