26 h. ago Moment Russian soldier holds sign pleading to be taken prisoner by Ukrainian forces in shock vid

THIS is the shocking moment a Russian soldier surrendered to Ukrainian forces after pleading for his life with a message scribbled on cardboard. The 16th Army Corps said drone pilots operating near Lyman - a city in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region - spotted the soldier signalling his desire to surrender. Drone footage shows a small building...

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5 d. ago Voices: ‘A recruitment crisis is coming’: Readers debate looming teacher strike threat

Our community says the threat of teacher strikes is less about one pay rise and more about a profession buckling under long hours, shrinking pay packets and years of neglect – with no easy fix in sight

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7 d. ago UK government calls for Brits to 'mask up' as deadly virus 'sharply increasing' across country

With the increase in large socialising groups this festive season, health officials have suggested 'masking up' as the threat of seasonal flu continues to loom

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1 week ago Russian cavalry hit by drone attack as Putin resorts to horseback assaults

Aerial footage shows the moment Russian soldiers on horseback were struck down by Ukrainian drones.

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2 w. ago Russian and US troops will jointly invade European cities, Putin mouthpiece warns

A top Putin mouthpiece reckons Russian forces will join up with US soldiers, which Kremlin watcher Julia Davis said came after Moscow was "inspired by the Trump administration’s anti-European stance"

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3 w. ago Threat of equine virus looms over nation's largest rodeo event in Las Vegas

Every year the annual National Finals Rodeo draws thousands to Las Vegas for two weeks of rodeo competitions

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3 w. ago Superflu sparks NHS carnage as swamped A&Es turn record number of ambulances away amid fears crisis is going to get even worse with looming threat of strikes and ever

Health chiefs have warned that the NHS is facing the 'worst case scenario' this winter with the latest figures revealing that hospitals are already facing record demand.

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3 w. ago Santa at war: ‘home’ town in Finland hosts Nato soldiers as Russian threat looms

Christmas tourists are noticing a growing military presence in Lapland, where Santa Park doubles as a bomb shelterBilled as the official home town of Santa Claus, or joulupukki as he is known in Finland, the city of Rovaniemi offers every imaginable Father Christmas-related experience – from a visit to his “office” on the Arctic Circle to reindeer sleigh rides. He even has his own branch of the Finnish design house Marimekko.But this Christmas season, in addition to the hundreds of thousands of tourists from around the world coming in search of Santa, Finnish Lapland’s snow-covered capital is becoming an increasingly popular destination for international military visitors. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Emmerdale on Christmas Day spoilers as a festive threat looms

Here is everything happening on Christmas Day in the ITV soap...

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4 w. ago UK troops join Nato exercise as Finland prepares for potential Russian invasion

Soldiers learned the challenges of a sub-zero immersion in water, surviving in minus 28C and fighting alongside motivated volunteer troops.

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4 w. ago ‘What choice do we have?’: no end in sight for Ukraine’s war

As peace hopes falter, infantry soldiers face more long deployments risking their lives against Russian attacksFor almost all of their 62-day deployment on the frontline west of Pokrovske, Bohdan and Ivan hid – first in a village shop, then, after a deadly firefight with Russian soldiers, in a tiny basement where the infantrymen from Ukraine’s 31st Brigade had to survive seven more weeks.Food, water, cigarettes and other supplies were airlifted in by a friendly drone, their toilet was their 3 sq metre room, their nearest comrades 200 metres or so away. Their only hope was to remain underground, because they knew if they were detected a Russian drone could kill them all. Continue reading...

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4 w. ago Harbadus attacks Andvaria: cyber war game tests Nato defences against Russia

Power blackouts, public chaos and loss of communication with space were all thrown at troops in seven days Russia and China were barely mentioned, but they were the threats in everyone’s minds in Tallinn this week, where Nato hosted its largest ever cyber war game.The goal of the war game, conducted 130 miles from the Russian border in Estonia, was to test the alliance’s readiness for a rolling enemy assault on civilian and military digital infrastructure. Continue reading...

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