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12 h. ago BREAKING Soldiers storm onto live TV declaring 'military coup' as French embassy says 'stay home'

The French embassy in Benin advised its nationals to 'stay at home' after gunfire was reported near to various residences, with some outlets now reporting state military have now 'regained control'

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12 h. ago Soldiers storm onto live TV declaring 'military coup' as French embassy says 'stay home'

The French embassy in Benin advised its nationals to 'stay at home' after gunfire was reported near to various residences, with some outlets now reporting state military have now 'regained control'

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18 h. ago LIVE Australia declares disaster status as bushfires raze towns across entire state

Australia declares disaster status as 91 bushfires raze regions with 20 currently out-of-control

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3 d. ago Derby LIVE as 'major incident' declared and hundreds of homes evacuated

Hundreds of homes have been evacuated in Derby with people told to prepare for being out of their homes for 24 hours following a 'major incident'

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5 d. ago Ellen DeGeneres left Trump's America. Will the British weather force her to return? | Arwa Mahdawi

She’s far from the only celebrity to have declared her intention to live outside the US. As with many others though, it looks like a reverse ferret could be in the worksI’m not some sort of secret Reform voter, OK? As a Brit (albeit a Brit abroad), I’ve got no problem with rich immigrants coming to the UK and taking all our mansions. I just think they really ought to integrate and not bring their funny foreign ideas with them.Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, I’m talking to you. The California couple arrived in the UK last year just before Donald Trump won the election. As soon as the votes were in, they declared they weren’t going back, and would stay on the saner side of the Atlantic. I’m not sure how the immigration logistics worked, but it seems “one in, one out” schemes don’t apply to people coming in on big jets, only small boats. The pair bought a fancy pad in the Cotswolds and DeGeneres buttered up the locals during a public appearance in July by declaring “Everything her...

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1 week ago Southall fire LIVE: Major incident declared amid 'explosions' as huge blaze rips through west London warehouse

Around 150 firefighters and 25 fire engines are a battling huge fire at a building where fireworks and cylinders are believed to be stored

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1 week ago Southall fire LIVE: Major incident declared as huge blaze rips through warehouse in west London

Around 150 firefighters and 25 fire engines are a battling huge fire at a building where fireworks and cylinders are believed to be stored

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2 w. ago Bolsonaro claims after arrest he tampered with ankle tag from ‘curiosity’

Ex-president says he used soldering iron on device and is now in custody because of fears he was going to abscondBrazil’s former far-right president Jair Bolsonaro has claimed he tried to damage his electronic ankle monitor “out of curiosity” after he was arrested at his villa owing to suspicions he was poised to abscond.In a video released by the supreme court, Bolsonaro – who was recently sentenced to 27 years in prison for masterminding a military coup – can be heard admitting to a security official that he had used a soldering iron to tamper with the black tag. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Brazilian police arrest Bolsonaro amid suspicions he was about to flee

Move comes after fears the far-right former president was about to seek refuge at a foreign embassy to avoid prisonBrazil’s former far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, has been arrested at his villa in the capital, Brasília , amid suspicions he was poised to abscond to a foreign embassy to avoid going to prison for masterminding a military coup.In a brief statement, federal police confirmed officers had executed a preventive arrest warrant at the request of the supreme court. The 70-year-old politician was taken to a federal police base, 7 miles from the presidential palace he occupied from 2019 until 2022, when he lost the election and tried to launch a military coup. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump brushes off Mamdani’s ‘fascist’ comments and declares incoming NYC mayor ‘can do a very good job’: Live updates

‘You’re going to have, hopefully, a really great mayor,’ Trump said with a smile at his Friday press conference with Mamdani

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2 w. ago Spanish PM calls for nation to heed past lessons on anniversary of Franco’s death

Pedro Sánchez says his country must defend the democratic freedom ‘wrenched from us for so many years’Spain has marked the 50th anniversary of Francisco Franco’s death with an absence of official events but a call from the prime minister to heed the lessons of the dictatorship and defend the democratic freedom “wrenched from us for so many years”.Franco, whose military coup against the elected republican government in 1936 triggered a civil war and brought about four decades of dictatorship, died in Madrid on 20 November 1975. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Storm Claudia live: Floods prompt ‘danger to life’ warnings as major incident declared in Monmouth

Authorities warn of ‘significant risk to life’ due to flooding as a major incident is declared in South Wales

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3 w. ago Storm Claudia live updates as major incident declared due to severe flooding

South Wales Fire and Rescue Service declared a major incident due to 'severe and widespread flooding' in Monmouth

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