2 h. ago ‘You can’t replace time’: Harcourt’s wine and beer producers mourn loss of industry’s heart in Victoria bushfires

The Harcourt Cooperative Cool Stores stored priceless stock for local businesses – but it was also the focal point for friendships in ‘a passionate industry’Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastTrevor Peeler has spent 50 years of his life driving in and out of the gates of the Harcourt Cooperative Cool Stores. He didn’t see the site burn to the ground on Friday night because he was blocks away protecting his house.Not that he could have done anything. The Cool Stores were directly in the path of the fire and turned into an inferno. Continue reading...

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4 h. ago Body of woman pulled from Cardiff's Roath Park Lake as police swarm scene

The body of woman was recovered from Cardiff's Roath Park Lake on Sunday morning, with emergency services swarming the scene

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8 h. ago Armed police swarm Tesco as 'woman with a weapon' incident sparks huge response

Footage shows a major police response at a Tesco Extra store in Edinburgh's Corstorphine area on Friday afternoon with a police cars outside the store. A woman has been arrested

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12 h. ago Scots firefighters warn lives will be lost if service hit with more cuts

The warning comes ahead of Tuesday's Scottish Budget where SNP Finance Secretary Shona Robison will set out the government's spending plans.

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15 h. ago Myanmar junta holds second phase of election widely decried as a ‘sham exercise’

UN and many western countries as well as human rights groups say that in the absence of a meaningful opposition the election is neither free, fair nor credibleVoters in war-torn Myanmar queued up on Sunday to cast their ballots in the second stage of a military-run election, following low turnout in the initial round of polls that have been widely criticised as a tool to formalise junta rule.Myanmar has been ravaged by conflict since the military ousted a civilian government in a 2021 coup and detained its leader, Nobel peace prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi, sparking a civil war that has engulfed large parts of the impoverished nation of 51 million people. Continue reading...

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18 h. ago Swiss inferno bar owner says he forced open a locked door after fire and found a pile of bodies

Jacques Moretti, the French co-owner of the Constellation bar in the ski resort of Crans-Montana, was taken into custody on Friday.

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24 h. ago ‘History will tell’: as US pressure grows, Cuba edges closer to collapse amid mass exodus

Disillusioned with the revolution after 68 years of US sanctions and a shattered economy, one in four Cubans have left in four years. Can the regime, and country, survive the engulfing ‘polycrisis’?Hatri Echazabal Orta lives in Madrid, Spain. Maykel Fernández is in Charlotte, in the US, while Cristian Cuadra remains in Havana, Cuba – for now. All Cubans, all raised on revolutionary ideals and educated in good state-run schools, they have become disillusioned with the cherished national narrative that Cuba is a country of revolution and resistance. Facing a lack of political openness and poor economic prospects, each of them made the same decision: to leave.They are not alone. After 68 years of partial sanctions and nearly 64 years of total economic embargo by the US, independent demographic studies suggest that Cuba is going through the world’s fastest population decline and is probably already below 8 million – a 25% drop in just four years, suggesting its population has shrunk by ...

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26 h. ago Love Island: All Stars halts production as wildfires rage near South African villa

Series is still scheduled to begin on Monday 12 January

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26 h. ago The shocking case of LA’s ‘zombie’ fire – and the young man at the center of it

Prosecutors claim Jonathan Rinderknecht, 29, started a smaller wildfire that went on to become the devastating Palisades blaze. Is he ultimately to blame?More than a year after a devastating wildfire tore through Pacific Palisades, all but obliterating one of the west coast’s most iconic neighborhoods, prosecutors are honing their case against the man they say is responsible.Jonathan Rinderknecht, a 29-year-old occasional Uber driver who used to live in Pacific Palisades, was charged with three felonies by federal prosecutors in October, who claim he was in the neighborhood in the early hours of New Year’s Day. According to a federal complaint, Rinderknecht allegedly used an open flame – likely a lighter – to start a small blaze that grew to about 8 acres (3.2 hectares) before firefighters rushed to the area and extinguished it. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago Man in his 30s is found dead outside home in freezing temperatures in 'unexplained' circumstances

A man in his thirties was found dead on a residential street in freezing temperatures and his death is being treated as unexplained.

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31 h. ago Defence Secretary John Healey says he dreams of detaining Vladimir Putin and putting him on trial for his crimes like Maduro

The Labour MP for Rawmarsh and Conisbrough, 65, spoke after a fatal drone strike of a residential block tower, which killed four, on January 9 in Kyiv.

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33 h. ago Rescuers in Philippines detect ‘signs of life’ in garbage avalanche that killed four workers

Twelve workers have been rescued with injuries from the huge mound of garbage that collapsed among the low-slung buildings of waste management facility

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39 h. ago More than 100 buildings destroyed and 300,000 hectares burned as Victoria’s bushfires rage

Fires may continue for ‘weeks’, authorities warn, as three missing people found safeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAt least 119 structures are believed to be lost in bushfires across Victoria and more than 300,000 hectares of bushland has been burned as the state continues to battle blazes that may rage for “weeks”.Emergency management commissioner, Tim Wiebusch, told the media on Saturday that about 50 homes had been lost in the Ravenswood and Harcourt fire, which was believed to be a “conservative number”. The Bendigo railway line had also been damaged by fire and was closed. Continue reading...

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40 h. ago More than 100 buildings destroyed and 300,000ha of bushland burned as Victoria’s bushfires rage

Fires may continue for ‘weeks’, authorities warn, as three missing people found safeFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastAt least 119 structures are believed to be lost in bushfires across Victoria and more than 300,000 hectares of bushland has been burned as the state continues to battle blazes that may rage for “weeks”.Emergency management commissioner, Tim Wiebusch, told the media on Saturday that around 50 homes had been lost in the Ravenswood and Harcout fire, which was believed to be a “conservative number”. The Bendigo railway line had also been damaged by fire and was closed. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago Emmerdale fans say Moira has 'suffered enough' amid shocking twist and arrest threat

Emmerdale fans have raged that Moira Dingle, played by Natalie J Robb, has "suffered enough" amid her constant misery, which has been likened to a Shakespearean tragedy

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44 h. ago Iran threatens protesters with the death penalty in bid to curb nationwide unrest as Starmer and European leaders condemn deadly crackdown

Video footage has shown buildings ablaze and violent clashes as anti-government demonstrations rage in cities across Iran, marking the most serious challenge to the regime in years.

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44 h. ago Leaked blueprints from Iran's Revolutionary Guard expose secret 'psychological warfare' used to crush dissent as protests engulf the country

Chilling secret documents and videos obtained exclusively by the Daily Mail have laid bare the inner workings of Iran's ruthless 'repression machine.'

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46 h. ago Firefighters called to huge blaze at industrial estate in Bangor

The fire affected a local car dealership, local media reported

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47 h. ago Iran’s supreme leader sets stage for harsher crackdown as protest movement swells

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei calls protesters ‘vandals’ and ‘saboteurs’ and blames the US for instigating the unrestIran’s supreme leader has vowed that authorities will “not back down” in the face of a rapidly growing protest movement, setting the stage for an intensified violent crackdown on the second day of a nationwide internet shutdown.Protests have raged in cities and towns across the country in recent days, posing a threat to the authority of the regime, which has been significantly weakened since the last large protest movement in the country in 2022. Another round of demonstrations was called for Friday night. Continue reading...

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48 h. ago Syrian army says it will renew Aleppo attacks after Kurds reject ceasefire terms

Military opens window for civilians to leave as Kurdish groups turn down demand their fighters withdraw from city Syria’s army says it will renew attacks against a Kurdish-majority district of Aleppo where clashes have raged this week, after Kurdish groups rejected Damascus’s ceasefire terms that demanded their fighters withdraw from the city.The army said it would target military sites used by Kurdish fighters in the Sheikh Maqsoud district, announcing the opening of a humanitarian corridor from 4pm (1300 GMT) to 6pm on Friday for civilians to leave. Continue reading...

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