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AK-47 attack on Brazil mayor was set-up to boost re-election bid, police claim
As campaign strategies go it was unorthodox and illegal: buy an AK-47, hire a pair of phony hitmen, and stage a fake assassination attempt against the mayor that would generate public sympathy and help him win a second term in power.
That, Brazilian police claim, was the gameplan last October …
Nigel Farage, Jordan Peterson & co worship each other in alt-right heaven | John Crace
Fighting the culture wars doesn’t come cheap these days. Tickets for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) conference at the Excel Centre in London cost a discounted £450. A bargain said the organisers, as the original price was £1500. Maybe they had a point. All 4,000 tickets were sold long …
Woman charged over 1978 death of five-year-old girl in London
A 66-year-old woman has been charged with manslaughter over the death of a child in 1978.
Janice Nix was arrested and charged on Tuesday over the death of five-year-old Andrea Bernard, who was assaulted in Thornton Heath, south-east London on 6 June 1978, the Metropolitan police said.
Andrea was taken …
Stephen Colbert on Presidents Day: ‘To those who celebrate – why?’
‘We’re just terrified’: People evacuate homes after sinkhole appears on Surrey high street
Villagers in Surrey have been forced to evacuate their homes over fears of an explosion after a large and expanding sinkhole appeared in the high street.
On Monday night, a sinkhole appeared on Godstone High Street. By Tuesday afternoon, it had grown to at least 20 metres, which led to …
Ukraine officials say US is ‘appeasing’ Russia with talks in Riyadh
Ukraine reacted with gloom and dismay on Tuesday to the
meeting between the US and Russia
in Saudi Arabia, with officials in Kyiv saying the Trump administration was “appeasing” Moscow.They said negotiations between the two delegations got under way in Riyadh just hours after Russia attacked …
Chessum back in only England change for Six Nations clash with Scotland
Ollie Chessum will make his first England start for 11 months on Saturday with Steve Borthwick making a solitary change to his side to face Scotland. Chessum comes in at second-row with George Martin, who has been nursing an injury problem, dropping to the bench.
Otherwise, Borthwick has stuck with …
Elon Musk keeps bringing his kids to work – and the reasons aren’t cute at all | | Arwa Mahdawi
Welcome to the White House, where every day seems to be bring-your-kid-to-work-day if you’re Elon Musk. The tech billionaire,
, and de facto president of the US hasn’t just moved himself intogovernment digs
– he has seemingly moved in a selection of his kids as …‘Triangle of death’: will Italy finally tackle mafia’s toxic waste dumping?
Soon after her son, Antonio, was born, Marzia Caccioppoli moved to Casalnuovo di Napoli, a town surrounded by countryside on the outskirts of Naples, to get away from the chaos and pollution of the sprawling southern Italian city.
“Antonio was a strong and healthy boy, but I wanted him to …
US and Russia to explore closer relations after Ukraine talks in Riyadh
Top US and Russian officials have met in Saudi Arabia for the most extensive negotiations between the two countries in three years, agreeing to continue planning an end to the Ukraine war amid concerns in Kyiv and across Europe that Donald Trump could push for a settlement favouring Vladimir Putin.
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