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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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• Bears are taking over backyards in LA and residents just need to get used to it

  08-09-2026 11:30 via smh.com.au
  
  California has 60,000 black bears, and they are venturing far from their usual habitat searching for food and shelter. It’s the humans who have to adapt.
  
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• Thieves raid Renoir museum to steal priceless art

  08-09-2026 10:45 via smh.com.au
  
  An early morning heist has allowed thieves to make away with three paintings of the impressionist master that are reportedly worth $14.5 million.
  
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• ‘You’re going to end up like the gringos’: Witness tells court he was threatened to keep quiet after Australian brothers killed in Mexico

  08-09-2026 09:13 via smh.com.au
  
  A witness has told a Mexican court he was threatened he would “end up like the gringos” if he told anyone about what he saw when two Australians were killed while on a surf trip two years ago.
  
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• Trump’s former fixer travels a tortured path from ‘rat’ to redemption

  08-09-2026 08:00 via smh.com.au
  
  Donald Trump cultivated Michael Cohen for years as the man to handle his business and personal problems, and after a bitter feud the two might be back on speaking terms.
  
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• ‘We’re back!’: How influencers (and cannabis) caused a stink at the US Open

  08-09-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  From content creators loudly filming videos while a match was being played, to someone in the stands smoking weed, crowd behaviour is under the spotlight in New York.
  
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• ‘Butcher of Bosnia’ buried a ‘hero’: Mass crowd for funeral of Serbian war criminal

  08-09-2026 07:30 via smh.com.au
  
  Ratko Mladić’s coffin, surrounded by armed soldiers in fatigues and accompanied by a brass band, was paraded through streets of Belgrade, thronged with thousands of onlookers chanting his name.
  
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• Convicted fraudsters chilling pledge in previously unseen video days before going to prison

  08-09-2026 06:48 via smh.com.au
  
  A documentary trailer has seen convicted fraudster Elizabeth Holmes give an eerie statement just days before she went to prison.
  
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• September 11, 2001 as it happened

  08-09-2026 05:32 via smh.com.au
  
  The extraordinary footage captured by news networks, eyewitnesses and people on the scene. Video by Tom Compagnoni.
  
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• Trump’s weekend of trolling can’t paper over his political problems

  08-09-2026 03:44 via smh.com.au
  
  The US president is struggling to find an off-ramp to the Iran conflict, staring down the barrel of midterm carnage and seeing his old shtick start to wear thin.
  
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• ‘We want to find out why’: Parents face men accused of killing Australian brothers as Mexico trial begins

  08-09-2026 01:09 via smh.com.au
  
  The family of Jake and Callum Robinson travelled to Mexico for the trial of three men accused of murdering the brothers and their American friend during a 2024 surf trip.
  
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• Nepal's national day of mourning

  07-09-2026 22:10 via smh.com.au
  
  Nepal has declared a national day of mourning for the victims of the region's flooding disaster.
  
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• Mexico murder trial begins

  07-09-2026 22:00 via smh.com.au
  
  The trial for the man accused of killing two Australian brothers and their American friend in Mexico has begun.
  
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• Why King Charles felt he had to clarify Prince Harry’s status

  07-09-2026 20:54 via smh.com.au
  
  King Charles has issued a strongly worded letter setting out the ground rules following Prince Harry’s return to British soil.
  
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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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