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A series of video reports from Al Jazeera cover an orangutan rescue in Indonesia, a deadly explosion at a Bolivian military barracks, missing Ecuadorian fishermen, a new UN map of Africa, and the impact of destruction on Gaza's water crisis.
5 Sept 2026A Qantas plane travelling from Queenstown, New Zealand, to Sydney was diverted to Christchurch on Saturday after flames appeared to sputter from the engine.
5 Sept 2026· 6 sourcesA Massachusetts judge has declared a mistrial in the murder case against Lindsay Clancy after jurors told the court they could not reach a unanimous verdict. Clancy, who faced three counts of first-degree murder for the 2023 deaths of her three children, does not deny the killings but pleaded not guilty, with her lawyers arguing she suffered from postpartum psychosis and should not be held criminally responsible. The five-week trial deeply divided public opinion across the United States.
5 Sept 2026British right-wing leader Nigel Farage acknowledged that two aides engaged in "loose pub talk" regarding donations, but insisted the party had not broken the law, as protests disrupted his major address at Reform UK's annual conference.
5 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesThe Dutch central bank has relocated 86 tonnes of gold from North America to London, citing increasing geopolitical unrest and the need to be better prepared for severe crises, part of a broader trend of European nations bringing their gold reserves closer to home.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesAn explosion at a Bolivian military base struck a facility storing pyrotechnic material, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens, authorities said on September 5, 2026. Seven people remain missing as search and rescue efforts continue.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesGermany has called on its European Union partners to impose tighter restrictions on Russian citizens entering the bloc on tourist visas, following a series of sabotage attacks that Berlin has attributed to Moscow. The call comes as German authorities investigate a Belarusian national who also holds a Russian passport over an alleged attempt to attack Leipzig airport using drones and explosives.
5 Sept 2026The United States has dispatched envoys to both Moscow and Kyiv carrying a new peace plan to end the war in Ukraine, with President Vladimir Putin meeting the US delegation in the Russian capital on the same day, according to Al Jazeera. In a rare mutual commitment, Russia and Ukraine have each vowed not to strike the other's capital for three days while the talks take place.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesAs the trade war between the United States and Canada escalates, new analysis suggests Canada may have more leverage than it appears, even as US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent publicly dismisses the country's ability to fight back. Bessent, speaking at a gathering of G20 finance ministers, accused Prime Minister Mark Carney of starting a 'political shouting match' over US trade policies. But a BBC News analysis published Friday highlights that Canada is the top export customer for 26 US states and ranks in the top three for 45 of the 50 American states, indicating significant room for Carney to manoeuvre.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesA newly built desalination plant in northern Gaza has been destroyed, worsening the already severe drinking water crisis for displaced families struggling to find clean water, according to reports.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesThe number of people injured in Friday's explosion at a military barracks in Viacha, Bolivia, has risen to 81, with seven others still missing, Defence Minister Ernesto Justiniano has said. President Rodrigo Paz pledged a thorough investigation as the death toll remains at least two, though health officials have warned it could be between 10 and 15.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesVictoria Police have obtained an audio recording detailing an alleged incident at a Melbourne hotel involving Sydney Swans players, as the investigation into a sexual assault centred on five club stars continues. Meanwhile, player Riley Bice has been ruled out as a suspect.
5 Sept 2026· 8 sourcesSydney is expected to reach 33°C in what would be the warmest start to spring since records began at the city's Observatory Hill station in 1858, with a total fire ban in place across Greater Sydney as extreme fire danger is exacerbated by hot and windy conditions. Meanwhile, snow has been forecast for parts of southern New South Wales.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesAl Jazeera's video newsfeed for September 4-5, 2026, includes a mistrial declaration in the Lindsay Clancy children's murder case, a US safety investigation into Tesla's driverless taxi rollout, a major methamphetamine seizure in Mexico, and statements by Nigel Farage and Donald Trump.
5 Sept 2026Romanian prosecutors have filed new charges against social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate, accusing them of trafficking minors, money laundering, and sex crimes involving a vulnerable woman allegedly recruited as a teenager, according to the Romanian Directorate for Investigating Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT).
5 Sept 2026A federal judge on Friday once again blocked President Donald Trump's executive order imposing sweeping restrictions on mail-in voting, issuing a preliminary injunction just hours after North Carolina became the first state to begin sending out mail ballots for the November midterm elections.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesCatastrophic floods that killed more than 1,300 people and destroyed villages along the Nepal-Tibet border have severely damaged 12 hydropower plants in the Trishuli River basin, knocking out more than 10% of Nepal’s total power generation capacity and prompting the state-owned electricity authority to call for a fundamental reassessment of the country’s energy policy. Nepal produces nearly all of its electricity from hydropower and exports around $200m worth annually to India and Bangladesh.
5 Sept 2026World number one Aryna Sabalenka paused her US Open third-round match on Friday to alert the umpire to a strong smell of cannabis drifting onto Louis Armstrong Stadium court, later urging fans to keep their smoking away from the playing area.
5 Sept 2026· 5 sourcesUS special envoy Steve Witkoff said American negotiators achieved "substantive progress" in efforts to end the Russia-Ukraine war after completing a rare shuttle between Moscow and Kyiv, with both sides honoring a three-day halt in strikes during the diplomatic push.
5 Sept 2026· 7 sourcesThe Pentagon has temporarily rescinded a clinical guidance document for mandatory testosterone screening of US military personnel just one day after its release, following an announcement by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth in July.
5 Sept 2026Mexican authorities have seized 17 metric tonnes of methamphetamine with an estimated street value of $347 million, according to a report by Al Jazeera on September 4, 2026. The scale of the operation underscores the ongoing challenge of drug trafficking in the region.
5 Sept 2026Donald Trump intends to use the Boeing 747 jet gifted by Qatar for his upcoming trip to Ireland, marking the first international deployment of the aircraft since questions were raised about its ability to protect the president from attack, according to a senior administration official.
5 Sept 2026Nearly three decades after Tupac Shakur was gunned down in a Las Vegas drive-by shooting, Duane 'Keffe D' Davis has been convicted of murder with a deadly weapon. The verdict, delivered by a jury in Clark County, Nevada, came after less than three hours of deliberation and marks the first criminal conviction in one of hip-hop's most notorious unsolved killings.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesThe Federal Communications Commission has asked a court to dismiss a lawsuit filed by Disney over the potential nonrenewal of ABC's broadcast licenses, while two watchdog groups and individual ABC viewers seek to intervene in the case, arguing that Disney might settle with the FCC on terms not in the public's interest.
5 Sept 2026Rep. Mike Lawler (R-N.Y.) on Sunday publicly disagreed with President Trump’s characterization of the ongoing military escalation with Iran as “small potatoes,” calling the situation “serious” and urging the administration to recognize the gravity of the conflict. The rebuke marks a rare intra-party split over Trump’s handling of the crisis.
5 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesAl Jazeera's video newsfeed for September 4, 2026, featured a series of brief reports on international events, including Nigel Farage being heckled over Reform UK funding claims, a massive methamphetamine seizure in Mexico, and former U.S. President Donald Trump describing the Iran war as 'small potatoes.'
5 Sept 2026Australia’s property market is undergoing a rare price correction this winter, with most capital cities recording declines in house prices as rising interest rates and less favourable tax settings for investors accelerate the downturn, according to data from Cotality. Sydney has led the fall, and analysts expect the weakness to persist as higher inflation may trigger further rate hikes.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesA late-baroque painting stolen by the Nazis from a Jewish art dealer in 1940 must be returned to the dealer’s heir after a court ruled in favour of restitution. The work, Portrait of a Lady, had been hanging in the home of Patricia Kadgien, whose father was a top adviser to Hermann Göring.
5 Sept 2026The United Nations General Assembly has voted overwhelmingly to adopt a new world map that accurately reflects the size of Africa, with the United States the only nation to vote against the resolution. The 'Correct the Map' resolution, sponsored by Togo and backed by African Union members, was supported by 164 countries, with six abstentions. The non-binding resolution urges member states to replace the widely used Mercator projection with the Equal Earth projection, which cartographers say preserves relative surface areas of continents and corrects long-standing distortions that shrink equatorial regions.
5 Sept 2026· 5 sourcesTwo workers have been rescued alive from a hydropower tunnel in Nepal nine days after devastating flash floods swept through the Himalayan region, raising hopes that dozens more still trapped may have survived. The rescued men, identified as Sanjay Sah and Kabir Maharjan, were pulled from the Upper Trishuli 3A Hydropower Station on Friday, while the body of a third worker was found nearby.
5 Sept 2026· 9 sourcesA US war veteran who named her Memphis retirement home 'Serenity' says her peace has been destroyed by the noise and fumes from Elon Musk's SpaceXAI data centre Colossus II, built quietly in an abandoned warehouse with minimal oversight. The conflict is one of many flaring across the country as an AI-driven data centre boom overwhelms local regulations and becomes a hot-button issue ahead of the midterm elections, with some Republican candidates breaking party ranks to oppose new developments.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesHousing affordability in Australia has plunged to its lowest level on record, with a household earning the median income of about $125,000 a year able to afford only 12 per cent of homes sold nationally in the last financial year, according to new data from realestate.com.au. Despite recent falls in property values, three interest rate rises by the Reserve Bank of Australia this year have deepened the affordability crisis, reversing a marginal improvement seen in 2025.
5 Sept 2026· 5 sourcesA tunnelling expert advising the rescue operation at a blocked Nepalese hydropower tunnel has described the effort as a series of miracles, after two men were found alive on Friday. The Trishuli 3A Hydropower Station tunnel was one of several hit by a massive flash flood on the Nepal-Tibet border that has killed at least 1,300 people.
5 Sept 2026A Massachusetts judge has declared a mistrial in the case of Lindsay Clancy, the mother accused of murdering her three young children in 2023, after the jury announced it was deadlocked for a third time following more than 38 hours of deliberation. The 12-person jury, composed of nine women and three men, was split 11 to one on the verdict, according to notes sent to the court.
5 Sept 2026· 11 sourcesNigel Farage's carefully laid plans for a policy-focused Reform UK annual conference have been disrupted by a Channel 4 News exposé alleging potential wrongdoing by party officials over political donations, compounding problems for a leader already contending with internal party splits and a declining favourability rating.
5 Sept 2026Al Jazeera's latest newsfeed brings together several significant stories from around the world, including a Russian drone strike on Ukraine's security service headquarters, a Houthi push towards a key strait in Yemen that has killed at least 100 people, allegations of police assault by two Muslim women journalists in India, a bride walking down the aisle in waist-deep flooding, and a segment on Israel's plan to expel Gaza's population.
5 Sept 2026The Trump administration has pressured major US space companies to withdraw from a high-profile space summit organised by French President Emmanuel Macron, prompting SpaceX, Blue Origin, Stoke Space, K2 and Starcloud to pull out of the Paris event scheduled for next week. Politico first reported the diplomatic turmoil, and multiple sources confirmed to Ars Technica that a White House Office of Science and Technology Policy official led a call with industry representatives late last week.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesRussia has deployed a new generation of jet-powered drones in Ukraine that are faster, more destructive, and harder to shoot down than the propeller-driven models previously used, according to press reports from the New York Times and Al Jazeera. The drones have killed dozens of civilians, though Russian ground forces continue to struggle to advance.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesA Russian drone struck the headquarters of Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) in central Kyiv on Friday, directly targeting the office of SBU chief Oleksandr Poklad, President Volodymyr Zelensky said. At least five people were wounded in the attack, which came as Kyiv endured a tenth consecutive day of drone assaults and as reports emerged that US peace envoys are expected in Moscow and Kyiv this weekend.
5 Sept 2026· 4 sourcesTwo people have been rescued from a tunnel in Nepal more than a week after catastrophic flash flooding struck the Nepal-Tibet border, killing over 1,300 people. The rescues, described as a 'rare moment of joy,' have offered renewed hope to families still awaiting news of missing relatives, though rescue efforts remain severely hampered by mud and rocks.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesLorena Isceri, a 45-year-old woman, was allegedly abducted and thrown off a motorway bridge near Florence by her ex-boyfriend, Federico Vella, marking the seventh alleged femicide in Italy since mid-August, according to reports from The Guardian.
5 Sept 2026A surge in Russian and Ukrainian attacks on vessels and port infrastructure in the Black Sea has made it the world's most dangerous waterway for commercial shipping, killing more crew in July than during the entirety of the war before that month and jeopardising vital grain exports that could push global food prices higher.
5 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesYemen's Houthi forces have killed at least 100 people as they push toward a key maritime strait, according to video footage published by Al Jazeera on September 4, 2026. The 39-second clip shows the latest casualties in an escalation that threatens one of the world's most important shipping lanes.
5 Sept 2026US negotiators Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on Saturday, kicking off a weekend of shuttle diplomacy aimed at reviving peace talks between Russia and Ukraine, according to reports.
5 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesUS Vice-President JD Vance has drawn sharp criticism after responding to claims that an American strike killed four people, including a child, at a wedding celebration in southern Iran by saying “sometimes things happen” and asserting that the US-Iran conflict is not a war. The remarks, made at a White House press briefing, were labelled as “gaslighting” by Democratic Congressman Ro Khanna.
4 Sept 2026Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has banned contact visits at the California City detention center, the largest immigration facility in California, leaving families like that of Teresa Reyes unable to embrace their loved ones. Reyes drove 300 miles for her son Guillermo's 32nd birthday in May but was only permitted to see him through a thick glass partition, unable to give a gift, share a meal, or even touch him.
4 Sept 2026Funerals have taken place for two Palestinian teenagers shot dead this week when settlers and soldiers entered the village of al-Mughayyir in the occupied West Bank, as the father of one victim told the BBC his family lives in constant fear of losing their children. The Israeli military said it fired on 'instigators of a violent riot' and that the incident is under review.
4 Sept 2026Former Queensland Police Commissioner Steve Gollschewski has died aged 67 after a battle with lung cancer. The career officer, who served nearly five decades in law enforcement, oversaw the state's policing response to the COVID-19 pandemic and numerous natural disasters before retiring in early 2026. He passed away surrounded by family, the Queensland Police Service has confirmed.
4 Sept 2026· 7 sources