3 h. ago Dramatic moment Irish army rangers drop onto container ship carrying £132MILLION of cocaine in daring raid

The raid led to the sentencing of eight men yesterday following 2.2 tonnes of the Class A drug being discovered on board in what was Ireland's largest ever narcotics haul found on a container ship.

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29 h. ago Dramatic moment onlookers form human chain to rescue boy trapped in weir

This is the extraordinary moment a boy was rescued from a weir after a group of onlookers formed a human chain in China.

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4 d. ago Fed chair Jerome Powell blames Trump tariffs for failure to cut US interest rates this year – business live

Rolling coverage of the latest economic and financial newsUS dollar has worst first half in more than 50 years amid Trump tariffsSainsbury’s has recorded its strongest growth since last summer after its Argos chain recorded a big step up in sales as shoppers sought out paddling pools and fans during recent hot weather.The retail group said Argos, its catalogue shop, was able to achieve growth of 4.4% in the three months to 21 June, up from 1.9% in the previous quarter. Comparable group sales, excluding fuel, rose 4.7% on a year earlier.Companies have now expanded production slightly for the fourth month in a row, order intake has ceased to fall, and slightly longer delivery times also indicate that demand is picking up a bit.Against the backdrop of numerous uncertainties - US tariffs, the crisis in the Middle East, and Russia’s ongoing war against Ukraine - this can certainly be seen as a sign of resilience. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Scotland wildfires: Dramatic moment wildfires burn near steam train full of passengers

Footage, filmed by a passenger on board a steam train in Scotland, shows crews attempting to extinguish wildfires on a hill next to the track.

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6 d. ago Dramatic moment two Glasgow tower blocks are blown down in double demolition

The pair of 226ft buildings - some of last standing tower blocks in the Gorbals - were brought down using explosives on Sunday afternoon.

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6 d. ago NATO scramble warplanes to protect countries bordering Ukraine after Putin unleashes 537

The alliance sprang into action amid fears the Russian blitz could spill into neighbouring countries, with Poland confirming its fighter jets were launched and its air defences put on full alert.

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8 d. ago Putin 'bypassing sanctions to kit out drones' as units 'made with European parts'

Ukrainian weapons experts have discovered shadowy middlemen are still smuggling European, American and Taiwanese components into Russia to make Iranian drones even more deadly than before

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9 d. ago Dramatic moment British woman saved after being lost at sea for five days

A huge search and operation was deployed for missing Brit, Mary Gavin, last Wednesday after she vanished on a rented boat a day before on the island of Formentera near Ibiza

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9 d. ago Britain must ‘actively prepare’ for a war on home soil, major government review warns

The new National Security Strategy has been published with a grim warning as international turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine continues

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1 week ago Moment sword killer tasered by cops after attack that killed schoolboy and injured others

Dramatic police bodycam footage shows the terrifying moment Marcus Arduini Monzo was arrestedfollowing his horrifying attack.

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1 week ago Dramatic moment Hainault sword attacker arrested after murdering schoolboy

WARNING DISTRESSING CONTENT. Marcus Arduini Monzo, 37, launched a 20-minute rampage with a sword in Hainault, north-east London, where he injured five people and killed 14-year-old schoolboy Daniel Anjorin

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1 week ago Trump is angry with a world that won't give him easy deals | Rafael Behr

In the Middle East as in Ukraine, the president is discovering that simple bullying tricks don’t resolve complex international crisesIt was as close as Donald Trump might get to a lucid statement of his governing doctrine. “I may do it. I may not do it,” the president said to reporters on the White House lawn. “Nobody knows what I’m going to do.”The question was about joining Israeli air strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities. Days later, US bombers were on their way. Some expected it to happen. Others, including Keir Starmer, had gone on record to say they didn’t. No one had known. The unpredictability doctrine wouldn’t have been violated either way.Rafael Behr is a Guardian columnist Continue reading...

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1 week ago UK must ‘actively prepare’ for a war on home soil, major government review warns

The new National Security Strategy has been published with a grim warning as international turmoil in the Middle East and Ukraine continues

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1 week ago Video shows the moment huge fire breaks out at Hotspur Press

Dramatic footage shows the moment the city centre landmark became an inferno

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1 week ago Flying in the new age of conflict – the hotspots diverting flights and leaving pilots blind

Amid conflicts in the Middle East and Ukraine, airlines have been forced to divert around warzones while managing new threats to their systemsThe first indication that something was wrong came when the clock on the flight deck began to go backwards. The aircraft was cruising thousands of metres above Israel and as the crew noticed the error, they checked their GPS signal. The plane’s internal instruments showed it was flying at just 1,500ft, well below the cruising altitude of 38,000ft it should have been at.Seconds later, alarms began to sound and lights flashed throughout the cockpit. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Nato summit shambles? US and Spain 'opt out' of new 3.5% spending target with fears of Trump no

Nato is due to gather in The Hague tomorrow evening amid chaos in the Middle East and the ongoing war in Ukraine.

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1 week ago EU foreign ministers meet to discuss Ukraine, Russia and worsening crisis in Middle East – Europe live

Foreign affairs council discusses Ukraine after another night of heavy Russian attacks as Volodymyr Zelenskyy visits UKGerman foreign minister Johann Wadephul said today’s meeting was kicking off “a crucial week for security in Europe and the world,” with talks to be continued at the Nato and the EU summits later this week.He says European negotiators told Iran last Friday in Geneva that “a real prerequisite for resolving the conflict is that Iran is willing to negotiate directly with the US.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Dramatic moment CNN star Anderson Cooper is forced to urgently evacuate set live on air during missile attack

Anderson Cooper was discussing the ongoing conflict when sirens rang out warning them of an incoming missile attack.

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1 week ago Charles Dickens’s ‘sliding doors’ moment: how a cold turned an aspiring thespian into a writer

An exhibition explores the authors’ love of theatre, highlighting the dramatic impact of his works As a sliding doors moment, it leads to arguably one of the greatest “what if?” questions in literary history. Passionate about the theatre, Charles Dickens, then just 20, wrote to the famous Covent Garden theatre actor-manager George Bartley seeking an audition, saying he believed he “had a strong perception of character and oddity, and a natural power of reproducing in my own person what I observed in others”.Bartley responded saying they were producing “the Hunchback” and arranging an appointment. Dickens planned to take his sister, Fanny, to accompany him singing on the piano. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ITV Love Island viewers spot contestant's wardrobe blunder amid hideaway drama

It happened during a dramatic moment

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