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Alex Jones must pay $49.3m for Sandy Hook hoax claim
US conspiracy theorist Alex Jones has been ordered to pay $49.3m (£41m) in damages after falsely claiming a 2012 school
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Israel-Gaza: Death toll rises as Israel targets militants
Palestine’s health ministry says 24 Palestinians have been killed in the Gaza Strip where the Israeli military is targeting members
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Uganda LGBT rights: Government shuts down key advocacy group
Sexual Minorities Uganda (Smug) has been ordered to shut down with “immediate effect” for not registering properly with authorities. The
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Zaporizhzhia: Real risk of nuclear disaster in Ukraine – watchdog
The UN’s nuclear watchdog has called for an immediate end to any military action near Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant, warning
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France mulls rescue plan for beluga whale stranded in River Seine
A beluga whale has been spotted in France’s River Seine, and officials are now deciding how to save a mammal
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Two people die in County Kerry drowning incident
A man and woman have died in a drowning incident at Ballybunion beach in County Kerry on Thursday evening. Irish
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Afghanistan refugees: Hotels and hopelessness, but opportunity too, in UK
Six-year-old Sepehr Vesal stood with his face pressed against the window, counting the cars, counting the days until he would
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Monkeypox: US declares outbreak a public health emergency
The US government has declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency following a spike in cases. The decision will
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Migrants targeted in South Africa after gang rape outrage
There has been widespread anger after a large group of miners were accused of the gang rape of eight women
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Ukraine war: No sleep in Ukraine’s relentlessly bombed city
Your mind is either racing – frantically trying to work out how close the latest explosion was, whether it was
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Breonna Taylor: US police charged over shooting death
Ms Taylor was killed in her home in Louisville, Kentucky, on 13 March 2020 by plainclothes police who were executing
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Alex Jones must pay $4.1m in damages for Sandy Hook theories
The parents of a victim have sought at least $150m in the Texas defamation trial against the Infowars founder. They
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Ukraine war: First grain ship out of Ukraine reaches Turkish waters
The Razoni, which is carrying 26,000 tonnes of corn, will be inspected on Wednesday morning before continuing its journey to
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Dean Kronsbein: Italy yacht crash victim was Ross-on-Wye facemask firm boss
Dean Kronsbein was reportedly on board a yacht with his wife and daughter when the craft crashed into rocks off
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Ukraine war: Russia accuses US of direct role in Ukraine war
A spokesperson for Moscow’s defence ministry alleged the US was approving targets for American-made Himars artillery used by Kyiv’s forces.
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Stephen King testifies against merger of publishing giants
The author was the star witness in an anti-trust trial to block the two biggest US publishers’ $2.2bn merger. The
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Cheetah: How African cats are preparing for new home in India
The world’s fastest land animal is poised to make a comeback in India, more than half a century after it
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‘I was chased by skinheads when I arrived in Leicester’
“They pulled out the stakes from the ground and then started to hit the people and families with young children.
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The Nigerians worried about a bill to outlaw cross-dressing
It aims to amend the Same-Sex Marriage (Prohibition) Act (SSMPA) and defines cross-dressing as the “practice of wearing clothes usually
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Muslims falsely accused of waging ‘flood jihad’
When the police knocked on his door in the early hours of 3 July, Nazir Hussain Laskar was puzzled. For
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