13 h. ago Pilot's chilling final words before plane crashed in Russia and killed president

This month marks the 15th anniversary of the crash which killed all 96 on board, including the President of Poland. The Smolensk air disaster left two countries in a bitter war of words over who was to blame

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25 h. ago Trump’s Gaza plan piles pressure on his ‘favourite dictator’

Egypt’s Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has sought to kill proposal to expel population while preserving good relations with US president

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57 h. ago US releases thousands of files related to Robert F Kennedy assassination

Release of files, ordered by Trump, includes notes from killer, who said presidential candidate ‘must be disposed of’About 10,000 pages of records related to the 1968 assassination of Robert F Kennedy, including handwritten notes by the assassin, who said the US senator and Democratic presidential candidate “must be disposed of” and acknowledged an obsession with killing him.The release continued the disclosure of national secrets ordered by Donald Trump after he began his second presidency in January. It comes a month after unredacted files related to the 1963 assassination of president John F Kennedy were disclosed. The earlier documents gave curious readers more details about cold- war era covert US operations in other nations but did not initially lend credence to long-circulating conspiracy theories about who killed JFK, RFK’s brother. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Captive Chinese soldiers appear before the press in Kyiv

Republicans increase pressure on Trump after 35 killed in Sumy, with US president calling for ‘death and destruction to stop’. What we know on day 1,147Ukraine held a press conference with Chinese soldiers captured on the frontline after Volodymyr Zelenskyy accused Russia of recruiting fighters from China using social media. The men were led into a press centre handcuffed and flanked by armed Ukrainian guards and it was unclear if they were speaking of their own volition. The pair told journalists they hoped to be part of a prisoner swap.Zelenskyy, the Ukrainian president, has accused Moscow of dragging Beijing into its invasion, saying that several hundred Chinese nationals were fighting at the frontline. The Kremlin has denied it claim while Beijing has warned parties to the conflict against making “irresponsible remarks”.Zelenskyy accused Vladimir Putin of remaining focused on continuing the war, saying Russia had openly refused to engage in ceasefire talks. “There is only one re...

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6 d. ago Attack by gunmen leaves at least 40 people dead in Nigeria, the country's president says

Nigeria’s president says that at least 40 people were killed when Muslim gunmen, believed to be herders, attacked a Christian farming community in the north-central part of the country, the latest in a spate of increasingly sectarian violence in the West African country

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9 d. ago Family of five including thee children killed in helicopter crash

Agustín Escobar, the president of the Spanish branch of the technology giant Siemens, was killed alongside his wife and three children in the New York City helicopter crash

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1 week ago Protesters in Russia try to disrupt Poland's commemoration of president's plane crash

Poland’s ambassador to Russia says a group of Russians tried to disrupt a small commemoration marking the 15th anniversary of the plane crash that killed President Lech Kaczyński and 95 other people

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2 w. ago Massive JFK files dump set to release everything CIA knows about Lee Harvey Oswald

Congress is set to host a hearing Tuesday to further examine how former President John F. Kennedy was killed half a century ago.

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2 w. ago JFK files under fresh scrutiny as Congress drags in filmmaker Oliver Stone and examines CIA's ties to assassination

Congress is set to host a hearing Tuesday to further examine how former President John F. Kennedy was killed half a century ago.

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3 w. ago Bagpiper who played for King Charles dies in scuba diving accident before grim treehouse discovery

Henry Frantz, 74, who played bagpipes for King Charles and US presidents, was killed in a scuba diving accident off the coast of Maui - before his family found a horror movie scene in his back garden

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3 w. ago 30 years after music icon Selena's murder, Yolanda Saldívar is up for parole. Here's what to know

Thirty years ago, Latino music legend Selena Quintanilla-Pérez was killed by her fan club’s president, Yolanda Saldívar

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3 w. ago Chilling final words after pilot let his children fly plane before it crashed and killed everyone onboard

Aeroflot Flight 593 was carrying 75 passengers from Moscow to Hong Kong on March 23, 1994, when disaster struck.

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4 w. ago Trump reveals who he thinks killed JFK in bombshell interview with Clay Travis after releasing new assassination files

President Donald Trump has shared his thoughts about who killed former President John F. Kennedy in a wide-ranging interview with Outkick founder Clay Travis onboard Air Force One on Saturday.

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