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

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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 runway

Officials 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 box” flight data recorder, which was recovered from the wreckage on Monday, indicating pilots initiated a “go-around”, or aborted landing, seconds before impact.

Reuters contributed reporting

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Trump renames places and poses as superhero in bizarre social media blitz

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Trump passed the long weekend posting a torrent of memes and musings on his Truth Social platform

The long weekend may have proved too long for Donald Trump, who passed the time by musing about annexing other countries, unilaterally renaming places he’s not allowed to rename and turning himself into a superhero.

Amid the torrent of memes and posts by the president on his Truth Social platform over the Labor Day holiday weekend was a bizarre AI-generated video depicting Trump as the Green Lantern DC superhero, wielding a glowing green power ring to erect his border wall, illuminate an “American manufacturing” scene, and command a fleet of warplanes and warships behind him.

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China Tests New Silk Road—in the Arctic – Newser

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  1. China Tests New Silk Road—in the Arctic  Newser
  2. Chinese Ship Takes Arctic Shortcut: Smart Business? Or a Political Flex?  The New York Times
  3. A Forgotten Soviet Waterway Could Give China a New Arctic Trade Route  Crude Oil Prices Today | OilPrice.com
  4. The new Arctic route is redrawing the economic and geopolitical map  EL PAÍS English
  5. Container ship arrives in UK after voyage from China via the Arctic  The Independent
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Russia’s New Stealthy Lower-Cost Air-Launched Standoff Weapons On Display In Egypt – TWZ

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  2. Russia markets drone-like missiles in Egypt during Su-57 jet's Africa air show debut  Reuters
  3. Another powerful African country welcomes Russia’s fifth-generation Su-57 stealth fighter after Algeria made history as first operator  Business Insider Africa
  4. Russians Brought Su-57E Jets to Egypt Equipped with Monochrome, Kover, and Dan-T Missiles  Мілітарний
  5. Su-57’s Drone army: Russia turns stealth fighter into an airborne commander  WION
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German police arrest suspect over sabotage attacks on power grid – BBC

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  1. German police arrest suspect over sabotage attacks on power grid  BBC
  2. Germany: Police arrest suspect in power grid sabotage case  dw.com
  3. Police in Germany's Saxony state defuse 21 explosive devices found near power grid  TVP World
  4. Berlin police probe substation fire amid series of attacks on grid  Reuters
  5. Police arrest suspect in Germany power grid attacks after dayslong search  ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
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Iranian twins tortured so brutally for protests — hair ripped out, feet broken — that even their mother didn’t recognize them – New York Post

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  1. Iranian twins tortured so brutally for protests — hair ripped out, feet broken — that even their mother didn’t recognize them  New York Post
  2. Broken feet, ripped-out hair and now a death sentence: the fate of twin sisters jailed over Iran protests  The Guardian
  3. Iranian Twin Sisters Reportedly Tortured Over January Protests; One Sentenced To Death, Other Gets 25 Years  Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
  4. 21-Year-Old Rapper Erfan Mirzaei Executed in Isfahan Following Severe Torture  IranWire
  5. Iran Sentences Woman, 20, to Death; Twin Gets 25 Years  Yahoo
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Video captures grocery store manager’s daring rescue of toddler who ran into oncoming traffic – Fox News

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  1. Video captures grocery store manager's daring rescue of toddler who ran into oncoming traffic  Fox News
  2. Lucky toddler has a narrow escape after running into speeding traffic  BBC
  3. Supermarket manager honored for saving child who ran into traffic  FOX 8 News
  4. Heart-stopping moment supermarket worker races into traffic to save little girl  Yahoo
  5. Heart-stopping video shows hero supermarket manager run into traffic to save little girl  New York Post
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British family of man abducted by Saudi Arabia speak out over nine-year ordeal

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Mira Lozi says quiet diplomacy has failed to free Rami Naimi who was first seized in Dubai in 2017

A British woman has spoken out for the first time about the alleged abduction, torture and coercion of her husband at the hands of Saudi authorities, after nine years of “failed” quiet diplomacy.

The businessman Rami Naimi was first abducted in Dubai in 2017 on his return from a trip to Australia with his father. After being tortured, he was released the following year.

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