26 h. ago Scots pupils forced to flee from burning school bus on busy Scots road

The bus was transporting pupils home from a nearby secondary school when it caught fire, prompting an emergency response which saw two fire engines sent to the scene.

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54 h. ago ‘We were forced to burn bodies’: will survivors of the Tadamon massacres see justice?

The Damascus suburb became Assad’s killing field. But some of the perpetrators are still around – and even working with the new governmentAbu Mohammed still remembers the smell. It usually came at dawn, as the mosques sounded the first call to prayer. By the time he sat down for breakfast, it would fill the air around his home in Tadamon, a working-class district in the south-east of Damascus. The smell was hard to define. Whenever he noticed it, Abu Mohammed felt on edge. He had his suspicions about what it might be, but like so many Syrians who lived under the dictatorship of Bashar al-Assad, he knew to keep such thoughts to himself.Abu Mohammed, a retired engineer who asked to be identified only by his nickname, first noticed the smell in the winter of 2012, nearly two years after the start of the uprising against Assad. At the time, he was living in a modest flat in the heart of Tadamon with his wife and their five children. The house stood just off a busy road named Daboul Stre...

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5 d. ago Sudan medics accuse paramilitary forces of burning bodies in mass graves to ‘conceal genocide’

The Sudan Doctors Network said the RSF had attempted to conceal evidence of mass killings

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6 d. ago Sudan butchers storm another city as bloody offensive escalates with fighters slaughtering & starving civilians

ROGUE paramilitary forces in Sudan accused of mass slaughtering civilians in El Fasher are feared to be committing fresh atrocities. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war with the army since April 2023, has now escalated its brutal military assault in the Kordofan region as it appears to be preparing for an offensive to seize...

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9 d. ago Sudanese militia group accused of war crimes agrees to a ceasefire

International mediators broker three-month halt to civil war as further evidence emerges of mass civilian killingsA Sudanese paramilitary group accused of killing thousands of unarmed civilians in an ethnically motivated massacre has agreed to a truce.The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), which is facing mounting criticism over apparent war crimes committed by its fighters in the city of El Fasher last month, said it had agreed to a “humanitarian ceasefire” put forward by the quad countries of the US, Egypt, the UAE and Saudi Arabia. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Viktor Gyokeres injury update as Mikel Arteta makes worrying Arsenal admission

Viktor Gyokeres scored for Arsenal against Burnley on Sunday, but was forced off just after the break - and he has now been left out of the squad to face Slavia Prague

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1 week ago BBC The Celebrity Traitors star Cat Burns shares 'difficult' announcement

The Celebrity Traitors star Cat Burns has been forced to postpone her upcoming UK tour due to mental health concerns after an "intense period" leading up to the shows

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2 w. ago Viktor Gyokeres injury update from Mikel Arteta as Arsenal fans' fears confirmed

Mikel Arteta has given an update on the condition of Viktor Gyokeres after the striker was forced off at half-time of the Gunners' win against Burnley

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2 w. ago UK military equipment used by militia accused of genocide found in Sudan, UN told

Exclusive: two dossiers of material seen by the security council raise questions over export of British arms to the UAE, which has been accused of supplying weapons to paramilitary RSF groupBritish military equipment has been found on battlefields in Sudan, used by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group accused of genocide, according to documents seen by the UN security council.UK-manufactured small-arms target systems and British-made engines for armoured personnel carriers have been recovered from combat sites in a conflict that has now caused the world’s biggest humanitarian catastrophe. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago DNA study reveals deadly diseases that ravaged Napoleon’s doomed army

Bodies in a mass grave were stricken with multiple infections

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4 w. ago Babysitter jailed after burning boy with cigarettes and forcing him to eat dog food

Siann Cawley, 27, has been jailed for four years and three months for the crimes she committed against another person's child

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4 w. ago Evil babysitter forced young boy to eat dog food and burned him with cigarettes

Siann Cawley, 27, of Fleetwood, Lancashire, also left the youngster inside the house for hours while she went out, Preston Crown heard. She was jailed for four years and three months

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4 w. ago Twisted babysitter burned young boy with cigarettes and forced him to eat dog food

Siann Cawley, 27, from Fleetwood in Lancashire, has been jailed for more than four years after abusing another parent's child by burning him with cigarettes, forcing him to eat dog food and leaving him alone for hours at a time

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