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Les Pays-Bas se découvrent à leur tour vulnérables à la sécheresse

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-09-09T03:30:13+00:00

Alors que le pays s’est construit en luttant contre le risque d’inondation, les Néerlandais doivent opérer un profond changement de mentalité et prendre en compte la sécheresse dans leur gestion centenaire de l’eau.

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Hong Kong's first post-colonial leader dies aged 89

Source: BBC News - World · Published: 2026-09-09T03:09:59+00:00

The tenure of Tung Chee-hwa, Hong Kong's first leader after the 1997 handover, was marked by crises and protests.

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Sensex today | Stock Market Live: Sensex, Nifty seen subdued as Brent crude nears $100

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-09T02:57:46+00:00

Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices LIVE: Indian equities face another cautious session as escalating geopolitical risks, rising crude prices and persistent foreign selling keep investors on edge, while upcoming US inflation data could provide fresh clues on global interest rates and emerging-market fund flows.

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UK air traffic control breakdown strands hundreds of thousands of passengers

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-09T02:40:00+00:00

More than 1,000 flights cancelled with disruption continuing on Wednesday and airlines calling for overhaul after third incident in just over three yearsUK airport disruption: what are your rights?Flight delays and cancellations were expected to continue into Wednesday at UK airports after another air traffic control failure kept planes grounded for hours, affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers.At least 177 flights scheduled for Wednesday to and from UK airports had been cancelled, plane tracking site Flightradar24 said, “nearly all at London Heathrow”. More than 1,000 were cancelled by

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UK air traffic control chaos disrupts flights for hundreds of thousands of passengers

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-09T02:40:00+00:00

More than 1,000 flights cancelled with problems continuing on Wednesday and airlines calling for overhaul after third incident in just over three yearsUK airport disruption: what are your rights?Flight delays and cancellations were expected to continue into Wednesday at UK airports after another air traffic control failure kept planes grounded for hours, affecting hundreds of thousands of passengers.At least 177 flights scheduled for Wednesday to and from UK airports had been cancelled, plane tracking site Flightradar24 said, “nearly all at London Heathrow”. More than 1,000 were cancelled by a

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Liberal operative denies he invented pink paper record of agreement with fugitive developer, Icac hears

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-09T02:35:31+00:00

Jeremy Greenwood tells inquiry note contained agreement with Jean Nassif as counsel assisting says ‘threads of your story pull apart very quickly’A Liberal operative has denied making up a “pink” or “fuchsia”-coloured piece of paper which he says was the record of an agreement with a property developer worth up to $5m, a corruption inquiry has heard.Jeremy Greenwood told the Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) on Wednesday that the note, which he did not mention in a preliminary interview with the watchdog, was not a “recent invention”. Continue reading...

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Politics live: Trump administration warns Australia after social media algorithm reform; Albanese mourns ‘true one-off’ in d’Alpuget

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-09T02:16:26+00:00

Follow the day’s news liveAlbanese dismisses concerns over powers in digital duty of care billAnthony Albanese says the Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, is being “disingenuous” over his criticisms that the communications minister, Anika Wells, will have too much power under the new digital duty of care legislation.The eSafety commissioner will of course provide the advice, but Matt Canavan actually knows that he’s being disingenuous because all of these things will be disallowable. That is, will be up to the whole parliament, like the other previous laws have been. Continue reading...

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Bolivie : les cultures de coca en hausse de 7 % en 2025

Source: Le Monde - International · Published: 2026-09-09T02:10:13+00:00

Le pays sud-américain, où des groupes criminels se disputent le contrôle de couloirs servant au trafic de cocaïne, a vu la superficie de ces plantations atteindre « 36 400 hectares » dans des zones que l’Etat peine a accédé.

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US supreme court rejects Missouri Republicans’ appeal to use Trump-backed congressional map in midterms – as it happened

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-09T02:00:08+00:00

This live blog is now closed.Missouri congressional maps thrown into chaos after conflicting court rulingsSign up for US Breaking News emailsFurther down the ballot in New Hampshire, the Democratic primary for Chris Pappas’s House seat has drawn eight candidates, with Stefany Shaheen – daughter of the outgoing senator – and Maura Sullivan, a former Obama administration official, leading the field.The district, long purple, has been reliably blue since 2017. Republicans now see it as flippable, and Donald Trump has endorsed Anthony DiLorenzo, a businessman who owns several car dealerships, in t

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Pilots tried to abort landing seconds before deadly Amazon cargo plane crash that killed five

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-09T01:53:52+00:00

The five people killed were employees of an aircraft cleaning company who were in a van struck by the plane after it overran the Miami airport runwayAt least five dead after Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airportOfficials in Florida on Tuesday said evidence collected from Saturday’s Amazon cargo plane crash at Miami international airport suggests the pilots considered aborting the flight’s landing before it crashed and killed five people on the ground.At a press conference Tuesday evening, officials from the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) released data from the plane’s “black

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Lindsay Clancy juror had reasonable doubt but would not agree to acquit, foreperson says

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-09T01:45:42+00:00

Roni Carlson, in wake of mistrial, says holdout juror could not be persuaded while colleague calls him ‘very arrogant’A lone juror in the trial of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of the murder of her three children, would not agree to acquit Clancy despite expressing reasonable doubt about whether she was guilty, the jury’s foreperson said in an interview airing Monday.Speaking to NBC 10 Boston just days after Clancy’s trial ended in a mistrial, Roni Carlson, the foreperson, confirmed there was one holdout juror who would not be persuaded to acquit Clancy due to insanity.In th

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Australia considers new Israel sanctions but won’t join UK in banning trade with ‘settler terrorists’

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-09T01:38:02+00:00

Penny Wong has concerns about blanket ban announced by UK, France and Canada, but says new ‘targeted measures’ planned over Israeli settlersFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAustralia is preparing another round of sanctions against Israel, but has stopped short of joining the UK in banning trade with Israeli settlements in the West Bank.Overnight, the UK government offered its strongest condemnation yet of Israel’s occupation, with the foreign secretary, Ed Miliband, calling efforts to control the West Bank unlawful

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Paytm expands into agentic AI with new enterprise service Pi

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-09T01:35:00+00:00

The fintech company is seeking new revenue streams as intense competition in digital payments limits expansion opportunities in its core market.

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Politics live: Trump administration repeats warning to Australia after social media algorithm reform; diesel prices highest since April

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-09T01:34:53+00:00

Follow the day’s news liveAlbanese dismisses concerns over powers in digital duty of care billAnthony Albanese says the Nationals leader, Matt Canavan, is being “disingenuous” over his criticisms that the communications minister, Anika Wells, will have too much power under the new digital duty of care legislation.The eSafety commissioner will of course provide the advice, but Matt Canavan actually knows that he’s being disingenuous because all of these things will be disallowable. That is, will be up to the whole parliament, like the other previous laws have been. Continue reading...

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Sensex today | Stock Market Live: Stock to buy today: Granules India

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-09T01:12:23+00:00

Sensex, Nifty, Share Prices LIVE: The short-term outlook is bullish for Granules India. The stock has surged over 5 per cent so far this week. This confirms a pennant pattern on the chart. This is a bullish continuation pattern. It indicates that a fresh leg of upmove has begun. Immediate support is at ₹880.

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NDIS data may have ended up in Palantir’s analytics platform as part of efforts to curb fraud

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-09T01:09:16+00:00

Exclusive: The Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission, which has access to NDIA data, used Palantir as part of a multi-agency fraud taskforce Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastPersonal information of national disability insurance scheme participants may have ended up in controversial software company Palantir’s analytics platform as part of a massive multi-agency sharing program investigating fraud, Guardian Australia can reveal.There have been calls to ban the use of Palantir’s software by the Australian government since May, after it implied some cultures are i

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US says Iranian tankers ‘destroyed’ after missile attacks on American warship

Source: The Guardian - World · Published: 2026-09-09T01:04:38+00:00

Tit-for-tat violence surges again in region, with tankers struck by the US in the Gulf of Oman, and reprisal attacks by Iran on a US base in JordanThe US military on Tuesday said it “destroyed” multiple Iranian tankers, after Iran attempted to strike a US navy warship with ballistic missiles, as violence once again surged across the region, pushing the price of oil close to $100 a barrel.American forces struck the tankers in the Gulf of Oman and near Iran’s Kharg Island, US central command (Centcom) said in a statement, adding that American forces “directed the crews to abandon ship before the

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Food Ministry, FCI sign MoU to improve operational efficiency

Source: The Hindu Business Line – Markets · Published: 2026-09-09T01:01:57+00:00

The agreement introduces measurable annual parameters covering storage, logistics, quality control, digitisation and employee skill development across the organisation.

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