55 h. ago Heartbroken family of Scots sailor who went missing pay tribute to 'lovely and kind man'

Garry Turnbull from failed to return from a sailing trip off the Solway coast, with his body found following a major search.

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61 h. ago Vika: The journalist who exposed Russian “black sites”, then ended up in one – podcast

Viktoriia Roshchyna was investigating Russia’s torture sites, then found herself inside one. Manisha Ganguly and Juliette Garside reportViktoriia Roshchyna, a Ukrainian journalist known as Vika, was determined to report on Russia’s “black sites”.“These ‘black sites’, they’re not prisons; there’s no control on behaviour there,” Juliette Garside, an editor at the Guardian, tells Michael Safi. “So it’s where we know that some of the worst war crimes, the worst human rights abuses, take place. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Major study reveals disappointing reality of what happens to the body a year after coming off Ozempic

Scientists at Oxford University have revealed what happens when 10 months after people stop taking weight loss jabs like Wegovy and Mounjaro.

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3 w. ago Female Ukrainian journalist killed by Russia sent back marked as 'unnamed male'

Viktoria Roshchyna’s brain, eyes, and larynx had been removed before her body was sent back to Ukraine, two and a half years after she went missing in Russian-occupied territories

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3 w. ago Chilling reason why Russia removed brain and throat of Ukrainian journalist in sickening torture rituals after she was captured while reporting on Putin's bloody war

Prisoner of war Viktoria Roshchyna, 27, was held in occupied Ukraine and tortured by Vladimir Putin's brutal regime.

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3 w. ago Ukrainian journalist Viktoriia Roshchyna brutally tortured in Russian custody, new investigation reveals

Examination of Roshchyna’s body in Ukraine revealed that her brain, eyes, and parts of trachea were missing

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3 w. ago Oti Mabuse reveals 'toxic' relationship with her figure and no longer having a 'dancer's body' after leaving Strictly as she teases return to the show

Oti Mabuse has opened up about having a 'toxic' relationship with her body image after spending her career as a professional dancer.

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3 w. ago Ukrainian journalist's body is returned home from Russia 'without eyes or a brain' in a bag labelled 'unidentified male'

Viktoria Roshchyna's body was returned to Kyiv on April 24 after she disappeared into an unofficial detention centre in occupied Ukraine in August 2023.

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3 w. ago Russia returns body of female Ukrainian reporter with eyes and brain MISSING

Viktoria Roshchyna, 27, was taken as a prisoner of war after heading inside occupied areas of Ukraine to report on the invasion - her mutilated remains have now been returned

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3 w. ago ‘Numerous signs of torture’: Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison

The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final monthsThe exchange took place on a lonely forest road in February. Moving along a line of refrigerated lorries, the teams in hazmat suits went about their grim work: preparing the remains of 757 Ukrainian military casualties handed over by Russia for the journey back to Kyiv.Clipboards in hand, intermediaries from the Red Cross checked their lists. For each body shrouded in white plastic, the Russians had provided a number, a name, a location, sometimes a cause of death. And then, at the very bottom of the last page, a mystery entry: “NM SPAS 757.” The letters were abbreviations, taken to mean “unidentified man” and “extensive damage to the coronary arteries”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago ‘Numerous signs of torture’: a Ukrainian journalist’s detention and death in Russian prison

The Guardian, working with media partners, has tracked down first-hand accounts to reconstruct Viktoriia Roshchyna’s final monthsThe exchange took place on a lonely forest road in February. Moving along a line of refrigerated lorries, the teams in hazmat suits went about their grim work: preparing the remains of 757 Ukrainian military casualties handed over by Russia for the journey back to Kyiv.Clipboards in hand, intermediaries from the Red Cross checked their lists. For each body shrouded in white plastic, the Russians had provided a number, a name, a location, sometimes a cause of death. And then, at the very bottom of the last page, a mystery entry: “NM SPAS 757.” The letters were abbreviations, taken to mean “unidentified man” and “extensive damage to the coronary arteries”. Continue reading...

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last month Nine people killed and dozens injured in ‘massive’ Russian missile attack on Kyiv

Five districts across Kyiv suffered damage in attack that is among the deadliest on the capital in the three-year warAt least nine people have been killed and more than 60 wounded in a “massive” missile attack on Kyiv, according to Ukraine’s state emergency service. It is among the deadliest attacks on the capital of the three-year war.Ukrainian authorities issued an alert for a missile attack, and AFP journalists heard explosions across the capital early on Thursday. Continue reading...

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