84 m. ago Police searching for missing Hull man Jamie issue tragic update

Jamie, aged 28, was reported missing last week having not been seen since June 17 - friends and family organised a volunteer-led search party through Facebook for Jamie today, but it has now been cancelled

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2 h. ago Madame Lynch: how an Irish woman joined the ranks of Paraguay's heroes

Eliza Lynch was at her warlord partner’s side in a cataclysmic war and died in obscurity in Paris but is now being honoured – although not without controversyBy the time she turned 21, Eliza Alice Lynch had fled famine-stricken County Cork for Paris, married and left a French officer, become entangled with a South American warlord-in-waiting, and returned with him to Paraguay.Ten years later, her partner – by then, president and grand marshal Francisco Solano López – led Paraguay into a cataclysmic four-year war against Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. Half of Paraguay’s population was wiped out. López was cornered and shot on a jungle battlefield called Cerro Corá, along with their 15-year-old son. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Words of War review – Maxine Peake leads line as murdered Putin

Peake stars opposite Jason Isaacs, as Politkovskaya’s husband, in this sentimental look at the life of a woman who, 19 years after her death, remains a folk heroThis British-American co-production offers a dramatised portrait of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya (played by Maxine Peake) who was assassinated in 2006. Politkovskaya’s gutsy, impassioned reporting on the second Chechen war was highly critical of the Kremlin, the Russian army and Vladimir Putin personally. (The fact that she was murdered on his birthday was surely no coincidence.) Nineteen years after her death, she remains a folk hero worldwide for resistances to autocracy, especially given the rise in repression everywhere and constant threats to journalists.Given all that, the film deserves respect for the subject matter, even though this is a pretty basic rendition of Politkovskaya’s story, a little too sticky with hagiographic sentimentality and the cliches of crusading journalist-led movies. It also should be n...

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3 h. ago Brad Pitt reveals alcoholism battle and says he needed to "wake the f*** up"

The Oscar-winning star of films such as Bullet Train, F1: The Movie and Oceans Eleven revealed his efforts to stop boozing on the Armchair Expert podcast on Monday and didn’t hold back.

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5 h. ago ‘It’s cheap but it’s not disposable’: why fast tech is a growing waste problem

Low-cost and quickly discarded products are playing a key role in world’s fastest-growing waste problem – electronicsIt is cheap, often poorly made, and usually ends up in the bin or buried among the other knick-knacks, takeaway menus and birthday candles in the kitchen drawer.Known as “fast-tech”, these low-cost electronics are increasingly common – from mini-fans and electric toothbrushes, to portable chargers and LED toilet seats, often bought for just a few pounds online. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Sudan, Remember Us review – vividness and vibrancy in intense account of Khartoum uprising

Hind Meddeb’s documentary draws on her on-the-spot experience in 2019 as protesters rose against the 30-year rule of Omar al-BashirFranco-Tunisian-Moroccan film-maker Hind Meddeb is based in Paris but it was her on-the-spot experience in Khartoum in 2019 of the Sudanese uprising against the reactionary 30-year rule of president Omar al-Bashir which has led to this intensely engaged and sympathetic documentary study. The film immerses itself in the world of the protesters – particularly the young and female protesters – a whole generation energised and brought together by the insurgent movement; their passion was complicated and intensified by the fact that the revolution, at least at first, only brought in a “Transitional Military Council” or TMC, which did not seem in any great hurry to transition to democratic civilian rule. In fact, it carried out a grotesque massacre against people at a sit-in in June 2019, resulting in 127 people dead and 70 cases of rape.Meddeb finds among the...

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5 h. ago Zelenskyy warns Russia could attack a Nato member within five years as summit waits for Trump’s arrival – Europe live

Ukraine president urges leaders to increase defence spending more rapidly as Nato summit braces for Donald Trump to attendAnalysis: Summit set to be triumphant for Trump but deflating for UkraineKicking off the Nato Public Forum, Dutch justice and security minister David van Well says the organisers looked at some 40 scenarios that could disrupt the summit, including state actors, terrorists, activists, and cyber-attacks.I think you’re probably in one of the safest spaces in the world right now.“That could be sabotage, that’s one of the things that we’re looking into. And then the question is, well, who was behind it? That can be activist group, it can be state actor led, it can be any kind. “In my view, this is slow because we believe that starting from 2030 Putin can have significantly greater capabilities.Today, Ukraine is holding him up. He has no time to drill the army, and they are all getting annihilated and wiped out at the battlefield.” Continue reading...

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8 h. ago Boycott of McDonald’s to begin this week: ‘This is about more than burgers and fries’

Advocacy group has led boycotts of other major corporations including Amazon, Nestlé, and Walmart

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13 h. ago ‘This is about more than burgers and fries’: Boycott of McDonald’s to begin this week

Advocacy group has led boycotts of other major corporations including Amazon, Nestlé, and Walmart

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14 h. ago Wife died after police not told when car broke down in live M1 motorway lane

A Mercedes crashed into the vehicle in which Nargis Begum had been travelling on the M1 in South Yorkshire, and the impact led to the 62-year-old woman's fatal injuries

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17 h. ago Boss of ‘Monty Python pub’ forced to close 10 days before award win blames Liz Truss

EXCLUSIVE: A stunning, award-winning, community boozer was given a lauded design award but by the time they were handed they had already shuttered the business for good

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18 h. ago 'Mario Kart World is great but these karting classic leaks have me even more excited'

Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled hit a huge sales milestone last week, and fans are desperate for rumours of a PC port and current-gen patch to be true — here's all we know

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21 h. ago A medical student’s anger toward America’s health care system, with similarities to Luigi Mangione’s case, led him to shoot a doctor, police say

Andre Uche Obua is awaiting trial after wounding a kidney specialist he had never met before, police say

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21 h. ago Wimbledon 2025 Women's Singles Odds: Here are the 11 players tipped to take the title

It’s nearly time for the world’s best tennis players to take to the grass of SW19.

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21 h. ago Shoe left behind in scuffle foils ‘Cinderella’ phone snatcher

A phone snatcher was tackled off his e-bike by members of the public, with a left-behind shoe allowing investigators to match his DNA to the trainer which led to his arrest.

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21 h. ago Brits getting 'gym guilt' as one in five would rather work out than go boozing

Research has found that a fifth of 18-28 year olds would rather share a post work-out selfie online than a picture of them out with their mates as 40% of adults feel guilt from a post gym tipple

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22 h. ago Half of Gen Z now prioritise exercise over going out with friends, study finds

A study of 2,000 adults found that many are now prioritising exercise over going out with friends

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22 h. ago Turkey travel alert issued by Foreign Office as tensions flare

The Mediterranean destination is loved by UK holidaymakers, and in 2024, Turkey welcomed over four million Brits. However, conflict in the region has led the UK Foreign Office to issue a travel warning

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25 h. ago Elephant Hackney: former Manteca chef puts on Italian classics in old Victorian boozer

Expect Italian snacks, classic cocktails and the lesser-spotted Grolsch on draught

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26 h. ago Voices: Donald Trump’s gamble in Iran is bad news for the ‘Axis of Autocracies’

United by little more than a hatred of the US-led world order, Russia, China and North Korea are in no doubt that the attacks on Iran’s nuclear programme pose a threat to their marriage of convenience, says Luke McGee

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