據芬蘭國家廣播公司，芬蘭在“遠離媒體關注”的情況下，與以色列簽署了一份爲期10年的祕密諒解備忘錄，內容涉及軍事裝備的研發，並將擴展兩國之間的軍事關係。

UK Chancellor Healy is weighing a windfall tax on banks and oil companies for her first budget. Treasury officials are discussing the measures as a way to plug a £4.7bn fiscal shortfall while avoiding direct increases in personal taxes. Healy is aiming for a low-key budget next month and for any unavoidable tax rises to be markedly smaller than those implemented under former chancellor Reeves.

A press briefing in Gyirong town on Aug. 30 said the Aug. 26 event began with a landslide on the Nepal side and caused major casualties and missing persons at Gyirong port in Gyirong County, Shigatse, Tibet. Authorities attributed the disaster to long-term glacier destabilization linked to climate warming, describing it as sudden with large peak flow, high velocity, strong destructive power and wide impact—features increasingly observed across the Tibetan Plateau cryosphere. Monitoring showed the ice-rock collapse reached and struck China’s Gyirong port in roughly 6–7 minutes from initiation.