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Venezuela’s acting leader tells the United Nations that elections are coming, without saying when.

Delcy Rodriguez, who became Venezuela’s acting president after a U.S. military operation removed Nicolas Maduro from power in January 2026, addressed the UN General Assembly for the first time on September 23. She said elections would be held and that her government had begun talks with opposition leaders, though she gave no date for a vote.

Rodriguez also thanked President Trump for his willingness to restore ties after the operation that removed her predecessor, and the two briefly met to discuss restructuring Venezuela’s sovereign debt. Critics note the irony of a leader installed after foreign intervention now being the one who must decide when democracy returns.

Talks between Greece and the British Museum over the Parthenon Marbles collapse again.

Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said this week that years of negotiations over returning the Parthenon Marbles to Athens have effectively broken down, after the British Museum would offer only a loan that required Greece to recognize its ownership. Greece has refused any deal that treats the sculptures, removed from the Acropolis in the early 1800s, as anything but a single monument that belongs together.

The British Museum says its willingness to reach an agreement is unchanged, but no new talks are scheduled, leaving one of the world’s longest running cultural property disputes stuck where it started.

Brazil’s Amazon deforestation keeps falling, but researchers warn the gains may not last.

New data show deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon has kept dropping under President Lula’s government, with clearing during his presidency down 41 percent compared with his predecessor’s term. Researchers point to satellite monitoring and stronger enforcement, methods that cut deforestation by nearly 85 percent between 2004 and 2012.

Even so, scientists warn a severe El Nino building through the rest of 2026 could dry out parts of the rainforest and fuel fires, testing whether recent progress can survive a harsher climate.

Britain agrees to refuel Saudi jets as Houthi attacks on the kingdom escalate again.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham said the United Kingdom will let a Royal Air Force tanker refuel Saudi warplanes flying defensive missions against Iran backed Houthi rebels in Yemen, after Houthi missiles and drones targeted Saudi Arabia, including one intercepted over Riyadh, and the Houthis declared a blockade on Saudi shipping in the Red Sea. Burnham described the support as limited and under review, running for only a matter of weeks.

The deal revives a decades old pattern of Western militaries backing Gulf monarchies against their rivals, even as Britain insists its role stays strictly defensive.

Drought forces the Panama Canal to keep turning ships away this month.

The Panama Canal Authority has cut daily transit slots to 32 ships, down from a normal 36, after rainfall in the watershed ran more than a third below average and a severe El Nino threatened to dry it out further. The cuts fall hardest on cargo ships waiting in line, some of which now pay steep surcharges for a faster slot.

The squeeze is pushing more shippers toward routes around South America or through a Strait of Hormuz already strained by conflict, showing how quickly trouble at one narrow passage can ripple through global trade.

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Progress (streak, due terms, time on site) is read from this device’s local storage and never leaves it. News sources: Associated Press, Al Jazeera, Sept. 21–25, 2026.