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Russia‘s security service said on Wednesday that it had ‌charged Pavel Durov, founder of the Telegram messaging app, with facilitating terrorist activities. Durov did not immediately comment, ‌but has previously described the case against him as a fabricated pretext to restrict Russians’ access to Telegram ​as part of efforts to suppress the right to privacy […]

Noah Kahan has slammed the White House for using one of his songs in a promotional video. On Monday the White House shared a post on Instagram that featured images of US president Donald Trump while visiting General Motors’ flagship test site in Michigan, which was set to Kahan’s song American Cars. After many fans […]

The claims of several high-profile figures, including Britain’s Prince Harry, against the publisher of the Daily Mail are set to return to court on Wednesday after a UK High Court judge dismissed their cases earlier this month. The group of seven household names, which also includes Elton John and Doreen Lawrence, sued Associated Newspapers Limited […]

Fire crews are battling a mega-fire four times the size of Paris in south-west France while facing tinderbox temperatures forecast to climb above 40C. The heatwave and forecast winds could hamper progress against the blaze that has forced 220,000 people from their homes, authorities for the Gironde region around Bordeaux said. In a Wednesday morning […]

Glasgow is set to be transformed into Gotham City once again when filming for the latest Batman movie begins next month. Filming for The Batman: Part II will take place in a number of locations around the city in August, with a number of road closures expected in the Newton Street and North Street area […]

Real Madrid claim to have broken the revenue record for any sports team in a single season with earnings of over €1 billion in the 2025-26 season. Los Blancos endured a disappointing campaign on the field as they were eliminated in the Champions League quarter-finals and lost out to Barcelona in LaLiga. Their financial performance […]

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said 13 people have been found dead after a powerful earthquake shook part of south-western Japan, with rescue work continuing on Wednesday morning to find those still missing. A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the Kumamoto area on the southern main island of Kyushu late on Tuesday afternoon. “There are people […]

An earthquake registering a magnitude of 7.1 shook Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu and caused part of a shopping centre to collapse on Tuesday, leaving dozens of people missing or injured, officials said. A tsunami advisory was issued but quickly lifted. The second floor of the Aeon Mall shopping centre in Kashima Town collapsed, […]

Investigators have found what appears to be a claim of responsibility by the suspect in the fatal attack near Berlin’s Pride festival, German authorities said. The 21-year-old suspect, Abdul Ballout, was killed in a confrontation with police on Sunday, the day after investigators say he drove a van into a crowd near the festival’s closing […]

One suspect has been arrested and another is being sought after three people were killed in a shooting at a crowded food festival in the US city of Seattle, police said. Assistant chief Tyrone Davis said detectives do not have any description of the outstanding suspect. Investigators in Washington state believe the two suspects were […]