2 h. ago Savage maulings & a severed head inside world’s bear attack capital with 100 attacks and record deaths in 2025

JAPAN has become the world's bear attack capital after a record number of fatal encounters which have left humans savaged and dismembered. Ten people have been mauled to death with over 100 injured in a horror spate of assaults across the country this year alone. Locals and tourists have been targeted by the prowling beasts...

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20 h. ago US airstrike on ‘drug boat’ kills six as aircraft carrier sent to South America

Pete Hegseth claims six ‘narco-terrorists’ killed in Caribbean as US military conducts 10th strike US politics live – latest updatesThe United States has carried out another military strike against a boat it claims was carrying illegal drugs in the Caribbean, killing six people onboard, the Pentagon chief, Pete Hegseth, said on Friday morning.Later on Friday, the Pentagon said that an aircraft carrier was being moved to waters off South America, as part of the administration’s stated campaign to combat drug trafficking. Continue reading...

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21 h. ago Hegseth sends aircraft carrier in major escalation amid new ‘drug boat’ strike: ‘We will treat you like we treat Al

Pentagon boss claims boat targeted in latest strike was operated by Tren de Aragua

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56 h. ago NHS warning as people slapped with £100 fine 'they do not owe'

An MP raised the issue in Parliament

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3 d. ago This seat taken? Group accused of stealing over 1,000 restaurant chairs

Spanish police have arrested seven people after 1,100 chairs went missing from bars

Society

3 d. ago This seat taken? Thieves busted for stealing over 1,000 restaurant chairs in Spain

Spanish police have arrested seven people suspected of stealing over 1,100 chairs from outdoor seating areas at restaurants and bars

Society

5 d. ago Two women stabbed with one dead in separate incidents within 24 hours across London

Two women stabbed with one dead in separate incidents within 24 hours across London  Newham Recorder

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6 d. ago Brits can make one change to home that adds over £100,000 to its value

Nationwide data shows that more homeowners are choosing to improve their home rather than move, and some people are spending up to 100,000 on renovations

Economics

7 d. ago People with income over £35,000 could owe HMRC up to £300 from winter support

The Winter Fuel Payment is worth between £100 and £300 and is designed to help people with their energy bills during the colder months of the year - but some people may need to pay it back

Economics

7 d. ago Stampede at the funeral of Kenya's former Prime Minister Raila Odinga kills 2

Two people have died and more than 100 others were injured during a stampede at a state funeral service for Kenya’s former Prime Minister Raila Odinga, who died this week at 80

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8 d. ago West London borough to routinely ask women if they're pregnant after baby found dead in bag

West London borough to routinely ask women if they're pregnant after baby found dead in bag  MyLondon

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1 week ago Fury as Scots video game firm axes ‘almost 300’ staff in mass layoff

EMPLOYEES at a Scots video game firm have accused the startup of unfair treatment after almost 300 people were laid off. Nearly 100 of those sacked at Build a Rocket Boy (BARB), in collaboration with the games workers branch of the Independent Workers of Great Britain (IWGB), have written to their former employer to make...

Politics

1 week ago Undercover police officers using the names of dead children slept with multiple women after infiltrating protest groups, an inquiry heard

Lawyer David Barr KC, pictured, set out the aims of the Undercover Policing Inquiry's latest stage, which will examine the behaviour of officers said to have spied on the family of Stephen Lawrence.

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2 w. ago AD FEATURE: Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland celebrates 30 years of its Advice Line

Since its launch, it has handled over 100,000 calls from people with chest, heart and stroke conditions and Long Covid

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2 w. ago Dozens killed and 47 wounded after paraglider drops bombs on Buddhist festival in Myanmar

A group of 100 people had gathered to celebrate the Buddhist festival

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2 w. ago Dozens killed in horror paraglider bombing raid at major Myanmar festival

The military has been accused of dropping explosives from a paraglider and on to a crowd of 100 people gathered for a festival in Chaung U township in central Myanmar

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2 w. ago ‘My poems are part of my flesh’: Palestinian poet Batool Abu Akleen on life in Gaza

At just 20, the poet is one of the most vivid witnesses to the conflict. She talks about dreams of Oxford, the deaths of friends and how tragedy has shaped the person she has becomeBatool Abu Akleen was having lunch in the seaside apartment that has become the latest refuge for her family of seven, when a missile struck a nearby cafe. It was the last day of June, an ordinary Monday in Gaza City. “I was holding a falafel wrap and looking out of the window, and the window shook,” she says. Within an instant, dozens of men, women and children were dead, in an atrocity that was reported around the world. “It doesn’t feel real sometimes,” she adds, with the nonchalance of someone numbed by living with horror.But this impression is misleading. At just 20 years old, Abu Akleen is becoming one of Gaza’s most vivid and unstinting witnesses, whose debut poetry collection has already won accolades from the novelist Anne Michaels, the playw...

Politics

2 w. ago Madding crowd march over plans to build 3,750 homes on unspoilt countryside that inspired Thomas Hardy

More than 100 people walked defiantly from the centre of Dorchester in Dorset to the edge of the unspoilt landscape under threat.

Politics

2 w. ago DWP confirms Winter Fuel Payment dates and how much you'll get

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has confirmed how many people will receive between £100 and £300 to help with the cost of increased heating bills this winter

Economics

2 w. ago Palestine demonstrations, live streamers and increased patrols

Over 100 people marched through Manchester city centre today

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