70 m. ago EasyJet boss hits out at ‘unacceptable’ French air traffic control strikes

Tens of thousands of passengers were disrupted when French ATC staff walked out on July 3 and 4 in a dispute over working conditions.

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2 h. ago Tomorrowland: Huge fire engulfs main stage two days before festival opens

The annual festival in Belgium draws tens of thousands of visitors from around Europe

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14 h. ago The Guardian view on the Afghan leak superinjunction: a dangerous precedent is set | Editorial

In an era of mistrust in politics, the government now has a duty to bring maximum transparency to a very opaque scandalOne of many extraordinary features of the data breach that put tens of thousands of Afghan lives in jeopardy is the length of time between the original leak and the government taking action. The email containing a highly sensitive dataset was sent from a Ministry of Defence computer in February 2022. Ministers were not aware of the problem until August 2023.The fact that the MoD’s systems were lax enough for the error to have been made is worrying enough. The delayed response is more alarming still. And then there is the disturbing mechanism by which the whole scandal was kept from the public eye.Do you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our letters section, please click here. Continue reading...

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17 h. ago 20 amazing photos show thousands of Oasis fans heading to Heaton Park show for night three

Tens of thousands are heading to Heaton Park this evening amid warnings about travelling early to avoid 'severe' delays

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19 h. ago Voices: ‘We failed those who protected us’: Independent readers react to UK’s ‘shameful’ MoD data breach

Our community has reacted with anger, disbelief and deep concern to revelations that a catastrophic Ministry of Defence data breach, which put tens of thousands of Afghans at risk, was kept hidden under a superinjunction for nearly two years, as the government quietly launched a covert evacuation programme

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23 h. ago No automatic right to resettlement for Afghans in data leak, says Healey

Defence secretary says it was ‘never the plan to bring everyone’ on dataset to UK, while Ben Wallace denies Tories sought superinjunctionUK politics live – latest updatesThe defence secretary, John Healey, has said there is no automatic right to resettlement for Afghans named in a leaked Ministry of Defence database, as the former Conservative ministers Ben Wallace and Johnny Mercer clashed over whether “thousands of people with little or tenuous links” had been admitted to Britain.The controversy revolves around a dataset containing the personal information of nearly 19,000 people who applied for the Afghan relocations and assistance policy (Arap) that was released “in error” in February 2022 by a British defence official. Continue reading...

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23 h. ago Oasis Heaton Park LIVE: Traffic advice issued as tens of thousands of fans head to Manchester show

Nearly 80,000 fans will be heading to Heaton Park today for Oasis

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38 h. ago As it happened: Farage attacks government’s handling of Afghan resettlement scheme

Security lapse has put tens of thousands of Afghans at heightened risk of murder and torture by the Taliban

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45 h. ago Breach ‘one of many data losses’ connected to relocation scheme, government says

Security lapse has put tens of thousands of Afghans at heightened risk of murder and torture by the Taliban

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45 h. ago Nearly 8,000 Afghans to be relocated to UK because of breach

Security lapse has put tens of thousands of Afghans at heightened risk of murder and torture by the Taliban

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45 h. ago Live updates: Nearly 8,000 Afghans to be relocated to UK because of breach

Security lapse has put tens of thousands of Afghans at heightened risk of murder and torture by the Taliban

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45 h. ago Live updates: Farage attacks government’s handling of resettlement scheme

Security lapse has put tens of thousands of Afghans at heightened risk of murder and torture by the Taliban

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46 h. ago Account clerk who stole tens of thousands of pounds to copy social media influencers' luxury lives is jailed

Emma Fairbanks used customer bank details to splurge out on holidays, weight loss surgery, flights and expensive champagne in an attempt to follow her idols such as the Kardashian family.

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63 h. ago ‘They digest externally’: the artist who creates paintings with live flies

For over a decade, John Knuth has created art using the regurgitation of flies and after he lost his home in the California wildfires, his work has a new perspectiveOne morning in Denver as artist John Knuth was getting his exhibition ready at the David B Smith Gallery, the police knocked on the door to check he wasn’t housing a dead body. “They said, ‘We’ve got a report of a lot of flies in here. Is there a dead body or anything rotting?’” Knuth recalls to the Guardian over Zoom.The hundreds of flies emerging from Knuth’s gallery were actually his collaborators. For over a decade, Knuth has been creating paintings using the regurgitation of tens of thousands of flies. “When flies eat they digest externally,” explains Knuth. “They’re in a constant state of regurgitation. They land on a surface, puke up, suck it back in. Puke up, suck it back in.” After feeding the insects a mixture of acrylic colored paint and sugar water, the flies spend several weeks expelling the mixtures on to h...

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63 h. ago Top photos of thrilling moments and close calls at Spain's San Fermín bull

Tens of thousands of revelers celebrated Pamplona's annual San Fermín bull-running festival in northern Spain. The highlight of the nine-day festival is the early morning bull runs, when thousands of runners sprint to avoid six bulls charging along a winding cobblestoned route to the city’s bullring.

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3 d. ago Police on high alert in France for PSG vs. Chelsea Club World Cup final in US

Tens of thousands of police officers will be deployed in France on Sunday night as Paris Saint-Germain takes on Chelsea in the Club World Cup final thousands of miles away in the United States

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4 d. ago What if Ukraine falls? This is no longer a hypothetical question – and it must be answered urgently | Simon Tisdall

Europe offers platitudes, Trump dithers, and Ukraine and its extraordinary people stand on the brink. Nato must step upFor 40 cruel and bloody months, Ukraine has fought the Russian invader. Since February 2022, when Moscow’s full-scale, countrywide onslaught began, its people have faced relentless, devastating attacks. Tens of thousands have been killed or wounded, millions have lost their homes. Ukraine’s industries, shops, schools, hospitals and power stations burn, its fertile farmlands are laid waste. Its children are orphaned, traumatised or abducted. Despite repeated appeals, the world has failed to stop the carnage. And yet Ukraine, outnumbered and outgunned, has continued to fight back.Ukrainian heroism amid horror has become so familiar, it’s almost taken for granted. But as Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, escalates the war, raining nightly terror on Kyiv and other cities using record waves of armed drones, as US support and peace efforts falter, and as Ukraine’s overs...

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4 d. ago Thousands left weeping as China strips Japan beloved pandas in bizarre move

In an emotional outpouring, thousands descended upon the Japanese town to catch one last tender moment with the pandas at Adventure World Zoo before they journeyed back to China

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4 d. ago Thousands left weeping as China strips Japan of beloved pandas in bizarre move

In an emotional outpouring, thousands descended upon the Japanese town to catch one last tender moment with the pandas at Adventure World Zoo before they journeyed back to China

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4 d. ago Tens of thousands take part in Twelfth celebrations in scorching temperatures

Traditional Orange Order parades have been taking place across Northern Ireland.

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