59 m. ago Israeli bombing of Gaza school housing displaced Palestinians kills at least 27, say medical officials

Most of those killed were women and children, according to the Hamas-run health ministry

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10 h. ago Girl, 13, killed in Prescot house fire: Five other children, a woman and man make lucky escape unharmed

Firefighters were scrambled to a mid-terraced home in Kingsway, Prescot, yesterday at 11.42pm after receiving a 999 call.

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12 h. ago At least 27 killed in Israeli bombing of shelter in Gaza City, rescuers say

Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians flee from southern city of Rafah in one of war’s biggest mass displacementsAn Israeli bombing of a school turned shelter in Gaza City has killed at least 27 people, rescuers said, and hundreds of thousands in the Rafah area are fleeing in one of the biggest mass displacements of the war amid Israel’s newly announced campaign to “divide up” the Gaza Strip.Three missiles hit Dar al-Arqam school in the al-Tuffah neighbourhood on Thursday afternoon, the civil defence agency spokesperson Mahmoud Bassal said, killing several children and wounding 100 people. Continue reading...

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12 h. ago The Guardian view on Israel’s killing of paramedics: a new atrocity in an unending conflict | Editorial

Impunity over Palestinian deaths in Gaza will lead to further cases like this massacre of rescue and healthcare workersAfter 18 months of slaughter, it is still possible to be shocked by events in Gaza. More than 50,000 people have been killed, according to Palestinian health authorities. More are starving because Israel has cut off aid. The offensive is intensifying again – with 100 children killed or maimed each day since Israel resumed heavy strikes last month, the UN reports.Even so, Israel’s killing of 15 Palestinian paramedics and rescue workers is particularly chilling. Though they died on 23 March, it took days for Israel to grant access to the site, the UN said. Another man was last seen in Israeli custody. Two grounds for seeing this not only as tragic but as a war crime stand out. The first is that the UN says the men were shot “one by one”, and a forensic expert said that preliminary evidence “suggests they were executed, not from a distant range”, given the “specific an...

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19 h. ago Inside the heartbreaking hospital life of killer mum who drowned five children in bathtub

Andrea Yates rejects an annual hearing that could lead to her release

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37 h. ago Police find 2023 Nashville school shooter sought notoriety, hid mental health from medical providers

Police say the shooter behind the 2023 Nashville elementary school attack that killed six people, including three children, had been planning it for years while hiding their mental health issues from medical providers

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40 h. ago 'I just killed my children': Chilling words of mum who drowned five kids in bath

Andrea Yates' horrifying mass murder of her five children is one of the most horrific crimes of the 21st century

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43 h. ago Husband left 'utterly bereft' after wife and two daughters killed in New York crash

North London-raised Natasha Saada and three of her children were crossing the road when they were hit by a blue Audi

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44 h. ago Woman from north London and two daughters killed in horror New York car smash

Natasha Saada and three of her children were crossing the road when they were hit by a blue Aldi

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3 d. ago Driver facing multiple charges in Brooklyn crash that killed mother, two children

Police say a woman is facing multiple charges after she crashed into a family out for a walk in Brooklyn, killing a mother and her two children

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3 d. ago Palestinians must have the final say in Gaza’s reconstruction | Ahmad Ibsais

Rebuilding is more than reconstruction: it is resistance. It is our refusal to be erased, our determination to remain and exist on our landOn the 17th night of Ramadan – a time meant for prayer, reflection and mercy – Gaza burned. Once again, our screens fill with images too harrowing to describe: tiny bodies wrapped in bloodstained cloth, fathers carrying their children’s remains in plastic bags, mothers screaming into skies that rain death instead of mercy. In less than an hour, Israeli airstrikes killed over 350 Palestinians, including 90 children. Entire families wiped out as bombs fell on areas Israel itself had designated as “safe zones”, turning supposed sanctuaries into mass graves.This was not merely a resumption of violence. This is the continuation of a genocide that never truly paused, only ebbed enough to vanish from headlines while Palestinians continued to die by the dozens daily. The heaviness of this moment is unbearable, bringing back the brokenness of the past yea...

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4 d. ago Evil child killer Mick Philpott 'battered' behind bars as other lags 'laughed'

Evil dad Mick Philpott, who killed six of his children in a horror house blaze, has been "battered" in a brutal prison beating according to report with the child killer was 'laughed at'

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4 d. ago Killer arsonist father Mick Philpott is 'attacked in prison'

The fiend, Mick Philpott - caged after he killed six children in a horror blaze at his home - was attacked by another lag wielding a weapon in a vicious ambush.

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4 d. 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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4 d. ago Rise of the catapult killer 'influencers': Children as young as 8 are brutally killing wildlife with slingshots during school time for social media clout

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT The recent emergence of youngsters brutally killing wildlife with catapults for clout on the likes of Snapchat , Instagram and TikTok is a particularly sickening one.

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4 d. ago ‘He insisted we take him to the graves’: the Palestinian hostages coming home to catastrophe

Alaa Abu Zeid only discovered his wife and children had been killed after his release from an Israeli prison. His is a story repeated across Gaza• ‘They don’t want them to know anything’: Gaza civilians held in Israel not told families had been killedMore than a year after his abduction by Israeli soldiers, the first thing Alaa Abu Zeid wanted to do on his return to Gaza was hold his wife and children. He didn’t know that Ali, his brother, would be the only person waiting when he arrived in Khan Younis earlier this month: Alaa’s wife, Hala, and all five of the couple’s children had been killed in an Israeli airstrike last summer.Abu Zeid, 48, the headteacher of a primary school funded by the UN agency for Palestinian refugees (Unrwa) in Bureij in central Gaza, was arrested along with dozens of other men when Israeli troops raided the school turned shelter in December 2023. He would never see his family again. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Three killed including children in house blaze as neighbour tried to enter 'inferno'

Police arrived at the scene after a fire broke out at a house near Kettering, Northamptonshire, which led to the tragic deaths of three people while a neighbour reportedly tried to save them

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7 d. ago Egypt submarine latest: Children among six tourists killed after Sindbad vessel sinks

Emergency services have been called out to harbour in Red Sea coastal city of Hurghada

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7 d. ago Cult music vid saved 21 children from streets – but there was a dark side with serial killers

Soul Asylum's power ballad Runaway Train and the accompanying video was a runaway success, bringing dozens of missing and runaway children home, but some kids had tragic endings

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7 d. ago Brianna Ghey's last text messages as mum makes chilling Adolescence observation

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT Brianna Ghey was murdered when she was just 16, her mother Esther appeared on Good Morning Britain to discuss the tragedy

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