25 h. ago A man wielding an axe wounds 3 people at the Assyrian Christian new year's parade in Iraq

Witnesses and officials in the northern Iraqi city of Dohuk say a man with an axe has attacked a new year's parade by Assyrian Christians, and three people have been wounded

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3 d. ago 2 people killed and dozens wounded in Russian attack on Kharkiv

Ukrainian officials say two people were killed when Russian drones struck a military hospital, shopping center and apartment buildings in Kharkiv late Saturday

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5 d. ago Hero British tourist who tackled Amsterdam stabbings suspect awarded medal

Brit intervened when at least five people were wounded in the mass stabbing which took place near the city's iconic Dam Square on Thursday

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6 d. ago At least five injured in horror mass stabbing near Amsterdam's famous Dam Square

At least five people have been wounded in a stabbing near Amsterdam's central Dam square, police have said.

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8 d. ago Video and 911 calls played by police detail chaos from deadly shooting in New Mexico

Police in Las Cruces, New Mexico, played 911 emergency calls and video depicting chilling scenes of people running in panic as gunfire crackled in a park where three people were killed and 15 others were wounded during an unauthorized car show

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8 d. ago BoE heaps woe on Rachel Reeves with bleak warning over UK growth prospects as she tries to appease Labour MPs with affordable housing plan ahead of '£15bn' cuts in brutal Spring Statement

Chancellor Rachel Reeves is bracing to wield the axe on spending at the fiscal event tomorrow - with £15billion of cuts expected as she desperately tries to balance the books.

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1 week ago ‘There was just wave after wave’: Gaza doctors recount horror of the last week

About a third of all casualties admitted to Nasser hospital were under 14, as Israeli airstrikes broke fragile ceasefireEarly on Tuesday morning, within minutes of the wave of Israeli airstrikes that broke the fragile two-month ceasefire which had brought some respite to Gaza, the emergency room of al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in the central town of Deir al-Balah was full.“At no point were there less than 65 people in ER, all with open wounds, mainly women and children The floor was awash with blood,” said Mark Perlmutter, a US-based volunteer orthopaedic surgeon working at the hospital that morning. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Rachel Reeves wields axe over 10,000 civil service jobs as she warns of hard choices ahead

Labour chancellor says the ‘world has changed’ since last year’s budget as she prepares to set out tough decisions in Wednesday’s spring statement

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1 week ago Israel strikes southern Lebanon and Gaza amid calls for halt to ‘endless war’

One killed and seven wounded in attack as freed hostages and families of those still held in Gaza urge end to fightingIsrael carried out a strike in Tyre, south Lebanon, on Saturday, killing one and wounding seven people and endangering the shaky truce that ended a year-long conflict against Hezbollah, as 40 survivors of Hamas captivity called on the Israeli government to halt the “endless war”.The strike on a building came after Israel carried out dozens of airstrikes in Lebanon on Saturday, its most intense aerial assault on the country in four months. In total, six people were killed, including a child, and 28 injured, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. Continue reading...

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1 week ago 3 people killed in Russian attacks on Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia despite limited truce

Ukrainian officials say Russian drones have struck the city of Zaporizhzhia, killing three people and wounding 12

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1 week ago Russia and Ukraine exchange aerial attacks amid ceasefire confusion

Moscow launches airstrikes and drone attacks and Kyiv hits Russian airbase as terms of proposed ceasefire remain unclear Europe live – latest updatesRussia and Ukraine exchanged aerial assaults overnight amid uncertainty over the timing and terms of a limited US-brokered ceasefire agreed this week.Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, said Russia had launched nearly 200 Iranian Shahed drones overnight, wounding at least 10 people, including four children, and damaging “residential buildings, a church, and infrastructure”. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Kemi Badenoch 'is poised to axe one in eight Conservative HQ staff members' despite fresh £250,000 donation from Lord Ashcroft

Against a backdrop of plunging donations and plunging morale, Kemi Badenoch is ready to wield the axe again at Tory headquarters, where a round of compulsory redundancies is planned.

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2 w. ago Ethiopia's Tigray regional government appeals for help after factional fighters seize key towns

The interim government of Ethiopia’s Tigray region has appealed for the Ethiopian federal government to intervene after a faction of the Tigray People’s Liberation Front seized control of two major towns, leaving several people wounded and raising fears of a return to civil war

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3 w. ago Middle East latest: Israeli fire kills 4 Palestinians in Gaza Strip, 3 in the occupied West Bank

Israeli fire has killed four people and wounded 14 in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours even as a fragile ceasefire with Hamas has largely held

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3 w. ago 12 people wounded by 3 men shooting randomly at Toronto pub customers, police say

Canadian police say a dozen people were injured in a shooting at an eastern Toronto pub in what an official has called a reckless act of violence by three men who entered the bar and fired randomly without warning

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3 w. ago Toronto pub shooting sees 12 wounded including several now fighting for life as balaclava

Police said they were called to reports of multiple people being shot near Progress Avenue and Corporate Drive at around 10.40pm on Friday local time.

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3 w. ago Russia hammers Ukraine's gas network in 'massive' drone and missile attack after US leaves Kyiv 'blind' amid intelligence blackout

At least 18 people, including four children, were wounded in Russian airstrikes yesterday, with at least one fatality in a strike on Kostiantynivka in the east amid the withdrawal of US military aid.

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3 w. ago Ford confirms date THIS YEAR that it will kill off another of Britain's most loved cars owned by 1.3million drivers

The popular brand has been wielding the axe on some of its most recognisable combustion-engine model names in recent years as part of its ongoing efforts to switch to EVs.

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3 w. ago Fighter jets bomb town near North Korea causing casualties as exercise goes horribly wrong

Footage shows South Korean fighter planes dropping eight 500-pound bombs on a small town close to the border with North Korea - eight people were wounded in the blasts

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4 w. ago Pakistan holds funeral prayers for 12 people killed in a double suicide bombing near a military base

Pakistani authorities say funeral prayers will be held in the northwest city of Bannu after a double suicide bombing at a military base there killed 12 people and wounded 30

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