27 h. ago Horrifying moment convicted sex offender goes on knife rampage in probation office leaving mother

Natasha Thorpe, 32, was rushed to hospital after she was stabbed by Ryan Gee, 35, during an appointment at the probation office in Preston, Lancashire, on the afternoon of July 22, 2025.

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3 d. ago Ukraine war briefing: Kyiv struggles to stabilise ruined power grid after major Russian attack

Residents battle bitter winter cold inside unheated apartments; Ukraine confirms UN to hold emergency meeting Monday on Russian ballistic missile attack. What we know on day 1,418Engineers in Kyiv scrambled on Saturday to stabilise a power grid brought to the brink by a campaign of Russian strikes, including one two nights ago. The city’s residents huddled against bitter winter cold inside their unheated apartments on Saturday as engineers worked to restore power, water and heat. Prime minister Yulia Svyrydenko said that the power situation in the capital was still difficult, as the grid was badly damaged and people were using more electric heaters because of the cold.Ukraine’s foreign minister Andrii Sybiha confirmed Saturday the UN security council would hold an emergency meeting on Monday to discuss Russia’s latest large-scale attack on Ukraine, which used an Oreshnik intermediate-range ballistic missile. “The meeting will address Russia’s flagrant breaches of the UN Charter,” Sy...

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2 w. ago Zelensky’s ‘strong’ warning after Putin's 'sick' Christmas strikes before Trump talks

One person was said to have been killed with 27 people wounded including two children as the Kremlin targeted Kyiv with missiles and drones hitting residential buildings

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2 w. ago Pope Leo's stark Christmas message to Putin as Russia bombs Kyiv

Pope Leo has called for an end to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, saying that the sides should find the 'courage' to engage in sincere, direct and respectful dialogue

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2 w. ago What to know as Putin sends bombers on Christmas flight to UK sparking NATO response

Moscow's defence services confirmed that two Russian Tupolev Tu-95 bombers completed a 'scheduled flight' over the 'neutral' waters of the Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea

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2 w. ago Vladimir Putin sends bombers on Christmas flight to UK as NATO scrambles warplanes

NATO was forced to scramble warplanes to monitor the hulking Russian "Bears". Su-33 fighter jets.

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2 w. ago Poland intercepts Russian plane as foreign objects enter airspace

Comes as Putin wishes Trump a Merry Christmas

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2 w. ago Nicola Jennings on Trump and Putin’s Christmas Day – cartoon

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2 w. ago Christmas Day humilation for Putin as Ukraine takes full control of Kupyansk

It comes after Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, remarkably said in his Christmas message that he hopes the dictator dies.

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2 w. ago Ukraine’s president Zelensky appears to wish death to Putin in Christmas message

Zelensky has said that he is open to creating a demilitarised zone in Ukraine’s east as a proposed peace deal edges forward

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2 w. ago Putin sends nuclear bombers threatening Britain as NATO scrambles warplanes

Vladimir Putin sent nuclear bombers over the Norwegian Sea on Christmas Day in a long-range flight threatening northern Britain, forcing NATO to scramble warplanes to monitor the Russian Bears

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2 w. ago NATO warplanes scrambled as Putin sends bombers on Christmas flight to UK

NATO was sent up fighter jets after Putin dispatched his Tu-95MS strategic nuclear bombers to threaten the north of Britain on a Christmas flight over the Norwegian Sea

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2 w. ago Zelensky wishes death on Putin in Christmas speech after Vlad demands changes to peace plan & sends new wave of strikes

PRESIDENT Volodymyr Zelensky appeared to wish death upon Vladimir Putin in his Christmas message after the Russian forces blitzed Ukraine with fresh strikes. Zelensky's address came just hours after Kyiv offered to freeze the front line while allowing for the creation of demilitarised zones in hopes of a Christmas peace breakthrough. Speaking to the Ukrainian...

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3 w. ago Vladimir Putin is 'Christmas crackers' to threaten Britain, Defence Secretary says

John Healey warned the Russian dictator that he would never take Ukraine, and that the UK was investing millions 'right now' to mobilise British troops 'day one' of a peace deal

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3 w. ago Ukraine faces horror Christmas as Putin ramps up fighting in bitter winter

Putin's 'hundreds of millions of pounds a-day' war machine eats up Moscow's war budget almost as fast as he sacrifices 1,000 troops a-day - but Ukraine faces bitter winter

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4 w. ago Liverpool attacker Paul Doyle's dark life behind closed doors from failed career to violence

Neighbours described him as a 'genuinely lovely' man but Paul Doyle previously bit a man's ear off during a fight, years before his horror rampage through the Liverpool Victory Parade

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