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

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 24, 20268 min
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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 listeningBonus quiz episode every FridayDaily transcripts (written by us, not AI!)Vocabulary listsWednesday worksheetsAsk questions in Ask Me Anything episodes10% of our profit goes to Effective Altruism charities.You c...

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Good morning, this is CEN 7. World news in 7 minutes. I'm Stephen Devin Cenzi. Today Today is Friday, the 25th of September, 2026. Today we are starting in Africa. In Ethiopia, there has been increasing fighting between government forces and opposition groups led by the Tigray People's Liberation Front.

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say that there is a risk that Ethiopia falls into another full-scale civil war similar to the 2020-2022 civil war, which was also mostly fought between government forces and the TPLF, which was previously the ruling party of Ethiopia. Earlier this week, the TPLF announced that it had joined forces with some other ethnic groups, with the intention of overthrowing the Ethiopian

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government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed. Yesterday, the Ethiopian government said that it had killed 272 Tigrayan fighters. Central African Republic militia leader, Mahmat Saeed Abdul Khani, has been found guilty of crimes against humanity at the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands. Saeed was

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