6 h. ago Four seriously injured after unprovoked attack by large masked gang

Four young people were taken to hospital after being victims of an unprovoked attack by a large group of youths, many of them wearing masks.

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16 h. ago Attack by gunmen leaves at least 40 people dead in Nigeria, the country's president says

Nigeria’s president says that at least 40 people were killed when Muslim gunmen, believed to be herders, attacked a Christian farming community in the north-central part of the country, the latest in a spate of increasingly sectarian violence in the West African country

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20 h. ago Masked mob of 30 teens launched sickening attack on four people near Fife beach

The victims were walking in the area of Pettycur Road, near to Kinghorn Beach on the evening of Thursday, April 10 around 8.20pm where they were pounced on and attacked by the large group of youths.

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22 h. ago Four seriously injured after unprovoked attack by large masked gang in Fife town

Four young people were taken to hospital after being victims of an unprovoked attack by a large group of youths, many of them wearing masks.

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33 h. ago AP PHOTOS: Russian missiles hit Ukrainian city of Sumy during Palm Sunday celebrations

Russian missiles hit the heart of the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people gathered to celebrate Palm Sunday, killing at least 34 people, officials said, in the second large-scale attack to claim civilian lives in just over a week.

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44 h. ago More than 200 civilians killed as Sudan’s RSF assaults Darfur refugee camps

Relief International medics among dead as paramilitaries step up violence against region’s displaced peopleParamilitaries in Sudan have murdered more than 200 civilians in a wave of attacks in refugee camps and around the city of El Fasher, the last big city still in the hands of the Sudanese army in the Darfur region.The deaths include at least 56 civilians killed by the Rapid Support Forces over two days of attacks in Um Kadadah, a town they seized on the road to El Fasher. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago More than 200 civilians killed as Sudan’s RSF attacks Darfur displacement camps

Relief International medics among dead as paramilitaries step up violence against region’s displaced peopleParamilitaries in Sudan have murdered more than 200 civilians in a wave of attacks in displacement camps and around the city of El Fasher, the last big city still in the hands of the Sudanese army in the Darfur region.The deaths include at least 56 civilians killed by the Rapid Support Forces over two days of attacks in Um Kadadah, a town they seized on the road to El Fasher. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago Russian missile strike kills dozens in Ukrainian city of Sumy

Volodymyr Zelenskyy decries attack on ‘ordinary city street’ while people were going to church for Palm SundayAt least 34 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a Russian ballistic missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people were going to church for Palm Sunday, in the worst attack on civilians this year.Two missiles landed in the crowded city centre on Sunday morning. One hit a trolley bus full of passengers. Footage from the scene showed bodies lying in the street, burning cars, and rescuers carrying bloodied survivors. Two of the dead were children. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Russian missile strike kills at least 32 in Ukrainian city of Sumy

Volodymyr Zelenskyy says dozens killed and wounded on ‘ordinary city street’ while going to church for Palm SundayAt least 32 people have been killed and nearly 100 injured in a Russian ballistic missile strike in the Ukrainian city of Sumy as people were going to church for Palm Sunday, in the worst attack on civilians this year.Two missiles landed in the crowded city centre on Sunday morning. One hit a trolley bus full of passengers. Footage from the scene showed bodies lying in the street, burning cars, and rescuers carrying bloodied survivors. Two of the dead were children. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Sudan paramilitaries kill at least 100 people in attack on famine

At least 20 children and nine aid workers among dead

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51 h. ago More than 20 people killed in Russian missile attack on Ukrainian city of Sumy

More than 20 people have been killed in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy, the city’s acting mayor said

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52 h. ago Worst injured 7/7 survivor savages Keir Starmer and Rachel Reeves for attacking society's most vulnerable in 'lunacy' cuts that leave disabled people terrified for the future

Dan Biddle, 46, lost both his legs, an eye and his spleen when a bomb went off on an Edgware Road Tube train nearly 20 years ago. He says Labour's welfare cuts are an attack on disabled people.

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3 d. ago Police arrest seven people in London raids after acid attack on man in his 30s

Devon and Cornwall Police, with Metropolitan Police, arrested six men in their 20s at a number of addresses in Central London yesterday. A woman in her 30s was then arrested in Plymouth.

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5 d. ago France could recognise Palestinian state ‘in June’, says Emmanuel Macron – Middle East crisis live

President says ‘we must move towards recognition’ and process could start at UN conference on settling Israel-Palestine conflict in New York in JuneSuspected US airstrikes in Yemen overnight into Thursday killed at least three people, while the death toll in an earlier attack rose to 13 dead, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said. The rebels meanwhile aired footage they said showed the debris left after shooting down yet another American MQ-9 Reaper drone, reports the Associated Press (AP). The 13 killed in strikes on Tuesday night around Hodeida’s al-Hawak district made it one of the deadliest single incidents in the ongoing US campaign, the rebels said.Another 15 people were injured. The Houthis described the majority of those killed as women and children, without providing a breakdown. The area is home to the city’s airport, which the rebels have used in the past to target shipping in the Red Sea. Since its start, the intense campaign of US airstrikes targeting the rebels over their...

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5 d. ago Teen who survived shark attack calls for changes to keep people safe in the water

Lulu Gribbin and her friend had been diving for sand dollars before the attack

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5 d. ago Shark attack survivor presses her state for an alert system to keep people safe in the water

An Alabama teen who narrowly survived a fierce shark attack last year is asking her state's lawmakers to support the creation of a new alert system

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6 d. ago Gaza rescue workers say 20 people killed in Israeli strike on residential block – Middle East crisis live

Gaza’s civil defence agency says the strike resulted in ‘20 martyrs and more than 40 injured’The Gaza health ministry said on Wednesday that at least 1,482 Palestinians have been killed since Israel resumed intense strikes on the Gaza Strip on 18 March, taking the overall death toll since the start of the war to 50,846.Hamas’s October 2023 attack resulted in the deaths of 1,218 people on the Israeli side, mostly civilians, according to an Agence France-Presse (AFP) tally based on Israeli official figures. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Russian missile attack on Kyiv leaves three people injured and city ablaze as residents warned not to leave air shelters

A missile attack on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv early Sunday injured at least three people and caused several blazes, the city's mayor said

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1 week ago Eighteen people killed in Russian missile strike on Zelenskyy’s home city

Missile attack on Kryvyi Rih left 61 injured including three-month-old baby and elderly residentsEighteen people, including nine children, have been killed in a Russian missile strike on Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s home city, a Ukrainian official said.A further 61 people were injured in the attack on Kryvyi Rih on Friday, including a three-month-old baby and elderly residents, the regional governor, Serhii Lysak, said. Forty remain in hospital, including two children in critical condition and 17 in a serious condition. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Organisers slam 'disgusting' attack on park picnic for transgender people

The attacks spoiled what had been a 'joyous' Trans Picnic in the Park event in Platt Fields Park

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