6 d. ago Businessman’s Apple laptop stops BULLET during terrifying armed robbery after he was held at gunpoint waiting for taxi

A BUSINESSMAN cheated death when his Apple laptop stopped a speeding bullet after he was ambushed at gunpoint while waiting for a taxi. The terrifying attack happened at a petrol station in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on October 1, as Chinese national Mr Zhang was preparing to head home after an event. Mr Zhang said he was standing by the roadside when a black car...

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7 d. ago All Mount Everest hikers brought back to safety after being stuck for days in ‘violent’ blizzard

Mass search-and-rescue mission involved local guides, villagers, and officials

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7 d. ago Everest hikers guided to safety after being stranded by blizzard

About 900 hikers, guides, and staff stranded by a snowstorm on Mount Everest’s Chinese side have reached safety

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8 d. ago Hundreds still trapped on Mount Everest as rescuers battle heavy snow

South Korean hiker, 46, dies while ascending Merak Peak in eastern side of Nepal

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8 d. ago Hamas terrorists held family at gunpoint before murdering daughter, 18, and forcing them to live stream October 7 atrocities

Hamas terrorists held Tsachi Idan, 49, at gunpoint at Kibbutz Nahal Oz, southern Israel, before killing his daughter Maayan, on October 7, 2023.

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8 d. ago Race against time to rescue 200 hikers trapped in snow after Mount Everest blizzard

South Korean hiker, 46, dies while ascending Merak Peak in eastern side of Nepal

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8 d. ago Race against time to rescue 200 hikers trapped in snow after Mount Everest snowstorm

South Korean hiker, 46, dies while ascending Merak Peak in eastern side of Nepal

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9 d. ago Major update in search for Brit tourist who ‘may have been eaten by a crocodile’ after ‘vanishing’ in South Africa

A MAJOR update in the hunt for a missing British hiker has come just a week after the search kicked off. British tourist Elaine McSorley vanished after embarking on a self-guided hike from her South African hotel last week. But the search for the missing 71-year-old has been called off with no trace of her,...

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9 d. ago Mount Everest rescue live: Race against time to save 200 hikers stuck in snowstorm

Some 350 others have been led to safety by rescuers

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1 week ago A Black champion boxer was held by police at gunpoint. The police chief says he gets the outrage

The police chief of Omaha, Nebraska, acknowledges that Black people are more likely to be pulled over at gunpoint than other racial groups

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2 w. ago Terence Crawford held at gunpoint by police after being pulled over after victory parade

Terence Crawford was pulled over by police in his hometown of Omaha, Nebraska, in the early hours of Saturday morning

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2 w. ago Terence Crawford ordered out of car by police at gunpoint after hometown parade

Omaha police issued a statement on the incident, which occurred after a public celebration of Crawford’s historic win against Canelo Alvarez

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2 w. ago British woman held in Iranian jail on 'spy charges' is put on drip in her cell as family fears for her health

Lindsay and Craig Foreman, both 52, were arrested in Kerman, southern Iran, on January 3 as they embarked on a motorcycle trip around the world to Australia.

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3 w. ago Slow Horses season five review – not even Gary Oldman can salvage this TV mess

It’s the worst outing yet for the Slough House gang, with main characters having unnerving personality transplants and ‘action’ sequences taking place in penguin enclosures. Yikes!The fifth season of Slow Horses starts with a timely sequence: a gun attack perpetrated by a follower of a far-right politician (we even briefly glimpse a few St George’s crosses). Rightwing politics is an area that Apple TV+’s spy drama has tackled before; back in season one, a British-Pakistani student was memorably taken on a joyride by a nationalist group named Sons of Albion, who threatened to behead him on a live stream.However, like many things in the Slow Horses universe – based on Mick Herron’s bestselling novels about a group of MI5 rejects – the opening proves something of a red herring. Season five isn’t really about white nationalists, or environmental activists, or hostile foreign actors, and yet it is also about all of those things, all at once. As a result, it is overstuffed and strangely l...

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3 w. ago Harris Dickinson addresses speculation he could be the next James Bond

The actor, 29, has long been listed as one of the frontrunners to play the iconic British spy, following Daniel Craig's exit in 2021 with No Time To Die.

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4 w. ago 'I went for a hike in South Korea and got mistaken for a spy

Stephen Low, 48, was celebrating the end of his first year teaching English in South Korea when he decided to go on a hike near the North-South border - but he got more than he bargained for

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last month I was held at gunpoint and GRENADE point after being mistaken for a British spy while hiking through South Korea

Stephen Low, from Norwich, shared how he was mistaken for a spy and held at gunpoint whilst hiking along the North and South Korea border - after wandering into a restricted military testing zone. 

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