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• Lieutenant describes being inside Pentagon daycare during 9/11 attack

  10-09-2021 23:41 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Jake Tapper speaks with retired Brig. Gen. Dana Born about the moment she saw the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon while her then 3-year-old daughter, 2nd Lt. Hanna Born, was inside the Pentagon's daycare facility.
  
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• Ukraine acknowledges sting operation for first time following CNN report

  10-09-2021 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  Ukraine's ruling party acknowledged for the first time Friday a Ukrainian-led sting operation aimed at luring suspected war criminals out of Russia.
  
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• Afghans protesters reportedly killed during Taliban crackdown on demonstrations, says UN – video

  10-09-2021 23:15
  
  The UN’s rights spokesperson, Ravina Shamdasani, received reports of house-to-house searches for Afghan demonstrators during the Taliban’s violent crackdown on protests against their rule that has already led to four documented deaths.The UN has said Taliban officers used live ammunition – reportedly fired into the air – whips and batons to break up demonstrations and have since formally banned protests against the regimeAt least four killed in Taliban crackdown
  
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• Sept. 11, 2021: An Arab doctor reflects on flying while Muslim

  10-09-2021 23:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  The events of Sept. 11 exacerbated the identity crisis I had been experiencing my whole life. I was caught between two worlds that were clashing.
  
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• Kabul Red Cross aiding victims of war is determined to remain open: 'Please do not forget Afghanistan'

  10-09-2021 22:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  As thousands of people risked their lives attempting to flee Afghanistan during the withdrawal of U.S. forces last month, Italian physiotherapist Alberto Cairo, working at the clinic he has led in Kabul for more than three decades, felt horror.
  
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• US Open: 'Exceptional talent' Emma Raducanu living 'every 18-year-old's dream'

  10-09-2021 22:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain's "cool, calm and composed" US Open finalist Emma Raducanu is meeting the challenges of her first overseas Grand Slam head on.
  
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• France bans unvaccinated Americans from entering for nonessential travel

  10-09-2021 22:38 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  France will update its travel guidance to include bans for travelers from the United States and Israel without a COVID-19 vaccination. 
  
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• Ransomware group that carried out major attacks reappears after brief absence

  10-09-2021 22:12 via cnn.com
  
  A Russian-speaking cybercriminal group responsible for a series of ransomware attacks on major US firms brought some of its infrastructure back online this week in a sign that it could be back in business, according to cybersecurity experts.
  
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• France’s former health minister charged over handling of Covid crisis

  10-09-2021 21:34
  
  Agnès Buzyn accused of ‘endangering the lives of others’ after early statements minimised risk of pandemicCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageFrance’s former health minister Agnès Buzyn has been charged over her handling of the Covid-19 pandemic after investigators at a special court in Paris concluded there were grounds to prosecute her.Buzyn has been charged with “endangering the lives of others”, according to the prosec
  
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• Measles cases halt US-bound flights of Afghan refugees

  10-09-2021 21:30 via cnn.com
  
  Flights of Afghan refugees to the US were paused Friday after four cases of measles were discovered among Afghans who had recently arrived in the country.
  
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• Sex trafficking laws are having anti-gay ripple effects. Conservatives don't care.

  10-09-2021 21:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  The fight to supposedly make the internet a safer place is having a series of secondary impacts.
  
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• Super Typhoon Chanthu and Tropical Storm Conson to make landfall this weekend

  10-09-2021 21:22 via cnn.com
  
  Vietnam and Taiwan are bracing for powerful twin storms which are expected to make landfall over the weekend.
  
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• Prince Andrew served with lawsuit from Jeffrey Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre

  10-09-2021 21:01
  
  A US court document showed paperwork was filed at Royal Lodge and a response is due by 17 SeptemberPrince Andrew has been served with an affidavit for a lawsuit say lawyers for Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who alleges she was forced to have sex with the royal when she was 17 years old.A document filed in a US court on Friday showed that paperwork for Giuffre’s lawsuit was filed at Andrew’s home, Royal Lodge, in Windsor on 27 August. The affidavit was accepted by a Metropolitan police of
  
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• ‘This girl means serious business’: the making of Emma Raducanu

  10-09-2021 21:00
  
  Even from a young age, those around the latest British tennis star suspected she had something specialEmma Raducanu’s unprecedented run to the US Open final so soon after committing to the sport is not the first time she has burst through and demanded attention.In November 2015, only three days after her 13th birthday, which meant she could finally compete in international under-18 tournaments, Raducanu travelled up to Liverpool for the Nike Junior International tournament. Five matches la
  
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• Former Venezuelan official, charged in narco-terrorism conspiracy, arrested in Spain

  10-09-2021 20:26 via cnn.com
  
  Former Venezuelan intelligence official Hugo Armando Carvajal Barrios, also known as "El Pollo," was arrested on Thursday in Madrid for his alleged involvement in large-scale drug trafficking activities, the US Justice Department announced Friday.
  
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• US Open: Canadian teen Leylah Fernandez's long shot bid for glory

  10-09-2021 20:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The 19-year-old was ranked 73rd in the world, but now has a shot at winning the US Open.
  
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• Cuba is vaccinating children as young as two with homegrown vaccines

  10-09-2021 20:15 via cnn.com
  
  The coronavirus pandemic and the Delta variant are preventing children from getting back to school in Cuba. CNN's Patrick Oppmann reports on the government's recent push to vaccinate school-age children and toddlers with their homegrown vaccines.
  
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• Twenty years on: Amanpour reflects on 9/11 and the War on Terror

  10-09-2021 20:05 via cnn.com
  
  As the world marks 20 years since 9/11, Christiane Amanpour looks back at that fateful day, the lessons from the 'War on Terror' and her reporting in Afghanistan.
  
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• Amanpour reflects on 9/11 and the War on Terror

  10-09-2021 20:05 via cnn.com
  
  As the world marks 20 years since 9/11, Christiane Amanpour looks back at that fateful day, the lessons from the 'War on Terror' and her reporting in Afghanistan.
  
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• Trudeau pans Canadian school's 2019 book-burning 'reconciliation' for Indigenous people

  10-09-2021 19:38 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A newly revealed 2019 book burning in Canada has politicians and voters up in flames, with many denouncing the act - no matter the "symbolic" intention. 
  
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• MH17: One father's testimony marked by despair and a rucksack

  10-09-2021 18:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Relatives reveal the pain of securing justice for those who died when the flight was brought down.
  
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• Covid: President Biden's comments on vaccines fact-checked

  10-09-2021 18:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US president said he was "frustrated" with the nearly 80 million Americans still not vaccinated
  
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• State Dept denies Taliban claim that US blacklist of new leadership violates Doha Agreement

  10-09-2021 18:12 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The Taliban on Thursday accused the U.S. of violating the peace deal reached under the Trump administration for keeping members of its recently announced interim government on the U.S. most-wanted list.
  
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• Apple ordered to change how it handles App Store payments

  10-09-2021 18:00 via cnn.com
  
  Months after a contentious court battle between the world's most valuable company and one of the world's most popular video games, a judge directed Apple to allow developers to use outside payment options, but stopped short of calling Apple a monopoly.
  
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• Austrian man mummifies dead mother to keep receiving her social security

  10-09-2021 17:53 via cnn.com
  
  Austrian police have found the body of a woman who, they say, was mummified by her son so he could keep claiming her social security.
  
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• China propaganda social media campaign reaches other countries, again blames US for COVID

  10-09-2021 17:50 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Chinese disinformation campaigns around the origin of the coronavirus have spilled out into other countries, even attempting to promote protests in the United States.
  
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• Inside a surreal journey from Pakistan border to Taliban-controlled Kabul

  10-09-2021 17:48 via cnn.com
  
  Commander Supranullah was busy as we were ushered out of the monsoon rain for shelter on his front porch.
  
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• CNN reporter's brush with gun-toting security on the road to the Taliban-controlled city

  10-09-2021 17:48 via cnn.com
  
  Commander Supranullah was busy as we were ushered out of the monsoon rain for shelter on his front porch.
  
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• Former Germany defender Jerome Boateng guilty of bodily harm, fined $2.13 million

  10-09-2021 17:35 via cnn.com
  
  Former Germany and Bayern Munich defender Jerome Boateng, who this month signed for Olympique Lyonnais, was found guilty of premeditated bodily harm on his former partner, a spokesperson for a court in Munich said on Thursday.
  
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• Giuliani associate Igor Fruman pleads guilty to solicitation of a contribution by a foreign national

  10-09-2021 17:31 via cnn.com
  
  Igor Fruman, an associate of Rudy Giuliani, pleaded guilty Friday in New York federal court to a charge stemming from a case alleging he funneled foreign money to US campaign coffers.
  
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• Secrets and lies: The role of restorers in art crime

  10-09-2021 17:30 via cnn.com
  
  The arrest of the British antiques restorer Neil Perry Smith in July is not the first instance of a restorer becoming embroiled in crime.
  
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• 'I can barely hold a drumstick': Phil Collins details health struggles

  10-09-2021 17:21 via cnn.com
  
  Phil Collins says he is no longer able to play the drums due to health issues. The musician, who is 70, appeared on BBC Breakfast and said his son, Nic Collins, will be drumming with the band going forward. HLN's Melissa Knowles reports.
  
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• Second Qatar Airways passenger flight takes off from Kabul airport

  10-09-2021 17:20 via cnn.com
  
  A second Qatar Airways passenger flight arrived in Kabul airport on Friday, Qatari-owned Al Jazeera Arabic television showed, and passengers were later seen boarding the plane.
  
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• Opinion: Biden's six-point Covid plan leaves some holes

  10-09-2021 17:13 via cnn.com
  
  On Thursday, President Joe Biden released his much-anticipated six-part plan to stem the spread of SARS-CoV-2. Vaccine distribution matters, surely. But as we have seen so acutely over the last two months, distribution alone is insufficient to stem the spread of Covid-19. The new plan to combat Covid-19 doubles down on many of the things that we know work to reduce the spread of the virus -- vaccines, testing and masking.But it also leaves some holes.
  
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• Blackstone drops $3 billion bid for Chinese property developer

  10-09-2021 17:10 via cnn.com
  
  Private equity firm Blackstone Group is abandoning its $3 billion bid for a controlling stake in Soho China, one of the country's largest real estate developers.
  
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• We're all just so damn angry

  10-09-2021 17:09 via cnn.com
  
  You see it everywhere you look. Parents are ripping masks off of educators. Unruly passengers on planes having to be physically restrained. The knee-jerk reaction to President Joe Biden's vaccine mandate announcement on Thursday. Efforts to stamp out non-existent election fraud in swing states.
  
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• Kim Kardashian says she's 'not OK' after son Saint breaks his arm

  10-09-2021 16:50 via cnn.com
  
  Kim Kardashian says she is "not ok" after her son broke his arm.
  
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• How the 9/11 anniversary can provide lessons for healing from Covid-19 trauma

  10-09-2021 16:33 via cnn.com
  
  • 'Jill, what is it?': How Biden the senator reacted to the September 11 attacks
  • CNN SPECIAL: It's been 20 years since 9/11. Here's how lives were forever changed
  
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• The Justice Department is throwing a Hail Mary pass in its lawsuit against Texas' abortion ban

  10-09-2021 16:25 via cnn.com
  
  In its lawsuit challenging Texas six-week abortion ban, the Justice Department is throwing a Hail Mary pass to get over the procedural stumbling backs that have thwarted other attempts to block the ban in court.
  
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• A second Qatar Airways passenger flight takes off from Kabul airport

  10-09-2021 16:15 via cnn.com
  
  A second Qatar Airways passenger flight arrived in Kabul airport on Friday, Qatari-owned Al Jazeera Arabic television showed, and passengers were later seen boarding the plane.
  
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• Yahoo taps Tinder's CEO to be its new leader

  10-09-2021 16:05 via cnn.com
  
  Yahoo has hired away Tinder's top executive to become its new chief executive officer.
  
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• Lebanon's richest man becomes the country's new prime minister

  10-09-2021 15:37 via cnn.com
  
  A new government has been formed in crisis-ridden Lebanon, ending a more than year-long power vacuum that began shortly after the August 2020 Beirut port blast.
  
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• Emma Raducanu: The making of Great Britain's US Open finalist

  10-09-2021 15:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  As British teenager Emma Raducanu reaches the US Open final, BBC Sport charts her rapid rise - with the help of a host of experts.
  
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• These robotic boats are sent directly into the eye of a hurricane

  10-09-2021 15:23 via cnn.com
  
  The brightly-colored robotic boats made by Saildrone seem to have a death wish.
  
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• This Bentley is $2 million, roof not included

  10-09-2021 15:19 via cnn.com
  
  There was a slight drizzle when I was getting ready to go for a short drive in Bentley's new Bacalar. Ordinarily, this would not be a big deal. The rain was hardly enough to warrant an umbrella. Except the Bentley Bacalar has no roof.
  
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• Why the cash-for-honors allegations are embarrassing for Prince Charles

  10-09-2021 15:18 via cnn.com
  
  Prince Charles' staff will tell you he's at his desk every day, often late into the night, reading reports that come in from his many charities, and scribbling notes and suggestions in the margins before sending them back. He has, more than any other Prince of Wales, redefined what it means to be heir apparent.
  
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• Passengers seen boarding second Qatar Airways flight to arrive in Kabul

  10-09-2021 15:14 via cnn.com
  
  A second Qatar Airways passenger flight arrived in Kabul airport on Friday, Qatari-owned Al Jazeera Arabic television showed, and passengers were later seen boarding the plane.
  
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• Passengers seen boarding second Qatar Airways flight in Kabul

  10-09-2021 15:14 via cnn.com
  
  A second Qatar Airways passenger flight arrived in Kabul airport on Friday, Qatari-owned Al Jazeera Arabic television showed, and passengers were later seen boarding the plane.
  
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• 'We have an amazing wealth of talent across our continent,' says Ogilvy South Africa CEO

  10-09-2021 14:58 via cnn.com
  
  With more than 1.2 billion people, Africa is the second most populous continent in the world. And with a growing middle class, it has become a target for an increasing number of companies and multinationals looking to grow their profits.
  
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• The economy is still a long way from normal

  10-09-2021 14:55 via cnn.com
  
  Back in the spring, as the pace of vaccinations increased rapidly and growth predictions improved, businesses were hopeful that by the fall economic activity would largely be back to normal.
  
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