53 h. ago Brit woman stabbed to death in Cambodia after she's 'caught up in love triangle'

Jessica Cariad Hopkins, from Hertfordshire, tragically died after being stabbed in Cambodia, authorities have said. A woman from DR Congo has been arrested on suspicion of murder

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3 d. ago Brit caught up in overseas military coup somehow survives – now he's going back

Shaun Hughes, 47, has returned to South Sudan to assist with helping refugees with a UN programme, after experiencing three days of terror there amidst a military coup

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6 d. ago America survived a coup attempt. Can it endure dictatorial creep? | Lawrence Douglas

Trump’s threat to deploy troops to Chicago is the latest example of a slow manipulation of the line between legal and illegalJanuary 6 demonstrated that longstanding democracies can readily resist a disorganized effort at a coup. They are less equipped to withstand the normalization of exceptional measures: the use of federal agents to quell domestic protest, the staging of police raids on the homes of leaders’ political opponents, the pretextual invocations of emergency powers. Each of these steps may seem temporary and targeted; they may even enjoy a thin patina of legality. But over time, a democratic order turns into what Ernst Fraenkel, a German-Jewish lawyer whose book The Dual State stands as one of the first and most perceptive examinations of Hitler’s regime, called a “prerogative state” – a government in which the executive “is released from all legal restraints and depends solely on the discretion of the persons wielding political power”.So let us be clear: Trump’s comman...

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2 w. ago Brit holidaymaker escapes 'curse' of Pompeii after getting caught stealing historic artefacts

The 51-year-old Scottish man was held by officers on the way out of the buried Roman settlement and was found with six fragments of stolen stone

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2 w. ago Brit holidaymaker escapes 'curse' of Pompei after getting caught stealing historic artefacts

The 51-year-old Scottish man was held by officers on the way out of the buried Roman settlement and was found with six fragments of stolen stone

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2 w. ago Local outrage as topless Brit tourist caught riding cow in Tenerife

Shoppers were left stunned when the holidaymaker decided to mount the life-sized model bovine outside a popular Ale-Hop store in Playa Fañabé, Costa Adeje, causing consternation among locals

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3 w. ago Brit drug mule mum avoids jail after being caught with 45lbs of cannabis

Cameron Bradford, 21, was arrested on April 22 after a last-minute change of flight tipped off German authorities as the judge presiding over her case agreed she had been pressured by a man

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