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The Israeli military says it has destroyed key Hezbollah tunnels in southern Lebanon, including those leading to a strategic fortress, in an operation that began in June and continues against the backdrop of escalating conflict between the United States and Iran.
11 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesA man was filmed throwing bacon and ham at the entrance of the Warragul Mosque in regional Victoria on Wednesday afternoon, in an act that Muslim leaders have condemned as hateful and Islamophobic.
11 Sept 2026The Republican Party held its first-ever midterm convention in Dallas this week, a two-day rally designed to boost turnout ahead of November's elections, but the event was overshadowed by a fake convention website that redirected visitors to the Justice Department's Epstein files page for weeks.
11 Sept 2026· 8 sourcesHospitals across Gaza are being forced to ration electricity as fuel shortages reach critical levels, threatening the operation of life-saving medical equipment and basic services.
11 Sept 2026A Russian strike has hit a shopping centre in central Ukraine, according to a video newsfeed published by Al Jazeera on September 10, 2026. The outlet provided no additional details on casualties, damage, or the specific location beyond the general region.
11 Sept 2026Dozens of approved but yet-to-be-built AI data centre projects will escape the federal government's proposed restrictions on energy and water use because the new rules are not expected to be retrospective, according to an ABC News analysis of planning records and company documents. The analysis reveals that the new generation of data centres will be significantly larger and more power-hungry than existing ones, with a combined computing capacity of at least 2.9 gigawatts — nearly double the 1.5 gigawatts of the 162 centres already operating across Australia as of March this year.
11 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesThe Sydney Swans demonstrated their depth and resilience last weekend, overcoming the suspensions of the so-called 'Pullman Five' to defeat Brisbane with a display of pressure, sacrifice and unwavering commitment to the team system.
11 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesJimmy Kimmel's interview with Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico aired on YouTube on Thursday as planned, after the late-night host announced he would not broadcast it on television because of what he described as threats from the Federal Communications Commission under the Trump administration.
11 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesA woman with a 30-year history of an eating disorder says she spent 55 hours in an emergency department waiting for a mental health bed that never came, before being discharged without being admitted to the specialist unit.
11 Sept 2026Al Jazeera's video news feed for September 10, 2026, featured a range of stories from conflict zones including Yemen, Gaza, eastern DR Congo, and Syria, with segments examining the potential for Pakistani intervention in Yemen, the killing of a family in Gaza, a deadly school fire in DR Congo, and the exclusion of Kurdish women fighters from Syria's new army.
11 Sept 2026Russian drone strikes targeting warehouses and ports in Ukraine killed at least nine people on Thursday, while Russia separately announced the detention of a Russian security guard working at Britain's embassy in Moscow, alleging he was recruited by Ukraine to carry out a false flag attack on the UK ambassador.
11 Sept 2026Al Jazeera has published a video newsfeed report exploring whether Pakistan might enter the Yemen conflict under the framework of the Mecca agreement. The brief report, titled 'What’s happening in Yemen and how did we get here?', does not provide further details on the claim at this stage.
11 Sept 2026The ACT Coroner's Court has recorded the territory's first death with an established link to a novel psychoactive substance — the synthetic opioid protonitazene — following the overdose of a 42-year-old woman in Ainslie in July 2022.
11 Sept 2026Swiss police have confirmed that five people died and dozens were injured when a Dutch tourist coach crashed and overturned in the Swiss Alps on Thursday afternoon, with the other 40 passengers transported to hospitals by helicopter and ambulance.
11 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesThe leader of a coalition representing 9/11 victims' families has said it has 'taken way too long' to hold Saudi Arabia accountable for its alleged support of the terrorists who carried out the attacks, as the 25th anniversary of September 11, 2001, was observed across the US on Friday.
11 Sept 2026Al Jazeera's latest video newsfeed covers a deadly school fire in eastern DR Congo, Israeli air raids in Gaza, a Houthi advance along Yemen's Red Sea coast, a protest outside the Israeli embassy in Bangkok over tourist behaviour, and a family killed in Gaza while they slept.
11 Sept 2026Victorian Premier Ben Carroll now faces the prospect of Labor's promised work-from-home legislation not being passed before the November state election, following a surprise move by a former Labor minister.
11 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesA Philippine court has acquitted former first lady Imelda Marcos of corruption charges, according to a report from The Diplomat. The decision marks the latest legal chapter for the 96-year-old widow of the late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, who has faced a series of graft cases over alleged ill-gotten wealth accumulated during her husband's two-decade rule.
11 Sept 2026Liberal MP Andrew Hastie is facing political attacks from One Nation after complying with a subpoena to testify in the failed 2022 Ben Roberts-Smith defamation case, a role the former SAS soldier has described as deeply reluctant.
11 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesTwo Labour MPs who voted on opposite sides of the assisted dying bill have jointly warned their colleagues not to take what they call an ‘extraordinary risk’ by forcing the legislation through Parliament using an obscure procedure if the House of Lords continues to block it.
11 Sept 2026Nearly 50,000 civilians have fled a sudden Houthi advance along Yemen's Red Sea coast, with Iran-aligned forces seizing the port city of Mocha and reaching the Hanish Islands, threatening control of the Bab el-Mandeb Strait — one of the world's most vital shipping routes. The displacement, reported by aid workers, has emptied entire villages and left families trapped near frontline fighting with depleting food supplies, as the conflict becomes entangled with the broader US-Iran war.
11 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesRebel-appointed authorities in Bukavu have released a provisional death toll of at least 24 schoolchildren killed in a stampede as they fled a fire that engulfed two schools in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, officials said on Thursday. Adults are also reported to have died, and fears remain that the toll will rise in the densely populated Kadutu commune.
11 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesYemen's Houthi movement has captured the strategic Red Sea port city of Mokha from Saudi-backed pro-government forces, military sources have confirmed. The seizure brings the Iran-backed group closer to controlling the Bab al-Mandab strait, a critical waterway linking the Red Sea to the Gulf of Aden, and has coincided with a surge in global oil prices amid an escalating conflict with neighbouring Saudi Arabia.
11 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesThe Greens have struck a deal to support a carbon credits scheme for forest protection, defying intense lobbying from former leaders Bob Brown and Christine Milne to vote against a Nationals motion to abolish the program.
11 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesIran has captured a US Navy drone submarine in the Strait of Hormuz, according to Iranian media reports. The vessel, described by Iranian sources as a 'sail drone', is one of the US Navy's hi-tech unmanned submarines. The critical waterway has become a testing ground for new technologies. Iranian military officials are expected to release footage of the seizure in the coming days.
11 Sept 2026· 4 sourcesMichigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers has in recent weeks sought to create controversy over old tweets from his Democratic opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, about the September 11 attacks, but congressional records show Rogers twice voted against providing healthcare and other benefits to 9/11 first responders and survivors, and helped kill similar bills for first responders nationwide.
11 Sept 2026Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's wife, Sara Netanyahu, has been hit with a defamation lawsuit worth nearly $1.2 million after she insinuated that opposition leader Yair Golan had advance knowledge of the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks. Golan, a former IDF deputy chief of staff and leader of the centre-left Democrats party, is widely credited with saving lives at the Nova Music Festival that day.
11 Sept 2026Maryland political leaders are calling for investigations into the conduct of Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers after video footage showed them using batons on protesters and driving vehicles onto a sidewalk during a federal operation in Frederick, a city about 50 miles north-west of Baltimore. Residents remain shaken more than a week after the clashes, with activists condemning the violence as 'unconscionable'.
11 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesThe Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford has agreed to return 39 pieces of human remains belonging to the Naga people of north-east India, following six years of negotiations between the community and the museum, marking a significant milestone in the repatriation of colonial-era artifacts.
10 Sept 2026Yemen's Houthi rebels have seized the key port of Mocha in a concerted drive to take full control of the country's Red Sea coast, marking the most serious wave of fighting with the Saudi-backed government in years.
10 Sept 2026A Council of Europe inquiry into the judicial aftermath of Daphne Caruana Galizia's assassination has opened with a warning from Labour peer Shami Chakrabarti that Malta remains vulnerable to repeated instances of high-level corruption unless it strengthens the rule of law and protections for journalists.
10 Sept 2026Over the past two years, lawmakers in Louisiana, Kentucky and Ohio have passed strikingly similar laws backed by the chemical industry that bar state regulators from using air-quality data collected by community groups, unless that data comes from expensive Environmental Protection Agency-approved equipment, according to a Floodlight investigation published Thursday.
10 Sept 2026The death toll from a fire aboard a foreign-flagged cargo ship undergoing maintenance at China's Qingdao port has risen to 25, with five crew members still missing, Chinese state media reported Thursday. The blaze erupted around 11:15 a.m. local time on the Ocean Melody, a Liberia-flagged vessel, and was extinguished by 2:30 p.m.
10 Sept 2026· 5 sourcesDonald Trump has promised a $5,000 'Trump Dividend' for every adult American if Republicans keep control of the House and Senate in the upcoming midterm elections, but Vice-President JD Vance has appeared to walk back the pledge, indicating the payment might not go to all and would be funded by tariff revenues despite Supreme Court rulings against much of Trump's trade agenda.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesAl Jazeera has released a video report showing protests in The Gambia turning violent over persistent rolling blackouts, with the footage documenting clashes between demonstrators and security forces amid growing public anger over the country's power crisis.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesA survivor of the deadly fire aboard the MV June Aster ferry en route to the Philippines' Palawan province has described being trampled as passengers scrambled to escape, as authorities search for dozens still missing. Five people are confirmed dead and 86 remain unaccounted for in what could become one of the nation's worst maritime disasters.
10 Sept 2026Royal clan elders in Uganda's Tooro Kingdom have named popular TV news presenter Prince Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma, 56, as the next monarch, sparking a bitter succession dispute just days before the burial of the late King Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV, who died last month at age 34.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesPresident Adama Barrow has pledged to halt rolling blackouts in The Gambia and build new power infrastructure, including a 24-megawatt plant, after protests over the worsening electricity crisis turned violent.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesStocks tumbled on Wall Street on Wednesday as the price of crude oil climbed back above $US100 a barrel, driven by further escalation in the US military conflict with Iran. President Trump also issued a warning about oil prices, adding to investor unease. The Australian share market is set to fall sharply when trading opens.
10 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesSaudi Arabia is stepping up its military campaign against Yemen's Houthi rebels, escalating hostilities that threaten to plunge the region into full-scale war, according to a report from The New York Times. The move comes as the kingdom's oil-export routes face renewed threats from the Houthi faction.
10 Sept 2026The United States has officially designated Los Tiguerones, a major Ecuadorian gang, as a foreign terrorist organization, imposing financial sanctions that officials describe as an increasingly common tool in countering transnational crime. However, analysts note the measures are unlikely to substantially disrupt the group’s illicit revenue streams.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesThe Victorian premier has accused the opposition and crossbench of derailing the ALP's plan to enshrine a right to work from home, after MPs voted to send the bill to a parliamentary committee for further review.
10 Sept 2026· 3 sourcesGrace Tame has apologised for comments she made in March labelling the rape of Israeli women by Hamas during the 7 October attacks as 'propaganda' and 'debunked', saying her words were misinterpreted.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesFormer Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has warned there is a one-in-three chance China will attempt to seize Taiwan by 2028, as the military balance of power shifts in Beijing's favour, raising the prospect of conflict in the region.
10 Sept 2026· 6 sourcesSydney businessman Alexander Csergo has become the first Australian sentenced for reckless foreign interference, receiving a three-and-a-half-year prison term for compiling reports on topics including lithium mining, defence and AUKUS for two suspected Chinese intelligence officers. The 58-year-old will be eligible for parole as early as October 2026 after time already served.
10 Sept 2026Paul Nowak, general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, has urged Prime Minister Andy Burnham to overhaul the migration reforms introduced by Shabana Mahmood, warning they risk overstretching social care services and fuelling far-right sentiment.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesNSW Police say one of Australia's largest fraud syndicates has defrauded banks of more than $600 million, with the country's Big Four banks issuing an estimated $500 million in fraudulent loans. Three people were charged yesterday, including an accounting firm director and two accountants, bringing the total number of people charged by Strike Force Myddleton to 33.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sourcesAlexander Csergo, 58, has been sentenced to three years and six months in prison for preparing fake defence reports for individuals he met on LinkedIn who were later identified as Chinese spies. The sentence was handed down on Thursday after a jury found him guilty in March of reckless foreign interference.
10 Sept 2026· 2 sources