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US Vice President Kamala Harris, former President George W. Bush and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland arrive ahead of a solemn ceremony in Shanksville, Pennsylvania, to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, at the site of a crash of a plane hijacked by four jihadists. IMAGES
A solemn ceremony to mark the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on the United States is under way in New York under tight security. A marching band launch the start of the service at Ground Zero, where Al-Qaeda hijackers slammed jetliners into the World Trade Center killing almost 3,000 people, shortly after 8:40 am (1240 GMT). IMAGES
Images of the 9/11 Memorial and Museum and the One World Trade Center, the main building of the rebuilt World Trade Center complex, on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terror attacks. IMAGES
New York remembers the victims of the 9/11 terror attacks in a special ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of the event attended by President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden and former presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton. IMAGES
Under clear blue Caribbean skies, 9/11 victims' family members gather for a flag-raising ceremony at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba on the attacks' 20th anniversary, as the attacks' mastermind, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, sits in a prison cell just a few miles away. IMAGES
Relatives read the names of the 40 passengers and crew members of United Airlines Flight 93 who died on September 11, 2001, when hijackers crashed the plane in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania, at a ceremony marking the 20th anniversary of 9/11, attended by US Vice President Kamala Harris and former President George W. Bush. IMAGES