3 d. ago Five people taken to hospital after reports of chemical spill at school

Three teenagers and two adults were taken to hospital following an issue with a piece of science equipment

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4 d. ago Three teens among five in hospital as school put in lockdown after 'chemical spill'

Crews arrived to find six patients requiring assessment after being exposed to a chemical substance

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4 d. ago School 'chemical spill' leaves five in hospital including three teens as police swoop on science class

The substance was isolated and rooms were ventilated by the fire service

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4 d. ago BREAKING: Staffordshire school swarmed by cops as 5 rushed to hospital after 'chemical spill'

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2 w. ago Blood spilled in Sudan can be seen from space. Nobody can feign ignorance about what’s going on | Nesrine Malik

The massacres carried out by the RSF in El Fasher, Darfur, with the support of its UAE sponsors, will only stop when the international community actsIt unfolded in plain sight over 18 months. The city of El Fasher in the Darfur region of Sudan, besieged by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), fell to the militia group last week, and what has followed is a catastrophe.Mass killings are under way. There are reports that in one maternity hospital alone almost 500 people – patients and their families – were killed. The few that managed to escape tell of summary executions of civilians. The RSF has embarked on a killing spree of civilians so severe that images of blood saturating the ground have been picked up by satellite. The speed and intensity of the killings in the immediate aftermath of the fall of El Fasher has already been compared by war monitors to the first 24 hours of the Rwandan genocide. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Cambridgeshire train stabbing: police briefing expected after 10 injured in mass attack – latest updates

Defence secretary says attack on Doncaster to London train is thought to be an isolated incident; nine of those hurt have life-threatening injuriesFull report: ten people taken to hospital following stabbing attackExplained: what we know so farSome more reaction is coming in.Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative leader, said she was “deeply disturbed” by the reports from Huntingdon. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Militia attack on hospital in Darfur came in waves, WHO says

The World Health Organization reports that gunmen who reportedly killed at least 460 people at a hospital in Sudan's Darfur region returned three times to the facility during their assault

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3 w. ago WHO says over 460 people reportedly killed at a hospital taken by Sudanese paramilitary forces

The head of the U.N. health agency says more than 460 people were reportedly killed in a hospital in Sudan's western Darfur region

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