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Prosecutors Seek 30-Year Prison Term for Intoxicated Passenger Who Dragged Designated Driver to Death During the appellate trial for A , held yesterday before the 3rd Criminal Division of the Daejeon High Court (Presiding Judge Kim Byeong-sik), prosecutors requested the court to "sentence the defendant to 30 years in prison." A was indicted on charges of murder and other offenses for pushing B , the designated driver who was driving him, out of the driver's seat on a road in Yuseong-gu, Daejeon, at around 1:30 a.m. SBS Sep 2, 2026 5:01 AM

Netanyahu Claims Military and Security Leadership 'Deliberately' Didn't Wake Him Up During Hamas Surprise Attack During an Instagram live broadcast on the 1st local time, Prime Minister Netanyahu stated, "They intentionally did not wake me up because they knew that I, as the Prime Minister of Israel, would immediately issue a state of high alert across the entire military." This goes a step beyond his previous stance that the situation would have been different had he been briefed just before the surprise attack, marking the first time he has officially raised suspicions that security officials intentionally sidelined the prime minister. SBS Sep 2, 2026 4:24 AM

Trump Defends Iran Strikes as Fully Justified, Warns of Harder Blows if Retaliated President Donald Trump U.S. President Donald Trump defended the U.S. military's targeted airstrikes against Iranian forces as a fully justified measure on September 1 , warning that Iran will face even more powerful retaliation if it takes further retaliatory actions. SBS Sep 2, 2026 4:21 AM

US Treasury Secretary: 'Yen Significantly Undervalued… Japan Must Formulate Sound Monetary Policy' The US Department of Treasury announced in a press release on the 1st local time that Secretary Bessent made the remarks during a meeting with Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda on August 30 at the Group of 20 Finance Ministers meeting in Asheville, North Carolina. SBS Sep 2, 2026 4:20 AM

Iran Media Reports Launch of "Decisive Operation" Targeting U.S. Facilities in Middle East airstrikes against Iran, the Iranian military abruptly launched a "decisive operation" targeting U.S. SBS Sep 2, 2026 4:19 AM

"Massive Drone Swarms Will Close Russian Airspace," Warns Zelenskyy Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy claimed on September 1 that "we must consider the point where a massive number of drones will appear in Russian skies," adding that "Russian airspace will effectively be closed." In his address that day, President Zelenskyy stated, "Russian airspace is now completely unsafe. SBS Sep 2, 2026 4:15 AM

China's TCL Sues Samsung in US Court, Claiming 'False Advertising' on Mini LED TVs Reuters reported on the 1st that TCL filed a lawsuit against Samsung in the U.S. SBS Sep 2, 2026 3:42 AM

Iranian Military Warns U.S. Will 'Regret' Resuming Attacks Around Strait of Hormuz Shortly after successive explosions were observed in and around the Strait of Hormuz and various areas to its east, IRGC Spokesperson Hossein Mohebi posted on X that "a harsh punishment awaits the aggressors, and the U.S. SBS Sep 2, 2026 3:40 AM

Germany Closes Russian Consulate, Citing Last Month's Explosive Drone Attack as Russian Operation The German government has concluded that last month's explosive drone incident at Leipzig/Halle Airport was a Russian operation, taking retaliatory measures that include closing a Russian consulate. SBS Sep 2, 2026 3:40 AM

U.S. Strikes Iran Again in Two Days... "Explosions Heard on Hormuz Island and Bandar Abbas" military launched a military strike against Iran on September 1 local time. The U.S. SBS Sep 2, 2026 3:35 AM