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France has ‌recorded 1,000 excess deaths during the blistering heatwave sweeping Europe, the public health ‌agency said on Sunday, warning that the true figure was likely to ​be higher. Detailing its preliminary count of excess deaths, Sante Publique said most of the fatalities involved older people and that it expected ​the mortality rate to rise […]

The US military said it had struck multiple targets in Iran at President Donald Trump’s direction, continuing a string of attacks that have shaken the war’s uneasy ceasefire. US Central Command, in a post to social media, said that US military aircraft targeted Iranian military “surveillance infrastructure, communication systems, air defence sites, drone storage facilities, […]

Two major storm systems have pounded Japan, causing landslides and floods and leaving one dead and several injured, media and officials said. The storms, Mekkhala and Higos, have dumped heavy rain and damaged roads as Japan experiences its annual rainy season. A man in his 70s died and three others were injured after a house […]

Ukraine has struck a major industrial facility in the Russian city of Volgograd, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said, while a Russian drone attack killed a man in Ukraine’s north-eastern Sumy region. Ukraine has stepped up its long-range aerial attacks on Russian military industries and energy facilities, aiming to cut Moscow’s revenue for the war and […]

Jailed paedophile pop star Gary Glitter has been interviewed by police about alleged sex offences against a girl under 14 years old. Glitter, 82, has been accused of committing the offences “over a period of time” in the late 1970s and early 1980s at a residential address in Kensington, west London. The disgraced glam rock […]

The English crocodile enclosure where a three-year-old boy was seriously injured after being attacked by at least one of the reptiles has reopened to the public. Johnsons of Old Hurst zoo in Huntingdon confirmed in a post on social media that its “whole site will be fully open” on Saturday, nine days after a child […]

American rapist Nicholas Rossi, who fled to Scotland after appearing to fake his own death in an attempt to escape justice, has died in hospital in the United States. The 38-year-old, who is also known as Nicholas Alahverdian, had been serving a jail sentence in Utah for raping two women in the state in 2008. […]

Bahrain has accused Iran of launching a new drone attack targeting the island nation. A statement from Bahrain’s foreign ministry said a “number of Iranian drones” targeted the country, without specifying the target. Iran did not immediately acknowledge launching an attack. Bahrain is home to the US Navy’s 5th Fleet. A tanker also came under […]

A pilot has died and 13 other people were injured after a small plane crashed into the tallest high-rise building in Beijing, Chinese authorities said. A two-seat light sport aircraft collided with the CITIC Tower in the Chaoyang district, a vibrant business area, at 5.55pm (10.55am BST) on Friday. Global flight tracking service provider Flightradar24 […]