85 m. ago Pictured: Man 'beaten to death with concrete slab' on the Isle of Sheppey as three teenagers are charged with murder

Alexander Cashford, 49, was found dead with multiple serious injuries in Leysdown-on-Sea on Sunday.

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19 h. ago On Gaza’s killing fields, journalism faces its darkest hour – but that won’t stop us reporting | Asef Hamidi

Israel’s actions are an assault not only on individual reporters but on the entire global public’s right to know the truthAsef Hamidi is the director of news, Al Jazeera ChannelAs the world witnesses the horrors unfolding in Gaza, a related tragedy continues with chilling regularity: the systematic targeting and killing of journalists. Just as the Gaza journalistic community thought matters could not get any worse, Benjamin Netanyahu’s brutal occupying forces carried out yet another cold-blooded murder on Sunday, this time of the Al Jazeera journalists Anas al-Sharif and Mohammed Qraiqea, along with videographers Ibrahim Thaher, Mohammed Nofal and their colleagues. They were sheltering in a media tent near al-Shifa hospital, and were killed by a direct strike.The Israeli war machine, accelerating its stated goal of occupying Gaza, showed no restraint in targeting journalists, in violation of international conventions. So far in this war it has killed 238 of us. The war on Gaza has b...

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20 h. ago Man found dead in children's park after woman left with serious head injury

Locals have been left alarmed after a police found a man's body in a children's play ground in a quiet village shortly after a woman was air-lifted to hospital with a serious injury in the same park

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24 h. ago Madonna urges Pope Leo to go to Gaza ‘before it is too late’

Pope Leo, who became the first US head of the Catholic Church in May, renewed his call for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza in July.

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31 h. ago Officials are still investigating the cause of a Pennsylvania steel plant explosion that killed 2

Officials are still working to determine the cause of an explosion that rocked a steel plant outside Pittsburgh, leaving two dead and 10 injured

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39 h. ago One dead and multiple injured after Pennsylvania steel plant EXPLODES with multiple people still missing

Dozens of people were injured and trapped under rubble after a huge explosion at a Pennsylvania steel coking plant on Monday morning, per officials.

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40 h. ago One dead and dozens injured after multiple explosions rock Pittsburgh area steel plant

Locals were told to close windows and doors following the explosion

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41 h. ago One dead and dozens injured after Pennsylvania steel plant EXPLODES with multiple people still missing

Dozens of people were injured and trapped under rubble after a huge explosion at a Pennsylvania steel coking plant on Monday morning, per officials.

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48 h. ago Global outrage mounts as funeral held for five journalists killed by Israel

Last post from Al Jazeera’s Anas al-Sharif, one of ‘Gaza’s bravest journalists’, decries failure to stop ‘massacre’Middle East crisis – live updatesHundreds of mourners carried the body of the prominent Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif through the streets of Gaza City on Monday, a day after he and four colleagues were killed in an Israeli airstrike, prompting condemnation from across the world.Sharif, one of Al Jazeera’s most recognisable faces in Gaza, was killed while inside a tent for journalists outside al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City on Sunday night. Seven people in total were killed in the attack, including the Al Jazeera correspondent Mohammed Qreiqeh and the camera operators Ibrahim Zaher, Mohammed Noufal and Moamen Aliwa, according to the Qatar-based broadcaster. Continue reading...

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49 h. ago Gaza latest: ‘No credible evidence’ Al Jazeera journalist killed in targeted Israeli strike was part of Hamas

Israel admits to targeting Anas Al-Sharif alleging he was 'posing as journalist'

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51 h. ago Israeli strike kills journalists in Gaza City, worsening the death toll for the media

Israel’s military has targeted an Al Jazeera correspondent with an airstrike, killing him, another of its journalists and at least six other people sheltering outside a Gaza City hospital

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52 h. ago Al Jazeera journalist killed in Israeli strike predicted own death in haunting message

Palestinian reporter Anas al-Sharif was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Sunday alongside four other journalists for Al Jazeera, as the media outlet condemned the attack as "premeditated"

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53 h. ago Powerful earthquake hits Turkey leaving least one person dead and many injured

At least one person has been killed after a powerful 6.1-magnitude earthquake and a series of aftershocks rocked Turkey on Sunday night, the country’s Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya has confirmed.

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55 h. ago Israel kills five Al Jazeera journalists in ‘targeted’ Gaza strike

CPJ had warned that Israeli military was using a ‘smear campaign’ in a bid to ‘manufacture consent’ to kill Anas al-Sharif, 28, one of Al Jazeera’s most prominent voices in Gaza

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56 h. ago Turkey earthquake: At least one dead and 29 injured after 6.1 magnitude quake

At least one person has sadly died after a 6.1 magnitude earthquake as well as several aftershocks rocked Turkey on Sunday evening, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya confirmed

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58 h. ago Five Al Jazeera journalists are killed in Israeli strike on tent in Gaza: IDF says it was targeting and struck 'Hamas cell leader posing as correspondent'

One of the men killed was Al Jazeera journalist Anas al-Sharif, 28, (pictured) who made headlines in January after footage of him removing his armoured press vest and helmet went viral.

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3 d. ago Mohamed Salah criticises Uefa tribute to ‘Palestinian Pele’: ‘Can you tell us how he died?’

The Palestine Football Association have said that Suleiman Al-Obeid was killed by an Israeli strike

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3 d. ago Storms kill 1, injure another and displace hundreds of inmates in Nebraska

Strong storms in eastern Nebraska have left one person dead and seriously injured another

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4 d. ago Emory University shooting updates: Suspect dead after ‘active shooter’ leaves at least one cop injured near CDC

There is no ongoing threat to the Emory campus or the surrounding area, police said

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5 d. ago Heartbreaking photo of Oasis fan partying at Wembley before falling to his death

Lee Claydon was pronounced dead at Wembley Stadium on Saturday having suffered 'injuries consistent with a fall'

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