45 h. ago Man released without charge after girl, 4, and two adults die in Rushton fire

Three police officers also injured in blaze that ripped through historic former station house in Northamptonshire village

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45 h. ago Station house fire that killed three not believed to be criminal, say police

A man who was arrested on suspicion of murder on Saturday was released without charge on Sunday evening.

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47 h. ago Police give update as man arrested on suspicion of murder after deadly Rushton fire

A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a four-year-old girl and two adults died in a fire at a historic former station house in Rushton, Northamptonshire, on Friday night (March 28).

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48 h. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after young girl and two adults die in Northamptonshire fire

Emergency services were called on Friday to reports of a large blaze at a property in Beswick Close in Rushton, near Kettering.

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49 h. ago Man arrested on suspicion of murder after girl, 4, and two adults die in Rushton fire

Three police officers also injured in blaze that ripped through historic former station house in Northamptonshire village

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5 d. ago Mystery over toddler who vanished in Alps deepens after grandparents released without charge

Prosecutors say the anatomical scars on the skull of Émile Soleil are ‘suggestive of violent facial trauma’

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5 d. ago Missing Emile Soleil mystery deepens as grandparents' lawyer issues update following three days of police questioning after Catholic priest friend of the family's suicide was revealed

The custody period for Philippe and Anne Vedovini, both 59, came to an end early on Thursday morning, following 72 hours of questioning about Émile Soleil.

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8 d. ago Man found dead on motorway after being confronted by paedophile hunters in livestream

Adrian Smith was arrested by police following the livestream but was released without charge.

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9 d. ago The big picture: Hicham Benohoud frames the classroom as theatre

While working as an art teacher in the 90s, the Moroccan photographer collaborated with his students to play with the confines of the educational systemNo doubt you can sympathise with at least one of the pupils in the image. She has her head down, working hard, so bowed in thought her face is almost pressed right against her paper. A few seats down, a boy adopts a similar pose. One girl has her ankles crossed, while another has hers splayed. Across the room, one girl’s shoes are practical, while another’s are oddly adult, sandals with heels, hand-me-downs, maybe. You remember how imagination allowed you to disappear, to escape, to take leave of the four walls of the classroom, of the uncomfortable wooden chair and desk at which you tried not to fidget.Or were you the boy breaking the peace, wild and unruly, hanging over a table while lying flat on your stomach, legs dangling, fixing us with your cheeky gaze, as in this image from the Moroccan photographer Hicham Benohoud’s book The...

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1 week ago Arrested at gunpoint, charged as a felon: a midwife’s lot in anti

The state with the most radical abortion law is seeking to make an example of Maria Margarita RojasTexas is a fairly decent place to be an armadillo (they’re the official state small mammal) and an increasingly dire place to be a woman. In 2021, it implemented a near-total abortion ban: the most radical abortion law in the US. Now it’s going even further in its crusade to outlaw abortion. On Monday, the Texas attorney general, Ken Paxton, announced the first criminal charges under Texas’s abortion ban. Maria Margarita Rojas, a licensed midwife, was charged with the illegal performance of an abortion and with practicing medicine without a license, according to a press release from Paxton’s office. Her employee Jose Ley was also charged. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Man hit by train and killed days after being released from prison after charge was dropped

Darren Stokes died less than a fortnight after a three-week stint on remand in HMP Cardiff, but a report has found no failings by the authorities

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1 week ago ‘This is your mission’: why one Brazilian doctor is training to be a shaman

Adana Omágua Kambeba fought to become one of the country’s first Indigenous woman doctors. Now she wants to bring the worlds of traditional and western medicine closer – and help Amazonian communities in the processAdana Omágua Kambeba was still a little girl when adults started coming to her for advice, asking how to deal with their problems. She liked to speak to plants and to smoke, puzzling the elders. No one had taught her that – it came naturally.When she reached adulthood, her grandmother told her that of all her grandchildren, Adana had inherited a place in the lineage of healers and shamans of the Kambeba group, also known as Omágua, “the people of the water”, which has communities in the Brazilian and Peruvian Amazon. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Chiefs’ Xavier Worthy released after Texas DA declines to pursue charges

Kansas City wideout faced third-degree felony chargeWorthy was taken in first round of last year’s draftXavier Worthy was released Saturday after a district attorney in Texas declined to pursue charges against the Kansas City Chiefs wide receiver following an arrest in which he had been accused of felony domestic violence.Williamson County district attorney Shawn Dick told the Austin American-Statesman his office had spoken with witnesses and was not accepting the case at this time. He also said Worthy and his lawyers were fully cooperating with the investigation. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Inside the Islamic State prisons the west is trying to forget – podcast

Michael Safi travelled to north-east Syria to speak to IS foreign fighters imprisoned there. And discovered that a change in the US administration, and USAid funding cuts, means there is a growing fear of prison breaksA few weeks ago, Michael Safi travelled to north-east Syria, an area controlled by the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces. Here, suspected foreign fighters for Islamic State – including those from Britain – have for years been imprisoned without charge and with no idea of when they would be released.Few prisoners in the camp say they are IS members. Michael and fellow journalist, Will Christou, spoke to a former British surgeon from Leicester who told a surprising story of being ‘tricked’ into crossing into Syria from Turkey. They also met an Australian prisoner, who admitted to being an IS member, and whose family for years did not know his whereabouts. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Scots MP demands Jagtar Singh Johal release from jail after Dumbarton man cleared of terror charges

EXCLUSIVE: Douglas McAllister wants the UK Government to give a response in the Commons after 37-year-old Dumbarton man Jagtar Singh Johal had terror charges against him dismissed.

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4 w. ago Taxi driver and waiter arrested over murder of Scot in Kenya released without charge

The pair will now be treated as witnesses amid an ongoing murder inquiry.

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4 w. ago The doctors detained in Gaza: ‘He was dragged from the operating theatre’ – podcast

Doctors in Gaza say they have been targeted for doing their jobs, detained and even tortured. Annie Kelly reports Since the war in Gaza began more than a year ago, the health system has crumbled. Hospitals have been attacked, medical supply lines disrupted and many doctors have been killed in the Israeli bombardment. Other physicians have been detained.Dr Khaled Serr is a surgeon at Nasser hospital in Gaza. He says he was arrested after his hospital was attacked by the Israeli military. Like other doctors in Gaza, he says he thinks he was held because of his job. He tells Hannah Moore he was beaten, humiliated and endured terrible conditions before he was released without charge. Continue reading...

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