TV presenter and actor Shane Richie will appear in court next month charged with drink-driving. Richie, who’s real name is Shane Roche, will appear at Colchester Magistrates’ Court on September 9th. The 62-year-old soap star, best known for playing Alfie Moon in EastEnders, was arrested in Harlow after officers were called to reports of a […]
Continue ReadingHamburg’s Pride parade, one of Germany’s biggest, is under way with increased security a week after a fatal extremist attack near its counterpart in Berlin. Dozens of trucks were making their way through the centre of Germany’s second-biggest city and organisers expected about 250,000 people to attend. Hamburg’s police chief said earlier this week that […]
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump has threatened more strikes on Iran as the United States presses for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Hours later on Saturday, Kuwait said it responded to a new round of drone attacks from Iran while a tanker was struck in the strategic waterway. Speaking to reporters on Friday during a […]
Continue ReadingThe death toll in Spain’s Ceuta border crisis with Morocco has climbed to 67, the Spanish government said on Saturday. They included some who drowned and some who were killed in a stampede to cross a breakwater barrier. Spain announced it was installing a 500-metre-long containment barrier along the breakwater fence into the sea after […]
Continue ReadingHungary’s only nuclear power plant will shut down for the first time in its history due to record-low water levels on the Danube River, prime minister Peter Magyar said. He added that the plant may not come back online for several weeks as the river is expected to continue receding. The Paks nuclear plant, located […]
Continue ReadingAuthorities released an early ransom note in the investigation into the disappearance of Nancy Guthrie in the hope that someone will recognise the writing style. A second note released on Friday indicated that Ms Guthrie, 84, the mother of Today show host Savannah Guthrie, died. Both notes initially went to a television station in Tucson, […]
Continue ReadingFirefighters in south-west France are working to control the last hot spots of a massive wildfire that has burned an area four times the size of Paris and forced thousands out of their homes. The blazes that burned 42,000 hectares of pine forest and tourist resort areas in Bordeaux’s Gironde region on the Atlantic coast […]
Continue ReadingSouthport killer Axel Rudakubana has been charged with three assaults on staff at Belmarsh prison in England. Rudakubana, now 19, was given a life sentence for the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine; Bebe King, six; and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven, and the attempted murder of eight other children and two adults in the […]
Continue ReadingThe number of people who died on Thursday trying to enter the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa rose to 18, as migrants rushed by sea and land from Morocco, a Spanish Interior Ministry spokesperson said on Friday. Spanish state television TVE said between 2,000 and 3,000 people crossed into Ceuta on Thursday. […]
Continue ReadingRussia‘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 […]
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