While You Were Sleeping: 5 stories you might have missed, Sept 3, 2025
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US President Donald Trump speaking in the Oval Office of the White House on Sept 2.
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Trump says he is ‘very disappointed’ with Putin
US President Donald Trump said on Sept 2 he was “very disappointed” in Russian President Vladimir Putin and added without elaborating that his administration was planning to take some actions to bring down deaths in Russia’s war in Ukraine.
The Republican leader also said he was not concerned about warm ties between Russia and China.
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has accused Russia of doing everything it can to prevent a meeting between him and Mr Putin.
“I am very disappointed in President Putin, I can say that, and we will be doing something to help people live,” Mr Trump said, in an interview on The Scott Jennings Radio Show.
Peru pledges to investigate diplomat’s ‘assassination’
Mr Zetro Leonardo Purba was shot three times near his home by an unidentified person who fled on a motorcycle.
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An Indonesian diplomat’s killing in Lima will be thoroughly investigated, Peruvian authorities pledged on Sept 2, promising answers for what it called an “assassination”.
Mr Zetro Leonardo Purba, who worked at Indonesia’s embassy in the Peruvian capital, died on the night of Sept 1 after being shot three times by an unidentified person while cycling to his home, police reported.
Peru’s foreign ministry said in a statement on Sept 2 it deeply regretted Mr Purba’s assassination and would take all measures “to clarify what happened”.
Google not required to sell Chrome browser
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A US judge on Sept 2 rejected the government’s demand that Google sell its Chrome web browser as part of a major antitrust case, but imposed sweeping requirements to restore competition in online search.
The landmark ruling came after Judge Amit Mehta found in August 2024 that Google illegally maintained monopolies in online search through exclusive distribution agreements worth billions of dollars annually.
Judge Mehta’s decision in the Google case represents one of the most significant rulings against corporate monopoly practices in two decades, and could have fundamentally reshaped the tech giant’s future.
A colossal ‘megaberg’ is finally breaking up
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Nearly 40 years after breaking off Antarctica, a colossal iceberg ranked among the oldest and largest ever recorded is finally crumbling apart in warmer waters, and could disappear within weeks.
Earlier this year, the “megaberg” known as A23a weighed a little under a trillion tonnes and was more than twice the size of Greater London, a behemoth unrivalled at the time.
It is now less than half its original size, but still a hefty 1,770 sq km in size and 60km across at its widest point, according to AFP analysis of satellite images by the EU earth observation monitor Copernicus.
TV show creator arrested over transgender posts
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Graham Linehan, the Irish co-creator of TV comedy show Father Ted, said on Sept 2 he had been arrested at London’s Heathrow Airport on suspicion of inciting violence in relation to posts about transgender issues on X.
Linehan, aged 57 and also known for The IT Crowd, said five armed police officers had escorted him off a flight from Arizona and told him he was under arrest for three posts.
Linehan has been a vocal critic of transgender activism on X, formerly known as Twitter, and other platforms. He is due to go on trial later this week on separate charges of harassment and criminal damage involving a transgender activist.
