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Trump comes up with way to cut crime that’s worse than the death penalty
Donald Trump was mocked online after proposing a solution to crime that has been compared to the horror film The Purge.
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Saltwater is making electric cars blow up after Hurricane Helene
Electric vehicles that have been flooded with saltwater are being treated as a potential fire hazard in the wake of Hurricane Helene.
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Airstrikes launched at Yemen’s Hodeidah port
There are reports of an airstrike on the the Red Sea port city of Hodeidah in Yemen. Reuters reports that fuel tanks were hit.
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Hezbollah confirms death of seventh senior leader
Hezbollah has confirmed that Nabil Kaouk, another of its senior leaders, was killed in an Israeli airstrike, the Associated Press are reporting.
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British woman says Israel’s strike on Lebanon killed five of her family members
Sana Chamseddin’s uncle, his wife and their three daughters died in IDF bombing of Tyre
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Nine dead and 48 missing after migrant boat sinks off Canary Islands
Rescue services say they saved 27 of the 84 people aboard the vessel believed to have come from Mauritania
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German far-right politician accused of exploiting political prisoners as cheap labour in Belarus
Reports of dissenters working for £4 a day on onion plantation owned by Saxony state parliament AfD member Jörg Dornau
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Fears of Iranian retaliation after death of Hezbollah leaders
Hezbollah have confirmed that Israel’s military killed their leader Hassan Nasrallah in an airstrike on Beirut.
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Trump vows to pursue criminal charges against Google if re-elected president
Ex-president complains search results unfairly favor Kamala Harris and display negative stories about him
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Israel claims to have killed a Hezbollah leader in airstrikes on Lebanon
Israel’s military says Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah has been killed in an air strike on Beirut.
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Three arrested as Just Stop Oil targets Van Gogh paintings again after two activists jailed for ’souping’ Sunflowers
Three people have been arrested after Just Stop Oil activists targeted more Van Gogh paintings following the sentencing of two activists earlier for throwing soup over the iconic ’Sunflowers’ piece.
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Cinema in mafia boss’s Sicilian hometown refuses to screen film about his life
Venue owner says Sicilian Letters, about the Cosa Nostra leader Matteo Messina Denaro, ‘doesn’t interest me’
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Alabama executes death row prisoner using nitrogen gas
Alan Miller, 59, second person in US to be executed via controversial technique, shook and trembled on gurney
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Tesla home visits to workers on sick leave defended by boss in Germany
Carmaker wants to ‘appeal to employees’ work ethic’ but move prompts outrage from plant’s union
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Sanctioned Cambodian senator linked to alleged Chinese crime figures
A Cambodian tycoon and ruling party senator – who the U.S. recently sanctioned, citing links to human trafficking – had business relationships with alleged organized crime figures from China, company records show.
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Eric Adams charged with accepting bribes and illegal foreign campaign contributions
Former police officer is the first sitting New York City mayor to be criminally charged and has vowed to stay in office
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Prosecutor demands six years in prison for jailed Kyrgyz investigative journalists
Amid a crackdown on free expression, journalists from OCCRP’s local partner Temirov Live are confronted with the prospect of a draconian prison sentence on charges they insist are trumped up.
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A Russian ‘floating bomb’ carrying explosive cargo has been spotted off the coast of Kent
A Russian ship with 20,000 tonnes of explosive cargo has been spotted off of the Kent coast today.
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World’s longest-serving death row inmate, Iwao Hakamada, 88, acquitted after 56 years awaiting execution
The world’s longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted over 50 years after his sentencing.
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Hezbollah missile strikes Tel Aviv for the first time, targeting Mossad HQ, as footage shows the launcher being destroyed
Watch as Israel blew up the rocket using its high-tech interception system named David’s Sling
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China conducts its first nuclear-capable missile test in 40 years, launching it into the Pacific Ocean as a major warning to the West
China has over 500 operational nuclear warheads
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Putin warns the West of nuclear consequences in response to strikes on Russia from Ukraine
President Vladimir Putin warned the West on Wednesday that Russia could use nuclear weapons if it was struck with conventional missiles, and that Moscow would consider any assault on it supported by a nuclear power to be a joint attack.
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Israel mobilizes reserves as IDF chief reveals Lebanon ground offensive plans, while Hezbollah prepares for border attack
Iran are said to have been bolstering up Hezbollah’s war arsenal in preparation for any escalation
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X-ray reveals ’cocaine bullets’ found in stomach of woman stopped at airport
A 30-year-old woman, described as a "drug mule" by South African police, was carrying 68 "cocaine bullets" in her stomach with an estimated weight of 850g when she was detained at Johannesburg’s OR Tambo airport, according to police.
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A UK tribunal has heard that a firm disclosed phone data belonging to a shot Tanzanian politician
Tigo’s former investigator claims he was unfairly dismissed for raising concerns over 2017 attack on Tundu Lissu
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