News 06/09/26

Mayor Daniella Levine Cava confirmed at least five people have died, five others are injured, and multiple individuals were taken to local hospitals following an Amazon Cargo plane overshooting the runway at Miami International Airport.

Firefighters arrived within minutes on what the mayor described as an incredibly difficult day, with officials promising further updates.

In Germany, the far-right Alternative for Germany party is heading for a major victory in the state of Saxony-Anhalt.

Incomplete results project the AfD will win a record forty-four per cent of the vote, well ahead of the conservative CDU on seventeen per cent. State leader Ulrich Siegmund called the outcome sensational, stating the party has a mandate to govern. No far-right party has controlled a German state since World War Two.

An Amazon cargo plane has overshot a runway at Miami International Airport, with black smoke seen rising from the scene.

Flights at the airport have since been halted, with all runways and taxiways closed. The Federal Aviation Administration said the aircraft overran the runway at around two o’clock local time.

Around one hundred and forty migrants in a single dinghy have been rescued in the English Channel after launching from the Normandy coast overnight.

The French coastguard said those on board requested help in UK waters and were picked up by two RNLI lifeboats to be taken to shore in the UK. The rescue comes days after Prime Minister Andy Burnham and French President Emmanuel Macron met to discuss scaling up efforts to reduce small boat crossings, following a record two hundred and thirty people crossing on a single boat in August.

Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds will meet bosses from Jaguar Land Rover and the Unite union early next week to discuss thousands of expected job cuts at the car maker.

JLR confirmed it has opened a voluntary redundancy programme, a year on from a cyber attack which halted production for more than a month. While the company has not confirmed numbers, reports suggest up to four thousand jobs could be lost due to tariffs and falling sales. Mr Reynolds said talks will focus on mitigating job losses, but ruled out any government bailout.

China has confirmed that 43 people are dead and 519 remain missing after flash floods hit Nepal and Tibet over a week ago.

State broadcaster CCTV reported that two hundred and sixty-one of those missing are foreign nationals. According to Nepal’s disaster management agency, the floods have killed more than thirteen hundred people across both sides of the border, with five thousand still unaccounted for. Experts believe the flooding was likely triggered by a glacier collapse on the Nepalese side.

FIFA has confirmed that Gianni Infantino is standing for re-election next year, after the president declined questions regarding his future and insisted nothing has changed.

Mr Infantino spoke to external media on Saturday for the first time since the World Cup sell-off scandal erupted in July, while arriving at the Under-20s Women’s World Cup opener in Katowice, Poland. However, he answered only generally about his mission to grow football, pledging there will be a lot to say beyond that, but added that today was not the day.

Robert Jenrick says a protester whose hair was pulled while being removed from the Reform conference should get a life.

Asked about the woman, who interrupted Nigel Farage’s speech, he initially replied, oh boohoo. She was reportedly knocked down by Reform members in Birmingham. Videos appear to show people pulling her hair, trying to punch her, and a man swinging his metal crutch.

The police response to a protest involving hundreds of black-clad, masked anti-illegal migrant demonstrators who blocked roads in Dover is set to come under scrutiny after authorities appeared to be caught off guard.

Footage showed the group, mostly made up of men, marching through the town and chanting slogans as dozens of officers followed. The demonstration, which has been condemned by the government, brought traffic to a halt at the UK’s busiest international ferry port, causing delays to some services.

US envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner are traveling to Kyiv on Sunday following talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow aimed at ending the war in Ukraine.

The White House confirmed the negotiators discussed substantive plans for next steps with Putin on Saturday during their first visit to the region. While specific details remain undisclosed, an official announcement is expected in the coming weeks. Both Russia and Ukraine have agreed to a three-day halt on strikes targeting each other’s capital cities.

Temperatures could reach up to 28 Celsius in parts of the UK on Sunday as a brief spell of late summer warmth arrives across the country.

A southerly wind is bringing hot, humid air from continental Europe, pushing conditions well above the seasonal average. South-east England is expected to see the highest temperatures, while wider areas across England and Wales will experience mid-twenties warmth, contrasting with intense heatwaves affecting central and southern Europe.

A man has been charged and remanded to court after repeatedly misusing the 999 emergency number in Slough.

The charges follow multiple breaches of a Community Protection Notice and further offences relating to the wasteful employment of police resources. Thames Valley Police warned that unnecessary emergency calls place demands on services and can delay responses to real emergencies.

Thames Valley Police has launched a new support network to assist staff members affected by domestic abuse.

The internal initiative, named Empower, is led by officers and staff with personal lived experience of abuse to provide guidance and specialist assistance. Deputy Chief Constable Ben Snuggs emphasised that domestic abuse can affect anyone regardless of role or rank within the force.