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07 Apr 2024 621

Peter Pellegrini, a government ally with doubts about Ukraine, emerges victorious in Slovakian presidential race

Close ally of populist prime minister Robert Fico claimed 53.85% of vote, beating pro-Western opposition Ivan Korčok

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07 Apr 2024 681

British firm denies it supplied engines that power Israeli drone which killed aid workers

UAV Engines Ltd has been targeted by pro-Palestinian demos

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06 Apr 2024 911

Jailed Navalny ally Ilya Yashin thrown in ‘punishment cell’ at notorious prison after removing his jacket at breakfast

Yashin has publicly said he fears for his life in prison after the death of friend Alexei Navalny

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05 Apr 2024 708

British Jewish woman murdered by Hamas saves five lives with organ donations

Lucy Dee, 48, was murdered a year ago and her husband, Leo, met three people who received her organs, including her kidneys, lungs, liver and heart

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05 Apr 2024 899

Putin’s spies caught working at Nato HQ in humiliating intelligence breach. They’ve been active in Europe for years

It comes after Ukraine warned Germany is ’riddled with Russian spies’

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05 Apr 2024 843

Israel admits ‘serious failures’ over deadly strike but insists aid workers were mistaken for Hamas

Biden and Netanyahu spoke on Thursday for first time since deaths of aid workers as pressure mounts on Sunak to withdraw arms sales

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05 Apr 2024 774

Physically healthy woman, 28, decides to die by euthanasia after being told crippling depression will ‘never get better’

Zoraya ter Beek has set the date for her own death - and where she will die

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05 Apr 2024 922

Israel’s relations with America reach breaking point

Following Israel’s killing of seven aid workers, Joe Biden delivers his sternest warning yet to Binyamin Netanyahu

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04 Apr 2024 973

Whooping cough outbreak leaves two dead and 50 ill at popular holiday hotspot

Cases of whooping cough, also known as the 100-day cough because of its longevity in patients, has boomed at the start of 2024 with sufferers at the highest in more than a decade and cases reported across Europe

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04 Apr 2024 998

NATO ministers’ doubts, fears and eye-rolls over €100B Ukraine plan

Making military aid to Kyiv more predictable would send a message to Russia that it won’t win the war, said the alliance chief.

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03 Apr 2024 735

Meghan Markle breaks major royal rule on visit to children’s hospital in Los Angeles

Meghan Markle made a surprise visit to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) as part of a literacy campaign, but broke a huge Royal Family rule in the process

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03 Apr 2024 629

Chilling plan for the world’s tallest prison in NYC dubbed the ‘Jailscraper’ with 1,000 crooks stacked in 40-floor tower

Campaigners have spent years fighting against the project

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03 Apr 2024 725

Ukraine military draft age lowered to boost fighting force

Volodymyr Zelenskiy signs bills lowering age for combat duty from 27 to 25 and requiring those given disability waivers to undergo a fresh assessment

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03 Apr 2024 793

7.4 magnitude quake hits Taiwan, strongest in 25 years

People rescued from buildings in cities of Hualien and Taipei amid continuing aftershocks from Taiwan’s strongest quake in decades

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03 Apr 2024 737

New P Diddy raid footage shows Homeland Security storming star’s house and handcuffing two men

After P Diddy’s home in Los Angeles was raided by Homeland Security, the mother of his sons Justin and King Combs Misa Hylton posted a video of who she claimed were her sons getting handcuffed

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03 Apr 2024 586

Ex-Special Forces hero killed in Gaza air strike revealed as married dad of 2 described by comrades as ‘brilliant bloke’

Mr Chapman had been in Gaza only a few weeks after stints in the Middle East

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02 Apr 2024 857

Dozens dead in Istanbul nightclub fire

At least 29 people have been killed and one injured in a fire in a nightclub in Turkey.

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02 Apr 2024 716

Finland school shooting: 12-year-old suspect held after one child is killed, two are wounded

Cops urged local residents not to open their doors to strangers following the horrific attack

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02 Apr 2024 741

Netanyahu admits ‘unintended airstrike’ killed ‘3 Brit aid workers’ & says ‘it happens in war’ as food ships are halted

The volunteers were in cars branded with a charity logo when they were hit

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02 Apr 2024 830

Trump posts $175m bond in civil fraud case and averts asset seizures

Former president was found liable in February for fraudulently inflating his net worth to secure better loan and insurance terms

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02 Apr 2024 572

British charity worker among seven killed in ’unforgivable’ Israeli airstrike in Gaza

Seven charity workers for the World Central Kitchen, believed to be British, Australian, Polish, American and Canadian, have reportedly been killed in an Israeli airstrike as the IDF vowed to carry out "a thorough review" of the incident

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01 Apr 2024 820

Ex-CIA psychic claims he identified area where missing toddler Emile Soleil’s body was found & immediately told police

Emile’s skull along with bones were spotted by a hiker in the Auches Ravine on Saturday

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01 Apr 2024 560

’Demented’ Trump ’incapable of doing the job’ as psychologist spots 4 signs of Donald’s dementia

A psychologist has made it his mission to diagnose former President Donald Trump with dementia, sending around a petition to medical and mental health professionals as he calls Trump ’demented’ and compares him to the ’Wizard of Oz’

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01 Apr 2024 785

Alex Murdaugh handed 40 more years in jail for stealing from ’needy’ clients including quadriplegic

Alex Murdaugh has been sentenced in federal court to 40 years in federal prison for stealing from clients and his law firm on top of his sentences for murder and financial crimes

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