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Mornings
Thursday 17 September 2026 · 06:00 BST · 30m · 5 stories · 15 annotated moments · 22 of 30 min on news stories (74%)
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Sky News reported from the front line of the Ebola crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the outbreak is the worst in the country's history, with over 6,000 infected and nearly 3,000 dead. The report showed gravediggers working in cemeteries, a treatment center in Lita where whole families are infected, and a one-week-old girl whose mother died from the virus. Medical teams are also facing conflict zones and skepticism, while the rainy season is hampering aid efforts.
Buckingham Palace issued an unusually strong rebuke to claims in Earl Spencer's memoir that King Charles said "rest assured we'll forget her soon enough" after Princess Diana's death. Police found a body in a pond during the search for three-year-old Noah Woods, who had gone missing from a playground in Suffolk. The Trump administration denied entry visas for a high-level Palestinian delegation to the UN General Assembly, citing failure to seek peace with Israel. A life-extending drug for a specific type of incurable breast cancer, Enhertu, became available on NHS England after a funding reversal.
Experts including Nobel Prize winner Geoffrey Hinton are calling for tighter AI regulation, but the race to develop AI continues due to financial pressures. A Sky News analysis explained that AI companies face rapid competition from cheaper open-weight models, causing prices to plummet, and they must keep advancing to justify valuations while managing safety risks. The report highlighted the tension between economic benefits and the dangers of an AI arms race, with President Trump emphasizing the need to stay ahead of China.
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Charged quote Ebola outbreak in DRC kills thousands and spreads amid conflict
The brutal conditions facing medical teams trying to help they're not only facing the challenge of operating in conflict zones but also battling skepticism on the ground and indifference around the globe Meanwhile gravediggers have been working night and day to bury the victims of the virulence strain
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 1:39-1:41
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Charged quote Ebola outbreak in DRC kills thousands and spreads amid conflict
It's killed three and a half thousand people since May When our chief correspondent Stuart Ramsay traveled through the red zone and witnessed how the virus is spreading. Here's his special report This is a full-on crisis the gravediggers have never seen anything like it There's is a full-time job now
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 2:05-2:10
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Charged quote Ebola outbreak in DRC kills thousands and spreads amid conflict
This is a full-on crisis the gravediggers have never seen anything like it There's is a full-time job now The eastern provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo are being ravaged by an epidemic of the deadly Ebola virus It's the worst in the country's history Over 6,000 infected nearly 3,000 dead and it's spreading
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 2:14-2:21
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Charged quote Ebola outbreak in DRC kills thousands and spreads amid conflict
Inside the tent his mother Francine and baby sister are also infected Around the corner his father Jeremy also infected and ill talks to his sister-in-law Esperanza who is not Whole families are being struck down by the virus and are dying Too many we're told aren't like this family and don't come looking for help
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 3:25-3:28
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Charged quote Ebola outbreak in DRC kills thousands and spreads amid conflict
Difficult for passion to access in healthcare, so we we are managing Even though it's not easy, but we make the best while this Ebola outbreak receives scant attention abroad Here it is wrecking lives Another funeral for the latest victim a to you Red Cross workers bring her tiny coffin from their truck for burial
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 7:53-7:55
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Charged quote Ebola outbreak in DRC kills thousands and spreads amid conflict
Another funeral for the latest victim a to you Red Cross workers bring her tiny coffin from their truck for burial Her distraught mother and her brothers and sisters are inconsolable a life in front of you her mother howls in grief another casualty of this awful disease Another broken family a tragic cycle that isn't ending soon
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 8:08-8:22
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Charged quote Ebola outbreak in DRC kills thousands and spreads amid conflict
Red Cross workers bring her tiny coffin from their truck for burial Her distraught mother and her brothers and sisters are inconsolable a life in front of you her mother howls in grief another casualty of this awful disease Another broken family a tragic cycle that isn't ending soon Nobody can remotely predict when Stuart Ramsay Sky News in Eastern DRC
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 8:30-8:37
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Charged quote Palace hits back at Earl Spencer's claim over King Charles and Diana
Nobody can remotely predict when Stuart Ramsay Sky News in Eastern DRC Buckingham Palace has delivered an unusually strong rebuke to claims that King Charles said in the days following Princess Diana's death Rest assured we'll forget her soon enough in his new memoir the late princesses brother Earl Spencer
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 8:52-9:00
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Claim Palace hits back at Earl Spencer's claim over King Charles and Diana
Buckingham Palace responded that grief can cloud a person's memory.
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 8:52-9:08
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Charged quote Palace hits back at Earl Spencer's claim over King Charles and Diana
Affect judgment and color memory in ways others do not recognize even many years after such a loss Royal correspondent Laura Bundock has more this really is a remarkable Intervention from Buckingham Palace and the king a very Robustly written statement and the fact we've had any kind of statement is itself highly unusual the palace as it says
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 9:35-9:54
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Claim Palace hits back at Earl Spencer's claim over King Charles and Diana
Buckingham Palace responded that grief can cloud a person's memory.
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 9:35-9:54
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Claim Palace hits back at Earl Spencer's claim over King Charles and Diana
Buckingham Palace responded that grief can cloud a person's memory.
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 10:00-10:14
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Claim Palace hits back at Earl Spencer's claim over King Charles and Diana
Buckingham Palace responded that grief can cloud a person's memory.
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 10:00-10:14
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Charged quote Palace hits back at Earl Spencer's claim over King Charles and Diana
Conversation Earl Spencer ends with a row during which Prince Charles he claims said to him rest assured Will forget her soon enough an explosive allegation from Earl Spencer and clearly one that the palace had to respond to I think the strength of what they're saying has Some echoes of that very strong statement
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 11:01-11:12
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Claim Body of missing three-year-old Noah Woods found in Suffolk pond
Police divers recovered a child's body from Decoy Pond.
Sky News, Mornings, 17 September 2026, 11:49-12:00
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