32 m. ago Huge fire lights up the sky in Manchester as lorries go up in blaze, forcing families to evacuate

The blaze that broke out just after 8am at the Roundthorn Industrial Estate in the Wythenshawe area of the city 'involved heavy good vehicles', the fire brigade said.

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42 m. ago Russia unleashes drone storm on Ukraine with biggest attack of the war

Ukraine says Russia launched 267 strike drones and three ballistic missiles

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2 h. ago Keir Starmer goes to war with Nigel Farage to accuse 'dangerous' Reform UK of 'fawning over Putin' and holding policies 'alien' to Brits following party's poll surge

The Prime Minister used a speech at the Scottish Labour conference in Glasgow to launch an full-throated attack on Reform's 'dangerous right-wing politics'.

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3 h. ago Ukraine hit with largest drone attack of the war as Zelensky warns of aerial terror

Moscow has launched near-nightly massed drone attacks at Ukraine for months

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4 h. ago Huge fire breaks out at battery recycling centre as 'explosions' heard for miles

A huge fire has broken out at a battery recycling facility, with locals reporting seeing 'explosions' and a black cloud of smoke gushing into the air.

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5 h. ago BREAKING Smoke billows into air and explosions heard at UK industrial estate

Witnesses have claimed they "thought we were at war" after hearing explosions and seeing smoke billowing into the air during a suspected fire at a UK industrial estate

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5 h. ago Explosions heard at UK industrial estate as witnesses 'thought we were at war'

Witnesses have claimed they "thought we were at war" after hearing explosions and seeing smoke billowing into the air during a suspected fire at a UK industrial estate

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5 h. ago Wythenshawe fire: Huge blaze seen for miles as 'popping sound' explosions heard

A local posting footage of black smoke being coughed into the sky above Wythenshawe said they heard "explosions popping off", and that the blaze was visible for miles

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13 h. ago Home Secretary to meet US border tsar dubbed Ice Barbie over crackdown on migrants

Yvette Cooper is planning a meeting with Kristi Noem (pictured), the Secretary of Homeland Security, who has described the US border with Mexico as a 'war zone'.

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16 h. ago Dope Girls review – the dodgy accents could give Peaky Blinders a run for its money

This fun, gory tale of women trying to set up a nightclub in the 1918 Soho underworld is lively – even if it tries to cram too much in. Shame about the ropey vocal affectations The Peaky Blinders comparisons have been flying around ever since filming on Dope Girls began, so it sounds as if the BBC was hoping that it might have a successor on its hands. Certainly, there are some superficial similarities between the two. Dope Girls is set in 1918 and deals with the aftermath of the first world war, as the surviving men return. But here, it’s the women who are in the spotlight, as the female workforce of the past four years suddenly find their newfound social status has been relegated once again. In mood and tone, however, it is less a return to Small Heath, and more of a predecessor to Cabaret.Kate Galloway (Julianne Nicholson) is a businessman’s wife and wartime butcher, who falls on hard times after a family tragedy. Destitute and homeless, she heads to London, where Armistice Day i...

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18 h. ago Donald Trump vows to 'get our money back' from Ukraine in deal with war criminal Putin

While speaking at the Republican CPAC conference, Donald Trump said he wants the US to get 'rare Earth and oil' from Ukraine after Joe Biden gave the country $350billion

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19 h. ago NATO prepares for WW3 with new jet pipeline in case Russia war breaks out after Trump's rant

Under the plans, a fuel line would be connected from Germany to Poland and the Czech Republic in order to supply troops should an emergency arise in NATO's eastern border states

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21 h. ago Steve Witkoff: from property developer to global spotlight as Trump’s tough

His friendship with the president dates back to a late-night encounter in a deli. Now he is a loyal envoy brokering the Gaza ceasefire and peace talks on UkraineWith the first phase of the ceasefire nearing its end, an American property developer has emerged as a key figure in determining whether Gaza attains a more enduring peace or slips back into war.Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s typically idiosyncratic pick as special Middle East envoy, has also found his way into the midst of talks with Russia over Ukraine’s future, sitting opposite Russian foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, instead of the official special envoy for the region, Keith Kellogg. Continue reading...

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34 h. ago ‘We have a rule when we hear the sirens: if you’ve started operating, you don’t stop’: 24 hours with doctors on the Ukrainian frontline

Like the soldiers they battle to save, combat medics in Ukraine are under constant attack. Three years after the invasion, one NHS doctor bears witness“The frontline here is cold, hard, true war. My comrades and I had more than 40 bombs dropped on us by drones over two hours. You can’t hide from drones in a trench, but you can’t outrun them either. Your only hope to live is to zigzag, to be cleverer than the drone.”A gaunt 28-year-old former IT worker sits patiently beneath a window barricaded with sandbags, awaiting his turn on the operating table, cloaked in dust. Now an infantryman in the Ukrainian army’s Third Assault Brigade, “Sasha” (not his real name) has shrapnel embedded in his shoulder after the Russian assault on his foxhole. “When you hear a drone, you run as fast as you can and see if you can reach any trees,” he says. “If you’re out in the open, you try to get the drone behind you, so it won’t destroy your face. It’s not panic, this running; it’s a professional respons...

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35 h. ago Blake Lively SLAMS The Hollywood Reporter for 'sexist' cover lampooning her Justin Baldoni lawsuit

Blake Lively has issued a blistering response to The Hollywood Reporter's 'sexist' cover, depicting her at war with Justin Baldoni amid her sexual harassment lawsuit. 

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36 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Trump turnaround as he acknowledges Russia invaded Ukraine

US president earlier drew criticism after saying Kyiv ‘should have never started’ war; Trump predicts Ukraine will soon sign minerals deal with US. What we know on day 1,095See all our Ukraine war coverage Continue reading...

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37 h. ago Zelensky should 'leave for France' and let a new leader run Ukraine, White House sources say as war of words with Trump grows increasingly bitter amidst Russia peace talks

Sources in the White House claim the Ukrainian leader should leave for France, while another suggested there is anti-Zelensky feeling in the Oval office amid rising tensions.

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37 h. ago Keir Starmer shrugs off Trump as he prepares to give new aid to Ukraine and sanction Russian oligarchs amid US President's war of words with Volodymyr Zelensky

Sir Keir Starmer is set to announce a new package of support for Ukraine days after Donald Trump branded the Ukrainian president a 'dictator'.

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46 h. ago Trump official says Zelenskyy will sign US minerals deal ‘in the very short term’

National security adviser Mike Waltz tells CPAC agreement is expected imminently as part of ceasefire negotiationsThe White House national security adviser, Mike Waltz, said on Friday that the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, was expected to sign a minerals agreement with the United States imminently, as part of broader negotiations to end the war with Russia.“Here’s the bottom line: President Zelenskyy is going to sign that deal, and you will see that in the very short term,” Waltz said during remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC). Continue reading...

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46 h. ago Europe 'could be at war with Russia within 5 years' as Putin 'lines up more countries'

Former NATO commander General Sir Alexander Richard David Shirreff has warned that Europe is "much more likely" to be at war with Russia in the next three to five years

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