87 m. ago India troops beef up security in Kashmir following attack on tourists

Security has been beefed up across Indian-controlled Kashmir a day after an attack killed at least 26 people, most of them tourists, as Indian forces launched a manhunt for the perpetrators of one of the deadliest attacks in the restive Himalayan region

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2 h. ago Disputed Kashmir has witnessed worst attack on civilians in years, sparking fear of rising tensions

At least 26 people have been killed and 17 others wounded after gunmen opened fire on a group of tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir, the worst assault in years targeting civilians in the restive region that has seen an anti-India rebellion for more than three decades

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2 h. ago Inside 'mini Switzerland' terror attack as survivor claims only men who couldn't say one phrase were killed

At least 26 people were killed in the attack on tourists in the Indian down of Pahalgam, Kashmir last night, and now a survivor has told exactly what happened during the horrific incident

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4 h. ago Survivors of 2022 July Fourth parade mass shooting to address gunman before his sentencing

Survivors and relatives of people killed in a 2022 mass shooting at an Independence Day parade in suburban Chicago are set to address the gunman at his sentencing hearing

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5 h. ago RFK Jr again claims autism is ‘worse’ than Covid, which he has emphasized killed ‘old people’

Kennedy drew ire after claiming ‘autism destroys families’ last week

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11 h. ago What families told the Texas Walmart gunman who killed their loved ones in a racist attack

One by one, in an El Paso courthouse not far from where a gunman killed 23 people at a Walmart in a racist attack in 2019, victims’ family members and survivors are addressing him face-to-face

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12 h. ago Kashmir shooting: Gunmen opens fire in holiday resort as 20 tourists shot dead in 'terror attack'

At least 20 people have been killed after gunmen opened fire at a resort in with police labelling it a "terror attack".

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13 h. ago Kashmir shooting live: 'Terror' attack at resort as at least 28 tourists dead and dozens in hospital

At least 28 people are now said to have been killed and many more have been injured after at least four gunmen opened fire at a tourist resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir with police calling it a "terror attack"

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13 h. ago Kashmir shooting: At least 20 tourists killed as gunmen open fire at resort in 'terror attack'

At least 20 people have been killed after gunmen opened fire at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir with police calling it a "terror attack" and a shift were tourists are being targeted

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13 h. ago Kashmir shooting: At least 26 tourists killed as gunmen open fire at resort in 'terror attack'

At least 26 people have been killed after gunmen opened fire at a resort in Indian-controlled Kashmir with police calling it a "terror attack" and a shift were tourists are being targeted

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15 h. ago Schoolboy, 13, killed and two other people rushed to hospital after three

Officers were called to reports of the collision on the A25 in Bletchingley, near Redhill, at around 8.10pm on Easter Monday, Surrey Police said.

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18 h. ago ‘He felt our pain’: Catholic church in Gaza grieves Pope Francis’s death

Pope made nightly phone calls to the Holy Family Catholic church from the start of the war in October 2023Latest updates after death of Pope FrancisThe first time he spoke to Pope Francis during the pontiff’s nightly calls to the Holy Family Catholic church in Gaza City, the congregant George Antone, 44, found himself at a loss for words.It was October 2023, a few weeks after Hamas ignited a devastating war in the Gaza Strip by attacking Israel. The Palestinian territory’s tiny Christian community had taken shelter in the strip’s three churches, but that didn’t mean they were safe. An Israeli airstrike had just hit the Greek Orthodox church, killing 18 people; soon, snipers and bombs would also kill civilians at the Holy Family. Continue reading...

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27 h. ago Jean Charles de Menezes’s mother says ‘everyone should watch’ TV drama about his killing

Disney+ series revisits killing of Brazilian man wrongly identified as a terrorist by Met police officers in 2005The mother of a man shot dead by police in a London Underground station after being mistaken for a terrorist has said “everyone should watch” a new dramatisation of her son’s killing.Jean Charles de Menezes was shot seven times by two police marksmen in Stockwell tube station on 22 July 2005. De Menezes was wrongly identified as one of the fugitives involved in a failed bombing two weeks after the 7/7 attack in London, which killed 52 people. Continue reading...

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28 h. ago A friend killed, and inquiries shelved: life fighting the stigma of albinism in Malawi

People with albinism are often attacked and even killed for body parts. As elections approach, activist Tonney Mkwapatira fears the situation may get worseTonney Mkwapatira was making a rare visit back to his home village from the Malawian city of Blantyre when he saw his childhood friend for the last time. Just a week after Mkwapatira returned to Blantyre he heard that his friend, a security guard for a church, had been murdered.“His name was Chikumbutso Masina and we used to chat almost every day. We looked alike and it was painful when people missed him because they used to ask me questions like, “Oh we heard that you had died?” It really touched me and I will never forget,” he says. Continue reading...

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33 h. ago Bill Maher sends his liberal viewers into meltdown with stunning autism claim

The longtime Trump critic and political commentator aired his views on the most recent episode of his talk show, Real Time with Bill Maher.

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38 h. ago FACT FOCUS: Examining RFK Jr.'s claims about measles, autism and diet as head of HHS

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39 h. ago Russian attacks during Easter ceasefire declared by Putin killed 3 in Ukraine's Kherson region

The head of Ukraine's southern Kherson region says that Russian attacks during the 30-hour Easter ceasefire unilaterally declared by President Vladimir Putin over the weekend killed three people in the region

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46 h. ago ‘We didn’t want to avoid the reality of what happened’: the drama telling the true story of Jean Charles de Menezes

The 2005 shooting of the Brazilian created national headlines, but the shocking truth of his death remains unknown by many. A new series aims to do justice to his story – and those who fought to clear his nameOn 22 July 2005, 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes was shot and killed by firearms officers on the London underground shortly after boarding a train. The information relayed by the Metropolitan police at the time was that he had leapt over the ticket barriers at Stockwell station and was wearing a bulky coat under which officers thought he was hiding a bomb.The incident occurred two weeks after the 7/7 bombings on London’s transport network, where 52 people were killed, and the day after a copycat attack in which four men tried – and mercifully failed – to detonate devices on three underground trains and a bus; the bombers in the latter incidents fled the scene, triggering a police manhunt. It later emerged that De Menezes was innocent and the intelligence on him was flawed. ...

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52 h. ago Texas court hearing on Walmart mass shooting sets stage for plea to avoid the death penalty

The gunman who killed 23 people in a racist attack at a Texas Walmart in 2019 is expected to accept a plea deal to avoid the death penalty

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55 h. ago US airstrikes killed 12 people in Yemen’s capital, the Houthi rebels say

U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s capital killed 12 people and wounded 30 others, the Houthi rebels said early Monday

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