The 10 most important things in the world right now
1. Hungary has made it a crime to cross or damage the razor-wire fence it has built along its Serbian border, closing off a key entry point for tens of thousands of migrants into the European Union.
2. Migrants are looking for new routes into Western Europe after Hungary sealed its border, with many now heading toward Croatia or Slovenia.
3. The world is waiting to see whether the US Federal Reserve will finally raise interest rates after six years at near zero when it meets on Thursday.
4. A close associate of Russian President Vladimir Putin says Russia's economic downturn will last at least two more years.
5. The US company Hewlett-Packard plans to cut up to 30,000 jobs, largely from service centers in developed countries under HP's enterprise division.
6. Populations of marine mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish have been cut in half since 1970 because of overfishing, pollution, and climate change, according to a new World Wildlife Fund report.
7. North Korea says that its main nuclear complex is operational and that it is working to make weapons that could be used against the US at "any time."
8. Airport workers in Chile have staged a 24-hour walkout over retirement benefits, leading to more than 300 cancelled flights and grounding about 50,000 passengers.
9. Daiwa Capital Markets economist Kevin Lai, known as the "yuan bear," has warned of a financial crisis in China.
10. Porsche's Mission E electric concept car created a lot of buzz at the Frankfurt Auto Show, which kicked off on Tuesday and will continue until the end of September.
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