4 h. ago Brits in Benidorm facing daily police raids in crackdown on hidden drugs

Benidorm police carried out a series of raids on the nightlife venues in the area known as the 'English zone' in the Spanish resort, which is popular with British holidaymakers

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10 h. ago Popular British furniture store that collapsed in 2008 is BACK

The defunct furniture brand was once one of the country's largest kitchen and bedroom furniture retailers, and will return after almost 20 years.

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13 h. ago Crete earthquake: Tourists on Greece island warned to 'move away from the coast'

The epicentre of the Greece earthquake was near the coast of Crete and so tourists on the island - popular with British holidaymakers - have now been warned to be vigilant

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24 h. ago Asda scraps Blue Light discount as shoppers hit with huge blow

Asda have announced they will be axing their partnership, revealing the scheme will stop later this month in a huge hit to emergency workers across the country.

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54 h. ago An airstrike in central Myanmar kills up to 22 people at a bombed school, reports say

Witnesses and independent media reports say that an airstrike by Myanmar’s military on a village in the country’s central Sagaing region has hit a school

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3 d. ago Met Office weather maps show exact locations set for the heaviest downpours

A weather warning has been issued with forecasters predicting lightning, hail and gusty winds could also hit the country

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5 d. ago Search intensifies for British hiker, 25, in popular New Zealand mountain trail

Eli Sweeting, from the UK, has not been seen since Sunday, May 4 after he failed to return from a solo hike up the mile-high Mitre Peak near Milford Sound in New Zealand

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5 d. ago British hiker, 25, missing in New Zealand after setting out on solo adventure up popular mountain peak days ago

Eli Sweeting, 25, sparked concern on Sunday when he failed to return from a trip up the mile-high Mitre Peak near Milford Sound.

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7 d. ago Pakistan decries ‘act of war’ as it retaliates against India missile attack

India claimed strikes, which followed attack on Hindu tourists in Kashmir last month, targeted ‘terrorist infrastructure’India-Pakistan crisis - live updatesAt least eight people, including a child, have been killed and 35 injured after India launched attacks on what it claimed were nine sites of “terrorist infrastructure” inside Pakistan and Pakistani Kashmir, in a sharp escalation of hostilities between the two nuclear-armed neighbours.Loud explosions were heard early on Wednesday, and power was knocked out in Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistani Kashmir, witnesses said. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago American tries UK crisps for first time and has unexpected reaction to one flavour

A dad from the US tried two popular brands of British crisps and gave his thoughts on them, drawing an unexpected comparison between one flavour and a beloved American snack

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8 d. ago American dad tries UK crisps and issues surprising verdict on one flavour

An American dad tried two popular brands of British crisps and shared what he thought of them – and he drew a surprising comparison with one flavour and a classic snack from the US

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8 d. ago Drone strikes hit Port Sudan airport and army base in third day of attacks

Loud explosions reported at dawn and plumes of smoke as RSF targets Sudanese government’s seat of powerDrones have struck the airport and targeted an army base in Port Sudan, officials said, the third straight day the seat of power of the government, which is aligned with the Sudanese army, has come under attack.The country’s main fuel depot was hit on Monday, causing a massive blaze just south of the eastern city that had until Sunday been considered a safe haven for hundreds of thousands of displaced people fleeing a two-year war. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Florence Welch's renovations of £1.9m 12th century country pile hit by fresh setbacks after builders raise fears over digging up medieval SKELETONS

The You've Got The Love singer, 38, bought most of the large portion of land four years ago and quickly commenced plans to unify four buildings which have stood alone since the 1940s.

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1 week ago Germany hits back at Marco Rubio after he panned labeling of AfD as ‘extremist’

Far-right German party was labeled a ‘confirmed rightwing extremist group’ by country’s domestic intelligence serviceGermany’s foreign ministry has hit back at the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, following his criticism of Germany’s decision to label the far-right Alternative für Deutschland party as a “confirmed rightwing extremist group”.On Thursday, Rubio took to X and wrote: “Germany just gave its spy agency new powers to surveil the opposition. That’s not democracy – it’s tyranny in disguise. What is truly extremist is not the popular AfD – which took second in the recent election – but rather the establishment’s deadly open border immigration policies that the AfD opposes.” Continue reading...

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1 week ago Brits abandoning Spanish holiday hotspot as officials warn over 'battleground'

The island has been popular with British tourists for generations, but a host of bad press seems to have persuading sun-seekers to look else where for their holidays

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2 w. ago UK records hottest day of the year so far with temperatures to hit 30C this week

Britain experiences mini heatwave as Met Office says country could hit 30C at earliest point on record

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2 w. ago Brits warned popular item is banned from suitcases because of serious risk of injury to flight crew

British tourists have been warned not to pack a popular item that could be very dangerous.

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2 w. ago Turkey earthquake: Doğanyol struck by 4.7m quake just days after huge 6.2m quake hit country

Turkey has been struck by another earthquake just five days after Istanbul was rocked by a 6.2m quake that shook buildings and caused mass panic to locals and tourists

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2 w. ago ‘A sweeping catastrophe’: 20 years after Hurricane Katrina, a photo exhibit honors Mississippi victims

Hurricane Katrina: Mississippi Remembers captures the grief and resilience of survivors in the Magnolia stateTwenty years ago this August, the United States Gulf coast was irrevocably changed when Hurricane Katrina, one of the deadliest and costliest storms to ever hit the country, made landfall. Making landfall as a strong category 3, the storm, which was so vast it stretched the length of the Mississippi Gulf coast all the way into Alabama, hit the Mississippi-Louisiana coastal border before continuing northward.Since then, superstorms fueled by the climate crisis have become relatively commonplace in the country, but the impact of Katrina endures to this day. Immediately following the storm, the country and world were enthralled by tragic stories out of New Orleans, where the levees failed to a catastrophic effect and the local, state and federal responses were disastrous. But Mississippi, which received the maximum impact from the storm surge, was largely left out of the nationa...

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2 w. ago Istanbul residents spend the night outdoors after a strong earthquake and aftershocks

Many Istanbul residents have spent the night outdoors, too fearful to return to their homes, following a strong earthquake and over 180 aftershocks

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