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United States Senate chamber in session with empty seats and vote tally boards on the wall

Senate kills oversight report on Americans killed in West Bank, 47-51

The U.S. Senate voted 47-51 on Sept. 29 to reject a State Department reporting requirement on the killed Americans in the occupied West Bank — nine U.S. citizens since Jan. 2022, plus the treatment of ~13,000 detained Palestinian children since 2000. The "no" vote wasn&

Volotea Airbus A320 parked at an airport apron under overcast sky

Volotea's Insolvency Is a Retreat, Not a Rescue

Volotea's insolvency filing is a confession, not a rescue. The numbers are stark: negative equity of €77.5M on €818M revenue, a €64M net loss, and fuel costs running 147% over budget after the Strait of Hormuz closure spiked prices. The restructuring plan is really a retreat — roughly

Line of Madrid apartment buildings with documents and a gavel in the foreground.

Spain suspends vulnerable-tenant evictions until 2030 — landlords and funds scramble

Spain just made housing policy law by decree—and it's far-reaching. Real Decreto-Ley 26/2026 publishes today. Key moves: • Evictions of vulnerable tenants suspended to Dec 31, 2030 • "Vulture funds" blocked from buying homes below 70% of appraisal until 2028 • Landlords: 50% IRPF deduction,

Gavel and legal documents on a desk in a Nigerian federal courtroom, with a fuel import licence visible.

Court: NMDPRA Breached PIA by Arbitrary Fuel Import Licensing

⚖️ Nigerian court rules NMDPRA's on-again, off-again fuel import licensing behind AA Rano, Matrix Energy, and AYM Shafa amounts to "direct non-compliance" with the Petroleum Industry Act. Justice Ekwo held the regulator can't withhold licences as a discretionary favor—approval must follow

A Nigerian Federal High Court gavel and courthouse exterior in front of the SEC and EFCC office buildings in Abuja.

Nigeria convicts 21 firms, hardening the licensing gate on investment operators

⚖️ Nigeria's enforcement gate just got real. On Sept 28, a Federal High Court convicted 21 companies for running investment businesses without valid SEC licences — a N30M fine each (N630M total before daily accruals), plus N200,000 per day under Section 57(1) of the 2020 Act, after EFCC

Gautam Adani and four Adani group entities settle a securities regulator case with SEBI for Rs 1.48 crore over minimum public shareholding violations

Seven Adani entities settle SEBI cases, but capital markets tell the sharper story

Seven Adani entities have bought procedural closure from SEBI — first via a Rs 1.48 crore MPS settlement, then a ₹1.508 crore related-party and audit-certification settlement in September that also cleared Vinod Adani. The crucial distinction: these resolve listing-rule and process breaches, not the fund-funneling

FBI seal outside the J. Edgar Hoover Building in Washington, D.C.

FBI's deputy exit signals shrinking top-tier authority

The FBI's top tier just lost its second co-deputy in under a year. Andrew Bailey resigned Sept. 28 after friction with Director Kash Patel over counterterrorism staffing — two weeks after supervisors Burgwald and Rae were demoted over the disputed Katie Miller harassment probe. The signal isn'