26 h. ago Lush 'bath bomb bandit' who looted shop in 'war zone' Hull riots jailed

Jordan Briggs, 24, was 'drinking all morning' in Hull when riots 'resembling a war zone' broke out in the wake of the Southport stabbing which he decided to join in an 'act of idiocy'

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3 d. ago Scot held captive by Saddam Hussein hopes new documentary will help fight for justice

Air steward Charlie Kristiansson was one of 385 passengers and crew taken hostage when BA Flight 149 was sent into a war zone.

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1 week ago 'I organise holidays in world's most extreme places from volcanoes to war zones'

James Wilcox and his small expert team at Untamed Borders specialise in taking group of tourists to some of the most interesting and hard to reach areas on the Planet

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2 w. ago Gaza's youngest influencer, 11, killed in Israeli strike after tragically offering war zone survival tips

Yaqeen Hammad showed over 100,000 followers how to cook without gas but also how children living under bombardment found joy in daily life

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2 w. ago ‘They told me that they’d hunt me down’: journalists on how they survive working in war zones

With a record number of journalists killed over the past year, four reporters covering conflicts across the world reveal how they dodge death• ‘They threatened to bulldoze my house’: fear and violence stalk journalists in Modi’s IndiaStephen*, 39, is a journalist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The war between the DRC’s army and the military faction known as M23 is one of Africa’s longest conflicts [a potential truce was announced last month]. The escalation of violence has meant Stephen now forgoes bylines and a presence on social media. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Glasgow City Council denies drug consumption room has created a 'war zone' in local neighbourhood

Some residents in the east end of Glasgow have warned the streets around The Thistle have become "a toilet" due to rubbish dumped by drug addicts.

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3 w. ago Trump eyes foreign aid funds to remove migrants including Ukrainians who came to the U.S. from war zones: report

Hundreds of thousands of migrants, including those from Ukraine and Haiti, are reportedly being considered in the plans

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3 w. ago Bees face new threats from wars, street lights and microplastics, scientists warn

University of Reading report says conflicts including war in Ukraine among 12 most pressing threats to pollinatorWar zones, microplastics and street lights are among the emerging threats to the bee population, according to scientists.Bee experts have drawn up a list of the 12 most pressing threats to the pollinator over the next decade, published in a report, Emerging Threats and Opportunities for Conservation of Global Pollinators, by the University of Reading. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Attacks on healthcare in war zones in 2024 reach ‘new levels of horror’ – report

Health facilities were destroyed and staff killed in record numbers in conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine, Myanmar and SudanLast year saw more than 3,600 attacks on health workers, hospitals and clinics in conflict zones, a record figure reflecting “new levels of horror”, a new report has found.The total is 15% higher than in 2023 and includes air, missile and drone strikes on hospitals and clinics, as well as the looting and takeover of facilities and arrest and detention of health workers. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago ‘It’s a war zone.’ 14 dead amid devastation in Somerset & London after storms hit KY

‘It’s a war zone.’ 14 dead amid devastation in Somerset & London after storms hit KY  Lexington Herald Leader

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4 w. ago ‘It’s a war zone.’ 18 dead amid devastation in Somerset & London after storms hit KY

‘It’s a war zone.’ 18 dead amid devastation in Somerset & London after storms hit KY  Lexington Herald Leader

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4 w. ago Gaza children are sent back to war zone following medical care after Jordan rejects requests to stay

Seventeen Palestinian children and their caregivers were recently sent back to Gaza after receiving medical treatment in Jordan

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4 w. ago ‘Right now all of us lose’: Shakhtar claim Ukrainian Cup in glimpse of past life

Final against Dynamo Kyiv had edge, flares and burning Russian flags but some of the enmity has gone; as one fan says: ‘Aggression must stay in the war zone’Valeriy Bondar vaults a perfunctory metal fence, is handed a flare from somewhere in the melee and waves it around in the night sky. Shakhtar Donetsk have won the Ukrainian Cup, finally beating Dynamo Kyiv on penalties: light and smoke fill the air in Polissya Stadion’s south-west corner but there is something else, too. A trickle of supporters have been allowed back into many of the country’s arenas since February 2024 but more than 5,000 are packed in this time and the scenes are redolent of a different era. There has been no occasion quite like this on Ukraine’s soil for well over three years.Fireworks have been a theme all day. Ninety minutes before kick-off in Zhytomyr several dozen Shakhtar ultras from different groups convene on a footbridge that dramatically spans the River Teteriv, towards the outskirts of this neat pro...

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last month Refugees fleeing war zones could face tough English tests before they can join family members in the UK, charities fear

The Home Office has pledged to reform scheme allowing refugees to reunite with family members in the UK

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last month A grim lottery: as Israel bombs hospitals, some Gaza children are granted rare exit permits

The al Astal brothers are among the unlucky Palestinians who are fighting their own battle against cancer while stuck in a war zoneIt was a short distance but a very long journey from a bombed out hospital in Gaza to the Jordanian border. Zeinab al Astal arrived with her two sick sons as dusk was falling on Wednesday evening, and she seemed stunned they had made it at all.Twenty four hours earlier she had been watching chunks of ceiling crash down to the floor around them, after Israel bombed the European hospital in Khan Younis where they were staying. Continue reading...

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