37 h. ago Three people killed in Louisville, Kentucky, motor vehicle office shooting

One person was dead at the scene and two others died at the hospital; no reported arrests nor information on the shooterThree people were shot and killed at a motor vehicle office in Louisville, Kentucky, on Friday, police said.Major Donald Boeckman of Louisville metro police department told reporters that officers found one person dead at the scene and another two wounded. The two wounded were taken to hospitals and died there. He said there was no ongoing threat to public. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago Good cop Keir Starmer loses out to bad cop Emmanuel Macron in race to visit White House and try to soften 'weak' Donald Trump's Ukraine plan

The White House last night confirmed that both the Prime Minister and Mr Macron will head to Washington DC next week, in the wake of America's astonishing U-turn over Ukraine.

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3 d. ago ‘We paid a high price for human rights’: a road trip through the new Syria

In cities along the M5 highway just after the fall of Assad, many expressed relief – along with wariness about the futureAmid the rubble of Saraqib, some of the wall graffiti dating back to its time as a centre of the the 2011 Arab spring uprising remains. “The revolution will go on,” one reads. “Tomorrow the sun rises,” says another. A week after the astonishing rout of Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, this small town of concrete, red earth and olive groves in Syria’s north-west was a stop on the Guardian’s 280-mile (450km) journey along the M5, the highway threading all of the country’s major cities and six provinces together.Suffering was palpable everywhere, from children rummaging through bins for food in Aleppo and Homs, to relatives searching for loved ones in Damascus’s prisons, to displaced people still living in tents in Idlib. There are huge challenges ahead for HTS’s transitional government, and in some places, sectarian vio...

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3 d. ago 'He asked if his wife and daughters were waiting for him, they had to tell him they'd been murdered'

Eli Sharabi's brother-in-law has described being reunited with him after 16 months of being held hostage by Hamas, and the moment he had to be told his family were dead

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4 d. ago Mum of 3 who 'killed husband after affair discovered' in court as body still missing

The alleged murder only came to light when a man claiming to be Jennifer Gledhill's lover went to the police and told them she confessed to shooting her husband dead and hiding the body

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5 d. ago Neighbours icon told he'd be 'dead in weeks' before astonishing scan results

Actor Ian Smith, who played Harold Bishop in the soap for more than two decades, was diagnosed with an aggressive and rare form of lung cancer and told he would be dead within weeks

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5 d. ago Paramedic recalls not being able to identify heads or feet of Omagh victims

Richard Quigley told the Omagh Bombing Inquiry that he remembers seeing dead bodies lined up in rows in a temporary morgue.

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