13 m. ago UN experts demand action to avert ‘annihilation’ of Palestinians in Gaza – Middle East crisis live

More than 20 experts call on countries to act or ‘witness the slaughter of innocents’‘Desperate people’: Gaza faces wave of looting, theft and violenceThe Dutch government, seen as one of Israel’s most loyal allies in the European Union, is calling for an urgent review of the EU Israel association agreement, the basis for the EU-Israeli free trade agreement, the Dutch foreign minister Caspar Veldkamp told the Guardian.Veldkamp described the Israeli ban on the supply of aid into Gaza as “catastrophic, truly dismal” and in clear breach of international humanitarian law.You cannot starve the people of the Gaza Strip. It is against international law. It’s morally wrong. It’s dangerous. I don’t think it’s in Israel’s own interest. Continue reading...

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23 m. ago Fearless Lamine Yamal leaves his mark to give Barcelona hope for the future

Teenager was a revelation across an incredible semi-final tie and Spanish side have much to be proud of in defeatOn the afternoon before the most extraordinary Champions League semi-final anyone could remember, Lamine Yamal said he had left fear behind in the park in Mataró years ago. Everything else he left behind at Montjuïc and San Siro, a statement stronger than any he had delivered in the press room. If that line was a promise, a demonstration of personality, it was kept, but Barcelona couldn’t reach their first final in a decade so he made another. “We won’t stop until this club is where it deserves to be: at the summit,” he wrote in the dark moments after defeat.Here Barcelona had been stopped within touching distance. Lamine Yamal departed the pitch in silence holding Marcus Thuram’s shirt, Inter’s players coming to embrace this boy they had survived, a child born every 50 years in the words of their manager, Simone Inzaghi. There has been something revelatory about the 17-y...

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89 m. ago Brooklyn Beckham breaks social media silence with admission about wife Nicola

Brooklyn Beckham and his wife, Nicola Peltz, were no-shows at David Beckham's 50th birthday party on the weekend amid rumours of a fierce feud within the family

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92 m. ago Venom Inc. Silences The Critics In London With Krisiun, Hate And Ater

Venom Inc. Silences The Critics In London With Krisiun, Hate And Ater  Metal Underground.com

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95 m. ago PGA Tour suffer third blow after Scottie Scheffler's decision and eight

Jason Day has pulled out of the Truist Championship, which tees off on Thursday, with the Australian yet to give a reason for his withdrawal from the £15m event

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1 hour ago PM warned the UK risks The Hague over Gaza if arms sales to Israel do not end

Independent MP Shockat Adam asked if the UK will admit ethnic cleansing in Gaza and end all military cooperation with Israel.

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2 h. ago Peter Andre breaks silence over 'cultural appropriation' film Jafaican

Peter Andre has opened up on the "mixed feedback" he has received for his new movie Jafaican after being accused of "cultural appropriation" in the trailer

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2 h. ago Ruben Amorim breaks silence on Bruno Fernandes transfer with clear Man Utd message

Transfer speculation has started over the future of Manchester United star Bruno Fernandes and Ruben Amorim has offered his thoughts on the rumours and revealed his stance on the captain

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2 h. ago Estelle reflects on Kanye West hit ‘American Boy’ amid controversy

‘There was no sign of what was to come,’ said the musician

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2 h. ago Toccata Ladies Choir to perform two summer concerts in West Lothian venues this weekend

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2 h. ago Israel is starving Gaza. It’s a cheap, silent and brutal way to kill | Ahmed Moor

Starvation is a slow, painful way to die. And unlike bombs and tanks, it’s easy for western leaders to ignoreI recently looked up a biography of Rudolf Höss. The Kommandant who led the Auschwitz prison camp in Poland during the second world war was fastidious in his duties. He successfully oversaw the extermination of millions of people from 1940 to 1943, and, according to accounts, seems to have been a father who cared for his five children. His home life was imagined, and captured, by the film-maker Jonathan Glazer in his 2023 movie The Zone of Interest.John Primomo recounts, in his biography, how the Nazi would randomly select groups of prisoners and sentence them to die by starvation. Höss was eventually captured by Nazi hunters and hanged for his crimes, in his case a slow death on a short gallows.Ahmed Moor is a Palestinian American writer and recipient of the Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans Continue reading...

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3 h. ago French lover of murdered Brit expat Karen Carter breaks his silence with tribute to 'lovely lady'

Mr Guerrier, the lover of the woman stabbed to death in Tremolat last month, was seen this morning picking up some post close to his home in the Dordogne village

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3 h. ago BMW chief expects lower tariffs as trade war expected to hit profits

Many of BMW's rivals, including Mercedes-Benz MBGn.DE, Ford F.N and Stellantis STLAM.MI, have pulled their 2025 forecasts

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3 h. ago ‘Maduro did not close our bureau – Trump did’: Voice of America journalists speak out

Workers at the esteemed news service say they’re being silenced by the president – but they’re vowing to fight backCarolina Valladares Pérez, a Washington-based correspondent for the government-funded international news service Voice of America, has reported from places where press freedom is severely restricted – war zones and autocratic states – in the Middle East and across Latin America. Intimidation and threats from state officials were not unusual – but she always managed to get the story out.Now for the first time in her career, Valladares Pérez says she has been silenced – not by a faraway regime, but by the government of the United States. Continue reading...

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3 h. ago Pet raccoon smoking meth pipe in driver's seat caught by cops in wild traffic stop

When police in America pulled over Victoria Vidal, 55, for a routine traffic stop, they were stunned to find her pet raccoon sitting in the driver's seat of the car trying to smoke her meth pipe

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4 h. ago How Tottenham can help Arsenal reach the Champions League final

The Gunners tonight must pull off a rare feat that only two teams have ever managed

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4 h. ago Fox Chase Boy: standup comedy confronts trauma in a Catholic community

There is surprising nostalgia and humour in Gerad Argeros’s story of healing after child abuse by a Catholic priest. He was an altar boy at St Cecilia Catholic church in north-east Philadelphia when, at age 11, he became one of the victims of paedophile James Brzyski. Decades later, the actor and father developed the one-man stage show Fox Chase Boy. Performing it to his close-knit parish he speaks directly about a crime cloaked in silence, and brings welcome insight into their collective trauma Continue reading...

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4 h. ago How the world responded to India’s strikes on Pakistan: ‘Hope it ends very quickly’

Allies of both countries call for restraint and diplomacy

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6 h. ago Declan Rice: Arsenal silenced Real Madrid and can do the same to PSG

Gunners star is confident of overturning a first-leg deficit with another “moment of magic”

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6 h. ago Israeli strikes across Gaza kill more than 40 people as Israel prepares to ramp up its offensive

Hospital officials say Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 48 people, including women and children

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