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Bank of America Vice President Killed in New York Times Square Stabbing The victim who lost her life in a stabbing rampage at Times Square, a major tourist attraction in New York, has been identified as a vice president at Bank of America . SBS Sep 2, 2026 7:23 AM

Emergency Relief Team Joins Search Today; Death Toll Exceeds 1,000 While ground searches continue to find nine South Korean nationals missing in the massive floods in Nepal, South Korea's overseas emergency relief team arrived in Nepal this morning and is joining the operation on site. SBS Sep 2, 2026 7:16 AM

Global Oil Prices Surge Around 5% Amid Resumed US-Iran Clashes; WTI Surpasses $90 International oil prices surged sharply as military clashes between the United States and Iran resumed on September 1, local time. SBS Sep 2, 2026 6:59 AM

As Warned, U.S. Strikes Iran: "Retaliatory Operation Underway" As warned, the United States has launched another strike against Iran. With Iran vowing retaliation, tensions in the Middle East continue to escalate. SBS Sep 2, 2026 6:31 AM

DNA Collected Before Mass Burial: Entire City Becomes a Morgue In Nepal, bodies are piling up by the hundreds every day. Unidentified and unable to be returned to their families, they are being buried in mass graves. SBS Sep 2, 2026 6:18 AM

Iran Media: U.S. Airstrike on Wedding Venue Leaves 4 Dead and Over 50 Injured airstrike in southern Iran hit a private residence where a wedding was taking place, resulting in massive civilian casualties, Iran's state-run IRNA news agency reported on the 1st local time. SBS Sep 2, 2026 6:00 AM

Wall Street Stocks Fall Across the Board Amid Middle East Tensions, Oil Price Surge, and Bond Sell-off stock indices closed lower across the board on the 1st due to concerns over inflation sparked by renewed military engagement between the U.S. SBS Sep 2, 2026 5:58 AM

Venezuelan Parliament Approves US-Venezuela Oil Agreement According to foreign media outlets including Reuters, the parliament, controlled by the ruling party, passed the bilateral oil agreement in a vote held that day, which grants the United States access to one-fifth of Venezuela's oil reserves. SBS Sep 2, 2026 5:57 AM

Netanyahu Claims Military and Security Leadership 'Deliberately' Didn't Wake Him Up During Hamas Surprise Attack During an Instagram live broadcast on the 1st local time, Prime Minister Netanyahu stated, "They intentionally did not wake me up because they knew that I, as the Prime Minister of Israel, would immediately issue a state of high alert across the entire military." This goes a step beyond his previous stance that the situation would have been different had he been briefed just before the surprise attack, marking the first time he has officially raised suspicions that security officials intentionally sidelined the prime minister. SBS Sep 2, 2026 4:24 AM

Trump Defends Iran Strikes as Fully Justified, Warns of Harder Blows if Retaliated President Donald Trump U.S. President Donald Trump defended the U.S. military's targeted airstrikes against Iranian forces as a fully justified measure on September 1 , warning that Iran will face even more powerful retaliation if it takes further retaliatory actions. SBS Sep 2, 2026 4:21 AM