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Israel raids and burns one of Gaza’s last hospitals, forcing patients and staff to strip
Israeli troops have stormed one of the last hospitals operating in the northernmost part of Gaza, setting fires and forcing staff and patients to remove their clothes in the courtyard.
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Nasa spacecraft gets within 3,800,000 miles of the sun for the first time ever
Nasa have made history after their Parker Solar aircraft survived the closest-ever approach to the Sun.
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Keir Starmer’s ’wonderful’ brother dies on Boxing Day after battling cancer
The brother of Sir Keir Starmer has died aged 60 after being diagnosed with cancer.
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World’s richest footballer, once at Chelsea, is worth 12 times more than Ronaldo and Messi combined
While Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo have racked up substantial fortunes, neither’s net worth is even close to one footballer who couldn’t cut it at Premier League clubs
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Roman Spiridonov: Laundering Kremlin funds through the Gurinov family’s London holdings
Roman Spiridonov, the owner of Petroruss Dmcc, engaged in oil trading with major Russian companies and Russia’s "shadow fleet," actively cooperates with Vadim Gurinov, who represents the interests of oligarch Gennadiy Timchenko and "Gazprom Neft" head Andrey Dyukov.
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Eurostar train stuck in Channel Tunnel for over two hours with 800 people onboard
Chaos struck on the Eurostar this morning as more than 800 passengers were stuck on a train in the channel for two-and-half-hours.
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Reform UK surpasses Conservative membership; Nigel Farage calls it ’historic,’ while Kemi Badenoch dismisses numbers as ’fake’
Reform UK and Nigel Farage have been involved in a series of furious exchanges online with Tory leader Kemi Badenoch.
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Two sailors die on separate yachts during Sydney to Hobart race - as 15 other boats withdraw
Race organisers said 15 other yachts - including favourite Master Lock Comanche - withdrew from the Sydney to Hobart competition over poor weather conditions.
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Man charged with attempted murder after group struck by car in London’s West End on Christmas Day
Police were called to reports of a collision and a car driving on the wrong side of the road on Shaftesbury Avenue in the capital’s theatre district in the early hours of Christmas Day.
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‘Why should I study Russian?’: Ukraine urges UK to introduce Ukrainian GCSE
About 34,000 Ukrainian children have fled to UK since Russian invasion – yet are unable to study their mother tongue
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Brighton rape: Two arrested in manhunt over attack on teen in Harry Ramsden’s encounter
Sussex Police said they have arrested two men in connection with the alleged rape of 19-year-old male in Brighton in the days running up to Christmas
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Former Indian prime minister Manmohan Singh dies aged 92
Singh was admitted to New Delhi’s All India Institute of Medical Sciences late Thursday after his health deteriorated due to “sudden loss of consciousness at home,” the hospital said in a statement
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Hundreds of theatres and museums face closure as crisis in sectors laid bare
Alarm in sector as four in 10 of Britain’s theatres as well as many regional museums containing local and national archives are on the brink of closure
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UK’s biggest nightclub faces closure after ‘drug deaths and stabbing’
A 15,000-capacity superclub in London could have its licence stripped in the New Year following a spate of safety incidents.
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Head of WHO claims to have been in Yemen airport during Israeli air strikes on Houthi targets
The head of the World Health Organization, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesu, says he was at a Yemeni airport when it was hit by Israeli air strikes.
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Youths armed with machetes chase each with huge knives outside school
Footage shows the moment youths chased each other in front of shocked onlookers, with some armed with knives.
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Incredible images reveal underground bunker hidden in plain sight for 70 years
Images of a bunker that was camouflaged for more than 70 years have been released as it goes up for auction.
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ChatGPT has experienced a major crash
OpenAI says that ChatGPT and the Sora video generator are experiencing issues.
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Painstaking work to conserve Ireland’s oldest paper documents begins
Delicate 650-year-old pages to be preserved are some of the island’s most important historical texts
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Pope Francis opens ‘holy door’ at one of largest prisons in Italy
Pontiff opens sacred portal at Rebibbia jail outside Rome to show ‘hope does not disappoint’
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Finnish coastguard boards tanker suspected of causing power and internet cable outages
Cook Islands-registered Eagle S was carrying Russian oil in the Baltic Sea
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Rescuers work to save bus passengers after crash kills at least three
A bus crash has killed at least three people in Norway after running into rough conditions and swerving off the road.
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Man charged with murder after missing woman’s body found in Bolton
Police say extensive searches and appeals were launched to find Mariann Borocz after she vanished on 14 December.
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Two women and dog killed after Christmas Day ’stabbing’ at flat in Milton Keynes
A man and a teenage boy also suffered serious injuries. A 49-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder and remains in custody.
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France rescues 107 people trying to cross to UK on Christmas Day
French authorities carry out 12 rescue operations off northern coast during ‘intense’ day of attempted crossings