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Three children reported to be among the dead
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Ehsan Shan was accused of posting defaced pages of Quran on TikTok last year
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Manpreet Kaur was feeling unwell before boarding the flight and reportedly died from tuberculosis
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Questions over suitability of ministers from Geert Wilders’s Freedom party and populist Farmer-Citizen Movement
The development aid minister has argued that development aid should be abolished, the asylum and immigration minister has referred to “population replacement”, and the housing minister was a vocal anti-lockdown campaigner.
Sworn in on Tuesday, the new Dutch cabinet of prime minister Dick Schoof, featuring five ministers from Geert Wilders’ far-right Freedom party (PVV) and two from the populist Farmer-Citizen Movement (BBB), has raised more than a few eyebrows in the Netherlands.
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UN secretary general says order ‘just shows yet again that no place is safe in Gaza’ for Palestinian civilians
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The 22-year-old victim is reportedly in serious but stable condition
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The hurricane has already made landfall on the Caribbean island of Carriacou, ripping off roofs with 240km/h winds
Hurricane Beryl has strengthened to a Category 5 status as it crosses islands in the south-eastern Caribbean.
In a post on X, the National Hurricane Center said “Beryl Becomes a potentially catastrophic Category 5 hurricane In the Eastern Caribbean. Expected to bring life-threatening winds and storm surge to Jamaica later this week.”
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Allan Mustafa joins Grace to share the dish he turns to for comfort food. Allan shot to fame playing MC Grindah in People Just Do Nothing, his Bafta award-winning, semi-autobiographical mockumentary, which was inspired by his early life in south-west London. Allan talks about growing up with his Czech mum and Kurdish dad and eating the ultimate fusion cuisine. He dishes the dirt on his teenage life as a graffiti artist, how he met and bonded with his People just Do Nothing co-stars on a beach in Thailand and how he turned what looked like a life of doing nothing into a life of awesome comedic success.
New episodes of Comfort Eating with Grace Dent will be released every Tuesday
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New president José Raúl Mulino has vowed to close the route through which thousands of migrants travel to the US every year
The US will cover the costs of repatriating migrants who enter Panama illegally, under a deal agreed with the Central American country’s new president who has vowed to shut down the treacherous Darién Gap used by people travelling north to the United States.
In his first address as president, José Raúl Mulino promised to seek international assistance to find solutions to what he described as a costly “humanitarian and environmental crisis”.
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By the end of the week, Keir Starmer could be the UK’s next prime minister. Why do voters feel they don’t know him?
Polls say Keir Starmer’s Labour party is on track for a historic win. Yet despite the turn towards his party, voters don’t seem as convinced by Starmer himself. So who is Keir Starmer and what do we know about the forces that have shaped him?
His biographer Tom Baldwin traces Starmer’s life from his childhood in Surrey with his toolmaker father and nurse mother, through his radical university days to his life as a left-leaning barrister. He examines how taking on the role of director of public prosecutions changed Starmer and what explains what some people have characterised as a sudden move to the centre ground. And he tells Michael Safi how Starmer’s refusal to adhere to a strict political ideology could be a strength.
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Thousands have begun to leave the territory’s second-largest city after the IDF issued warnings
Israel’s army has ordered a mass evacuation of Palestinians from much of Khan Younis in Gaza’s south, prompting warnings that troops could launch a new ground assault on the territory’s second-largest city.
“For your safety, you must evacuate immediately to the humanitarian zone,” army spokesperson Avichay Adraee posted on X, in a call to residents and displaced people living in those areas.
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More than 3,000 prisoners in Ukraine released on parole to boost military numbers; Hungary’s pro-Russian PM, Viktor Orbán, expected to visit Kyiv. What we know on day 860
Ukraine is turning to its prisoner population to help address battlefield shortages as Russian continues to build up forces in eastern Ukraine. More than 3,000 prisoners have been released on parole and assigned to military units after such recruitment was approved by parliament in a controversial mobilisation bill last month, Ukrainian deputy justice minister Olena Vysotska told the Associated Press. The news agency visited a rural penal colony in south-east Ukraine where several convicts were offered a chance at parole in return for battlefield service. “You can put an end to this and start a new life,” one recruiter, a member of a volunteer assault battalion, told them. Ukraine does not announce details of troop deployment numbers or casualties, but frontline commanders openly acknowledge that they are facing serious personnel shortages.
Viktor Orbán, one of Europe’s most pro-Russian leaders, is expected to head to Kyiv on Tuesday to meet Volodymyr Zelenskiy. It is the first visit by the Hungarian prime minister to his neighbouring country since Russia’s full-scale invasion began and comes as Hungary takes over the rotating presidency of the EU. In contrast, Orbán’s foreign minister, Péter Szijjártó, has made at least five trips to Russia since the start of the war. Hungary has repeatedly questioned the need to support Ukraine militarily, and has instead called for a ceasefire. Last week, EU governments agreed to use €1.4bn (£1.2bn) of profits from frozen Russian assets to supply arms and other aid to Ukraine, bypassing the Hungarian veto that has so frequently held up EU decisions on Ukraine.
A Briton who founded a charity supporting Ukrainian soldiers has died while fighting Russian forces, his organisation has said. Peter Fouché set up Project Konstantin, which provides supplies such as drones and food to Ukrainian soldiers, evacuates civilians and delivers humanitarian aid to conflict zones near the frontline. Fouché had previously helped to build a field hospital in Kyiv before he founded Project Konstantin and later enlisted as a contracted soldier with the armed forces of Ukraine, according to the charity’s website.
Patriotic Russian poetry praising Vladimir Putin and backing his war in Ukraine has turned out to be translations of Nazi verses penned in the 1930s and 1940s. The 18 poems of Gennady Rakitin have attracted quite a following in Russia in the past year and been mentioned in poetry prizes, but pranksters have revealed they invented Rakitin and simply translated poems such as Führer and odes to Nazi stormtroopers, replacing references to Germany with Russia. “We read collections of Z poetry and saw straight-up nazism there. We suspected that they probably wrote exactly the same things in Nazi Germany, and we turned out to be right,” said the group behind the project, in written responses to questions from the Guardian.
Russia’s defence ministry claimed its forces had taken control of two villages in eastern Ukraine. The Russian ministry said its forces were in control of the settlement of Stepova Novoselivka in Kharkiv region, and of Novopokrovske in Donetsk region. Ukrainian military statements partly denied the Russian assertion. The General Staff of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, in an evening report, said its troops had repelled 17 attacks in the Kupiansk sector near Kharkiv, including around Stepova Novoselivka. It said fighting was raging near Synkivka, farther west. Russia has announced a string of incremental gains since capturing the city of Avdiivka in Donetsk region in February. It was the second day in succession that Moscow has announced the capture of new localities.
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Other viewers saw the funny side after Ronaldo missed a penalty during Portugal’s dramatic Euro 2024 win over Slovenia
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‘I have felt ... retribution for not endorsing him when he was originally running for president,’ McCain says of Biden
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The court has wrapped up its term, issuing blockbuster decisions with enormous implications and the conservative supermajority in the driver’s seat
The US supreme court has wrapped up its 2023-2024 term, issuing a string of blockbuster decisions with enormous implications for American democracy, individual and civil rights, and the basic functioning of the federal government.
Once again, the conservative supermajority, with half its justices appointed by Donald Trump, was in the driver’s seat – strengthening the power of the presidency in its immunity ruling for Trump, and overturning precedent in a dramatic blow to the administrative state. There were crumbs of comfort for liberals, including a gun rights ruling related to domestic violence and a unanimous decision upholding access to a key abortion pill, but what the US public increasingly sees as an activist court majority continues in full swing.
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