Sunday, September 27, 2026 · Morning Edition

Today

By StaffNews Desk

Good morning. British police arrested several men on suspicion of explosives offences on Sunday near an air base that the United States Air Force had been using to facilitate strikes on Iran, with vehicles searched. Bomb disposal was deployed near the base, which US forces have used to target Iran since the war began in February — the same campaign in which a [US strike hit a girls' school in Minab and Palantir's cofounder told a Reuters event we should be less judgmental about it](https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/09/palantirs-co-founder-thinks-we-should-be-less-judgmental-about-that-deadly-iran-school-strike). The imperial war Washington launched abroad is now generating security operations on British soil — the predictable domestic cost of a foreign campaign waged in ordinary people's names but for capital's ledger, never their benefit.

In South Africa, two separate mass shootings near the country's two biggest cities killed at least 27 people, the violence again concentrated in the townships where the poor and working class were confined under apartheid and left exposed after it.

In the Prairieland case, lawyers for an anti-ICE protester argued that his shot was a ricochet, a theory squashed by gaps in the evidence and a judge's suppression — the machinery of the courts marshalled against those who confront the immigration enforcement state.

Across Europe, officials warn that Russia is intensifying its years-long hybrid war against NATO states, including sabotage, as its nearly five-year war on Ukraine stalls. In Germany, a figure in Friedrich Merz's Christian Democratic Union [said delays in enacting legislation were a factor in the party's disastrous performance in three regional elections this month](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-27/would-be-merz-successor-chides-chancellor-for-reform-stasis) — the establishment right fracturing as it fails to deliver.