47 h. ago ‘They attack us without provocation’: West Bank town mourns its dead after settler raid

Sense of helplessness pervades Kafr Malik where IDF killed three Palestinians after locals resisted masked maraudersThe men from Fatah arrived on Thursday morning, hours after the attack on Kafr Malik, to put out more flags along the main streets, adding bright primary colours to a mournful scene, but they did nothing to relieve the all-encompassing sense of helplessness.Three men from this central West Bank town, one a teenager, lay dead and several others were still in hospital after an attack by about 100 Israeli settlers on Wednesday evening. The men of Kafr Malik had run to its south-western edge to form a screen against the settlers and rescue women and children trapped in a house set alight by the masked attackers. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Train goes up in flames with 160 people inside as man throws liquid and sets it alight

Police arrested the suspect on suspicion of arson but prosecutors have charged him with attempted murder due to the 'significant' threat posed to the safety of the 160 passengers on board

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4 d. ago Manchester United stance on Christopher Nkunku amid Chelsea interest in Alejandro Garnacho

Christopher Nkunku has not set the world alight at Chelsea and has not played in more than two months due to injury.

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9 d. ago Desperate father who set himself alight while serving 13 years in jail for stealing a phone finally moving to hospital

Trapped under an abolished IPP jail term, Thomas White was driven to schizophrenia and psychosis. For the past year, The Independent has documented his tragic case - now he is finally being transferred to hospital following a six-year family campaign

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9 d. ago Desperate father who set himself alight while serving 13 years in jail for stealing a phone finally moved to hospital

Trapped under an abolished IPP jail term, Thomas White was driven to schizophrenia and psychosis. For the past year, The Independent has documented his tragic case - now he is finally being transferred to hospital following a six-year family campaign

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2 w. ago Man charged over 'threat to behead' protester who set Koran alight outside Turkish consulate

Muhammad Naasir Attaari, 49, was charged with threatening to kill Hamit Coskun after he burned the Muslim holy book outside the Turkish consulate in London on February 13.

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2 w. ago Violence erupts for third night in UK town as rioters set leisure centre on fire

Homes have been evacuated and a leisure centre housing migrants has been set alight

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2 w. ago Warning as horror house fire sparked by every day household object left plugged in for 18 hours

Tanya Bennett, 36, was told by firefighters her vacuum cleaner had set alight with her three dogs trapped upstairs whilst she was at work on Monday.

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2 w. ago Riot police deployed as UK town set alight after petrol bombs thrown at police

A crowd of around 2,500 people took to the streets in Ballymena, Co Antrim, Northern Ireland, to protest the alleged sexual assault of a female by two boys on Saturday, June 7

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2 w. ago Riot police sent in as UK town set alight after petrol bombs thrown at police

Petrol bombs were thrown at police officers in Ballymena, Co Antrim after a large crowd assembled to protest against a recent sexual assault in the town

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2 w. ago The crucial CCTV that helped jail a plastic surgeon for trying to kill his colleague

This CCTV is the crucial footage that helped jail a plastic surgeon who attempted to murder a fellow doctor he wanted “out of the way” by stabbing him after a thwarted plan to set his house alight.

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2 w. ago Plastic surgeon jailed for life over attempted murder of fellow doctor

Peter Brooks, 61, doused petrol on floor of Graeme Perks’s Nottinghamshire home before stabbing him in abdomenA plastic surgeon who attempted to murder a colleague he “hated” has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 22 years.Jonathan Peter Brooks, 61, known as Peter, who specialised in treating burn scars, broke into the Nottinghamshire home of Graeme Perks in the middle of the night on 14 January 2021 wearing camouflage gear and doused the floor with petrol with the intention of setting it alight. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Trump orders the arrest of everyone in face masks and says 'bring in the troops' as LA burns, looting breaks out and violence spirals out of control following ICE protests

Harrowing footage showed rioters laying deadly traps for officers in LA and setting cars alight with molotov cocktails, rockets and explosives as tensions soared to new heights on Sunday night.

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2 w. ago Trump orders the arrest of everyone in face masks and says 'bring in the troops' as LA burns, looting breaks out and violence spirals out of control following migrant crackdown protests

Harrowing footage showed rioters laying deadly traps for officers in LA and setting cars alight with molotov cocktails, rockets and explosives as tensions soared to new heights on Sunday night.

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2 w. ago Man arrested at ex's home was let go and went back to set it alight, killing dog

Adrian West had been arrested at his ex's home but was let go by police, so he returned and started a fire

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3 w. ago 'Gateway to Hell' crater is finally closing after 50 years of the blaze burning non

After clumsy Soviet scientists set alight an underground pocket of gas in 1971, the 'Gateway to Hell' crater in Turkmenistan has been burning constantly until efforts were made to stop the flames

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3 w. ago The Gateway to Hell is CLOSING: Fire in mysterious giant crater that has been burning for 50 years after blundering Soviet scientists set it alight is reduced to 'faint' blaze

The infamous 'Gateway to Hell' crater in Turkmenistan has been burning non-stop for the last 50 years, but scientists now say that the gateway is finally closing.

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3 w. ago Barbaric dad set sleeping daughter, two, on fire in desert in 'despicable' act

Murderer Shawn Grell, 50, killed his two-year-old daughter in the most "heinous, cruel and depraved way" after setting her alight in the desert, according to the Arizona Supreme Court

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3 w. ago Inside this year's Love Island villa: New look and groundbreaking launch revealed

Love Island's executive producer says the dating rule book has been ripped up and tossed out this year - with even host Maya Jama being kept in the dark about the huge fireworks on the horizon that are guaranteed to set the villa alight this summer

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3 w. ago Colorado terror suspect's WIFE turns in phone and incriminating journal he used to plot Boulder attack

LIVE UPDATES: Mohamed Sabry Soliman, 45, is accused of setting at least eight pro-Israel demonstrators alight in a 'targeted terror attack' in Boulder, Colorado on Sunday.

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