September 7: Iran’s Strait of Hormuz Warning and Gaza School-Day Strike

In Indonesia An eruption forced the cancellation of all flights at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport and disrupted service at other domestic airports, leaving thousands of travelers stranded. Authorities have not provided details on the scale of the eruption or when normal operations might resume. In tech policy Australia is preparing legislation requiring major platforms, including Meta, Google, and TikTok, to let users turn off recommendation algorithms. Companies that fail to offer the option could face substantial penalties, giving users a way to opt out of feeds engineered to keep them scrolling. In China, semiconductor-equipment maker AMEC introduced six new chip-manufacturing machines, expanding beyond its established etching business into deposition tools and equipment for silicon-carbide power chips. Not all are ready for large-scale factory use, but the launch supports China’s push to build domestic alternatives as access to some advanced foreign technology remains restricted. Ukraine talks U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff says Washington expects a positive outcome from trilateral talks intended to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled to Kyiv for their first visit focused on negotiations, though no specific agreement or timetable was announced. In the Middle East Iran says it will announce a restricted zone near the Strait of Hormuz, the strategically vital shipping passage for global oil and gas supplies. Tehran has not said where the zone would begin or end, when it would take effect, or how it would be enforced. An eight-year-old girl in Gaza and her father were killed when an Israeli strike hit their vehicle on what was meant to be her first day of school. In Portsmouth Anti-migrant protesters blocked roads in Portsmouth after 140 migrants were rescued, in the second major protest there over the weekend. The British government condemned the road-blocking and related disorder as thuggish behavior.