78 m. ago US war plans leak shows Five Eyes allies must ‘look out for ourselves’, says Mark Carney

Signal blunder likely to put strain on Five Eyes as it weighs how Trump administration handles classified informationCanada’s prime minister, Mark Carney, has said the inadvertent leak of classified military plans by senior US officials means that allied nations must increasingly “look out for ourselves” as trust frays with a once-close ally.Speaking a day after it was revealed that a journalist was accidentally included in a group chat discussing airstrikes against Yemeni rebels, Carney said the intelligence blunder was a “serious, serious issue and all lessons must be taken”. He said it would be critical to see “how people react to those mistakes and how they tighten them up”. Continue reading...

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1 hour ago Gunman who killed 23 in racist attack at Texas Walmart offered plea deal to avoid death penalty

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at an El Paso Walmart in 2019 in one of the the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. history has been offered a plea deal to avoid the death penalty

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2 h. ago Judge orders a June trial for US government's felony case against Boeing

A federal judge in Texas has set a June trial date for the U.S. government’s years-old conspiracy case against Beoing for misleading regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed, killing 346 people

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2 h. ago BBC Beyond Paradise star opens up on 'tough situation' for Humphrey and Martha

The third series of Beyond Paradise is set to be more gripping than ever, with DI Humphrey Goodman and the team back to solve more mysteries in the village of Shipton Abbott.

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2 h. ago Emmerdale fans 'annoyed' over 'assassination' of villager as the drama escalates

Viewers weren't happy with how Ella has been treated as the Chas Dingle incident worsens

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2 h. ago Chilling 999 call of killer police let go before he poisoned another three men

Serial killer Stephen Port made a chilling 999 call after murdering his first victim. Over the course of 16 months, Port went on to murder three other men and was dubbed the 'Grindr killer'

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3 h. ago Emmerdale return 'sealed' for Pete Barton after telling scene as Ross exits village

Emmerdale may have teased a return for a past character on the ITV soap with some news about Pete Barton, leading to his brother Ross Barton making a swift exit

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3 h. ago Stephen Port: Disturbing clue serial killer left on laptop that police completely missed

Stephen Port is one of the country's most notorious serial killers, with his spree of murders calling the competency of the police's investigation into question

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3 h. ago Serial killer's disgusting final act to vulnerable man he dumped near graveyard

Serial killer Stephen Port managed to stay several steps ahead of the police for months when embarking on his terrifying spree of rapes and murders of young men in East London

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3 h. ago 'I'm a doctor – I follow four steps every night to get best sleep ever'

If you're struggling to drift off or find yourself waking up throughout the night, TV doctor Amir Khan's four-step routine might be the secret to improving your sleeping pattern

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4 h. ago The Guardian view on the Signal war plans leak: a US security breach speaks volumes | Editorial

A staggering blunder points to the wider failings of the careless and amateurish Trump administrationIt is jaw-dropping that senior Trump administration figures would accidentally leak war plans to a journalist. But the fundamental issue is that 18 high-ranking individuals were happy discussing extremely sensitive material on a private messaging app, highlighting the administration’s extraordinary amateurishness, recklessness and unaccountability.The visceral hostility to Europe spelt out again by the vice-president, JD Vance, was glaring. So was the indifference to the potential civilian cost of the strikes on Houthi targets in Yemen, designed to curb attacks on Red Sea shipping. The Houthi-run health ministry said that 53 people including five children and two women were killed. The response by the national security adviser, Michael Waltz, to the attacks was to post emojis: a fist, an American flag and fire. The lack of contrition for this security breach is also telling...

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4 h. ago Video and 911 calls played by police detail chaos from deadly shooting in New Mexico

Police in Las Cruces, New Mexico, played 911 emergency calls and video depicting chilling scenes of people running in panic as gunfire crackled in a park where three people were killed and 15 others were wounded during an unauthorized car show

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4 h. ago Sick lie doctor told mum while secretly getting her pregnant using his own sperm

Victoria Hill's mother, Maralee had placed her trust in a fertility doctor to help her conceive a child. He then broke this trust by using his own sperm in the process, covering his misdeeds with a sick lie

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4 h. ago Divebombing hawk attacking villagers claims new victim as council mulls taking deadly action

A divebombing hawk notorious for attacking villagers has claimed a new victim as Flamstead council considers taking deadly action against the bird.

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5 h. ago Privately educated Brit, 28, is killed after he was turned away from a Thai karaoke bar and attacked by bouncers

Nick Weir, 28, was said to have been acting erratically as he tried to make his way inside the 91karaoke bar in Bangkok before being turned away by staff.

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5 h. ago Democrats demand answers over White House’s ‘careless’ Signal blunder

Senators interrogate US intelligence community after Atlantic editor was added to group chat on Yemen war plansUS politics live – latest updatesDemocratic senators demanded answers from leaders of the US intelligence community on Tuesday on how the top editor of the Atlantic was added to a group chat discussing airstrikes in Yemen, arguing that the “sloppy, careless” leak put national security at risk.The unusual story broke on Monday, when the Atlantic published a piece by its editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, who said he had been added to the group on the messaging app Signal, and watched as accounts that appeared to match top Trump administration officials, including Vice-President JD Vance and the secretary of state, Marco Rubio, debated and then coordinated a wave of bombings targeting the Houthis in Yemen. Continue reading...

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5 h. ago Tragedy as fiancée of former college football star is killed in California car wreck

The collision unfolded Sunday night when ‘a suspect, armed with a stolen handgun operating a stolen gray Infiniti sedan’ rammed into the young couple’s SUV, say officials

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5 h. ago Plastic surgeon reveals horror injuries after vengeful colleague broke into his £1m home and stabbed him, court told

Graeme Perks is said to have been attacked by colleague Peter Brooks at his home near Nottingham over long-running disciplinary proceedings at the NHS Trust they both worked for.

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5 h. ago ‘Psycho’ locked up indefinitely for killing devoted father in sword attack

Abdul Khan, 27, killed devoted father-of-two Bohdan Vandzhura, 49, in July 2023, while in the grip of psychotic hallucinations.

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5 h. ago First picture of motorcyclist killed after horror crash on Scots road as police make fresh appeal

Iain Macrory, 61, lost his life after his motorbike crashed with a lorry in Dumfries and Galloway on March 19.

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