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Authorities face the "worst fire in the history of the region", Madrid officials say, as French firefighters battle a blaze heading towards Bordeaux.
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Going to the games showed me that no one can put the feeling of the sporting event into a spreadsheet.
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Change is discomfiting but America’s willingness to forge ahead is crucial to the democratic experiment.
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Court fillings show grants denied to states if they didn’t back Trump’s re-election, but administration claims it’s a ‘misrepresentation’US politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has admitted scrapping more than $7.5bn in federal grants for clean energy projects to states “based solely” on whether they backed Donald Trump in the 2024 election.US federal officials appeared to acknowledge in court documents last week that they had terminated the funding last October “based solely”
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The film-maker, also behind A Nightmare on Elm Street 3, died on Wednesday in his San Diego homeDirector Chuck Russell, who helped propel actors such as Jim Carrey, Cameron Diaz and Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to the Hollywood A-list, was found dead in his San Diego, California, home on Wednesday. He was 74.Russell directed several box office hits in his decades-long career including A Nightmare on Elm Street 3: Dream Warriors, The Blob and The Mask. In 2002, his film The Scorpion King featured Th
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The outage affected gamers' ability to launch games, apps or network features on their PlayStation.
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The International Criminal Court, which prosecutes some of the world’s most serious crimes, has been in limbo for years over the allegations against Karim A. A. Khan, its top prosecutor.
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Grant Ho, who performed postmortem examination, said he identified two stab wounds on 14-year-old’s bodyThe autopsy of 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez’s body took center stage on Friday as a hearing continued to determine whether musician D4vd will stand trial for murder charges linked to her death.Prosecutors say the singer, whose legal name is David Anthony Burke, fatally stabbed Hernandez last April to silence her from divulging the sexual nature of their relationship as his career skyroc
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Karim Khan denies allegations of engaging in an improper sexual relationship with a junior ICC staff member and seeking to stop her pursuing her complaint.
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Karim Khan faces allegations by an aide and has been on leave from the International Criminal Court since May 2025.
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By collecting about 1,000 fragments and painstakingly assembling the pieces, archaeologists restored a scene depicting the popular love story of Dionysus and Ariadne.
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Colt Gray, who was 14 at time of attack on Apalachee high school, admits 55 charges including four counts of murderThe wife of a teacher killed in a high school shooting in Georgia two years ago told a court on Friday that the families of the four victims had been handed “a life sentence of grief and trauma” by the teenage student who murdered them.Shayna Aspinwall, whose husband Richard died at Apalachee high school, about 45 miles north-east Atlanta, on 4 September 2024, was speaking at the se
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DNC made move in bid to better represent views of party’s racially diverse voter base ahead of next presidential cycle Democrats moved to keep South Carolina as the first state to vote in their party’s 2028 presidential primary process, while moving up several other states, in a bid to better represent the views of the party’s racially diverse voter base.At a meeting in Washington DC of the Democratic National Committee’s (DNC) rules and bylaws committee on Friday, South Carolina received a slim
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Joanna Ruth Shields’ body was discovered in a pool of water with suspicious marks, driving speculation she was attackedA young woman whose body was found in the backcountry of California’s Big Sur with suspicious marks on her face and neck died of alcohol withdrawal, the Monterey county sheriff’s office said on Thursday.The discovery of Joanna Ruth Shields’ body back in April had driven widespread suspicion that she had been the victim of a violent attack. A group of hikers found Shields, 37, na
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Mehmet Fatih Cicekli posted some social media content of himself in workout gear. Then he lost his job.
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The latest milestone, a recorded 2,318 infections, makes 2026 the worst year for measles in the US since 1991The US has officially surpassed last year’s record number of measles infections, marking the highest case count since the disease was declared eliminated in 2000.New figures from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released Friday show the country has recorded 2,318 measles cases in 2026, overtaking the 2,289 cases reported during all of 2025 – with five months still r
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The US president says fines against Google, as well as Apple, Meta and Amazon, should be "entirely reversed."
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Kozo Okamoto survived a 1972 suicide mission he undertook with two other members of the Japanese Red Army, a left-wing militant group aligned with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine.
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Exclusive: Andy Burnham thought to be considering waiving stricter right to remain rules for people already working in the sectorHundreds of thousands of care workers could be exempted from the home secretary’s plans to toughen up the immigration system under proposals being considered by Andy Burnham as he looks for ways to relieve pressure on the social care sector.The prime minister will give a speech next week spelling out his determination to start creating a National Care Service before th
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Member states vote to remove British barrister found to have committed serious misconduct over alleged sexual abuseThe prosecutor of the international criminal court, Karim Khan, has been removed from office after he was found to have committed serious misconduct in connection to allegations of sexual abuse.The ICC’s member states voted on Friday to oust the British prosecutor in an unprecedented move that concludes a damaging episode for the court two years after the allegations were first rais