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• Amazon cargo plane emergency in Miami

  06-09-2026 22:15 via smh.com.au
  
  An Amazon cargo plane has overshot the runway at Miami airport and burst into flames.
  
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• Murder trial after deaths of Aussie brothers to begin

  07-09-2026 10:57 via smh.com.au
  
  The murder trial of two Aussie brothers killed in Mexico is set to begin.
  
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• Five dead after cargo plane crashes in Miami

  07-09-2026 08:31 via smh.com.au
  
  Five people died when an Amazon cargo plane overran a runway and crashed in Miami.
  
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• The battle to save a US general whom Hegseth declared war on

  07-09-2026 07:29 via smh.com.au
  
  General Christopher Donahue’s vision for fighting future wars won him powerful supporters around the world. Could they save his career?
  
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• Amazon cargo plane overruns runway at Miami airport

  07-09-2026 00:02 via smh.com.au
  
  An Amazon cargo plane barrelled off a runway at Miami International Airport, striking vehicles, bursting into flames and sending thick black smoke into the sky.
  
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• Five killed as Amazon plane overruns runway, hitting vehicles and bursting into flames

  06-09-2026 23:41 via smh.com.au
  
  The cargo plane barrelled off a runway at Miami International Airport, sending thick black smoke into the sky and shutting down flights at one of America’s busiest airports.
  
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• Five killed as Amazon plane overruns runway, hitting vehicles and bursting into flame

  06-09-2026 23:41 via smh.com.au
  
  The cargo plane barrelled off a runway at Miami International Airport, sending thick black smoke into the sky and shutting down flights at one of America’s busiest airports.
  
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• Australian man arrested in Solomon Islands

  06-09-2026 22:21 via smh.com.au
  
  An Australian man has been arrested in the Solomon Islands, accused of threatening a local business.
  
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• Amazon plane overruns runway, sending up cloud of smoke

  06-09-2026 22:19 via smh.com.au
  
  The cargo plane barrelled off a runway in Miami – one of America’s busiest airports – striking multiple vehicles and bursting into flames.
  
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• US envoys meet Zelenskyy

  06-09-2026 22:12 via smh.com.au
  
  Ukraine's president is expecting the war with Russia to continue into the European winter, despite hosting Donald Trump's negotiators.
  
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• Election shockwave: Meet the smiling new leader set to bring hard-right upheaval to Germany

  06-09-2026 21:09 via smh.com.au
  
  Dismissed as a minor party for so long, the Alternative für Deutschland is now a major force in German politics. The upheaval in the country may have only just begun.
  
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• Survivors found in tunnel in Nepal

  06-09-2026 11:35 via smh.com.au
  
  More survivors have been rescued from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal after devastating floods.
  
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• US military blasts trio of Iranian oil tankers

  06-09-2026 11:31 via smh.com.au
  
  The US military says it has destroyed three Iranian oil tankers in response to attacks on ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
  
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• Putin meets Trump negotiators in fresh ceasefire bid

  06-09-2026 11:26 via smh.com.au
  
  Vladimir Putin has met with Donald Trump's top negotiators in a revived push for peace to end the Russia-Ukraine war.
  
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• Clancy faces years of confinement, no matter what comes next

  06-09-2026 08:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Even as a jury failed to reach a verdict in Lindsay Clancy’s murder trial, her future is unlikely to include freedom, at least for a long time. But Americans have been divided over the goal of her confinement.
  
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• Lava spews from Indonesia's Anak Krakatau volcano

  06-09-2026 08:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Indonesia’s Anak Krakatau volcano has erupted, prompting the cancellation of all flights at Jakarta’s Soekarno-Hatta International Airport.
  
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• Indonesian volcano eruption halts flights at country’s busiest airport

  06-09-2026 06:00 via smh.com.au
  
  All flights at the Jakarta airport were disrupted as a plume of ash from Anak Krakatau was identified as high as 15,000 metres in the air.
  
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• Farage says Britain is broken and only Reform can fix it. Now the pressure is on to deliver

  06-09-2026 05:48 via smh.com.au
  
  From a distance, it is easy to dismiss Reform as an extreme movement that wants to overturn British politics with radical change. Up close, however, the members are ordinary people with everyday concerns.
  
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• Trump is an outlaw. And the US system was not built for an outlaw in the Oval Office

  06-09-2026 05:30 via smh.com.au
  
  He zeroes in on legal loopholes and the assumption that our leaders – and their families – will be not be voracious scam artists.
  
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• Trump is an outlaw. And the US system was not built for an outlaw in the Oval

  06-09-2026 05:30 via smh.com.au
  
  He zeroes in on legal loopholes and the assumption that our leaders – and their families – will be not be voracious scam artists.
  
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• School run presents ‘most dangers’ to Harry and Meghan

  06-09-2026 05:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Prince Archie, 7, and Princess Lilibet, 5, will start at a new British school next week.
  
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• Two people are rescued 10 days after deadly Nepal floods

  06-09-2026 02:11 via smh.com.au
  
  A woman is rescued from a house and a man is rescued from a tunnel, as teams from across the world work to find those trapped follow the floods in Nepal.
  
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• She was given up for dead, then a faint cry came from the depths of the mud

  06-09-2026 01:22 via smh.com.au
  
  A rescue from a mostly buried house has given new hope to a town devastated by floods in Nepal. Earlier, another survivor had been pulled from a tunnel.
  
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• US destroys three Iranian oil tankers

  05-09-2026 23:40 via smh.com.au
  
  The US military says it has destroyed three Iranian oil tankers after its ships were targeted.
  
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• ‘Treasonous’: Pentagon forces staff to take polygraphs in hunt for leaks to journalists

  05-09-2026 21:30 via smh.com.au
  
  The investigators asked military officers and civilian employees if they disclosed classified information and about whether they provided information about a shortage of long-range missiles and Patriot interceptors.
  
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• How cheap armed drones are changing the economics of war

  05-09-2026 20:45 via smh.com.au
  
  Open-source technology and 3D-printed parts are making drones the future of armed conflict around the world, and reshaping the business of war.
  
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• US strikes three Iranian oil tankers after it says warships were targeted

  05-09-2026 17:25 via smh.com.au
  
  The US Central Command said an aircraft carrier and guided-missile destroyer evaded “multiple unprovoked Iranian attacks”, a day after President Donald Trump sought to minimise the conflict as “small potatoes”.
  
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• ‘Survivable pockets’: Australian tunnel expert arrives in Nepal as two people rescued after 10 days

  05-09-2026 13:55 via smh.com.au
  
  Arnold Dix landed in Kathmandu confident in the hope of finding more survivors trapped hundreds of metres below the earth as another man was brought out alive 10 days after the floods.
  
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• Two people found alive 10 days after floods

  05-09-2026 13:47 via smh.com.au
  
  Rescuers in Nepal pulled out a Chinese man and a woman in separate operations Saturday, 10 days after devastating floods hit the country, as teams continued searching for thousands of missing people.
  
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• ‘Survivable pockets’: Australian tunnel expert arrives in Nepal, hopeful of more rescues

  05-09-2026 08:50 via smh.com.au
  
  After helping to orchestrate a rescue remotely from home, Arnold Dix landed in Kathmandu confident in the hope of finding more survivors trapped hundreds of metres below the earth.
  
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