5 h. ago Russian drone and cruise missile attacks kill at least 2 in Ukraine

Russia launched a massive drone and missile barrage on Ukraine overnight, killing at least two people and wounding more than 20

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46 h. ago Concern that Ukraine will be split up casts shadow over reconstruction talks

Leaders meet in Rome amid forecasts that more than a third of rebuild costs could fall to Russia if Ukraine concedes landEver-escalating Russian drone attacks and the concern that Ukraine will be split up under a future peace plan have cast a shadow over a meeting of European leaders to plan for the eventual reconstruction of the country.The conference is the fourth in this format and is being attended by Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Germany’s Friedrich Merz, Italy’s Giorgia Meloni and Poland’s Donald Tusk. It comes at a time of unprecedented pressure on the Ukrainian economy as Vladimir Putin widens his targets across Ukraine, deploying record numbers of long-range drones. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Farmers turned soldiers, fields full of mines and a rural exodus: how Russia is punishing Ukraine’s countryside

Agriculture is woven into Ukrainian culture, but daily attacks, a loss of workers and land contamination are tearing the industry apartIn a field outside the eastern Ukraine city of Sumy, Mykola Mondrayev, 55, is moving the wreckage of a Russian drone. A pickup truck stands nearby, mounted with a gun, the only defence against the deadly unmanned aerial devices.Three days a week, Mondrayev serves with a territorial defence unit. The other days he works his fields. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Ukraine drones 'obliterate' Putin's Black Sea fleet causing mass airport panic

Ukraine has reportedly launched drone attacks on a number of Russian military targets in recent days, including the Black Sea fleet in the port of Novorossiysk in Krasnodar Krai

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6 d. ago Trustee who used sermon to say Muslims would 'kill Jews' six days after October 7 attacks is disqualified

Harun Abdur Rashid Holmes told the sermon 'the hour will not begin until the Muslims fight the Jews and the Muslims will kill them until a Jew hides behind a rock or a tree'.

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7 d. ago Ukraine says it hit Russian airbase following huge drone strike

Ukraine said Saturday it struck a Russian airbase in the Voronezh region

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8 d. ago Russian drone attack on Kyiv injures 14, triggers multiple fires, mayor says

Railway infrastructure was also damaged in the attack, the latest in a series of intensifying Russian assaults on the Ukrainian capitalAt least 14 people have been injured in an overnight drone attack on Kyiv that also damaged railway infrastructure, and set buildings and cars on fire throughout the city, the mayor has said, while separate explosions were reported in a city near Moscow.The attack was the latest in a series of Russian airstrikes on Kyiv that have intensified in recent weeks and included some of the deadliest assaults of the war on the city of three million people. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Man who tried to kill wife in 'frenzied' bow and arrow attack jailed for 20 years

WARNING: DISTRESSING CONTENT: Stephen Carr fired arrows at his wife Lorna and stabbed her six times while she was on the phone to emergency services, Leeds Crown Court heard in his sentencing

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1 week ago Three dead in Ukrainian drone strike on Russian industrial plant

The drone strike comes after Russia launched a record number of drones at Ukraine in June

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1 week ago Ukrainian drone strikes a Russian plant after record Russian drone attacks in June

Officials say a Ukrainian drone has struck an industrial plant deep inside Russia, injuring several people and causing a fire

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2 w. ago A Russian drone strike on Odesa kills a married couple and injures 17 other people, Ukraine says

Ukrainian authorities say two people were killed and some 17 injured after Russian drones attacked the southern Ukrainian port city of Odesa

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2 w. ago Fears ‘deadly’ Scottish seagulls could kill someone after spate of attacks

Scottish ministers were accused of failing to act on soaring gull attacks as Tories call for national summit

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2 w. ago Israeli forces kill three Palestinians after settlers attack West Bank town

Meanwhile, the Israeli army kills 15-year-old boy amid a surge of violence between settlers and PalestiniansDozens of Israeli settlers have attacked a Palestinian West Bank town, sparking a confrontation that ended with Israeli forces killing three Palestinians.In a separate incident, a 15-year-old boy was killed by the Israeli army in the northern West Bank town of Al-Yamoun, amid a surge of violence and near-daily confrontations between settlers and Palestinians. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago How your hot sauce could trigger a heart attack or even kill you

Hot sauces in your kitchen cupboards could trigger a potentially fatal heart attack, experts have warned.

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2 w. ago Russian attacks kill 13 civilians in Ukraine as Zelenskyy seeks more Western aid

Officials say Russian drones, missiles and artillery have killed at least 16 civilians and injured almost 100 others in Ukraine

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2 w. ago Russian agent 'plotted to assassinate Zelensky with sniper rifle or drone strike at Polish airport', Ukrainian security chief reveals

The head of Ukraine's security services (SBU) Vasyl Malyuk told reporters in Kyiv today that a Polish military veteran had planned to kill Zelensky at Rzeszów Airport before his plane took off for London

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2 w. ago Keir Starmer to meet Volodymyr Zelensky in UK after leader's dire Putin warning

Volodymyr Zelensky is set to hold talks with the Prime Minister in the UK, hours after at least seven people were killed in Russian air and drone strikes in Kyiv

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2 w. ago Russian attacks on Ukraine kill at least 5 and injure over a dozen

A Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine's capital has killed at least four people and injured others as rescuers searched a collapsed apartment building for survivors

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3 w. ago Israeli attacks kill dozens in Gaza in 24 hours as world focus shifts to Iran

‘Starving people being killed or injured while seeking life-saving assistance is completely unacceptable’ says World Food Programme

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3 w. ago Husband who stabbed wife to death in the street as she pushed their baby in a pram told doctor 'he felt like he would kill her' more than a year before attack, court hears

Kulsuma Akter, 27, was killed by her husband Habibur Masum, 26, after he confronted her in the street while she was pushing their seven-month-old son in a pram on April 6 last year.

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