17 h. ago Syrians celebrate a year after Bashar Assad’s fall, in photos

As celebrations kicked off marking the first anniversary on Monday of the ousting of former President Bashar Assad’s regime, Syrians are still struggling to heal after the dynasty’s repressive 50-year rule and a 14-year civil war that killed an estimated half-million people, displaced millions more and left the country battered and divided.

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37 h. ago Mo Salah and Arne Slot's 'poisonous' relationship as Jamie Carragher sparks Liverpool war

Jamie Carragher called out Mohamed Salah demanding he speak more but it's resulted in civil war at Liverpool as the Kop hero launched an extraordinary rant at manager Arne Slot and the club

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49 h. ago Terrifying day Margaret Thatcher nearly died in missile attack as her plane flew over Mozambique: Newly released papers reveal how officials covered up bombardment

Lady Thatcher was was visiting Africa on a six-day diplomatic mission, flying in a RAF Vickers VC-10 across the civil war-torn region when several missiles were launched towards the aircraft

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5 d. ago Whistleblower accuses Foreign Office of ‘censoring’ warning of Sudan genocide

Exclusive: Analyst claims UK officials deleted alert to threat of genocidal violence by paramilitaries to protect UAEWarnings of a possible “genocide” in Sudan were removed from a UK risk assessment by Foreign Office officials, according to a whistleblower whose testimony raises fresh concern over British failures to act on the atrocities unfolding in the war-ravaged country.The threat analyst said they were prevented from warning that genocide could occur in Darfur by Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) officials in a humanitarian risk assessment collated days after Sudan’s brutal civil war erupted in April 2023. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago I'm A Celeb camp in civil war as Angry Ginge rages 'I'm not having it anymore'

I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here is getting tenser by the minute, as the celebs descend into in-fighting, with Angry Ginge left raging at his fellow campmates' actions

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7 d. ago Gary Lineker says BBC has 'tied themselves up in knots' over impartiality rules amid Trump edit row

The former Match of the Day presenter, who left the BBC in May after 26 years, reflected on the corporation’s struggles in a new interview with the London Standard

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9 d. ago A Black Georgia community uprooted in 1942 still fights to go home

US descendants of Harris Neck’s Gullah Geechee families seek the return of ancestral land seized for a wartime airfieldA once thriving Black community along the Georgia coast called Harris Neck is now covered with greenery. During its heyday in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the area boasted a school house, general store, firehouse and seafood processing plants, and supported 75 Black households on 2,687 acres. The inhabitants were Gullah Geechee people, the descendants of formerly enslaved west Africans, who remained on the Sea Islands along the south-east US where they retained their distinct creole language and culture following the civil war.In 1942, though, the community was leveled to the ground when the federal government kicked the families off of the land using eminent domain to build an army airfield. For nearly 50 years, the descendants of the Harris Neck community have fought to regain their ancestral land through peaceful protests and lobbying local and federal...

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9 d. ago Pressure mounts for Government inquiry into 'internal civil war' at crisis

Tory MSP Stephen Kerr is calling for Holyrood culture committee to push the Scottish Government for an inquiry into Historic Environment Scotland

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1 week ago German president honours victims of Nazi bombing atrocity on Guernica visit

Frank-Walter Steinmeier travels to Basque town for remembrance ceremony marking ‘terrible crimes’ of 1937Eighty-eight years after Luftwaffe pilots took part in the most infamous atrocity of the Spanish civil war, Germany’s president has visited the Basque town of Guernica to honour the victims of the Nazi bombing and to urge that the “terrible crimes” committed there are never forgotten.Hundreds of civilians were killed and hundreds more injured on 26 April 1937 when planes from the German Condor Legion, operating alongside aircraft from fascist Italy, spent hours bombing Guernica on market day. Adolf Hitler had loaned the Luftwaffe unit to Gen Francisco Franco’s nationalist forces to help them in their coup against the republican government, and to allow Nazi Germany’s pilots to practise the blitzkrieg tactics they would later use in the second world war. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Joe Hart's intel from Celtic 'civil war' as Wilfried Nancy sent a TV plea over Shaun Maloney's future

The Frenchman is set to arrive at Celtic Park in the midst of rising tensions between fans and the board

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1 week ago ‘A constant fear’: Myanmar nationals face imprisonment back home as US ends protected status

Thousands of Myanmar diaspora are at risk of deportation, after the US said they no longer required Temporary Protective StatusAung* was finishing his studies in New York when Myanmar’s junta tried to conscript him into the civil war raging in his homeland.Terrified by the idea, Aung applied for Temporary Protective Status (TPS) in the United States, hoping that by the time he finished his degree the conflict might have calmed. Instead, the war has only escalated. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Mother of Karoline Leavitt’s nephew detained by US immigration agents

Bruna Ferreira, who has a child with the White House press secretary’s brother, is now in custody at an ICE facilityUS politics live – latest updatesKaroline Leavitt’s nephew’s mother has been detained by US immigration agents in Revere, Massachusetts, as part of the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.Bruna Ferreira, a Boston-area resident who migrated with her family to the US from Brazil as a child, is now in custody at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Louisiana, according to the Boston radio station WBUR, which first reported the arrest. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Hobbits of Britain beware! Why Tolkien fan Elon Musk is like Grima Wormtongue, dripping poison in our ears

Elon Musk’s ludicrous claims that civil war in the UK is inevitable and everyone faces being murdered ‘if the tide of illegal immigration is not turned’ are as wrong as his interpretations of The Lord of the Rings

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1 week ago Reith lecturer accuses BBC of cowardice for censoring his remarks on Trump

Dutch writer Rutger Bregman says claim that Trump was ‘most openly corrupt president in US history’ was removedThe BBC has been accused of cowardice by a writer it selected to give its flagship annual lecture, after it removed his remarks about alleged corruption by Donald Trump.With the corporation already threatened with a multibillion-dollar lawsuit by the US president, Rutger Bregman, a Dutch author and historian, said the BBC had removed a “key line” from his address when it was broadcast on BBC Radio 4. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Gibb says speculation of BBC boardroom coup is ‘ridiculous charge’ and he will not resign – latest updates

BBC board member, a former spin doctor for Theresa May, dismisses suggestion in questioning by MPsCaroline Daniel is also asked about her views on editorial bias.“My experience was the BBC took issues of impartiality extremely seriously,” she said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago BBC chairman Samir Shah concedes corporation is too slow to admit errors and says it should have addressed Donald Trump row earlier

In an appearance before the House of Commons' Culture, Media and Sport committee, Samir Shah was grilled about a damning leaked impartiality memo.

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2 w. ago Gibb says speculation of BBC boardroom coup is ‘ridiculous charge’ – latest updates

BBC board member, a former spin doctor for Theresa May, dismisses suggestion in questioning by MPsCaroline Daniel is also asked about her views on editorial bias.“My experience was the BBC took issues of impartiality extremely seriously,” she said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Panorama edit ‘probably’ did not damage Trump, author of leaked BBC memo tells MPs – latest updates

US president has threatened to sue broadcaster but Michael Prescott does not agree with Trump’s assessment that programme tarnished his reputationCaroline Daniel is also asked about her views on editorial bias.“My experience was the BBC took issues of impartiality extremely seriously,” she said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Author of leaked BBC memo tells MPs broadcaster ‘not institutionally biased’ – latest updates

Michael Prescott tells select committee ‘there was no ideology at play’ when he wrote memoCaroline Daniel is also asked about her views on editorial bias.“My experience was the BBC took issues of impartiality extremely seriously,” she said. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Celtic Civil War arrives as blockbuster similarity to Manchester United mutineers rings loud – The Jury

Our top team don't flinch as they meet the big

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