2 h. ago Landmark ruling finds Russia shot down MH17 with 38 Australians on board

Europe’s top human rights court finds Boeing 777 flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down by Russia in July 2014Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastEurope’s top human rights court delivered damning judgments Wednesday against Russia in four cases brought by Kyiv and the Netherlands, finding Moscow shot down flight MH17, killing all passengers, including 38 Australians.Judges at the European court of human rights ruled that Russia was responsible for widespread violations of international law, from shooting down Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 in 2014 to the murder, torture, rape, destruction of civilian infrastructure and kidnapping of Ukrainian children after Moscow’s full-scale invasion of 2022.Sign up for Guardian Australia’s breaking news email Continue reading...

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2 h. ago KENNEDY: The most vile politicians I've ever met: From the Congressman who can't pleasure a woman to another who smells. They think they're untouchable... but I'm naming names

Back by popular demand: more people I hate! If you think that narcissistic superstars are bad, let me tell you, power-hungry egomaniac legislators are even worse.

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3 h. ago Inside Raoul Moat's final hours as killer 'completely changed'

Fifteen years after Raoul Moat was captured by police, the two officers who tackled the killer have broken their silence on the fugitive's final hours, before he turned the gun on himself

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3 h. ago Pennsylvania man charged with beheading father says he was trying to perform a citizen's arrest

A Pennsylvania man accused of killing and beheading his father testified in his defense

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3 h. ago Helpless mum fights pit bull as he mauls her baby daughter to death

Blakely Blosser was tragically killed by the pit bull at her home on July 2. Her mum Nicole had leaned over in order to pick up some laundry when Blakely was behind her, which sparked a violent response from the pet.

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3 h. ago Diogo Jota 'not speeding' in fatal crash – insists driver who claims he saw the car

Diogo Jota was not speeding in the crash that killed him and his brother Andre Silva, claims a lorry driver who claims he saw their Lamborghini before it crashed

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3 h. ago Coronation Street's Simon Gregson confesses he almost quit soap for very different career

Soap favourite Simon Gregson - best known as Steve McDonald on the soap - has revealed that Corrie bosses dashed his hopes of exploring his dream career, much to his disappointment

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3 h. ago Diogo Jota was NOT speeding in car crash that killed Liverpool star and his brother, insists lorry driver who filmed first video of aftermath as he disputes police report

A preliminary report said on Tuesday that the car was probably speeding at the time of the crash, which saw the car burst into flames and claim the lives of the two footballing brothers.

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3 h. ago Texas floods latest: 119 dead and over 170 missing as country singer reveals multiple family members killed

More than 170 people still missing in Kerr County and Texas Governor Greg Abbott fears more could soon be ‘added to that list’

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5 h. ago Murder suspect claims man she killed had been grooming her since she was 8 years old

The suspect is accused of killing the man with a hammer after inviting him over to her apartment, police say

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5 h. ago Naomi Watts' daughter Kai Schreiber, 16, towers over her in Paris... after model came out as transgender

Kai also showed off her slender legs in a white and black polka dot minidress while she wore her blonde hair down and added dark sunglasses. Her father is also an actor.

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5 h. ago Southport survivor, 7, 'fought like hell' to save herself and others, inquiry hears

Known as C1 to protect her anonymity, the little girl was stabbed 33 times by crazed Southport killer Axel Rudakubana in the horror attack at a Taylor Swift-themed event

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5 h. ago Police investigating death of Maine paddleboarder as a homicide after discovery of body

Police in Maine are investigating the death of a paddleboarder near a campground in rural Maine as a homicide and asking the public for help finding the killer

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6 h. ago Inside the horrors of the holiday hotspot dog torture crisis: From canines being raped by humans to 'owners' undertaking 'at

The sought after locations of Egypt, Morocco and Turkey are visited by thousands of Brits each year - but at the same time hundreds of animals are mistreated, abused and even killed.

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6 h. ago Rhode Island man faces charges after threatening to kill Trump, Bondi and Stephen Miller on Truth Social

Law enforcement discovered the man ‘hiding in the bathtub’

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6 h. ago Helpless mum fights pit bull as vicious family dog mauls one

One-year-old Blakely Blosser was killed by the family dog despite her mum Nicole's best efforts to save her from the vicious pit bull's mauling

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7 h. ago Lawyer who defended depraved surgeon dubbed France's worst paedophile 'kills himself' weeks after his 'devil in a white coat' client was jailed for raping 298 patients

Maxime Tessier, 34, represented the disgraced Joel Le Scouarnec, 74, who confessed at his trial to sexually assaulting or raping 298 patients between 1989 and 2014, many of them children.

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7 h. ago How Sarina Wiegman found ‘perfect reaction’ as England have Euro 2025 lift off

England bounced back from the disappointment of defeat in their opening game of Euro 2025 as Sarina Wiegman’s Lionesses showed their quality against the Netherlands

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7 h. ago Russia has committed flagrant human rights abuses in Ukraine since 2014, rules ECHR

Extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour among accusations upheld by court in judgmentRussia has committed flagrant and unprecedented abuses of human rights since it invaded Ukraine in 2014, including extrajudicial killings, sexual violence and forced labour, the European court of human rights has found.The court’s grand chamber unanimously held that between 11 May 2014 and 16 September 2022, when Russia ceased to be a party to the European convention on human rights it had committed “manifestly unlawful conduct on a massive scale”.Indiscriminate military attacks.Summary executions of civilians and Ukrainian military personnel.Torture, including the use of rape as a weapon of war.Unlawful and arbitrary detention of civilians.Unjustified displacement and transfer of civilians.Intimidation, harassment and persecution of all religious groups other than adherents of the historically Moscow-aligned Ukrainian Orthodox church.Intimidation and violence against journalists a...

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7 h. ago Man killed 'Good Samaritan' after driving car into middle of brawl at sister's wedding

Hassan Jhangur boasted about his actions to officers at the police station after his arrest

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