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• Biden attempts bipartisan push for infrastructure package

  04-03-2021 22:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Joe Biden is trying to maintain bipartisan momentum for a new infrastructure program by meeting with Republican and Democratic lawmakers at the White House
  
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• Danish princess, 19, conscripted into military service as part of increased defence push

  03-08-2026 17:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Healthy women over the age of 18 are now being conscripted for the first time
  
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• Spanish PM faces backlash for plugging summer playlist on holiday during Ceuta crisis and wildfires

  03-08-2026 17:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Pedro Sanchez unveiled a new Spotify playlist on Saturday as he travelled to Lanzarote
  
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• Welcome to the national park that gives you an hour back

  03-08-2026 17:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Tucked into the North Dakota Badlands, Theodore Roosevelt National Park offers roaming bison and canyons carved by water
  
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• Denmark’s Princess Isabella starts military service as conscription expands

  03-08-2026 17:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  Healthy women over the age of 18 are now being conscripted for the first time
  
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• ‘Very different kind of problem – and a dangerous one’: Doctors’ dire warnings as RFK Jr’s agenda sees measles surge back

  03-08-2026 16:58 via independent.co.uk
  
  Measles is back with a vengeance in the U.S. Will America be able to fight off the virus this time? Julia Musto reports
  
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• Germany’s economy at risk as Rhine river hits record level

  03-08-2026 16:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Germany has experienced successive heat waves with little rainfall this summer
  
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• Aung San Suu Kyi’s son speaks out as mother seen alive in rare photographs

  03-08-2026 16:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Aung San Suu Kyi's son has spoken out after his mother, who has been kept in solitary confinement for five years, was seen alive in new photographs.
  
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• Rhine falls to record low levels as drought strains Europe's rivers

  03-08-2026 16:38 via bbc.co.uk
  Low water levels in the Rhine, Danube and Po have curtailed the transport of goods and reduced electricity output.
  
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• Trump promises to soon reveal his ‘punishment’ for Canada’s wildfire smoke blanketing the US

  03-08-2026 16:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump has accused Canada of mismanaging its forests and previously vowed the country would be ‘held responsible’ for the smoke
  
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• Romania blows up rocks in drought-stricken Danube to divert water to struggling nuclear reactor

  03-08-2026 16:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  The river has hit a record low in places amid prolonged drought
  
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• Aung San Suu Kyi appears healthy in first confirmed outside contact for 2.5 years

  03-08-2026 16:20 via bbc.co.uk
  Photos newly released by Myanmar's military government show Suu Kyi meeting with an ICRC official.
  
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• Iran says it is in talks with Oman but not the US after Trump says negotiations to resume

  03-08-2026 16:18 via bbc.co.uk
  Tehran has repeatedly closed off the strait since the US and Israel attacked the country in February.
  
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• Kenya, Uganda and South Africa to manufacture own next-generation HIV prevention medicines

  03-08-2026 16:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  African countries to receive support as part of efforts to allow in-country producers to play a larger role in making medicines for the continent’s own needs.
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv strikes Putin’s radar systems with sea drones in first-of-its-kind attack

  03-08-2026 15:59 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kyiv said the operation in occupied Crimea showed that ‘the invaders have no safe haven’
  
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• Trump overhaul could gut Head Start preschool standards and leave states to set rules

  03-08-2026 15:57 via independent.co.uk
  
  Head Start serves more than half a million low-income babies, toddlers and preschoolers nationwide
  
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• Trump touts his ‘real polling numbers’ in paranoid ‘fake news’ rant but offers no proof they exist

  03-08-2026 15:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump blames ‘corrupt’ journalists for polls showing a third of Americans approve of his performance as president
  
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• Trump’s latest fictional post puts him next to Washington and Lincoln

  03-08-2026 15:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  The image was seized upon by MAGA faithful, who celebrated ‘three American legends’
  
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• Ceuta migrant chaos: Hundreds set up camp on beach as Spain ‘blames Morocco for border surge’

  03-08-2026 15:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Spanish intelligence services reportedly believe Morocco allowed the crossing, which saw 83 people die, to happen
  
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• 1 in 5 pregnant and breastfeeding women in eastern Chad acutely malnourished

  03-08-2026 15:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Figures come as Hard Labour, a documentary by Bel Trew for Independent TV exposes how efforts to stop women and babies dying in childbirth have been blunted in the Central African Republic and Nigeria
  
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• US military asks for ‘creative and unconventional ideas’ to punish Iran after Trump’s ‘despair’ over strategy

  03-08-2026 15:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Iran and the United States are no closer to resolving the conflict after five months of an increasingly unpopular war
  
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• Florida threatens to defund Catholic schools unless they allow students to opt out of vaccines

  03-08-2026 14:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  The state’s attorney general claims that at least one diocese has accepted the position that schools cannot offer exemptions on religious grounds
  
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• Extraordinary footage shows Russian fuel trucks burst into flames after Ukrainian drone strike

  03-08-2026 14:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  A Ukrainian commander said that Russian occupied Crimea ‘is having a hard time getting gasoline’
  
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• Moroccan king's letter confirms naming of major highway in honour of Trump

  03-08-2026 14:20 via bbc.co.uk
  The highway enters Western Sahara, a disputed territory that Morocco claims sovereignty over.
  
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• Police praise off-duty state trooper for firing on In-N-Out Burger gunman

  03-08-2026 14:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police Chief Matthew Hicks says trooper and civilian who intervened helped to drive the suspect away from the scene and prevented further fatalities in mass shooting at fast food restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho
  
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• Washington state fires destroy hundreds of structures and force Spokane-area residents to evacuate

  03-08-2026 14:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Light winds and lower temperatures are in the forecast to help firefighters with wildfires in eastern Washington state that have forced the evacuation of 60,000 people in the Spokane area
  
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• Aliens, Greenland and Elvis, oh my: Trump spends lost weekend indulging his fantasies

  03-08-2026 14:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  Among the content posted over the weekend, the president shared an AI-generated image of his team arresting an extraterrestrial
  
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• Police praise off-duty state trooper praised for firing on In-N-Out Burger gunman

  03-08-2026 13:50 via independent.co.uk
  
  Police Chief Matthew Hicks says men who intervened helped to drive the suspect away from the scene and prevented further fatalities in mass shooting at fast food restaurant in Twin Falls, Idaho
  
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• Hundreds flee fighting in northern Ethiopia as fears rise of return to civil war

  03-08-2026 13:49 via bbc.co.uk
  There are concerns of a full-scale conflict once again as a peace deal has not been fully implemented.
  
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• British father charged over toddler son’s death in Cyprus allowed to fly home for funeral

  03-08-2026 13:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  The defendant's wife and other son, aged 5, left for the UK last week
  
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