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White House denies wanting to extend ceasefire - as Iran threatens to shut down the Red

Second school shooting in two days leaves four dead and multiple people wounded with

A tourist is fighting for his life after being attacked by a shark on his honeymoon.

Donald Trump vented fury at Keir Starmer for refusing to back his military campaign in his latest impromptu interview.

Speaking at a Turning Point USA event in Georgia, Vance was interrupted by a shouting member of the audience.

Officials working on the plans, dubbed 'European Nato', are reportedly attempting to supplement US military assets with European ones.

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For 361 days, Farshid Fahti was held in solitary confinement in a two-metre cell, part of a five-year stretch where his leg was broken in one of many beatings.

Prince Harry made the comments while giving a talk on stage at an event about fatherhood hosted by Movember this morning during his visit to Melbourne in Australia.

Ukraine's death-dealing robots which have captured Russian positions and single-handedly defended key positions for more than a month while blasting Putin's forces with .50-calibre machine guns

Global elite gather in Washington for 'world's secret government': Leaders and

The diplomatically isolated nation is believed to operate multiple facilities for enriching uranium, a key step in making nuclear warheads, South Korea's spy agency has said.

It comes amid a growing row between Trump and the head of the Catholic Church, who has in recent weeks condemned rhetoric coming out of the White House.

It comes after Vance had left talks hosted by Pakistan on Sunday, saying he had handed Tehran the 'final and best offer'.

Known for their brutality, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) slaughtered thousands of protesters who dared to take to the streets in anti-government protests in January.

Graphic videos show commanders beating and electrocuting their own troops, denying them food, forcing them to crawl through mud and making them fight to the death.

In the summer of 1974, an all-women group of eight climbers set off to scale one of the Soviet Union's highest peaks - only for them all to perish in a -40C blizzard.

From Donald Trump to Bill Gates and Peter Mandelson, Deep Dive's forensic database tracks how famous figures have been tied to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.

In 2015, just over three years after he became the third supreme leader of North Korea, Kim Jong Un resurrected a sordid family tradition, still shrouded in mystery today.

Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) frontman Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, 59, was eliminated on Sunday in a joint Mexican military and US-backed operation in Tapalpa.

Maha Vajiralongkorn lived an extraordinarily wild, and at times outright bizarre, life that would put even history's most debauched monarchs to shame.

While subjecting prisoners to torture is nothing new in Russia, the war in Ukraine has seen Moscow ramp up its techniques, which include electrocution, waterboarding, and the sinister 'elephant mask'.

In space no one can hear you scream, warns the memorable tagline of the sci-fi chiller Alien.

The first time animals are believed to have been used was after German pharmacist Julius Neubronner developed the pigeon photograph method in 1907.

There are no documented survivors of Unit 731, the covert department of the imperial Japanese army that conducted lethal experiments on thousands of living humans in occupied China.

Over the span of 41 days, the high school student was abducted by four teenage boys aged between 16 to 18, subjected to unimaginable abuse, repeatedly raped and ultimately murdered.

The merciless violence claimed 1,200 lives and saw thousands more injured, raped and brutalised. Hundreds were taken back to Gaza as hostages. Two years on, the dust has not settled.

As sunbathers looked on and children played in the sand, a speedboat roared up to a busy Marbella beach - its masked crew leaping ashore to unload bulging packages before racing back to sea.

The shocking scene was captured in a picture titled The Vulture and the Little Girl - although the child was later revealed to be a young boy - by South African photographer Kevin Carter in 1993.

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the deadliest day in France since World War Two, when Islamic State jihadists killed 130 and injured hundreds in synchronised attacks.

When Chen Chung-ho strolled up to two African lions at Taipei Zoo, nearly 21 years ago, visitors were left confused and stunned.

Deep inside Russia 's military machine, the tyrant is quietly assembling an arsenal designed not to win a war in Europe, but to decimate whole nations at the push of a button.

More than 85 years on, the story of Lina Marcela Medina remains one of the world's greatest mysteries.To this day, the identity of the man who impregnated her remains unknown.

It is believed that the Chinese president, Xi Jinping, has ordered his forces to be ready to seize the island by 2027 and is now warning Tokyo would 'bear all consequences' if it dares to get in the way.

The black and white image, featured in a recent documentary, captures him long before the world knew his name - just a baby with plump cheeks and a gaze full of curiosity.

At its entrance stands a bust dedicated to Hendrik Verwoerd, the Dutch-born sixth prime minister of South Africa nicknamed the 'father of apartheid' for his entrenchment of racial policies into law.

In 2022, the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty said that at least 8,000 people per year were executed in China from 2007 - more than all other countries combined by some margin.

Local police have often explained the deaths as accidents or suicides, but many cases appear suspicious to family members of the deceased, and are often left insufficiently investigated.

The subtle smirk of the baby-faced 'murderer' was plastered on every TV across South America.

The gruesome discovery of nine bodies and a bag filled with their severed hands on a Mexican highway last week had cartel violence written all over it.

The coastal nation has seen murder rates soar in recent years as drug lords and criminal masterminds dug their hooks into fresh territory and exploited its ports for maximum profit

The 'Cosmos 2553' satellite was blasted through the atmosphere from Russia 's Plesetsk Cosmodrome in February 2022 days before Putin ordered troops across the border into Ukraine.

Across cultures, centuries, and belief systems, stories of death experiences have stirred fascination, fear, and faith in equal measure.

The melting of Arctic ice opens up a massive new frontier, unlocking a treasure trove of previously untapped natural resources, new trade routes, and strategic superiority

The bizarre story of how an unsubstantiated internet conspiracy theory about 72-year-old Brigitte Macron secretly being a transgender woman has snowballed into a high-profile U.S. court case.

Emmanuel Macron was humbled this week after New York City cops stopped him crossing the street because of US President Donald Trump's motorcade.

Brits Abroad has long been shorthand for chaos, from nightclub beatdowns and brawls over sun loungers to rape and murder charges at tourist hotspots around the world.

A new generation of social media influencers are posting vlogs and glossy Instagram photos about their positive experiences visiting the hermit kingdom.

Restaurant and bar owners in Majorca have said their season has suffered due to a plunge in visitors.

The lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, a two-year-old Syrian boy, was found washed up on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum, his red T-shirt and blue shorts soaked in seawater.

Dominique Pelicot solicited dozens of men on the chat room Coco to rape his heavily sedated wife Gisele. The site been shut down, but countless other 'rape fantasy' groups exist online.

Once known as Colonia Dignidad, it used to be a secretive paedophile sect established by a one-eyed Nazi in Parral, south of the capital Santiago after he fled Germany .

From 1911 to 1929, dozens of women across Nagyrev and the Tiszazug region turned to homemade arsenic poison to get rid of husbands, parents, lovers, and even children.
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