Child protection efforts face mounting pressure from conflict, climate and digital abuse. According to the report, nearly 19% of children globally now reside in conflict zones, a stark rise from approximately 10% during the 1990s. By the end of 2024, conflict and violence had caused displacement for 48.8 million children worldwide, a figure almost three times the roughly 17 million displaced children recorded in 2010. This group includes refugee and asylum-seeking children, as well as millions displaced within their own countries due to violence and conflict. Climate-related hazards are presenting an additional layer of danger for children around the world. Nearly half of all children, totaling 1.1 billion, face at least three overlapping climate risks. Almost every child endures at least one such hazard, based on UNICEF’s 2026 climate risk assessment. Over 4 million children are exposed to as many as six simultaneous threats, including drought, extreme heat, heatwaves, floods, fires, tropical storms, and sand and dust storms. Digital dangers intensify concerns for child safety The UN assessment highlights how digital spaces have broadened the scope of threats faced by children. One in three internet users worldwide is under 18. Annually, more than 300 million children encounter online sexual exploitation and abuse, according to data cited by the UN office. Additionally, at least 1.2 million children reported that artificial intelligence had created sexually explicit deepfakes of their images within the past year

The Nikkei 225 in Japan declined nearly 2% during Monday’s early trading sessions amid market reactions to increasing expectations of higher interest rates. The index initially fell 1.97% to 65,096.63 before extending its decline to an intraday low of 64,832.10. The decline was primarily driven by sell-offs in technology and other rate-sensitive sectors at the session’s start. The broader Topix also experienced an early drop, decreasing 0.84% to 4,111.71, though it recovered later in the trading day.

The National Bank of Yemen (NBY), Yemen’s oldest and largest state-owned commercial bank, is releasing the Institute for Financial Integrity’s (IFI) Financial Integrity & Cross-Border Payment Training Program enterprise-wide, reaching an estimated 950 employees across 25 branches. This initiative comes at a pivotal moment for Yemen’s financial sector, as institutions across the region place growing emphasis on compliance standards to support cross-border payment channels and global trade. NBY has long served as a primary contributor to the country’s economic and social development, maintaining correspondent banking relationships that connect Yemen to the global financial system. By strengthening compliance knowledge across its branch network, NBY is continuing its commitment as a leader in this effort.

HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, and Reflection AI, a frontier AI lab building open models, today announced plans to deploy Reflection’s models on HUMAIN’s AI infrastructure in Saudi Arabia following the release of the first model later this year. Unveiled at the LEAP conference in Riyadh, the announcement brings together HUMAIN’s growing AI infrastructure capabilities with Reflection’s advanced models. The planned initial deployment will make Reflection’s first generally available model available on Kingdom-based infrastructure, providing regional customers access to frontier intelligence on sovereign infrastructure. This also provides a foundation for the companies to explore a broader collaboration around sovereign AI deployment and compute.

50 Best has unveiled its extended list of hotels ranked from No.51 to No.100, underscoring 50 Best’s commitment to recognising a broader spectrum of outstanding hospitality experiences. The list spans 23 different territories, 40 cities and includes 10 independent hotels. These hotels set the stage for the unveiling of The World’s 50 Best Hotels 2026 ranking in Paris on Tuesday 15 September.

LG CELEBRATES CAMPAIGN FINALE WITH AED 65,000 GRAND PRIZE KITCHEN MAKEOVER HANDOVER Ms. Pooja Solomon Vishnu Kumar Ramchandani awarded a kitchen renovation worth AED 65,000, supplied by Sultaco as LG concludes its summer campaign celebrating connected living.

Mech-Mind Robotics, a global-leading robobrain company, successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange on September 1, 2026. The company issued its shares at a price of HK$101.7 per share with a market capitalization of HK$12.71 billion. Mech-Mind Robotics provides “Eye-Brain-Hand” standardized intelligent components and has deployed over 29,000 units of its products globally, serving more than 100 Fortune Global 500 companies. The firm holds the highest market share in China, Japan, and North America, and is a market leader in Southeast Asia, Europe, and South Korea.

Recently, authoritative institutions including InfoLink Consulting, Shanghai Metals Market (SMM), ICCSINO, and NECI have released rankings for global energy storage battery shipments in the first half of 2026. The data shows that HiTHIUM has once again secured the TOP 2 position worldwide in terms of energy storage battery shipments, driven by its continuous technological innovation, large-scale manufacturing, and robust global delivery capacity.

GFP’s rotating cups offer brands a creative way to make packaging more visually engaging while providing additional space for graphics, promotional messages, or storytelling. Unlike conventional simple double wall paper hot cups with fixed designs, the rotating paper cup incorporates an interactive outer structure that can be rotated to reveal different visual elements. Elements can include emojis, local landmarks, shop logos, and patterns, etc. This transforms the disposable coffee cups with lids from a simple beverage container into a dynamic communication platform, allowing brands to present multiple graphics, messages, or promotional concepts within a single unit.

China’s digital sector generated a total revenue of 20.71 trillion yuan in the first half of 2026, marking a 13.6% increase compared to the previous year. The sector’s net profit reached 1.79 trillion yuan, reflecting a 19.3% rise. Major digital hubs across China contributed the bulk of the national revenue, with the top 10 provincial-level markets collectively producing 17.21 trillion yuan. The central region alone reported 2.86 trillion yuan in digital industry revenue, representing a 28.3% rise from a year earlier. China’s digital infrastructure saw significant expansion, with 5.102 million 5G base stations and 32.86 million 10G PON ports in operation by the end of June.

Trina Storage, a global leader in energy storage solutions and a business unit of Trinasolar, announced its participation in Middle East Energy 2026, taking place from 1–3 September at Dubai World Trade Centre, where it will officially launch and showcase its latest Elementa + Electra energy storage solution for the first time in the Middle East at the Storage Pavilion, Booth Z3. The Elementa + Electra is an integrated DC + AC utility-scale energy storage solution that combines the latest DC battery system, Elementa 3, with a 6.25 MWh capacity, and the 13.8 MVA AC platform Electra. By integrating the DC battery system and AC platform, the solution helps simplify system integration and streamline deployment for large-scale energy storage projects.

From “leading in scale” to “quality-led transformative growth”, the shift currently affecting China’s auto industry was brought under the spotlight during the recent 2026 Automotive New Quality Productive Force Development Forum. Organized by China Economic Information Service and China Certification & Inspection Group, the event, held in Jiulongpo District of Chongqing, attracted a cohort of business representatives from the auto manufacturing and intelligent driving sectors.

CyberLogitec, a subsidiary of Eusu Holdings and a provider of terminal operating systems (TOS) and logistics IT solutions, has signed an agreement to deploy its cloud-based OPUS Terminal M solution at Shuwaikh Port in Kuwait. The project forms part of a broader port digitalisation initiative being undertaken by Alghanim Specialities, a Kuwait-based infrastructure company. Under the agreement, CyberLogitec will provide OPUS Terminal M to support the digital transformation of terminal operations and improve operational efficiency at Shuwaikh Port.

CyberHero x Riyadh will feature ten EngineAI T800 humanoid robots, developed by Shenzhen-based robotics company EngineAI. At approximately 1.73 metres tall and 75–85 kg, the T800 is comparable in size to a full-grown adult man. With 29 articulated joints, it can walk, run, punch, kick, turn and recover after falls — capabilities that will be put to the test in live combat scenarios on September 9, showcasing motion control, balance, reaction speed and combat strategy.

HUMAIN ONE provides an agentic AI layer designed to enable employees to interact with enterprise applications, data and workflows through a unified interface. By bringing together HUMAIN ONE with Microsoft 365 Copilot and Microsoft’s IQ capabilities, the planned offering aims to connect workplace and business context so employees can access more relevant insights, streamline routine tasks and act faster – while helping organizations scale AI securely across everyday work and business processes. Further plans include expanding the offering into HR, finance, procurement and IT modules.

HUMAIN and Applied Intuition Announce Strategic Collaboration to Deploy Physical AI Across Saudi Arabia, Starting with Autonomous Trucking. The collaboration will lay the foundation for autonomy at national scale, beginning with the world’s largest autonomous trucking network and expanding into robotaxis, ports, mining, manufacturing, agriculture, construction, and other industries. Applied Intuition will provide its end-to-end physical AI platform, built to scale across a billion moving machines, through a long-term commercial partnership.

HUMAIN is now delivering production AI compute in Saudi Arabia powered by AMD Instinct™ MI355X GPUs, AMD EPYC™ CPUs and Cisco Silicon One-based AI networking to deliver the performance, scale and resilience necessary for next-generation workloads. AMD, Cisco and HUMAIN plan to deploy up to 250 MW of AI infrastructure as part of the next phase of the buildout beginning in 2027.

The collaboration brings together KORA’s operating-system and edge AI expertise with HUMAIN’s capabilities across AI models, agentic technologies, enterprise platforms, infrastructure and applications. As part of the announcement, the companies are demonstrating an early version of HUMAIN OS at LEAP 2026, providing a first look at the architecture and capabilities they are jointly developing. The partnership is based on a shared view that artificial intelligence should move deeper into the computing stack — from an application running on top of the desktop to intelligence engineered directly into the operating system.

India and Uzbekistan expand cooperation under a new Comprehensive Strategic Partnership. Trade and economic cooperation played a central role in the discussions. According to the Uzbek government, bilateral trade reached $1.3 billion in 2025, representing a 33% increase. Both nations set a goal to boost annual trade to $5 billion by 2030. The number of joint ventures has grown seven times in recent years. Currently, India and Uzbekistan operate 14 direct flights each week, and four Indian universities are active in Uzbekistan. The leaders emphasized the importance of expanding industrial and commercial links. The two governments agreed to create a mechanism at the foreign ministers’ level to oversee the implementation of bilateral agreements. They also plan to establish a joint working group focused on non-tariff barriers and investment obstacles. Further steps will be considered after the completion of a feasibility study for an India-Uzbekistan Preferential Trade Agreement. Energy, electrical engineering, metallurgy, critical minerals, and agriculture were identified as priority sectors, along with healthcare, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, electronics, mechanical engineering, and jewelry in the economic dialogue. Expansion of cooperation across strategic sectors During the state visit, India and Uzbekistan signed 11 agreements, memoranda, and related arrangements that span culture, higher education, scientific research, environmental protection, traditional medicine, tourism, geology, and mineral resources. The package also includes cooperation on archival work and an economic and financial dialogue. An additional agreement linked Gujarat state with Uzbekistan’s Sam

HUMAIN, a PIF company delivering full-stack artificial intelligence capabilities globally, today announced a strategic partnership with MinIO, the data and memory foundation for AI. Together, HUMAIN and MinIO intend to build the world’s most advanced AI-native platform, enabling enterprises to unlock the full value of their data in the age of autonomous AI agents. The companies are partnering to build that ecosystem together, from the data and memory foundation up through the agents and intelligent applications that act on it.