President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that he slipped away from Air Force One after a recent summit in Turkey because the Secret Service and military wanted him on a “different plane” due to a threat. “I go by Secret Service and the military. They wanted me to go in a different flight, different plane,” […]
Continue ReadingA powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck western Colombia on Monday, shaking the South American nation and neighbouring Ecuador and prompting people to evacuate homes and buildings. The epicentre was in San Jose Del Palmar, a municipality in the Choco region about 250 miles (400 kilometres) west of Colombia’s capital, Bogota, the US Geological Survey and Colombia’s […]
Continue ReadingAn Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson said Iran will not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the US has met its conditions. “It is up to the US side to stop and make amends for its illegal and destructive actions,” Esmail Baghaei said on Monday, noting the American blockade of Iranian ports. Iran wants the US […]
Continue ReadingAuthorities in eastern China have closed schools and tourist sites as Typhoon Dolphin makes its way towards land. The storm’s maximum sustained winds are estimated at about 101mph. It will bring heavy rains, creating a risk of severe flooding as well as landslides and is expected to hit Zhejiang province and northern parts of neighbouring […]
Continue ReadingUK counter-terror police investigating the death of former MP Ann Widdecombe have reopened an old probe into an attempted burglary last year. The incident at an address in Greater London was reported in April 2025. The Metropolitan Police and Counter Terrorism Policing (CTP) London investigated, but no arrests were made, and the case was closed […]
Continue ReadingLawyers for social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate urged a US judge on Friday to release the brothers from a Miami jail as they fight the British government’s efforts to extradite them to face charges of rape, assault and facilitating trafficking for sexual exploitation. In a filing in Miami federal court, the Tate brothers’ […]
Continue ReadingAt least six people – three teachers and three pupils – have died after another student shot several people at a high school outside Bangkok, police said. Several other people were injured in the shooting at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi province north-west of the capital, a Royal Thai Police spokesman said. He later […]
Continue ReadingRussian online retailer Wildberries, the target of a three-week campaign of near-nightly strikes by Ukrainian drones, said on Friday that another of its logistics hubs had caught fire after an attack in Yekaterinburg, 1,400km east of Moscow. The blaze was later contained, and most of the goods at the site were not damaged, the company […]
Continue ReadingTyphoon Dolphin has moved over Japan’s southern remote islands, causing a main airport on Okinawa to close and sending hundreds of people into evacuation centres. The typhoon was just north of the main island of Okinawa with maximum winds of 89mph as of Friday afternoon, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. Three men in their […]
Continue ReadingThree teachers and three pupils have died after another student shot several people at a high school outside Bangkok, police said. Several other people were injured in the shooting at the Debsirin Nonthaburi School in Nonthaburi province north-west of the capital, a Royal Thai Police spokesman said. He later told broadcaster Channel 3 that the […]
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