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• Trump claims he would win by 25 points if he runs for a third term in fence-mending Michael Cohen interview

  21-08-2026 00:45 via independent.co.uk
  
  ‘You and I have obviously traveled a pretty rocky road together,’ Cohen told Trump
  
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• Voices: Israel must face sanctions for its appalling campaigns in Gaza – and the killing of journalists like Mariam Abu Dagga

  25-08-2026 13:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Now is the time to impose real and immediate economic costs on Israel for its actions in Gaza and the West Bank, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley
  
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• Trump threatens to change name of Lake Ontario to Lake America

  25-08-2026 13:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ontario’s premier had earlier slammed Trump as a ‘dictator’ and ‘the king of bankruptcies’
  
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• Robots crash to ground in tug-of-war at 2026 World Humanoid Games

  25-08-2026 13:39 via independent.co.uk
  
  Humanoid robots participated in a tug-of-war competition at the 2026 World Humanoid Games in China on Tuesday (25 August).
  
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• Scandal hit USS Abraham Lincoln to finally dock next week after record days at sea

  25-08-2026 13:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Lincoln, which left the Middle East on Saturday, has set a modern-day record for consecutive days at sea
  
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• Iran-US war latest: China warns Trump against ‘economic warfare’ through sanctions and threatens retaliation

  25-08-2026 13:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Beijing warned that the move would only serve to ‘intensify tensions’
  
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• Huge tornado of ‘rare intensity’ tears through villages in Southern France as over 300 homes damaged

  25-08-2026 12:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  Gusts of up to 117km per hour were recorded, with dramatic footage showing the rare tornado on the move
  
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• JD Vance’s ‘Freudian slip’ makes Canada part of America

  25-08-2026 12:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  Vice President s blunder chimed neatly with President Donald Trump’s rhetoric about incorporating the neighboring nation into the United States at a time of high tension between the pair
  
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• Election officials warn of potential chaos after SCOTUS brings Trump’s mail-voting order back to life

  25-08-2026 12:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  In its Monday ruling, the high court refrained from declaring Trump’s order lawful
  
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• Israeli defence minister threatens crackdown on kite flying in Gaza saying they will be ‘treated the same as a drone’

  25-08-2026 11:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Hamas has accused Israel of using the row over kite-flying to justify further attacks on Palestinians
  
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• Can Trump get Lindsey Graham’s sister elected?

  25-08-2026 11:52 via independent.co.uk
  
  South Carolina Republicans return to the polls on Tuesday to decide a high-stakes U.S. Senate primary runoff, choosing between Sen. Darline Graham and U.S. Rep. Ralph Norman just one month after the sudden death of Lindsey Graham.
  
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• Three generations of family killed alongside two friends in Oregon quintuple homicide

  25-08-2026 11:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Oregon authorities have identified the victims of what's being investigated as a quintuple homicide on a rural property outside Portland
  
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• Trump lashes out at Ontario Premier Doug Ford calling him ‘less intelligent’ than late brother Rob

  25-08-2026 11:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump slams Ontario premier as tariff tensions escalate by comparing him unfavorably to his deceased sibling, the colorful former Toronto mayor to whom he has himself been likened
  
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• How human remains found in Tucson desert complicate the search for Nancy Guthrie

  25-08-2026 11:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Chief Medical Examiner Greg Hess has spoken about the challenges created by
  
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• Deaths of pregnant women double during fastest-growing Ebola outbreak in history in DR Congo

  25-08-2026 11:18 via independent.co.uk
  
  Exclusive: More than 60,000 women still at risk as deadly impact of virus takes toll in epicentre of Ituri
  
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• 90,000 forced to flee as raging Reno wildfire tears through neighborhoods

  25-08-2026 10:54 via independent.co.uk
  
  Crews have started to contain a wildfire in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Reno, Nevada
  
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• ‘Someone knows something’ FBI raises rewards in dozens of haunting Native American cases

  25-08-2026 10:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  The FBI has established a minimum reward of $25,000 for help in solving some cold cases where people went missing or were killed in Indian Country
  
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• Leader of fringe New Zealand religious group jailed over 70-year-old follower’s death

  25-08-2026 10:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  Prosecution describes sect leader’s household as tightly controlled, where the women were expected to refer to Kaixiao Liu as ‘Lord’ or ‘Master’
  
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• As Lindsay Clancy’s trial grips America, one mother reveals how postpartum psychosis stole her reality

  25-08-2026 09:55 via independent.co.uk
  
  About two weeks after giving birth, Bridget María Chesterton was curled up on the bathroom floor, saying things that made little sense
  
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• Israel’s Netanyahu claims Iran tried to murder one of his sons

  25-08-2026 09:46 via independent.co.uk
  
  Netanyahu’s coalition is trailing in opinion polls two months before ⁠an October 27 general election
  
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• Heartbreaking Lindsay Clancy trial comes down to one question over deaths of three children

  25-08-2026 09:34 via independent.co.uk
  
  After nearly a month of testimony, jurors in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial are set to hear from the final witnesses in a case that has largely been about her mental state when she strangled her three young children
  
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• The long wait for answers one year after Israel strike killed journalists in Gaza

  25-08-2026 09:29 via independent.co.uk
  
  Israeli troops have killed over 200 journalists in the war
  
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• Rare swarms of dragonflies are leaving Californians stunned

  25-08-2026 09:10 via independent.co.uk
  
  This year’s large numbers are due to the warm monsoon storms
  
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• Huge tornado tears through villages in Southern France as over 300 homes damaged

  25-08-2026 08:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  Social media videos show the huge tornado above Verzeille
  
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• Woman refused flight home to UK after eVisa system mistakes her for twin sister

  25-08-2026 08:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Nidia Webb, an EU national who has lived in Britain for eight years, was told that the eVisa problem was a ‘known issue’ affecting twins
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin passes law to seize retail warehouses if they face Ukrainian drone attack

  25-08-2026 07:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Kyiv has increasingly targeted online retail logistics centres, accusing them of providing support to the Russian armed forces
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Trump unveils ‘economic D-Day’ sanctions as Tehran vows to go on the attack

  25-08-2026 06:38 via independent.co.uk
  
  Iran’s new security chief warns Gulf neighbours they will be treated as ‘enemies’ if they join Trump’s economic war
  
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• Massachusetts woman suspected of killing cop husband found dead in apparent murder-suicide

  25-08-2026 03:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  Karen Solomon went missing after her husband, Worcester Police Officer Kurt Solomon, was found dead
  
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• Abdul El-Sayed asks Jesse Watters if he is circumcised during combative Fox News interview

  25-08-2026 03:37 via independent.co.uk
  
  The deeply personal question came after Watters asked the progressive Democrat whether he supports gender-affirming surgery for minors
  
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• Trump administration deports wife of active-duty US soldier to Honduras

  25-08-2026 03:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  Cristy Maryori Villafranca-Trejo represents at least the seventh spouse or parent of an active-duty U.S. military member removed under President Trump's immigration crackdown
  
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