4 h. ago 'We woke up, and suddenly it was a refugee centre': The village of 1,975 people who say a huge 93

EXCLUSIVE: Manston village, which has a population of just 1,975 people, is being threatened by the expansion of the Manston Asylum Processing Centre.

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34 h. ago Entire city could be swallowed up by giant sink hole as 50k people at risk

Authorities in the Brazilian city of Buriticupu have declared an emergency after more than 1000 people are at risk following a huge sinkhole threatening several homes

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34 h. ago Entire city could be swallowed up by giant sink hole as 50,000 people at risk

Authorities in the Brazilian city of Buriticupu have declared an emergency after more than 1000 people are at risk following a huge sinkhole threatening several homes

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34 h. ago Entire city could be swallowed up by giant sinkhole as 50,000 people at risk

Authorities in the Brazilian city of Buriticupu have declared an emergency after more than 1000 people are at risk following a huge sinkhole threatening several homes

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4 d. ago How to avoid 'sneaky' tax traps as two million people face HMRC bill this year

More people have been pushed over their personal savings allowance due to huge improvements in rates over the past few years, with more than two million people expected to pay tax on their hard-earned cash

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5 d. ago ‘We paid a high price for human rights’: a road trip through the new Syria

In cities along the M5 highway just after the fall of Assad, many expressed relief – along with wariness about the futureAmid the rubble of Saraqib, some of the wall graffiti dating back to its time as a centre of the the 2011 Arab spring uprising remains. “The revolution will go on,” one reads. “Tomorrow the sun rises,” says another. A week after the astonishing rout of Bashar al-Assad by rebel forces led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, this small town of concrete, red earth and olive groves in Syria’s north-west was a stop on the Guardian’s 280-mile (450km) journey along the M5, the highway threading all of the country’s major cities and six provinces together.Suffering was palpable everywhere, from children rummaging through bins for food in Aleppo and Homs, to relatives searching for loved ones in Damascus’s prisons, to displaced people still living in tents in Idlib. There are huge challenges ahead for HTS’s transitional government, and in some places, sectarian vio...

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5 d. ago Scientists say eight huge cities and 100m people in danger of asteroid heading towards Earth

Asteroid 2024 YR4, dubbed a 'city killer' by experts, now has a higher risk of hitting the planet than any other in recent history

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6 d. ago Huge cordon around Hull's St Stephen's Shopping Centre as people urged to stay away

The shopping centre has been evacuated and a huge cordon has been erected with buses, trains and other transport links affected while investigations are carried out

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