58 h. ago Medical aircraft that crashed at Southend Airport 'is owned by Dutch IT millionaire' as police reveal the four people killed were all foreign nationals

The airport has been forced to cancel all flights and close 'until further notice' after Zeusch Aviation Flight SUZ1 crashed just before 4pm on Sunday.

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3 d. ago What if Ukraine falls? This is no longer a hypothetical question – and it must be answered urgently | Simon Tisdall

Europe offers platitudes, Trump dithers, and Ukraine and its extraordinary people stand on the brink. Nato must step upFor 40 cruel and bloody months, Ukraine has fought the Russian invader. Since February 2022, when Moscow’s full-scale, countrywide onslaught began, its people have faced relentless, devastating attacks. Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded, millions have lost their homes. Ukraine’s industries, shops, schools, hospitals and power stations burn, its fertile farmlands are laid waste. Its children are orphaned, traumatised or abducted. Despite repeated appeals, the world has failed to stop the carnage. And yet Ukraine, outnumbered and outgunned, has continued to fight back.Ukrainian heroism amid horror has become so familiar, it’s almost taken for granted. But as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, escalates the war, raining nightly terror on Kyiv and other cities using record waves of armed drones, as US support and peace efforts falter, and as Ukraine’s overs...

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4 d. ago UN says fuel shortage in Gaza at ‘critical levels’ – Middle East crisis live

A lack of fuel means ‘lifelines will vanish for 2.1 million people’, the UN saidIsraeli airstrikes killed at least 28 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, including four children, hospital officials said on Saturday, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The four children and two women were among at least 13 people who were killed in Deir al-Balah, in central Gaza, after Israeli airstrikes pounded the area starting late on Friday, officials in Al-Aqsa Martyr’s hospital said.Another four people were killed in strikes near a fuel station, and 15 others died in Israeli airstrikes in Khan Younis, in southern Gaza, according to Nasser hospital. The Israeli military said in a statement that over the past 48 hours, troops struck approximately 250 targets in the Gaza Strip, including militants, booby-trapped structures, weapons storage facilities, anti-tank missile launch posts, sniper posts, tunnels and additional Hamas infrastructure sites. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago 'Killer' heatwave warning for London as a million homes in South East face hosepipe ban

South East Water announces domestic hosepipe ban from July 18 as temperatures set to reach 32C in London

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9 d. ago Texas flooding kills more than 90 people as 5 million remain under flood watch – latest updates

Donald Trump will travel to Texas later this week as Texas senator Ted Cruz defends response to floodingCamp Mystic confirms 27 children and counsellors died in floodsTexas flood survivors question planning and responseResidents of Kerr County began clearing mud and salvaging what they could from their demolished properties as they recounted harrowing escapes from rapidly rising floodwaters late Friday.Reagan Brown said his parents, in their 80s, managed to escape uphill as water inundated their home in the town of Hunt. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Dirty habit millions admit to daily linked to 'silent' liver disease that can kill with no warning signs

Long believed to have minimal long-term side effects, cannabis has been found to increase the risk of damage to a vital organ.

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1 week ago Wild kangaroo harvests are labelled ‘needlessly cruel’ by US lawmakers – but backed by Australian conservationists

The campaign to ban kangaroo products is ‘muddled’ and not based on knowledge, wildlife experts sayWarning: Graphic contentThe bill, introduced into the US Senate last month, came with plenty of emotive and uncompromising language.“The mass killing of millions of kangaroos to make commercial products is needless and inhumane,” said the Democratic senator Tammy Duckworth, as she introduced the Kangaroo Protection Act to ban the sale and manufacture of kangaroo products in the US. Continue reading...

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1 week ago UNAids chief ‘shaken and disgusted’ by US cuts that will mean millions more deaths

Winnie Byanyima tells the Guardian she considered resigning when Donald Trump cancelled Pepfar fundingThe head of the global agency tackling Aids says she expects HIV rates to soar and deaths to multiply in the next four years as a direct impact of the “seismic” US cuts to aid spending.Winnie Byanyima, the executive director of UNAids, said that if the funding permanently disappeared, the world faced an additional 6 million HIV infections and 4 million Aids-related deaths by 2029. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Popular contraception taken by millions kills healthy 29 year

In August 2024, Chloe Alicia Ellis, from Dewsbury, contacted NHS 111 online after suddenly experiencing chest and back pain, as well as breathlessness.

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3 w. ago Tobacco exposure killed more than 7m people in 2023, study finds

Researchers say tobacco linked to about one in eight deaths worldwide and numbers rising sharply in some countries Exposure to tobacco killed more than 7 million people worldwide in 2023, according to estimates.It remains the leading risk factor for deaths in men, among whom there were 5.59m deaths, and ranks seventh for women, among whom there were 1.77m deaths. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Mohamed Fayed 'paid spies' to discover ‘truth’ about Princess Diana’s death

Disgraced former Harrods owner Mohamed Fayed is said to have paid former secret service agents millions in exchange for information about the car accident that killed Princess Diana

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3 w. ago Driver accused of killing Million Dollar Beach House star thought she hit traffic cone, court hears

The accused driver, Amanda Kempton, found the suitcase of Hampton’s realtor Sara Burack wedged under her car

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3 w. ago Driver arrested after realtor who appeared on Netflix’s ‘Million Dollar Beach House’ killed in hit and run in the Hamptons

Sara Burack, a realtor from Netflix’s Million Dollar Beach House, was killed in a hit-and-run in Hampton Bays on Thursday.

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3 w. ago An insurance firm is ordered to pay $44M in a lawsuit filed by a man freed from prison in Missouri

A Missouri judge has ordered an insurance company to pay nearly $44 million in a lawsuit involving a man whose conviction for killing a newspaper sports editor was overturned

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3 w. ago Realtor who appeared on Netflix’s ‘Million Dollar Beach House’ is killed in hit and run in the Hamptons

Sara Burack, a realtor from Netflix’s Million Dollar Beach House, was killed in a hit-and-run in Hampton Bays on Thursday.

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4 w. ago Notting Hill Carnival could be cancelled without funding, organisers warn

Two people were killed at the event last year, which usually attracts over two million people over the August Bank Holiday weekend

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4 w. ago Notting Hill Carnival could be cancelled without funding, organisers suggest

Two people were killed at the event last year, which usually attracts over two million people over the August Bank Holiday weekend

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4 w. ago ‘Let them kill us’: millions of Iranians refuse to leave Tehran

Many are staying put in the Iranian capital, despite Israel’s deadly strikes and warnings to evacuate

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