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 […]
Continue ReadingOne 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 […]
Continue ReadingFrench president Emmanuel Macron has called a crisis meeting focusing on uncontrolled wildfires that have forced more than 250,000 people to flee their homes. The move comes amid a first glimmer of hope that the spread of the largest blaze may have slowed. In the Gironde region of south-west France, where flames have burned an […]
Continue ReadingA Romanian F-16 fighter jet pilot shot down a Russian drone over the Black Sea, the defence ministry said on Sunday, the latest in a series of breaches of the Nato member’s airspace that president Nicusor Dan called “inadmissible and intolerable”. Romania shares a 650-km (400-mile) land border with Ukraine and Russian drones have repeatedly […]
Continue ReadingA raging wildfire in southwest France led to the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight on Sunday, taking the total forced out of their homes to 220,000 in one region alone as the flames have crept ever closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux. Authorities in the Gironde region, where Bordeaux is located, issued overnight […]
Continue ReadingA raging wildfire in southwest France forced the evacuation of 55,000 people overnight on Sunday, taking the total forced out of their homes to 220,000 as the flames have crept ever closer to the wine region city of Bordeaux. Authorities in the Gironde region, where Bordeaux is located, issued overnight evacuation orders for five more […]
Continue ReadingA car drove into a crowd during Berlin’s famed LGBT+ parade on Saturday, killing one person and injuring at least 15, prompting police to call off the event in the German capital hours after it had begun. Police said some of the victims had life-threatening injuries. People stand on the street following the cancellation of […]
Continue ReadingBerlin police called off the LGBTQ+ pride parade in the German capital on Saturday, hours after the event had begun, saying it was because several people had been injured. They did not say how many people had been injured. Police called on everyone in a post on X to leave the premises of the event […]
Continue ReadingLarge forest fires burned out of control in south-western France and central Spain on Friday, prompting authorities to evacuate an estimated 200,000 people from their homes. Dozens of firefighters were injured, authorities said, but no deaths were reported in either country. Some 141,000 fled homes in the Gironde and Landes departments in France, the Interior […]
Continue ReadingSarah Ferguson’s charity has been shut down following scrutiny of her links with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Sarah’s Trust which introduced philanthropists to good causes in need of funding was formally wound up last month after being first registered with the Charity Commission in 2018. The commission’s website lists the trust as being “removed”, […]
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