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9/11 anniversary: US marks 20 years since Twin Towers attacks
Families of loved ones have described the ‘unbearable sorrow’ as they remember the terrible day 20 years ago, when almost 3000 lives were lost when hijacked planes smashed into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, into the Pentagon outside Washington, and a fourth crashed into a field in Pennsylvania.
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20 years on: Jon Snow remembers 9/11
In today’s episode, Jon Snow takes us back to that fateful, generation-defining day, and recounts his visit to Ground Zero in November 2001.
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Hurricane Ida: Dozens killed in flooding in north-eastern US
At least 46 people have been killed in extreme flash flooding and tornadoes, as the remnants of Hurricane Ida swept across the north-eastern US.
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Afghanistan withdrawal has damaged US credibility, says Petraeus
We spoke to David Petraeus, former commander of US forces in Afghanistan, and began by asking what he thought of the way that the US troops withdrawal had been handled.
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US Supreme Court refuse to block controversial Texas abortion law
The justices of the US Supreme Court have voted not to halt a new law in Texas that will strip most women in the state of the right to an abortion.
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Hurricane Ida: At least 25 dead after flooding in New York and New Jersey
Record-shattering rainfall brought unprecedented flash flooding to New York City overnight, as the remnants of Hurricane Ida hit the east coast of the US.
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During the coronavirus pandemic there were nudges working that you didn’t even notice, says behavioural economist Richard Thaler
From Covid to climate change to running countries as democracies or autocracies, we all have to make choices for ourselves and for society.
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Does Afghanistan withdrawal mean the end of US nation building?
After imperial Britain and the Soviet Union, Afghanistan has now seen off America, supposedly the world’s mightiest military.
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Hurricane Ida: Speaking to the victims as over a million face a month without power
Howling winds, driving rain and storm surges – Hurricane Ida has left more than a million people in Louisiana facing at least a month without power and in Mississippi a motorway has collapsed.
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Taliban victory increases risk terrorists will seize Pakistan and its nuclear weapons, John Bolton says
John Bolton was a military advisor to President George W Bush when the decision to invade Afghanistan was taken.
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Hurricane Ida batters Louisiana leaving more than a million without power
Search and rescue teams have been deployed across southeast Louisiana, after the state was battered by Hurricane Ida, leaving a million people without power.
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Taliban ‘empowered’ by American cooperation, says former US Assistant Secretary of Defence
We were joined by Mary Beth Long, who was a US Assistant Secretary of Defence under George W Bush.
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Afghanistan: US does not want to take risk of delaying withdrawal
In the US, Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due to give an update on the evacuation.
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Afghanistan: US Pentagon confident all Americans will get out before deadline
The Pentagon has given more detail about stepping up evacuation efforts in Kabul.
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Afghanistan: Biden refuses to extend deadline to withdraw US troops
The message from the Taliban today was clear – all foreign troops have to leave by Tuesday next week. Joe Biden wouldn’t budge from that deadline either, despite calls from other G7 leaders for a delay to allow more people to be evacuated.