67 h. ago Brit traveller, 36, gunned down in 'murder capital' of Mexico was in 'wrong place at the wrong time', coroner told

British traveller Ben Corser who was shot dead alongside two friends in Mexico 's 'murder capital' was unlawfully killed, a coroner concluded today.

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2 d. ago British man shot while travelling in Mexico was unlawfully killed, coroner finds

Ben Corser, who held first class degrees in fine art and mathematics, was pronounced dead in Colima in 2022.

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3 d. ago Foreign Office issues travel warning for holiday hotspot as storm becomes hurricane

Tropical Storm Erick is forecast to become a hurricane and the government has advised against travel to parts of Mexico

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8 d. ago Solo female traveler reveals why Mexico is great for visiting alone (though there is a city she won’t return to)

Travel content creator Sam Saenz, from Texas, has spent a huge amount of time in Mexico and tells The Independent that she is "fascinated by the country"

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9 d. ago Shocking moment British photographer films himself getting shot in the head by LA riot cops

Shocking footage has captured the moment LA police shot a British photographer in the head with a rubber bullet as the city was rocked by violent riots on Sunday evening. 

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1 week ago Trump has unleashed something terrifying in the US – that even he may be powerless to control | Gaby Hinsliff

The protests in LA are what everyone feared, and a warning to countries that flirt with populismShe was live on air to viewers back home, her TV microphone clearly in hand, when the rubber bullet hit her. The Australian reporter Lauren Tomasi was the second journalist after the British photographer Nick Stern to be shot with non-lethal rounds while covering protests in Los Angeles sparked by immigration raids. But she was the first to be caught on camera and beamed around the world. There’s no excuse for not knowing what the US is becoming, now that anyone can watch that clip online. Not when you can hear her scream and see the cameraman quickly swing away to film a panicking crowd.It was the scenario everyone feared when Donald Trump took office. Deportation hit squads descending on the kind of Democrat-voting communities who would feel morally bound to resist them, triggering the kind of violent confrontation that creates an excuse to send in national guard troops – and ultimately...

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1 week ago British photographer undergoes emergency surgery after being shot during LA protests

Nick Stern was documenting a stand-off between anti-Ice protesters and police when a 14mm ‘sponge bullet’ tore into his thigh

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1 week ago British photographer, 60, is shot by police at LA riots and forced to undergo emergency surgery

Nick Stern, 60, from Hertford, had been taking pictures of a stand-off between protestors and armed police in the Californian city when a 14mm bullet pierced his thigh.

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2 w. ago Kidnapping fears prompt warning to tourists using dating apps in Mexico

Victims have been ‘extorted for large sums of money to secure their release’, said US security alert

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2 w. ago I stroked dying gangster's hair as he slipped away on the blood

Although she was in a nearby bar, the brave nurse decided to selflessly run towards the carnage when she learnt that someone had been shot.

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2 w. ago British nurse describes horrific scene inside Spanish bar where Scottish gangsters were shot dead

Although she was in a nearby bar, the brave nurse decided to selflessly run towards the carnage when she learnt that someone had been shot.

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2 w. ago Ross Monaghan and Eddie Lyons murders spark fears gangland war will explode in UK

Hired hitmen are reportedly waiting in the wings to carry out a string of revenge attacks after two British criminal kingpins were shot dead on the Costa de Sol

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2 w. ago 'I held Scot gangster Ross Monaghan as he lay dying in Costa del Sol shooting'

A brave British nurse who tended to Ross Monaghan after he was shot along with Eddie Lyons Jnr said: 'I just held his hand and stroked his hair. His eyes were open and I kept saying stay with me Ross'

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2 w. ago Terrifying moment infamous gangster is chased through his Spanish pub and shot dead by hitman as British gang warfare explodes on Costa Del Sol

Graphic footage broadcast on Spanish TV today shows the killer assassinating Scottish gangster Ross Monaghan, 43, after a pursuit through his bar.

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2 w. ago Two men shot dead by hooded gunman outside Irish bar on the Costa del Sol are 'infamous Scottish gangsters'

The Scottish men are understood to have been gunned down near the entrance door to Monaghans Fuengirola, in Andalusia, by a masked armed assailant on Saturday evening.

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2 w. ago Two British men shot dead 'by hooded gunman' outside Irish bar on the Costa del Sol

The Scottish men are understood to have been gunned down near the entrance door to Monaghans Fuengirola, in Andalusia, by a masked armed assailant on Saturday evening.

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3 w. ago Russian captain denies unlawful killing of crew member in North Sea collision

The Solong’s master, Vladimir Motin, of St Petersburg, is accused over the death of Mark Angelo Pernia.

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3 w. ago Man found to have killed millionaire wife sentenced to two years in jail for contempt

Donald McPherson was found to have unlawfully killed his wife

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3 w. ago Hotel booking giant claims tourists are now shunning American holidays

Trivago claimed the company if seeing double-digit declines in bookings to the US from travellers in Canada, Mexico and Japan

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3 w. ago Artist Damien Hirst says he rejected a knighthood because he 'never felt comfortable with the idea'

Reportedly worth £308 million, Hirst forged the Young British Artist (YBA) art scene of the 1990s and shot to fame after displaying sharks and other animals suspended in formaldehyde.

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