2 h. ago Children in tears as gang of youths with 'knives and hammers' invade sports club pitch

One mum who witnessed the incident with her two children called it "truly terrifying."

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3 h. ago It is safe for me to write this article – and for you to read it. But globally, those rights are under grave threat | Antonio Zappulla

The act of labelling journalists ‘foreign agents’ is deliberately chilling. On World Press Freedom Day, be aware of the peril involved in seeking the truthLast month, Georgian president Mikheil Kavelashvili approved a new law inflicting criminal charges, including prison sentences and fines, on any organisation or individual who fails to comply with the country’s “foreign influence” bill.The news didn’t trouble the front pages of the international press and went largely unnoticed, but it marks a significant inflection point in the decline of global press freedom. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Primark's 'chic' £26 sandals look 'just like' £158 luxury version

The new Primark sandals look similar to a designer version - but there's a huge price difference

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4 h. ago Mafia gunmen and holiday thugs are ruining our new lives in the sun... we don't want to live in the Costa del Crime

More than 100 mafia groups are said to be operating along this 90 mile stretch of coastline, situated in Spain's southernmost, and poorest, region of Andalucia.

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6 h. ago Poker Face: Natasha Lyonne’s seriously funny whydunnit caper is back with a cracking A

Cynthia Erivo plays sextuplets! Katie Holmes is an undertaker! And Kumail Nunjiani is the new Tiger King! The super cool, celebrity-packed show is even wilder than everThe best thing about Poker Face is that it doesn’t bother trying to shore up what it knows is a flimsy premise. Fans of the first season will recall that Charlie Cale, Natasha Lyonne’s wisecracking 70s detective homage, has an in-built ability to detect a lie as soon as someone tells it. Instead of trying to explain this gift away as the result of a gamma storm or spider bite or covert government experiment, it now accepts that, yeah, she has a “freaky little lie detector trick”, that’s the extent of the idea, got a problem with that? These days, Charlie waves away any queries about it with an “Eh”, a shrug and a cheeky nudge of the baseball cap and aviator shades.After using her talent to work her way through a series of increasingly preposterous case-of-the-week murders last time, then ending up with the mafia putti...

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7 h. ago Tenerife tourists use sneaky trick to reserve sunbeds before they're even laid out

The competition for prime sunbed spots in popular beach destinations has been ramping up in recent years. One TikTok video shows how Tenerife tourists are now trying to game the system.

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7 h. ago 'The jewel in the crown of Portobello': building featured in Paddington films for sale for £4.5m

The property, with its distinctive red façade, starred as Mr Gruber’s antiques shop in the Paddington films

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7 h. ago ‘I know I might not come back’: the young Ukrainians enlisting early to fight Russia

Kyiv has brought in new incentives for those under 25 in an effort to repopulate the frontline as the war grinds on“I’m not just here to avenge my brother,” says Luntik, 20, one of Ukraine’s newest soldiers, as he takes a break from training. He has joined up, he says, to try to liberate the territory of Ukraine from the Russian invaders: “When the thief is coming to your house and you are afraid he might harm you or kill your wife, you will take actions and, if necessary, kill the thief.”The mild spring day, somewhere in Kharkiv region, belies the seriousness of the conversation. Luntik is one of a dozen or so young recruits, all aged between 18 and 24, who have agreed to join Ukraine’s army before the age of 25, at which men can be forcibly mobilised. The lure is a bonus of 1m hryvnia (nearly £18,000), 0% mortgages and a short one-year contract; the scheme, launched in February, is a fresh effort to repopulate Ukraine’s frontline. Continue reading...

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7 h. ago Vile rapist and thug who battered man with prosthetic leg among criminals locked up this week

These are some of the men jailed in our courts over the past few days

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9 h. ago Quinta do Lago: The Algarve resort that claims to be Europe's best

The fabulous Quinta do Lago resort in Portugal's Algarve offers so much more than golf, Tim Bond found during a visit to a spot that prides itself on offering magnificent five-star luxury

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9 h. ago Locked Up: The criminals justice caught up with in April and what happened to them

Here are the faces of the criminals who have been jailed for the most serious crimes in Wales in the past month

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17 h. ago US designates two powerful Haitian gangs as terrorist groups

Rubio calls Viv Ansanm and Gran Grif ‘threat to US national security’ and says support for groups could lead to chargesThe United States has designated a powerful Haitian gang alliance, whose members have taken control of almost all the capital city as a “transnational terrorist group”.The criminal coalition known as Viv Ansanm (Live Together), and another faction, the Gran Grif gang, which in October took responsibility for a shocking massacre of at least 115 people in the agricultural town of Pont-Sondé, were both covered by the move on Friday. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Weinstein accuser breaks down while recounting experiences in rape retrial

Judge paused proceedings during Miriam Haley’s fourth day on witness stand over alleged assault by ex-movie mogulA woman who alleges Harvey Weinstein forced oral sex on her broke down under intensely personal cross-examination during her fourth day on the witness stand in the criminal retrial of the disgraced movie mogul.The judge paused proceedings early on Friday afternoon to give Miriam Haley a chance to compose herself after an angry and tearful exchange with Weinstein’s defense as she was questioned on her account of his alleged assault. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Criminal Minds veteran Paget Brewster weighs in on Ellen Pompeo’s comments on ‘s***ty’ residual pay: ‘I’ve always been frugal’

Exclusive: Brewster, who returns as FBI profiler Emily Prentiss on the new season of ‘Criminal Minds: Evolution,’ reveals she receives no streaming residuals from the show

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20 h. ago Trump repeats legally dubious threat to ‘take away’ Harvard’s tax

Federal law prohibits president from directing or influencing the IRS to investigate or audit an organizationUS politics live – latest updatesDonald Trump said again on Friday that he would be “taking away” Harvard’s tax-exempt status as a non-profit in a legally questionable move that escalates his ongoing feud with the elite university.“We are going to be taking away Harvard’s Tax Exempt Status. It’s what they deserve!” Trump wrote on Truth Social in a more direct message than a post in April when he said “perhaps” the college should lose its tax-exempt status. Continue reading...

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20 h. ago British 'cocaine kingpin' is pictured in selfie 'sent on encrypted phone used to plan gangland murder from his luxury Dubai base'

British 'cocaine kingpin' James Harding, 34, can be seen in the photographs grinning and posing in the gym and a bathroom located inside The Nest development in Al Barari, Dubai.

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20 h. ago The Guide #189: Your new celebrity best friend? It’s just a deepfake trying to con you

In this week’s newsletter: AI impostors are charming fans out of fortunes – here’s how TV’s Scam Interceptors catch the criminalsThis week’s newsletter is written by Nick Stapleton and Mark Lewis, presenter and producer respectively on BBC’s Scam Interceptors. If you haven’t seen Scam Interceptors, it’s a very entertaining factual series in which Nick and his team of ethical hackers attempt to disrupt scamming attacks on the public as they happen. In the show’s fourth series, now airing daytime on BBC One, one of the scams disrupted involves a worryingly convincing Reese Witherspoon deepfake. So we thought we’d ask Nick and Mark to tell us all about their brush with (fake) celebrity, and share some pointers on how to spot a deepfake before it convinces you to empty your bank account. – GwilymEver wanted to have a deep and meaningful with your favourite Hollywood celebrity? Go on. Who is it? Pedro Pascal? Aubrey Plaza? Jeff Bridges (Nick). Beyoncé (Mark). Well, we’ve got great news f...

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21 h. ago Plane passenger arrested on Tenerife flight after 'outrageous act' onboard

Police officers stormed the plane on arrival.

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21 h. ago Nigel Farage aide 'Posh George' arrested on suspicion of domestic violence

Convicted felon George Cottrell and his former Miss Montenegro girlfriend Anjela Vukadinovic deny the allegations following the 3am incident at a luxury Mediterranean resort

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22 h. ago The 'criminal loophole' that means people can park on your driveway, but this is what you can do

The 'criminal loophole' that means people can park on your driveway - and what to do

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