11 h. ago Deadly Israeli airstrike kills 10 people: Bombs flatten three

Strikes across the region have killed at least 49 people in the past 24 hours, according to health officials.

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4 d. ago ‘He felt our pain’: Catholic church in Gaza grieves Pope Francis’s death

Pope made nightly phone calls to the Holy Family Catholic church from the start of the war in October 2023Latest updates after death of Pope FrancisThe first time he spoke to Pope Francis during the pontiff’s nightly calls to the Holy Family Catholic church in Gaza City, the congregant George Antone, 44, found himself at a loss for words.It was October 2023, a few weeks after Hamas ignited a devastating war in the Gaza Strip by attacking Israel. The Palestinian territory’s tiny Christian community had taken shelter in the strip’s three churches, but that didn’t mean they were safe. An Israeli airstrike had just hit the Greek Orthodox church, killing 18 people; soon, snipers and bombs would also kill civilians at the Holy Family. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago ‘We didn’t want to avoid the reality of what happened’: the drama telling the true story of Jean Charles de Menezes

The 2005 shooting of the Brazilian created national headlines, but the shocking truth of his death remains unknown by many. A new series aims to do justice to his story – and those who fought to clear his nameOn 22 July 2005, 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes was shot and killed by firearms officers on the London underground shortly after boarding a train. The information relayed by the Metropolitan police at the time was that he had leapt over the ticket barriers at Stockwell station and was wearing a bulky coat under which officers thought he was hiding a bomb.The incident occurred two weeks after the 7/7 bombings on London’s transport network, where 52 people were killed, and the day after a copycat attack in which four men tried – and mercifully failed – to detonate devices on three underground trains and a bus; the bombers in the latter incidents fled the scene, triggering a police manhunt. It later emerged that De Menezes was innocent and the intelligence on him was flawed. ...

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8 d. ago Oklahoma City to mark 30 years since the bombing that killed 168 people and shook America

A bomb with a force powerful enough to instantly destroy much of a nine-story building shattered a quiet Oklahoma City morning and sent a shock wave through America

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1 week ago My last memory was holding my daughter's hand... when I woke up she was dead: Mother of Saffie

Saffie-Rose was the youngest of 22 people killed when suicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, detonated a homemade device at the end of an Ariana Grande concert at 10.31pm on May 22, 2017.

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3 w. ago Oklahoma City bombing survivors reflect on tragedy 30 years later in new doc

Thirty years ago, 168 people – included 19 children – were killed in the Oklahoma City bombing. A devastated mother who lost her children, a bank teller who was trapped upside down in her office chair for hours, and countless others are sharing their stories in a new docuseries on April 2. Andrea Cavallier takes a look back at the deadliest act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history

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