An airstrike on a prison in northern Jemen has killed at least 60 mense en gewondes 200 meer. Die geweld was 'n besonder dodelike dag in die sewe jaar lange oorlog, leaving bystanders searching through rubble with their bare hands to rescue those trapped in the detention centre in Sa’ada. Overwhelmed nearby hospitals said they had been forced to turn away some of the injured. The attack comes five days after the Houthis claimed a drone-and-missile attack on Abu Dhabi that killed three people
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Actions have consequences, goes the cliche, but in England this maxim applies to the powerless, not the powerful. The nurse who helped bear the horror of the pandemic and was fined £10,000 for a socially distanced pro...
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America is absorbing the shock of another bloody mass shooting a day after an 18-year-old man wearing body armour and carrying assault rifles entered an elementary school in Texas and gunned to death at least 19 child...
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Britain’s poorest households are expected to see their living costs increase by almost twice the rate as the richest in society do when energy bills rise this autumn, leading economists have warned. The Institute for ...
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It was springtime, two years ago, and my mum was dying. The crocuses bordering the paths of my local park were in full bloom and every day the plucky sprays of purple, yellow and white seemed to inch further skywards....
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“Texas.” It was said with incredulity, by one parent to another, outside my children’s school at pickup. On the east coast of the US on Tuesday night, where I live, the after-school clubs were letting out just as news...
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Muhammad Akbar, 40, sells dried chickpeas on a wheelbarrow in Jacobabad, and has suffered heatstroke three times in his life. Maar nou, hy sê, the heat is getting worse. “In those days there were many trees in the wh...
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The mother of a woman with epilepsy who died in 2016 hopes the high-profile murder of Diane Stewart could hold the key to establishing her daughter’s cause of death. Emily Whelan, 25, was found unresponsive in her bed...
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Joe Biden has asked Americans to stand up to the gun lobby and pass sensible gun laws after at least 19 children and two adults were killed in a Texas school shooting on Tuesday. 'As a nation we have to ask, when in G...
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