15 h. ago Texas flood death toll set to top 100 as family members summoned to Kerrville to ID bodies with DNA

Texas officials privately warned of a devastating loss of life due to the flooding in Texas Hill Country in emails shared with Daily Mail.

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17 h. ago Family pay tribute to schoolboy, 16, found dead with another lad on Manchester railway tracks

Joshua Myers, died on Thursday, June 3, after police and paramedics rushed to the tracks near Poynton station at around 10.09pm.

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23 h. ago Fears death row triple murderer's heart implant could shock him 'over and over'

Death row inmate, Byron Black is set to be executed next month for a triple murder in 1987 - but his legal team fear his heart implant will make his end a 'gruesome spectacle'

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60 h. ago Hellish explosion in Rome leaves 40 injured including 11 police officers after 'truck hit pipeline at petrol station'

The explosion was heard across the Italian capital shortly after 8am on Friday and sent up a huge cloud of dark smoke and fire that was visible from several areas of the city.

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65 h. ago Tragedy as two teenagers killed on railway line as police launch probe

A major police incident was declared after officers were called to Poynton Station in Cheshire shortly before 10.30pm on Thursday following reports of a 'casualty' on the tracks

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2 d. ago ‘Slapp addict’ Italian oil firm accused of trying to silence green activists

Eni has filed at least six defamation suits against journalists and NGOs since 2019 in what critics say is intimidation campaignWhen Antonio Tricarico was summoned to his local police station in October and told he was being investigated for defamation, he was stressed but not shocked. Months earlier, Tricarico, the director of the Italian environment NGO ReCommon, had filed a joint legal challenge against the country’s biggest oil company, Eni, which he knew had a history of using lawyers to clamp down on critics.The company had previously limited itself to civil defamation lawsuits, including against ReCommon, but in Tricarico’s case it initiated criminal proceedings over statements he had made in a television interview. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Pair of Met Police officers are sacked after one broke wind in colleague's face and another took photos of his genitals on her phone

PC Wayne Sansom tilted his leg at a 45-degree angle before breaking wind just 10-15cm from the horrified woman's face at Wembley Police Station in northwest London back in November 2021.

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3 d. ago Bob Vylan dropped from multiple European music festivals over Glastonbury chant

Punk duo led Glastonbury crowd in chants of ‘Free, free Palestine’ and ‘Death, death to the IDF’ during their set on 28 June

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4 d. ago Idaho student stabbings suspect pleads guilty to murder to avoid death penalty

Ex-criminal justice student Bryan Kohberger admits to killing four University of Idaho students in 2022Bryan Kohberger pleaded guilty to murder on Wednesday in the brutal stabbing deaths of four University of Idaho students in 2022 that stunned and terrified the campus and set off a nationwide search, which ended weeks later when he was arrested in Pennsylvania.Kohberger, who was a criminal justice graduate student at nearby Washington State University, admitted to the slayings before entering a formal guilty plea in a deal with prosecutors that will allow him to avoid the death penalty. He was set to go to trial in August. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Voices: Despite the Bob Vylan furore, Glastonbury still belongs at the BBC

Broadcasting the punk duo’s set, complete with un-bleeped death chants, was wrong-headed – but the festival has been one of the BBC’s ‘crown jewels’ for 30 years, and, for viewers’ sake, it deserves to stay, says Roger Bolton

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6 d. ago Bob Vylan face US tour ban after ‘death to the IDF’ Glastonbury chant sparks diplomatic row

The punk-rap duo’s Glastonbury set, which featured chants of ‘Death to the IDF’, has sparked outrage with US officials now reviewing their visa ahead of a planned American tour

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6 d. ago Russia pays young Ukrainians to be unwitting suicide bombers in shadow war

Oleh, 19, was offered $1,000 for a paint attack on a police station – but the bag he was given contained a crude bombOleh found the job via a Telegram channel offering day work and side gigs. It sounded easy enough: he was to travel from his home in eastern Ukraine to the western city of Rivne, pick up a rucksack containing a paint canister and spray it outside the local police station.It would require nimble feet to flee the scene without being caught, but the money on offer – $1,000 – was good, fantastic even, for what amounted to a morning’s work for the 19-year-old. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago BBC admit they regret not pulling Bob Vylan Glastonbury show after 'antisemitic' chants

Bob Vylan led a crowd in chants of 'free, free Palestine' and 'death, death to the IDF' during their set on the festival's West Holts Stage on Saturday

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7 d. ago Bob Vylan star breaks silence after Glastonbury set death chant with passionate plea

Bob Vylan star Bobby Vylan took to social media to share a passionate plea following their controversial Glastonbury set that has since been removed from the BBC iPlayer

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7 d. ago BBC iPlayer removes Bob Vylan Glastonbury set after 'death to the IDF' chant

The BBC will not make the British duo's set available to watch on demand after they condemned Israel for their actions in Palestine.

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7 d. ago Chaos as car ploughs into iconic landmark in central London with streets & Tube station sealed off by police

Chaos as car ploughs into iconic landmark in central London with streets & Tube station sealed off by police  The Sun

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8 d. ago Bob Vylan Glastonbury set removed from iPlayer after 'Death to the IDF' chants

Another Glastonbury set has been pulled by the BBC after controversial comments after initially being broadcast live on Saturday afternoon

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8 d. ago Police probe after English punk band led chants of 'death to IDF' during Glastonbury set broadcast on BBC

The Government has ordered the Corporation’s director-general to explain why the performance by Bob Vylan was streamed on iPlayer

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8 d. ago Outrage after English punk band led chants of 'death to IDF' during Glastonbury set broadcast on BBC

The Government has ordered the Corporation’s director-general to explain why the performance by Bob Vylan was streamed on iPlayer

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1 week ago New crime drama dubbed 'next Death in Paradise' set to be your summer obsession

Amazon Prime's latest crime drama Hotel Costiera which has been dubbed the next Death In Paradise is set to be your much-watch series this summer

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