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Friday, September 11, 2026 5:20 AM ET

BBC News - World

LIVE - 9/11 victims remembered 25 years on from September 11 attacks - Memorials to honour those killed will be held at the site of New York's World Trade Center and at the Pentagon.

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Yemen's Houthis seize strategic Red Sea port of Mokha -- Mokha's capture brings the Iran-backed group closer to controlling a key international shipping route. -- Middle East

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Princess Diana's 'revenge dress' goes up for auction -- Auction house Sotheby's expects the dress to sell for up to $300,000 (£220,000) when it goes under the hammer on 9 December. -- UK

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Five killed and 67 injured in Russian strike on shopping centre, Ukraine says -- The attack in Pavlohrad city centre was the third Russian strike on a mall within days, local media report. -- Europe

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Man loses case to claw back $369,000 he spent on lavish gifts for ex-girlfriend -- Singapore's High Court rules in the woman's favour, with the judge saying the man "willingly" showered her with gifts, even before they got together.

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Man jailed after threatening to kill son's teacher in French village -- The father had threatened to behead a female primary school teacher near Toulouse.

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More than 20 children killed in DR Congo school fire -- Officials say there was a stampede as they fled a fire that engulfed two schools in the eastern rebel-held city of Bukavu.

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Pilot warned Amazon cargo plane going too fast before deadly crash, data shows -- One pilot told the other about the aircraft's "excessive speed" but received an uneven response even as alarms sounded.

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Israel's Netanyahu to sue newspaper over claim UAE warned him of 7 October attack -- The paper said it stood by its reporting, after publishing extracts from a book where the claim appears.

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Spies, strategies and missed opportunities: How the lessons of 9/11 are still being learnt -- Twenty-five years on, the attacks have come to define a generation of foreign, security and intelligence policy, the BBC's security correspondent writes.

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Civilians told to flee Ukraine's fortress cities as Russia bids to control Donbas -- Kramatorsk and Slovyansk are now the main focus of Russian ground assaults, and residents are being told to leave.

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'We never recovered him': Quest to identify remains from Ground Zero continues -- Since the attacks, New York officials are working with new, complex technology to find traces of more than 1,000 victims.

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Can Trump really pay $5,000 to every American adult? -- Analysts question if the US president's election year offer is workable, legal or affordable.

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Four key takeaways from Republican midterms convention -- The US president covered many of the subjects he has returned to time and again - with a few surprises thrown in.

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Has Trump won over voters with his midterm convention? -- The BBC's North America editor Sarah Smith breaks down the main takeaways from the first-ever Republican convention held in the middle of a US presidential term.

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Watch: Americans remember what they were doing on 9/11 -- The BBC asks people in Washington what they were doing on that day and how 11 September 2001 changed the country.

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Brother of Muslim policeman killed in 9/11 'disappointed' by calls for Mamdani to sit out memorial -- Zeshan Hamdani speaks out after push back against New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who is Muslim, attending 9/11 events.

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Drone display recreates the Twin Towers over New York City -- Organisers say each of the 2,977 drones in the display represents a victim of the 9/11 attacks.

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Bernie Sanders speaks to the BBC about proposal to ban AI superintelligence -- The senator has also proposed a sort of sovereign wealth fund in which the US would take a 50% stake in AI companies.

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Five dead and dozens injured in coach crash in Swiss Alps -- The tourist coach was carrying dozens of Dutch passengers when it overturned in the south-eastern Swiss Alps.

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Interest rates could rise again across the world – here's why -- As countries grapple with energy costs pushing up inflation, this month will see how central banks respond.

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Anthropic blocks possible attempt to use AI to make biological weapons -- The revelations in Anthropic's threat intelligence report come after a former top researcher at the company warned of the risks of AI to humanity.

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Philippine rescuers board ferry 40 hours after blaze began -- Thick, toxic fumes and extreme temperatures pose a challenge to rescuers who have boarded the ship.

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As Trump dominates convention, some Republicans quietly ask who comes next -- The convention offered a stark reminder that the Trump era is heading toward its final chapter, the BBC's Washington correspondent Daniel Bush writes.

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Hong Kong's Tiananmen activists sentenced to up to seven years in prison -- Hong Kong used to be one of the only places in Chinese territory where people could gather to mark the 1989 crackdown.

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