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MPs are set to vote again on legalising assisted dying for terminally ill adults in England and Wales, after the proposals failed in the House of Lords earlier this year. The identical bill would allow adults with less than six months to live to apply for an assisted death subject to approval by two doctors and an expert panel. Elsewhere, share prices fell across Asia in response to a sharp rise in oil prices, with Japan's Nikkei dropping by more than 2% and similar falls in China, South Korea and Hong Kong, as Brent Crude traded above $108 a barrel and tensions between the US and Iran intensified.

In New York, commemorations took place on the 25th anniversary of the September 11 attacks, but the event became embroiled in US politics after former mayor Rudy Giuliani called for the city's first Muslim mayor, Zohran Mamdani, to sit out the ceremony. Mayor Mamdani said he would attend, focusing on the families of victims. Rights groups have warned of a record rise in discrimination against Muslim Americans. The Israeli military said it demolished Hezbollah's underground tunnel network in southern Lebanon, using more than a thousand tonnes of explosives on two tunnels at the Ali Tahir Ridge, where Iranian-made weapons were found. In other news, three people were jailed in Hong Kong for organising a vigil marking the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown, Canada pledged $250 million in air defence interceptors to Ukraine, a tourist coach crash in the Swiss Alps left several dead and injured, and Peru said it would join a US-led coalition against drug cartels.

Donald Trump closed the Republican midterm convention in Dallas, where Vice President J.D. Vance delivered the keynote address, and Trump promised to pay $5,000 to every American citizen if Republicans win the November elections. In the UK, community secretary Angela Rayner criticised anti-immigration demonstrations in Dover and Portsmouth by masked men, describing them as intimidating and threatening, and police said they were ready to ban face coverings if further protests occur. Australia hosted its first ever NFL match, with the San Francisco 49ers beating the Los Angeles Rams before a sold-out crowd of 100,000 at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. Oasis confirmed the date of its upcoming tour with a drone light show in Manchester, revealing a 14 September 2026 date for a performance.