Headline news for September 7, 2026: 8 airports across Indonesia remain closed today, following Mount Anak Krakatau’s eruption. US peace envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff met Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy in Kyiv and Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow over the weekend, with little breakthrough. Iran says it will intensify efforts to deal with the economic fallout from US sanctions, and warned of a “painful response” to any further attacks

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