1 week ago Met Office maps show where rain and hail will fall in next 24 hours

It comes after a yellow weather warning was issued for Monday

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1 week ago Map reveals where thunderstorms set to hit Britain within hours as Met Office issues yellow weather warning

The Met Office said up to 2in (50mm) of rain could fall in two hours over parts of England and Wales during the thunderstorm warning period which runs from 12pm until 10pm.

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1 week ago Exact time thunderstorms set to strike huge swathe of UK as yellow weather warning issued

Today's thunderstorms may bring floods, power cuts and widespread disruption to parts of the country - with a possible 50mm of rain set to fall in the hardest-hit areas, according to the Met Office

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3 w. ago The US left Vietnam 50 years ago today. The media hasn’t learned its lesson | Norman Solomon

The myth that news coverage turned Americans against the war persists. In fact, it was largely complicit in perpetuating the conflictThe last helicopter liftoff from the roof of the American embassy in Saigon on 30 April 1975 marked the end of the Vietnam war. Fifty years later, mythology about US media coverage of the war is locked into the faulty premise that news outlets were pivotal in causing Americans to turn against it. Some say that mainstream media undermined a noble war effort, while others say that coverage alerted the public to realities of an unjust war. Both assertions are wrong.Scapegoating the media fits neatly into “stab in the back” theories of Americans who can’t stand the fact that their country lost a war to impoverished Vietnamese fighters. And praising the media as catalysts for the nation’s roused conscience gives undue credit while fostering illusions about mainstream news coverage of America’s wars. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago For some Americans, the end of the Vietnam War after Saigon fell 50 years ago is still deeply felt

The Vietnam War that ended after the fall of Saigon 50 years ago greatly impacted U.S. society

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3 w. ago ‘Bombs and bullets were like rain’: 50 years on from the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam war

Xuan Phuong, a war correspondent who is now 96, recalls the day she entered the city after South Vietnam’s surrenderThe day that Saigon fell, Xuan Phuong, a war correspondent, could only hear shouting and commotion. It was 30 April 1975, and helicopters were frantically lifting personnel and civilians from the US embassy. Phuong, who had travelled down from the north, was initially held back by troops who said fighting was still continuing. When she was finally able to reach the centre of the city the following day, 1 May, she found chaos. Clothes and luggage were scattered and discarded along the streets. Buildings were being looted.It felt like a dream, Phuong, now 96, said. She stood inside the Presidential Palace on 2 May, watching as the president of South Vietnam, Duong Van Minh, surrendered. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago, but the battle with Agent Orange continues

The Vietnam War ended 50 years ago but the disaster unleashed by American use of Agent Orange continues unabated

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