EU parcel costs, a G20 AI-policy split, Hormuz conflict, global bond stress, Nepal floods, French heat and dark-matter research shape today's global picture

September 2 signals travel across systems: the EU's three-euro-per-item duty reshapes cross-border margins, the United States urges lighter AI rules at the G20, and fighting around Hormuz lifts oil while pressuring bonds and stocks. Nepal's floods and French heat expose infrastructure risk as dark-matter research pushes the scientific frontier.