2 h. ago Ukraine war briefing: Drones hit Russia’s Ryazan oil refinery

Russian attacks kill four on Saturday; Serbian government faces deadline to oust Russian owners from state oil company. What we know on day 1,362 Ukraine’s army said on Saturday it struck a Russian oil refinery in the Ryazan region near Moscow, as “part of efforts to reduce the enemy’s ability to launch missile and bomb strikes”. Explosions and a large fire were observed at the site, said the military. Ryazan is located about 200km (125 miles) south-east of Moscow.Russian officials often do not admit such attacks have succeeded, and the Ryazan governor, Pavel Malkov, adopted the standard line that Ukrainian drones were shot down but debris happened to hit the target. “Falling debris caused a fire on the premises of one enterprise,” Malkov said. A wave of 25 Ukrainian drones attacked the region, Malkov said.Officials in southern Ukraine said four people were killed by Russian attacks on Saturday. Prosecutors in the Kherson region said “three civilians are known to have been killed” i...

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12 h. ago ‘We moved to Thailand with our three kids and now live off £40 a day’

Amelia Wray and Billy Evans sold their house and belongings and moved their family to South East Asia

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15 h. ago London and the South East braced for cold snap in wake of Storm Claudia as major incident declared

London and the South East braced for cold snap in wake of Storm Claudia as major incident declared  London Evening Standard

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16 h. ago Man, 20, stabbed at London train station as police search for car driver seen minutes before attack

Witnesses report seeing two groups armed a zombie knife and an iron bar in Belvedere on Friday night

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21 h. ago The 1990s and 2000s tech gathering dust in lofts that could be worth 'hundreds'

Cashing in on some of the obsolete gadgets stashed away could provide a cash boost before Christmas

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24 h. ago Drones, DNA and AI: How technology is transforming the search for missing people

From social media appeals to facial recognition and sonar searches, new technology is revolutionising how police locate the missing – and how fast they can bring them to safety

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24 h. ago The best guide to the Christmas markets in south east London this year

The best guide to the Christmas markets in south east London this year  News Shopper

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25 h. ago Is your car telling you to SPEED? Electric and hybrid owners say built

Traffic Sign Recognition (TSR) systems are reading speed limit signs incorrectly and telling drivers the speed limit is up to 100mph, with some models accelerating on their own.

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28 h. ago Is your car telling you to SPEED? Electric and hybrid owners say onboard tech is instructing them to do 80mph in school areas

But online forums are full of owners complaining that the feature - which is standard on the £55,000 Mazda CX-60 and £37,000 Volvo XC40 (pictured) - has been misreading signs and setting off alarms

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36 h. ago Two south east London fish and chip shops named among best in the country

Two south east London fish and chip shops named among best in the country  This Is Local London

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41 h. ago Jaguar Land Rover plunges to loss after heavy cyber attack costs

JLR booked £196 million of extra costs linked to the cyber attack and £42 million related to voluntary redundancies.

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41 h. ago The two south east London Indian restaurants among UK’s best

The two south east London Indian restaurants among UK’s best  News Shopper

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42 h. ago News | Flex offices set to be 20% of London's market in 2030

News | Flex offices set to be 20% of London's market in 2030  CoStar

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42 h. ago More than 150 Palestinians held on plane in South Africa for 12 Hours

Passengers included a woman who was nine months pregnant

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50 h. ago Fury as 'Amazon delivery driver tries to let himself into MP's family home'

James McMurdock, an independent MP for South Basildon and East Thurrock, claimed that a man had 'let himself into' his home on Thursday evening.

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52 h. ago Amber warnings for ‘persistent and heavy’ rain from Storm Claudia

The Met Office says a large swathe of central and southern England and Wales will be soaked on Friday into Saturday.

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60 h. ago England legend Sir Alf Ramsey's coat found in cupboard after 40 years

Inside the untold stories of 1966 England World Cup legend Sir Alf Ramsey, and how his coat was found in a cupboard under the stairs in south east London after 40 years

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61 h. ago Tired of waiting for Spotify Wrapped? You can now find your weekly listening stats

Learn how to access your Spotify weekly listening statistics ahead of time with our easy guide

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64 h. ago ‘We were forced to burn bodies’: will survivors of the Tadamon massacres see justice?

The Damascus suburb became Assad’s killing field. But some of the perpetrators are still around – and even working with the new governmentAbu Mohammed still remembers the smell. It usually came at dawn, as the mosques sounded the first call to prayer. By the time he sat down for breakfast, it would fill the air around his home in Tadamon, a working-class district in the south-east of Damascus. The smell was hard to define. Whenever he noticed it, Abu Mohammed felt on edge. He had his suspicions about what it might be, but like so many Syrians who lived under the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, he knew to keep such thoughts to himself.Abu Mohammed, a retired engineer who asked to be identified only by his nickname, first noticed the smell in the winter of 2012, nearly two years after the start of the uprising against Assad. At the time, he was living in a modest flat in the heart of Tadamon with his wife and their five children. The house stood just off a busy road named Daboul Stre...

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65 h. ago EU investigates Google over ‘demoting’ commercial content from news media

Officials say effective invisibilty in search results could be leading to unfair ‘loss of revenue’The EU has launched an investigation into Google Search over concerns the US tech company has been “demoting” commercial content from news media sites.The bloc’s executive arm announced the move after monitoring found certain content created with advertisers and sponsors was being given such a low priority by Google that it was effectively no longer visible in search results. Continue reading...

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