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• US Embassy issues health alerts as Cuba’s multiple crises push islanders to breaking point

  09-09-2026 15:28 via independent.co.uk
  
  Cuba’s crises worsened after U.S. President Donald Trump announced in late January that he would impose tariffs on any country that sells or provides oil to the Caribbean country
  
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• The Latest: Trump will commemorate 25 years since 9/11 attacks at the Pentagon

  11-09-2026 15:23 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump is set to observe Friday’s 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by attending a ceremony at the Pentagon
  
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• Trump commemorates the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks at the Pentagon

  11-09-2026 15:22 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump is observing the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks by attending a ceremony at the Pentagon
  
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• The Climate 100 List: Erin Brockovich on her fight against ‘secretive’ data centres

  11-09-2026 15:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ahead of The Independent’s Climate 100 List being published later this month, we celebrate some of the honourees. Erin Brockovich’s work in helping win a $333m environmental lawsuit in the 1990s spawned a hit film starring Julia Roberts – now, Brockovich tells David Callaway, her attention has turned to the burgeoning issue of data centres
  
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• RT launches Hindi language channel as Putin and Modi forge closer ties

  11-09-2026 15:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says RT's expansion in India risks more disinformation being spread in the country as a propaganda mouthpiece for Vladimir Putin
  
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• Fake lovers accused of wooing 100 American women out of $6M arrested

  11-09-2026 14:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  The individuals were apprehended in Cape Town in 2021 and are being turned over to Federal Bureau of Investigation agents on Friday
  
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• Mamdani shares pleasantries with Rudy Giuliani as families gather at WTC memorial for 9/11 anniversary

  11-09-2026 14:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Vice President JD Vance, former presidents and mourners gather at Ground Zero for 25th anniversary memorial
  
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• Trump dismisses fears over AI as Ted Cruz says he’d prefer ‘US killer robots’ to Chinese ones

  11-09-2026 14:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump rejects anxiety over potential existential threat posed by artificial intelligence but warns against allowing China to take the lead in developing it
  
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• Putin has ‘absurd’ view of Ukraine war due to ‘culture of lying’ in Russian army, says new report

  11-09-2026 14:06 via independent.co.uk
  
  Russian officers have been overly optimistic about the battlefield situation in areas of the Donetsk region, military bloggers say
  
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• Uganda’s royal crisis deepens as fierce conflict erupts over late king’s heir

  11-09-2026 13:35 via independent.co.uk
  
  The late King Oyo cannot be buried until a successor is confirmed
  
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• Trump sells Argentina Black Hawk helicopters after Falklands spat

  11-09-2026 12:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  Deal with South American ally worth $140 million and comes after President Donald Trump indicated he might not side with the U.K. should a new conflict erupt over the ownership of the Falkland Islands
  
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• Iran-US war latest: Crucial Saudi oil pipeline ‘on fire’ as Houthis capture island near key shipping route

  11-09-2026 12:53 via independent.co.uk
  
  The Houthis captured a strategic island in the Bab el-Mandeb strait, threatening to bring further economic chaos
  
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• ‘The whole truck is gone’: 9/11 survivor reflects on the 8 FDNY firehouse brothers he lost

  11-09-2026 12:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  ’All we heard was hundreds of PASS alarms going off underneath us, and we knew what that sound was — and there was nothing we could do about it’
  
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• Russia’s daytime strike on Ukrainian shopping centre kills five and injures 67

  11-09-2026 12:25 via independent.co.uk
  
  Three teenage boys were injured in Moscow’s attack on Pavlohrad
  
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• Emma Bonino: Leader of abortion and divorce battles that changed Italy, dies aged 78

  11-09-2026 12:19 via independent.co.uk
  
  Bonino served as foreign minister, trade minister and EU affairs minister in Italian center-left governments
  
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• Gianni Infantino snubs US investigation into Fifa’s Trump links

  11-09-2026 12:14 via independent.co.uk
  
  Infantino was informed in late July that an investigation was being launched into Fifa’s ‘sustained campaign’ to curry favour with Donald Trump
  
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• 25 years after 9/11, its accused mastermind still hasn’t faced trial — and may never

  11-09-2026 12:07 via independent.co.uk
  
  Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to being put on trial than the day he arrived
  
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• Less than half of Americans believe midterms will be counted fairly after Trump rants - poll

  11-09-2026 11:26 via independent.co.uk
  
  Just 45 percent of U.S. citizens say midterms will be secure, according to latest YouGov poll
  
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• Trump’s midterm gamble and Vance’s 2028 audition: What we learned from the GOP convention

  11-09-2026 11:05 via independent.co.uk
  
  President Donald Trump and his Republican Party wrapped up an unusual convention in Dallas on Thursday, hoping to strengthen their midterm election prospects
  
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• JD Vance auditions to inherit Trump’s MAGA movement with 2028 on horizon

  11-09-2026 10:21 via independent.co.uk
  
  Vice President JD Vance took center stage at the Republican convention in Dallas on Thursday in a speech seen as an early test of his 2028 White House prospects
  
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• Ukraine-Russia war latest: Putin will run out of troops in 2028 with morale ‘very low’, says Kyiv spy chief

  11-09-2026 10:15 via independent.co.uk
  
  Lieutenant General Oleh Ivashchenko said morale is low and ‘nobody wants to fight’
  
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• Record heatwave set to turn champagne more alcoholic

  11-09-2026 09:56 via independent.co.uk
  
  French authorities have made a one-off exemption to allow alcohol content to increase to 15 per cent
  
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• Sweden, NATO’s newest member, is holding an election. Here’s what is at stake

  11-09-2026 09:47 via independent.co.uk
  
  The current center-right coalition relies on outside support from the Sweden Democrats, an anti-immigration party with far-right roots
  
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• The killer robots behind Ukraine’s warfare ‘revolution’ hunting the frontline

  11-09-2026 09:36 via independent.co.uk
  
  Ukraine wants to replace around one third of its frontline troops with unmanned ground vehicles by the ​end of the year
  
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• TikTok safety feature left children exposed to inappropriate content, judge rules

  11-09-2026 09:32 via independent.co.uk
  
  A Texas judge ruled on Thursday that TikTok violated the state's consumer protection law by misleading users
  
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• Why a Russian screening of an 81-year-old film has alarmed Taiwan

  11-09-2026 09:20 via independent.co.uk
  
  Taiwan says Russia is helping China push its narrative of a rising military threat from Japan
  
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• Trump says no after Saudi crown prince pushes for US strikes on Houthis: report

  11-09-2026 09:17 via independent.co.uk
  
  Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman called President Donald Trump twice on Thursday and ​urged him to launch strikes against the Houthis
  
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• Do you remember where you were on 9/11? Share your memories 25 years on

  11-09-2026 09:08 via independent.co.uk
  
  As the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks approaches, we want to hear from readers about where you were and what you remember of that historic moment in 2001
  
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• Tour bus crash in Swiss Alps leaves multiple people dead

  11-09-2026 09:00 via independent.co.uk
  
  A Dutch tour bus has overturned in eastern Switzerland, resulting in several deaths and injuries, according to police
  
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• The US has made progress in reopening the Strait of Hormuz, but the Iran war is far from over

  11-09-2026 08:01 via independent.co.uk
  
  The United States has succeeded in loosening Iran's grip over the Strait of Hormuz while virtually shutting down Iran's own exports
  
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