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• Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu accepts compromise, avoids election

  23-08-2020 23:12 via article.wn.com
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• CNN host makes congressman squirm over Max Miller cash: ‘Not returning the donations because you believe him’

  14-08-2026 15:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Meanwhile, Democrats are pumping money into the Ohio Republican’s general election opponent
  
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• Vance says keeping gas prices low ‘goal number one’ for Iran war

  14-08-2026 15:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Vice President JD Vance moves to reassure voters that the Trump administration is working to resolve the conflict and bring down the cost of oil, which has spiked with the blockading of the Strait of Hormuz
  
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• Karoline Leavitt quit so fast it blindsided Trump and there’s no plan to replace her as press secretary: official

  14-08-2026 15:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  White House press briefings will be given by top officials — as they had been intermittently during Leavitt’s maternity leave — but names are being bandied about for a down-the-line permanent replacement
  
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• White House pressuring Netanyahu to condemn Israeli settler siege in West Bank

  14-08-2026 15:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  The diplomatic intervention escalated after American authorities discovered that a Palestinian-American's residence was among those targeted
  
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• Newsom questions Pete Hegseth and suggests he take a drug test after latest public appearance

  14-08-2026 15:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘He's delusional, manic, agitated,’ the California governor wrote on X
  
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• Europe on fire as record-breaking temperatures hit continent

  14-08-2026 14:43 via independent.co.uk
  
  The historic temperatures are linked to human-caused climate change
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Kyiv says civilian casualties hit highest monthly toll since start of Putin’s war

  14-08-2026 14:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Overall, Kyiv was the hardest-hit city, with a total of 54 civilians killed in July, followed by Kherson and Zaporizhzhia, the UN said
  
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• Influencer war overtakes summer fun on Nantucket and leaves islanders and merchants with very 2026 problem

  14-08-2026 14:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  Islanders say neither sharks nor ghosts worry them — it’s the content creators on shore who are ruining their summer. As Dairy Boy founder Paige Paul plants herself in the center of the conflict, correspondent Alex Hannaford drops anchor on the simmering culture war just off Cape Cod
  
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• Mount Etna ash keeps Sicily’s largest airport closed for fifth straight day in peak holiday week

  14-08-2026 14:13 via independent.co.uk
  
  Persistent ash spewing from Mount Etna is continuing to disrupt travel plans for holidaymakers looking to fly from Sicily’s largest airport
  
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• Karoline Leavitt quitting blindsided Trump and there’s no plan to replace her as press secretary: official

  14-08-2026 13:48 via independent.co.uk
  
  White House press briefings will be given by top officials — as they had been intermittently during Leavitt’s maternity leave — but names are being bandied about for a down-the-line permanent replacement
  
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• Karoline Leavitt’s resignation blindsided Trump with no plan to replace her as press secretary: official

  14-08-2026 13:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  White House press briefings will be given by top officials — as they had been intermittently during Leavitt’s maternity leave — but names are being bandied about for a down-the-line permanent replacement
  
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• Italian police recover stolen paintings worth millions taken in daring heist

  14-08-2026 13:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Artwork by Renoir, Cézanne and Matisse all recovered
  
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• Trump’s plane-swap guests included Natalie Harp, whose brother called relationship ‘unhealthy.’ He left Marco Rubio on decoy

  14-08-2026 13:30 via independent.co.uk
  
  Just two other aides and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth are known to have joined the president, as Secretaries of State and Treasury Marco Rubio and Scott Bessent, along with the press corps, remained on the decoy Air Force One flight out of Turkey
  
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• Gun rights groups capitalize after judge reverses decades-old silencer restrictions

  14-08-2026 13:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘This is the first time in 92 years that any gun owner has been able to do this,’ a Gun Owners of America official says
  
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• House Republican says Congress ‘should do a little more’ for the rich

  14-08-2026 13:16 via independent.co.uk
  
  Wisconsin’s Glenn Grothman, up for re-election in November, says he believes more should be done to support America’s wealthiest citizens
  
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• Australia probes three near-misses in less than two weeks at Sydney airport

  14-08-2026 11:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Air traffic controllers under scrutiny after back-to-back incidents put aircraft and flyers at risk
  
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• Trump pretends to be Spider-Man on new White House website tracking eliminated ‘fraud’

  14-08-2026 11:24 via independent.co.uk
  
  New tracker claims to trace misappropriated funds from different government departments around Washington, D.C., casting the president as a pixelated version of the beloved web-slinging superhero
  
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• 2 UAE tankers attacked while transiting Strait of Hormuz, and other news from the Middle East

  14-08-2026 11:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  The United Arab Emirates is blaming Iran for firing drones at two tankers operated by a state-owned oil company as they sailed through the Strait of Hormuz, saying Friday the attacks represented acts of piracy
  
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• A look back at all the times Trump has obsessed over steam catapults

  14-08-2026 11:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘You have to be Albert Einstein to figure it out,’ Trump once said, referencing the system that replaced steam catapults
  
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• Israeli officials shocked by the speed of Iran’s military recovery after war, report says

  14-08-2026 10:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  US officials said in May that Iran appeared to be rapidly rebuilding its drone capacity, before the conflict reignited
  
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• Residents jump from windows as fire spreads in Berlin high-rise building

  14-08-2026 10:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  The fire was in the Friedrichshain neighborhood near the Ostbahnhof train station
  
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• Naoero: The world’s third-smallest country is changing its name

  14-08-2026 10:12 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Republic of Naoero is one of the most at risk from climate change
  
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• Christians in Israel fear rising harassment amid violent assaults

  14-08-2026 10:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘If you stroll around in your habit, sooner or later you’ll get some spitting next to you’
  
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• France and England battle multiple wildfires as record heat grips Europe

  14-08-2026 09:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Firefighters across France and central England are battling multiple fires as a new wave of record-breaking heat hits Europe
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Trump sends new aircraft carrier to Middle East as war puts troops under strain

  14-08-2026 09:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  A servicemember complained of rotten meat and a lack of supplies in messages home on board the carrier
  
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• Tourists forced to flee as huge wildfire engulfs popular Croatian tourist town

  14-08-2026 08:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  A total of 19 people have been injured so far
  
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• North Korea’s latest missile tests are unusual. Ukraine should be wary

  14-08-2026 08:49 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kim Jong Un’s silence over missile tests earlier this month raises possibility that Pyongyang is refining weapons for use by its ally Russia. Shweta Sharma reports
  
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• Trump finally orders Navy to return to older steam catapults in obsession that could cost billions

  14-08-2026 08:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Trump's obsession with the new technology goes back to at least 2017
  
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• US Government hunts vandal after Washington World War II Memorial filled with soap bubbles

  14-08-2026 08:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Uniformed police and National Guard troops were sent to the scene
  
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