Eddie McKay, 58, from Newcastle, was with his son and a friend when they were attacked by a group of seven or eight people, who he claims were wearing balaclavas. He is in a stable condition at hospital, after being stabbed around midnight last night. A Newcastle statement said: “We are deeply concerned by reports […]
Elon Musk has said he will start charging people to use the social media site formerly known as Twitter. NBC News reports the billionaire businessman, who renamed the platform to X, revealed on a live stream that the company would introduce a “small monthly payment” to combat “vast armies of bots”. Musk has long complained
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An 18-storey building in the centre of Khartoum was engulfed in flames on Sunday as fighting intensified between the army and a rival paramilitary group in the Sudanese capital. Images posted online showed the Greater Nile Petroleum Oil Company Tower, a conical building with glass facades that had become an emblem of the city, on
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“The security forces on Sunday evacuated a square where some 500 migrants were assembled in the centre of Sfax,” Romdane Ben Amor, spokesman for the FTDES non-government organisation. He said the migrants were “dispersed in small groups towards rural areas and other towns”. Since Saturday, authorities in Tunisia have been cracking down on illegal migrants,
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Russia carried out a wave of overnight air raids and shelling in Ukraine, killing two people in the southern region of Kherson, Ukrainian officials have said. Kherson Governor Oleksandr Prokudin said a man aged 72 and an elderly woman were killed in an attack on the region, and three others were wounded, but gave no
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Two dams burst there on Sunday afternoon after the storm hit, releasing a surge of water that tore through the city, sweeping away buildings and the people inside them. By late Tuesday, the preliminary death toll from authorities in the politically fractured North African country was at least 2,300 dead. Emergency services said more than
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Making a rare foreign trip and his first since the pandemic, an unsmiling Kim waved from the doorway of his heavily armoured private train as it departed Pyongyang on Sunday evening, according to images published by North Korean state media. Kim will meet Putin at an unspecified location in Russia’s Far East region later this
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In what was billed as a must-win for boss Robert Page, Wales took a 28th-minute lead from the penalty spot. Kaspars Dubra bundled over Harry Wilson and Aaron Ramsey coolly converted for his 100th career goal. Chances came and went for Wales with Brennan Johnson particularly wasteful as Latvia sensed an unlikely equaliser. Janis Ikaunieks
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Former Manchester United midfielder Pogba has been provisionally suspended for an anti-doping offence; the 30-year-old rejoined Juventus from Manchester United last summer and has made eight Serie A appearances for the club so far.The test, performed after Juve’s victory at Udinese on August 20, detected elevated levels of testosterone, a hormone that increases athletes’ endurance.
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Renewal of the 2018 directive to contain rampant shooting dead of notable citizens, follows a fresh rise in gun violence, with soldiers being suspects, and a stalling by the military to have records of weapons in its possession digitally captured for easy identification in the event of a crime. Fingerprinting weapons according to President Museveni
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