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US honors victims of 9/11 as Covid-19 deaths mount

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New York, Sep 11 (EFE).- Americans marked Friday's 19th anniversary of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, with tributes to the nearly 3,000 people killed on that day even as the number of lives claimed by coronavirus in the United States approached 193,000.Ceremonies at "Ground Zero" in New York, at the Pentagon and in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, looked back to the events that spurred Washington's open-ended global war on terror.(Camera: ALBA VIGARAY)FOOTAGE SHOWS NEW YORK ON THE 19TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE SEPT 11, 2011 ATTACKS.

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