US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee visited Turmus Ayya in the occupied West Bank, where he met Palestinian Americans and local officials amid continuing settler pogroms.

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Kirill Dmitriev, Russia’s special presidential envoy for investment and foreign economic cooperation and head of the Russian Direct Investment Fund, has arrived at Moscow’s Vnukovo Airport. A flight carrying US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner is expected to land there shortly.

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A US government aircraft entered Russian airspace from Finland, according to a source in EU air traffic control services. Earlier reports said US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner planned to visit Moscow and Kyiv on September 5-6. The Kremlin said it would report on consultations after they occur.

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US President Donald Trump said Friday that he is dispatching Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner to Moscow and Kyiv with a proposal aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, which has lasted more than four years.

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US peace envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are set to travel to Kyiv and Moscow with a plan to “end the war”. The announcement followed overnight Russian strikes in Ukraine’s Dnipropetrovsk region that local authorities said killed four people.

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US President Donald Trump said Friday that his special envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner plan to travel to Moscow and Kyiv in the coming days, carrying a proposal aimed at ending the war.

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US President Donald Trump is sending Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff to Moscow and Kyiv with a proposal intended to end the war in Ukraine. The plan could include security guarantees for Ukraine and an initial ceasefire.

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Flash floods on August 26 destroyed the homes, possessions and families of thousands of people in Nepal within minutes. Authorities, NGOs and volunteers have since delivered aid, but overcrowded temporary camps remain difficult places to live and many survivors face an uncertain future.

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Children displaced by flash floods in Nepal are attending a temporary education centre in Nuwakot as aid organisations support devastated communities. The UN estimates that $158 million worth of buildings have been damaged, while Nepal warns reconstruction could cost billions.

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Venezuelans hope for free and fair elections, but the US may put oil production first. The article says a deal announced by the US and Venezuela would give US control of 65 billion barrels of crude reserves for 100 years, advancing oil-sector privatisation and shaping the country’s political transition. Conflicting accounts have left the agreement’s final terms uncertain.

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The Alternative for Germany (AfD) is heading into Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt state election with a sizeable lead in the polls. An outright majority would put the far right in charge of a German state for the first time since World War II.

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With the Saxony-Anhalt vote approaching, Ulrich Siegmund could lead the AfD into a state government for the first time. About 10,000 people at a campaign family festival in Magdeburg hailed the 35-year-old as a beacon of hope for his promised political shake-up.

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Saxony-Anhalt votes in a state election on Sunday, with more than a dozen rallies planned beforehand. Civil society groups will hold a democracy festival in Magdeburg, while the far-right Alternative for Germany is set to stage its final campaign rally and could become the first far-right party since World War II to win the most votes in a German state and theoretically take power.

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If the far-right Alternative for Germany formed a government in Saxony-Anhalt, it would seek a sweeping overhaul of asylum and migration policy, including more deportation detention, mandatory work for asylum-seekers, cuts to integration funding and a “Remigration Task Force.” The article notes that some proposals could breach international or EU law, while deportation decisions remain a federal responsibility.

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Germany’s AfD is leading polls ahead of Sunday’s Saxony-Anhalt state election and is seeking an outright majority. Such a result would make it the first far-right party to hold state-level power in post-war Germany. Support has been fueled by anger over immigration, public safety, the economy and energy costs, while the party’s proposals and pro-Russia sympathies remain highly controversial.

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Rescuers in Nepal brought a Chinese national out alive from a hydropower tunnel 10 days after floods caused devastation along the border.

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Nepalese rescuers found a Chinese national and a woman alive 10 days after devastating floods struck the country.

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A Chinese national was rescued from inside a hydropower tunnel in Nepal nearly 10 days after a devastating mudslide struck the China-Nepal border, the Chinese embassy in Nepal said Saturday.

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A Chinese national was rescued Saturday from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal’s Rasuwa district, more than a week after an Aug. 26 mudslide hit the area. Nepal’s Prime Minister’s Office reported the rescue, which was later confirmed by the Chinese Embassy.

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Rescue teams are widening, leveling and reinforcing a section of China’s G216 National Highway about 1 kilometer from the mudslide’s core disaster area at Gyirong Port in Xizang. Heavy rain and water entering the roadbed have complicated repairs, while crews aim to improve access for rescue vehicles and personnel by tonight.

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The Lindsay Clancy murder trial ended in a mistrial after jurors failed to reach a unanimous verdict. Her defence said postpartum psychosis made her unable to bear criminal responsibility for strangling her three children, while prosecutors argued the killings were intentional and calculated. The case has sharply divided public opinion over mental illness, motherhood and punishment.

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The Lindsay Clancy trial ended in a mistrial after more than five weeks of testimony and seven days of jury deliberations, putting the work of defense attorneys and prosecutors under scrutiny.

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The Lindsay Clancy murder case ended in a mistrial after the defense made a last-ditch appeal to Massachusetts’ highest court on the final day. Lawyers said a juror was blocking a not-guilty verdict.

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A Massachusetts judge declared a mistrial after jurors spent about a week deliberating and said they could not unanimously decide whether Lindsay Clancy was criminally responsible for the deaths of her three children. She remains held on three first-degree murder charges, while prosecutors may seek another trial or a plea agreement. A hearing is scheduled for 29 September.

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Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte posted bail on Saturday after a trial court ordered her arrest on three counts of grave threats. The charges relate to remarks she made about President Ferdinand Marcos Jr, the first lady and a former House speaker.

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Philippine Vice President Sara Duterte posted 360,000 pesos in bail on Saturday, prompting a Quezon City court to lift her arrest warrant. She faces three grave-threats counts over 2024 remarks about arranging the killings of President Ferdinand Marcos, his wife and Martin Romualdez if she were killed. Duterte says the comments were made over security concerns and taken out of context.

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IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi says a localized ceasefire has begun around the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to allow repairs to its damaged remaining power line. Ukrainian technicians will start work after demining, while an IAEA team monitors the operation. The plant is relying on emergency diesel generators and may face a blackout within days if off-site power or additional fuel is not secured.

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