92 m. ago Israel is playing an outsized role in a heated New York City mayoral race. Will it matter?

The race has turned into an Israel-Palestine proxy war of sorts, even as voters on both sides wish the focus remained on local issuesSpeaking from a Jerusalem bomb shelter last week as Iran and Israel exchanged fire, a New York state senator posted a video message to New York City voters: “There is a mayoral primary coming up this week where one of the candidates does not believe the Jewish state has a right to exist,” said Sam Sutton, the senator from Brooklyn. “We don’t want to be in a situation like this in America.”Sutton called on New Yorkers to elect a “great friend of the Jewish people”: Andrew Cuomo, New York’s former governor. Continue reading...

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92 m. ago ‘You don’t brag about wiping out 60‑70,000 people’: the men who dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

This summer will mark 80 years since the attacks stunned the world. Today, every one of the crew members who carried out the bombings is dead. Here, one of the last writers to interview them reopens his files‘It was a beautiful morning. The sun was shining on the buildings. Everything down there was bright – very, very bright. You could see the city from 50 miles away, the rivers bisecting it, the aiming point. It was clear as a bell. It was perfect. The perfect mission.”I’m sitting in a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco opposite the navigator of the Enola Gay, the B-29 bomber that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima on 6 August 1945. The year is 2004, and Theodore “Dutch” Van Kirk, aged 83, has agreed to be interviewed for a book I’m writing for the 60th anniversary of that fateful mission. Van Kirk informs me, with the trace of a smile, that this will probably be the last interview in his life. Continue reading...

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92 m. ago I study the history of Nazi resistance. Here’s what the US left can learn from it | Luke Berryman

Effective opposition calls for a laser focus on change, no matter how small. We should consider these activists’ examplesAround the end of 2022, I had an idea for a book about the history of resistance to Nazism. I wanted to show that Nazism has faced nonconformity, refusal and protest ever since it was born in 1920. I also wanted to explore beyond a handful of famous heroes and cast a spotlight on people who changed history without entering popular memory. When I began my research, Donald Trump had just announced his candidacy for the Republican ticket in 2024. When I gave the manuscript to the publisher a little over two years later, he was president-elect.His comeback, the darker version of Maga that came with him, and the Democratic party’s collapse gave fresh relevance to the stories of resistance to far-right extremism that I was finding. Even as I was piecing them together, they began to intrude on the present. It was a haunting transformation – and it helped me to understand...

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92 m. ago Lingerie Fighting Championship debutant slams haters and says 'my body my choice'

EXCLUSIVE: British wrestling star Nadia Sapphire is making her Lingerie Fighting Championships debut next month when the company comes to the UK for the first time ever

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1 hour ago Broadcaster Selina Scott tells how she was attacked and robbed in broad daylight outside bookshop

Writing about the incident, Ms Scott said about seven or eight men and women were involved.

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1 hour ago Hero police officer who rescued toddler from a burning building loses job after speeding to work

Custody Sgt Tim Perrin, 43, was dismissed by Devon and Cornwall Police after being found to have acted dishonestly when he tried to appeal against a speeding fine.

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2 h. ago 17 women and girls in hospital after 'being stung by man with syringe' at festival

Police have launched an investigation after 17 girls and women were reportedly attacked by a 'syringe-wielding man' at a music festival attended by 50,000 people in Metz, France

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2 h. ago People left surprised after cruise ship worker shares payslip

A British cruise ship worker has lifted the lid on exactly how much money he earns as a casino host on board Royal Caribbean's liners - including the breakdown of tips he gets on board.

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2 h. ago Inside Hong Kong's terrifying 'coffin homes' with 200,000 crammed into cage

More than 200,000 people in Hong Kong, China, live in partitioned shoebox apartments that offer just a few feet of space. They can barely fit a double bed and have become notorious for high rents.

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2 h. ago Coronation Street fans 'work out' which two people are in danger as Aadi Alahan's party goes wrong

When things take a sinister turn, the group of friends wish they could forget the night ever happened

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2 h. ago This is how we do it: ‘I discovered my bisexuality when my husband and I started swinging’

Simon and Nicole’s intimacy had waned after three decades together. Having sex with other people allows them to fulfil their personal needs and strengthen their bond as a coupleHow do you do it? Share the story of your sex life, anonymouslyI thought Simon might leave me if I said no to swinging. I agreed to it for him, for our relationship Continue reading...

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2 h. ago ITV legend brutally attacked and robbed by gang in London as she's left 'traumatised'

Former ITN News at Ten anchor Selina Scott says she felt like she'd been "stabbed" in the leg during the vicious central London attack which occurred in broad daylight

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2 h. ago Fears grow as man with leg in plaster still missing three days into search

Police say Mark would be walking with crutches as his left leg is in plaster

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3 h. ago Horror rampage as gang of gunmen open fire at French wedding killing bride

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3 h. ago Simple snack 'relaxes muscles' and 'calms body' for good night's sleep

Experts recommend eating one "melatonin-promoting" food before bed in order to get better sleep

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3 h. ago Wes Streeting warns there is no money in the NHS for assisted dying and helping people to end their lives will mean cuts to treatment for the living

The Health Secretary, who opposed the suicide law passed by MPs last week, said getting the system up and running would take 'time and money' away from other parts of the health service.

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3 h. ago People told 'do not travel' to specific area by police after illegal gathering

Police have warned people about an illegal gathering that is still believed to be continuing on Sunday morning

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3 h. ago Giraffe genitalia among hundreds of body parts imported by trophy hunters

Exclusive: More than 20 ‘trophies’ imported into UK in one year, as UK ban remains stalled

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3 h. ago One night time habit could be a warning sign for heart failure or stroke

A study has found that people who do this habit are more likely to have uncontrolled blood pressure.

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4 h. ago What a difference a week makes: Trump falls into the Netanyahu trap

People were starting to laud the US president for his resistance to the Israeli PM’s pull, but what now?Middle East crisis – live updatesWhen he was elected, Donald Trump suggested he could hammer out a new relationship with Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister who was used to getting his way with the White House. But after just over 150 days in office, it appears Trump has fallen into the same trap as his predecessors – and launched the most consequential strike on Iran in generations.From early suggestions that the Trump administration would rein in Netanyahu’s military ambitions, it now appears that the Israeli PM has manoeuvred the US into striking Iranian uranium enrichment sites directly after a series of military attacks that Washington was unable to deter the Israeli PM from. And the US is now bracing for a retaliation that could easily bring it into a full-scale war. Continue reading...

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