36 h. ago Campaigners and charities horrified by revelations about impact of Trump’s ‘reckless’ USAID cuts

Trump has been accused of giving ‘millions of people a death sentence’ after The Independent exposed the reality of the cuts on the ground

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65 h. ago Who are the death row executioners? Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers

These are just the US executioners we know. But they are a chilling indication of the executioners we don’t knowBeing an executioner is not the sort of job that gets posted in a local wanted ad. Kids don’t dream about being an executioner when they grow up, and people don’t go to school for it. So how does one become a death row executioner in the US, and who are the people doing it?This was the question I couldn’t help but ask when I began a book project on lethal injection back in 2018. I’m a death penalty researcher, and I was trying to figure out why states are so breathtakingly bad at a procedure that we use on cats and dogs every day. Part of the riddle was who is performing these executions. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago In the Ukrainian city of Sumy, life goes on despite the constant threat of attack

The humdrum of daily life in Sumy belies the constant threat of death its people have lived with since Russia invaded Ukraine three years ago

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8 d. ago 'I've seen the seven levels of hell and horrors in store for evil people after death'

An Oxford educated philosopher has claimed to know what happens on a person's journey to the afterlife and explained what hell is 'actually like', and when a person is mostly like to meet God

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9 d. ago Serial killer utters Death Row confession after keeping grim murders secret for 17 years

The ‘National Forest Serial Killer’ was convicted for the murders of four people after a gruesome killing spree and received the death sentence in April 2011 - but he's made a confession

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9 d. ago I've seen proof that death is not the end. These are the seven 'levels' of heaven... and the horrors in store for 'selfish' people

An Oxford-educated philosopher believes he is able to prove beyond all reasonable doubt that death is not the end. In fact, he says, it's just the beginning of a long journey.

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9 d. ago Cause of deaths of three people including girl, four, and her mother, 30, killed in horror blaze at Grade

Emma Conn, 30, and her daughter Mayci Fox, four - both from Desborough - died along with Louie Thorn, 23, at the Grade II-listed property in the village of Rushton, near Kettering.

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9 d. ago France could recognise Palestinian state ‘in June’, says Emmanuel Macron – Middle East crisis live

President says ‘we must move towards recognition’ and process could start at UN conference on settling Israel-Palestine conflict in New York in JuneSuspected US airstrikes in Yemen overnight into Thursday killed at least three people, while the death toll in an earlier attack rose to 13 dead, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said. The rebels meanwhile aired footage they said showed the debris left after shooting down yet another American MQ-9 Reaper drone, reports the Associated Press (AP). The 13 killed in strikes on Tuesday night around Hodeida’s al-Hawak district made it one of the deadliest single incidents in the ongoing US campaign, the rebels said.Another 15 people were injured. The Houthis described the majority of those killed as women and children, without providing a breakdown. The area is home to the city’s airport, which the rebels have used in the past to target shipping in the Red Sea. Since its start, the intense campaign of US airstrikes targeting the rebels over their...

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1 week ago 2024 saw the highest number of executions in nine years with China the capital punishment 'world leader', report reveals

More than 1,500 people were put to death by governments across 15 countries in 2024, a damning new report by Amnesty International has revealed.

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2 w. ago BREAKING Two die in caravan fire at popular UK holiday park as emergency services swarm

Lincolnshire Police have confirmed the death of two people at Goldenbeach Holiday Park, Roman Bank, Ingoldmells following an early morning blaze at the popular destination

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2 w. ago Girl, 10, and man die in caravan fire at UK holiday park as emergency services swarm

Lincolnshire Police have confirmed the death of two people at Goldenbeach Holiday Park, Roman Bank, Ingoldmells following an early morning blaze at the popular destination

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2 w. ago Dan Walker questions himself every day about Gary Speed's death and reveals letter his son sent him

The former BBC Breakfast star was one of the last people to speak to Gary Speed before the footballer's tragic death 14 years ago, and says he thinks of him every day

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2 w. ago Medication taken by one in seven people in the UK massively increases risk of sudden cardiac death, study suggests

Danish experts found patients taking the commonly prescribed medications for between one to five years had a 50 per cent higher risk of dying from an unexpected heart issue.

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2 w. ago Myanmar earthquake: level of devastation ‘hasn’t been seen in over a century in Asia’, says Red Cross – latest updates

At least 1,700 people killed as Red Cross officials warn Myanmar faces humanitarian crisis; death toll in Bangkock increases to 18Red Cross officials have warned that Myanmar faces a humanitarian crisis after the deadly 7.7-magnitude earthquake.“What we’re seeing here in Myanmar is a level of devastation that hasn’t been seen over a century in Asia,” the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) wrote in a post on X. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago The Latest: Over 1,000 reported dead so far following Myanmar's quake

Myanmar’s powerful 7.7 magnitude earthquake has killed over 1,000 people, as the death toll keeps climbing amid rescue efforts

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3 w. ago ‘It’s so politically loaded’: Marlon Williams on ‘finding the gall’ to write an album entirely in Māori

Te Whare Tīwekaweka is being released at a tumultuous time for te reo and race relations in AotearoaGet our weekend culture and lifestyle emailMarlon Williams recalls a survey he once read about how often people think about death: on average, once a week. He laughs incredulously. “You know that statistic about men thinking about sex once every seven seconds? That’s how often I think about death.”In an interview promoting his fourth solo studio album, Te Whare Tīwekaweka, this existential conversation is unexpected. But increasingly, the Aotearoa/New Zealand artist is noticing the way his career pulls him further and further from his roots, and his wellbeing. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago David Blaine Do Not Attempt review – the moment where he flees a lethal cobra is oddly adorable

The ‘extreme magician’ delivers a unique twist on the travelogue, in which he hunts out feats of magic rather than tourist attractions – and it’s surprisingly full of darkly comic momentsHe’s been hung upside down, encased himself in ice, lived in a plastic box and spent a week buried underground. He’s let helium balloons pull him several miles upwards, had 1m volts of electricity fired at him, and balanced on the top of a high pillar for a day and a half. American “extreme magician” David Blaine has a catalogue of incredible feats behind him. Now, though, he’s really attempting the impossible: the sonofabitch is trying to make a watchable National Geographic travelogue. Miraculously, he’s gone and done it.Do Not Attempt sees the unflappable conjuror visit developing, historic or remote places in search of people whose death-defying skills could conceivably get them a Vegas residency, but who, instead, are performing for coins, or just their own spiritual enlightenment. Dressed in b...

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4 w. ago China's 'conveyor belt' executions as 'prisoner organs harvested in mobile death vans'

China reportedly uses ‘mobile death vans’ to speed up their execution process in a ‘conveyor belt’ with so many people being callously put to death in the country

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4 w. ago China's brutal 'conveyor belt' executions see prisoners killed in 'mobile death vans'

'Mobile death vans' are said to be used in China to speed up the execution process in what has become a 'conveyor belt' with so many people in the country put to death

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