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Wildfires rip through Portuguese region loved by Brits while France and Holland are hit with flash floods and hikers are killed by lightning in Germany and Austria as Europe sees wild weather extremes
22/07/24 02:17
In Cascais, near the Portuguese capital Lisbon, dry and windy conditions allowed a 'major' wildfire to be whipped up, with dramatic footage showing how it spread close to homes and holiday apartments. But it's a different story in France and the Netherlands, where cars have been swept away by flash floods in recent days, with streets turning into rivers and people being hospitalised. Severe storms have proven deadly in the mountains of Germany and Austria, where two young hikers, aged 18 and 22, died in separate incidents after being struck by lightning bolts. Warnings are in place as more stormy weather is expected today....read
Pictured: Heroic father who died trying to save twin daughters when their pram fell onto train tracks in front of horrified mother - as CCTV shows moments before tragedy that also left one of the two-year-old girls dead
22/07/24 11:10Anand Runwal, 40, saw the stroller fall off the platform and leapt down to try to rescue his two-year-old daughters before a train struck and killed him and one of the twins.
Gleeful Kremlin revels in Biden's decision to 'run away'
22/07/24 10:54State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin claimed that Biden 'has created problems all over the world' and should be held accountable 'for the war unleashed in Ukraine.'
Moment tourists are swept off their feet as swell from passing ship crashes over Mykonos beach washing away sunbeds and leaving two injured - as 'reckless' ferry captain is arrested
22/07/24 09:17A furious beachgoer filmed the moment the boat's wake reached the beach, with swimmers seen running out of the sea and heard screaming in the dramatic footage.
Gleeful Kremlin revels in Biden's decision to 'run away' and takes aim at 'unfriendly' Kamala Harris after US President's shock withdrawal from election race
22/07/24 07:18State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin claimed that Biden 'has created problems all over the world' and should be held accountable 'for the war unleashed in Ukraine.'
The Emirati princesses standing up to male rulers: After daughter of Dubai's leader brutally dumps husband on Instagram, how her sisters fled to escape their father and his wife left him 'in fear of her life'
20/07/24 12:09Two of Dubai's princesses - Mahra's half sisters Latifa and Shamsa - famously risked their lives for freedom amid allegations of torture, beatings and imprisonment against their father, Sheikh Mohammed.
Bangladeshis clash on streets of London as rioters hurl missiles at police and smash cars after 10 were killed in anti-government riots in Dhaka
19/07/24 05:51Video showed clashes between two large groups of men in Whitechapel, east London, (pictured), with two police officers injured. The Met believes the disturbance was linked to protests in Bangladesh.
Putin and China 'both developing weapons to attack US assets in space'
19/07/24 10:49China has also been developing weapons to attack US assets in space, with a huge increase in anti-satellite weapons including a so-called 'kill web' which could have repercussions on Earth.Russia's space-based nuclear weapons threaten 'our entire modern way of life' in America and Europe - with Putin and China 'both developing weapons to attack US assets in space'
19/07/24 08:31China has also been developing weapons to attack US assets in space, with a huge increase in anti-satellite weapons including a so-called 'kill web' which could have repercussions on Earth.
UK-bound migrant dies when her overcrowded boat deflates - the sixth person to lose their life in the Channel this week
19/07/24 07:30The woman was reportedly of Sudanese origin and was among 86 people who set off from a beach near Calais in the early hours of this morning.
Chaos in Bangladesh as student protesters set state TV headquarters on fire with 'many people' trapped inside as deadly anti-government riots spiral out of control
18/07/24 03:23Nationwide unrest, which has seen huge bonfires lit in the streets, police pelted with sticks and rocks and demonstrators clashing with counter-protesters, is fuelled by high unemployment.
Zelensky hugs Keir Starmer and hails Britain's 'resolve to stop Russian terror' as he meets EU elite at Blenheim Palace summit - as Germany reveals plans to halve its funding for Kyiv
18/07/24 12:06The Ukrainian President is using the European Political Community summit near Oxford to call for Europe to stay united in support of Kyiv during what he said is a 'tough period' for his country.
Europe roasts in deadly 44C 'African bubble': Brutal heatwave settles over continent with red alerts in drought-hit Italy, raging wildfires in Greece and health warnings for tourists on Spanish holiday islands
18/07/24 09:53Meteorologists have said there is going to be little respite over the coming days, with hot air coming from Africa set to bake Greece and wider region until Sunday.
French inferno horror as seven members of the same family are killed including three children aged five, seven and ten in 'arson attack' on block of flats in Nice
18/07/24 08:08Rescuers were alerted at around 2.30 am to the blaze in the working-class neighbourhood of Les Moulins. According to the mayor, 'hooded people could have been seen nearby' before the fire.
Right-wing politicians in Europe are at risk of assassination attempts like Trump's because of 'the hate rhetoric from the left', Geert Wilders warns
15/07/24 04:27The Party for Freedom (PVV) leader, who is a power player in the Dutch coalition government, has been the target of violence throughout his career and claims to receive multiple death threats per day.
Europe's heatwave 'hell': At least four dead as Italy braces for 'strongest heatwave ever' from raging Saharan 'air bubble' while Greece faces water shortages and battles wildfires in 42C temperatures
15/07/24 01:58The severe heat is as a result of an anticyclone - a powerful air bubble that has originated from the Sahara desert and that is 'pumping' hot air onto the Mediterranean.
Flight carrying hungover England fans back from Berlin is forced to make emergency landing because of 'undefined smell in the cabin'
15/07/24 10:30A flight carrying England fans back from Berlin has been forced to make an emergency landing due to what the airline Eurowings said was an 'undefined smell in the cabin'.
Sunbed wars descend into violence as women grapple and yank each other's hair in vicious fight over securing prime spot near the sea on Italian beach
15/07/24 09:43Two women demanded they be given sunbeds close to the sea, putting them in front of people who had already been on the beach for hours, a local government official said, citing a witness.
I was raped in Dubai prison cell and saw a man tortured to death by having his throat stamped on: Brit who spent 22 months locked up in 'desert hellhole' warns people to NEVER go there and describes terrifying ordeal
11/07/24 08:58David Haigh, the ex-managing director of Leeds United, has revealed how he was punched, tasered, hit with a broom handle and torched during his incarceration.
Switzerland BANS 'suicide capsule' dubbed the 'Tesla of euthanasia' that was 'due to be used for the first time this month' and threatens to prosecute assisted-dying advocate behind it
10/07/24 12:20The Sarco, short for sarcophagus, would enable the euthanasia patient inside it to press a button and die 'within seconds', according to the company behind it, Exit Switzerland
Inside Dubai's 20-men-a-cell hellhole prisons where 'rape is an everyday occurrence' and inmates are 'tortured with electric shocks'
10/07/24 12:03Miles from the emirate's famous beachfronts in the middle of the desert, the al-Awir prison houses male and female criminals in separate buildings, with inmates including murderers and terrorists.
The wife of slain ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is sentenced to DEATH for keeping Yazidi women as slaves at her home
10/07/24 10:08An Iraqi court has sentenced to death a wife of slain Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on charges of detaining Yazidi women, the judiciary said on Wednesday.
British pub landlord is forced to pay £25,000 to be freed from Turkish hospital where he was 'held hostage' after falling ill on holiday without any insurance
10/07/24 08:12Malcolm Stocker, 68, began suffering from an upset stomach two days before the end of a two-week trip to Marmaris. He ended up in hospital for more than a month.
How 'unbearable pain' of seeing family caught up in Russia's invasion has tormented Ukrainian tennis star Elina Svitolina - as she breaks down in tears at Wimbledon after Putin's horror attack on Kyiv children's hospital
09/07/24 12:53Svitolina competed hours after a Russian missile strike tore through a children's hospital in her homeland, killing dozens of people in the most brutal bombardment of Kyiv for months.
Britain & NATO must rearm 'or face threat of WW3 within 5 years'
09/07/24 10:10Russia, China and Iran are 'the new Axis powers', according to outgoing army chief General Sir Patrick Sanders, who said that they pose an even greater threat than the Nazis did in 1939.Britain and NATO must rearm or face threat of WW3 within five years with Russia-China-Iran 'Axis' now more dangerous than the Nazis, warns UK's ex army chief General Sir Patrick Sanders
09/07/24 08:29Russia, China and Iran are 'the new Axis powers', according to outgoing army chief General Sir Patrick Sanders, who said that they pose an even greater threat than the Nazis did in 1939.
Macron 'hardly has any friends' is 'hated by France with a vicious passion', enraged President Xi, 'failed to charm' Trump and 'deeply needs to be loved' insiders claim as he reels from election defeat
08/07/24 04:43Macron made a huge gamble by calling the snap election - a decision he made without consulting even his closest advisors. Now his country is more politically divided than it has been in decades.
Sweden intensifies security policy amid concerns over Russian threat
08/07/24 03:15The illegal invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's forces in 2022 prompted the Scandinavian nation to join NATO, ending more than two centuries of neutrality.
Russian armed attack 'against Sweden or its Allies cannot be ruled out', Stockholm warns in new security strategy amid warnings NATO needs 350,000 extra troops to counter Putin's forces in event of invasion
08/07/24 02:51The illegal invasion of Ukraine by Vladimir Putin's forces in 2022 prompted the Scandinavian nation to join NATO , ending more than two centuries of neutrality.
Dutch mock 'barely watchable' England and Gareth Southgate's boring 'data analyst' tactics ahead of semi-final... and prey on Three Lions fans' fears that the Netherlands have 'home advantage' in Germany
08/07/24 12:38The England manager's approach has been 'ultra-conservative', according to one Dutch pundit, and has relied on the views of data analysts in an effort to keep a clean sheet, rather than score goals.
Trampled by the bulls: Pamplona festival runners are gored and tossed around by rampaging beasts as they risk their lives in annual Spanish festival
08/07/24 10:19While thousands avoided the animals' horns, at least six people were injured, with one participant gored and five suffering bruising, local government sources in the Spanish city said.
Families cower in Barcelona restaurants as they are targeted by baying anti-tourist mob who spray them with water pistols and hold up signs mocking Brits who fall to their deaths from hotel balconies
08/07/24 09:35A disturbing sign was plastered onto one window which read: 'Dear tourist: Balconing is fun!' - clearly mocking Brits and other visitors who have lost their lives falling from balconies while on holiday.
Michael Schumacher plot 'mastermind' is arrested by German police
07/07/24 03:00Police have arrested the suspected 'mastermind' in a plot to blackmail the family of former Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher, German media reports.
British girl, 15, sneaks off to Turkey for a BOOB JOB behind her parents' back... then has to undergo operation to fix botched surgery: Experts reveal horror stories of cheap foreign procedures - fixed at taxpayer expense
07/07/24 08:11There has been a boom in surgical tourism in recent years, with the BMA saying that more Britons are dying or requiring emergency care after going abroad for cut-price options.
Has Keir broken his first pledge? PM thanks Biden for first phone call after troubled president reaffirms 'special relationship' (after promising not to work after 6pm on a Friday!)
05/07/24 06:57It seems as though Sir Keir has broken his pledge in a matter of hours on his first day in the job as he sent a message to the president.
Andrew Tate celebrates legal victory as courts rules he is free to leave Romania for the first time in two years
05/07/24 01:10A spokesperson for Andrew and Tristan Tate said: 'The Romanian courts have ruled in favour of Andrew and Tristan Tate, lifting restrictions on their travel within the European Union.'
'Death capsule' deemed the 'Tesla of euthanasia' 'could be used for assisted suicides in Switzerland for the first time this month'
05/07/24 12:00The Sarco, short for sarcophagus, would enable the euthanasia patient inside it to press a button and die 'within seconds', according to the company behind it, Exit Switzerland.Michael Schumacher blackmail plot 'mastermind' is arrested by German police and revealed to be former family security guard
05/07/24 10:09Police have arrested the suspected 'mastermind' in a plot to blackmail the family of former Formula 1 world champion Michael Schumacher, German media reports.
Pictured: Mother, 41, who fell 500ft to her death from a cable car in front of her husband and children - as it is revealed the teacher and her family were heading to a 'regenerative community' in Italian Alps
05/07/24 09:39Teacher Margherita Lega had been hiking with her husband Rocco Meloni, and their two young children during a holiday when the freak tragedy happened.
Congratulations for Keir Starmer start pouring in from world leaders
05/07/24 08:53World leaders have begun congratulating Keir Starmer on Labour's victory in the general election.'Let's get to it, my friend': Canada's Justin Trudeau and European Council president Charles Michel are among the first leaders to congratulate Keir Starmer - as President Zelensky says 'Ukraine will never forget' Rishi Sunak
05/07/24 07:24Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau labelled it a 'historic UK election victory' and told Keir Starmer 'let's get to it, my friend'. Congratulations also came from Irish Taoiseach Simon Harris.
Mother dies in cable car horror after getting snagged while loading luggage, clinging on while dragged 50 yards out over Italian valley then falling 500ft to her death in front of her husband and two children
04/07/24 02:39The 41-year-old had been loading luggage onto the teleferica machine - used to move heavy objects rather than people - when she became snagged on the contraption and it switched on.
Deadly hurricane Beryl whips towards Mexico's tourist spots
04/07/24 01:30The hurricane has ripped off roofs in Jamaica, jumbled fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95 per cent of homes on two islands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
More than a dozen dolphins die in mass stranding around Cape Cod
04/07/24 01:16Around 125 Atlantic white-sided dolphins became stranded in the area, which rescue workers called a 'big dolphin trap'. Hours of work meant that more than 100 of the dolphins were freed.
Moment shocked passengers watch as vicious brawl erupts on Carnival Cruise ship when 'bunch of drunk girls from Tampa' lash out at each other
04/07/24 12:37A group of unruly women are seen throwing chairs across a dining room, hitting and dragging each other to the ground as they yell threats. A traveler caught the fight on camera as he went to get food.
'I screwed up': Biden told concerned Dem governors he had a medical check-up after last week's car crash debate and 'knocked on wood' when he revealed he is in good health as he tried to shore up support
04/07/24 12:10The president used yesterday to deliver an apology of sorts, admitting in a Wisconsin radio station interview that he made a 'mistake' with his stumbling debate performance last week.
Maps show deadly hurricane Beryl whipping towards Mexico's tourist spots with crushing 125mph winds after leaving trail of destruction in Jamaica as death toll rises to eight
04/07/24 11:25The hurricane has ripped off roofs in Jamaica, jumbled fishing boats in Barbados and damaged or destroyed 95 per cent of homes on two islands in St. Vincent and the Grenadines.Heartbreaking images as more than a dozen dolphins die in mass stranding around Cape Cod
04/07/24 09:29Around 125 Atlantic white-sided dolphins became stranded in the area, which rescue workers called a 'big dolphin trap'. Hours of work meant that more than 100 of the dolphins were freed.
PICTURED: Boy, 9, who collapsed and died of a 'heat-related event' in front of his devastated family after they went on a hike through the 113F Arizona desert
04/07/24 08:33Cortinez Logan was on a trail walk with his family at the South Mountain Park and Preserve near Phoenix as temperatures soared to 113F on Tuesday.
Horrific anti-Semitic attack as up to 180 gravestones dating back to 1800 are vandalized and destroyed at two Jewish cemeteries
03/07/24 03:29The FBI and police are investigating the damage done to the tombstones in two Jewish sections of the Covedale Cemetery complex, some of which date back to the late 1800s.
Armed robbers kill woman in front of husband at Newport beach mall
03/07/24 03:05The woman and her husband had been outside a Barnes & Noble at the Fashion Island mall when they were approached by two men at around 3.30 pm on Tuesday.
They're not my kids, officer! Brit LIES to police that he is not the father of girl, seven, and baby 'abandoned' in hot car in Tenerife after they find him getting a haircut... leaving their mum to later collect them
03/07/24 02:03The girl and one-year-old baby were reportedly found on June 17 by a concerned local, who said the white Volkswagen Polo rental had been parked in the sun with the windows closed.
California is hit by 'dangerously high temperatures' of up to 117F
03/07/24 12:34The severe heat is only expected to get worse during the Fourth of July holiday week for parts of the United States. The heatwave has created perfect conditions for wildfires in California.Wife, 68, is killed in front of her horrified husband after armed robbers attack them at upmarket Newport Beach mall before she is dragged into a parking lot and run over by suspect's white Toyota
03/07/24 11:33The woman and her husband had been outside a Barnes & Noble at the Fashion Island mall when they were approached by two men at around 3.30 pm on Tuesday.
California is hit by 'dangerously high temperatures' of up to 117F as 13,000 are evacuated from fierce wildfires and 90million are under heat alert across country
03/07/24 10:17The severe heat is only expected to get worse during the Fourth of July holiday week for parts of the United States. The heatwave has created perfect conditions for wildfires in California.
RFK Jr addresses explosive claims he sexually assaulted a baby sitter saying 'I am who I am' after denying he ever ate dog
03/07/24 09:27Kennedy has said the article about him contains 'a lot of garbage', but when pressed by an interviewer whether he denied the sexual assault allegation, he said: 'I'm not going to comment on it.'
Pictured: British businessman, 44, found dead floating in the sea with head injuries off Greek holiday island after getting separated from friends during night out
02/07/24 04:07Greek officials yesterday confirmed that they have ruled out any criminal case and that his cause of death was accidental drowning, news outlet Protothema reports.
Around 100 worshippers are crushed to death in stampede at Hindu religious gathering in India
02/07/24 12:05The death toll has risen to 107, with scores of others injured, a government official said. There are fears the toll could increase further. Crowds had been celebrating near Hathras, Uttar Pradesh.
Mother of freed hostage Noa Argamani dies of brain cancer
02/07/24 10:57After being reunited with her in June, Liora 'spent her final days alongside her daughter and her close family,' the hospital where she was being treated said as it announced her death.Mother of freed hostage Noa Argamani dies of brain cancer after spending her final days with her daughter, who she feared she would not live long enough to see again
02/07/24 07:53After being reunited with her in June, Liora 'spent her final days alongside her daughter and her close family,' the hospital where she was being treated said as it announced her death.
Macron calls crisis as France battles to keep Le Pen from power
01/07/24 07:28The hard-left has urged supporters of Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance to back them. The French president has called on the public to vote for anyone except RN to 'block the far right'.
France battles to keep Le Pen from power: Panicking President Macron calls crisis meeting to defeat National Rally as socialists urge French leader's supporters to back them and 'do everything to prevent' hard-right election victory on Sunday
01/07/24 04:30The hard-left has urged supporters of Emmanuel Macron's centrist alliance to back them. The French president has called on the public to vote for anyone except RN to 'block the far right'.
Instant karma for drunk England fans as enraged Benidorm local wades into crowd and punches several yobs who blocked the road and banged on his car while singing Ten German Bombers
01/07/24 03:07A group of rowdy Three Lions supporters sang the controversial song as they celebrated England making it into the last 16 after drawing 0-0 with Slovenia last Tuesday.
Celebrating England's win... Magaluf style! Sunburnt cleavage, vomiting outside a takeaway, cross-dressing and falling asleep on top of some chips
01/07/24 12:03England fans blew off some steam on the Magaluf strip last night after their team's tense Euros clash against Slovakia ended with a 2-1 victory.
Till death do us part: Married Dutch couple, 70 and 71, who spent their lives together after meeting in pre-school are killed by lethal injection in double-euthanasia
01/07/24 10:10Jan Faber and Els van Leeningen, aged 70 and 71, were married for almost five decades before they ended their lives by lethal injection at the same time in early June.
Two leading film directors are detained in France over claims of sexual abuse
01/07/24 09:47Actress and director Judith Godreche has formally accused Jacquot of rape and Doillon of sexual assault when she was a minor. The men have each denied the allegations.
Brit, 33, drowns while diving at well-known Greek shipwreck 'during rough seas'
01/07/24 07:03A British tourist has drowned while diving at a well-known shipwreck in Greece. The man, 33, was swimming at the Epanomi Shipwreck attraction in Thessaloniki, local media reports.
Inside Japan's hellish 'Unit 731' where WW2 inmates were raped to infect them with syphilis, PoWs burnt alive in flamethrower practice and children given 'anthrax chocolates' in horrific human experiments overseen by 'Dr Death'
29/06/24 07:57Concealed behind the high walls of a brick building in northeastern China , the horrors that went on in the Japanese Imperial army's Unit 731 remained a secret to the outside world for decades.
'Radicalised' boy aged just 15 who planned to 'kill as many people as possible' in an Islamist truck ramming attack at a Christmas market is jailed for four years in Germany
28/06/24 02:11The boy had started to become 'radicalised' in autumn 2023, the court said. Evidence against him included a video in a chat group announcing his plans for an attack on 'infidels'.
Putin supporter calls Biden 'frail' following disastrous debate
28/06/24 01:47Pro-Kremlin media outlets and commentators taunted Washington, gleefully claiming the real stand-out winner of the clash was neither Biden nor Donald Trump, but Vladimir Putin.Putin's gleeful propagandists mock 'frail' Biden's disastrous TV debate and say he 'should be at home babysitting his grandchildren' as Kremlin belittles election showdown claiming Vladimir 'didn't set his alarm clock' to watch it
28/06/24 11:15Pro-Kremlin media outlets and commentators taunted Washington, gleefully claiming the real stand-out winner of the clash was neither Biden nor Donald Trump, but Vladimir Putin.
Iran's only moderate presidential candidate who slammed brutal hijab protest crackdown takes shock lead in opinion polls over feared anti-West ex military chief as voting gets underway to replace leader killed in helicopter crash
28/06/24 08:19Massoud Pezeshkian is a wildcard in the race and has condemned the violent attacks on women by the regime's morality police, who enforce the strict dress codes, calling them 'immoral'.
Moment squirming people smuggler dubbed 'The Mountain' who arranged migrant boat Channel crossing that left seven-year-old girl dead is confronted after being tracked down on the streets of Luxembourg
27/06/24 11:33Gang leader Rebwar Abas Zangana, known as 'The Mountain', was identified as being behind a boat launch which saw a girl called Sara suffocated in a crush on an inflatable vessel off northern France.
Horror in the Med as Iraqi girl, 16, 'is choked to death while being raped in front of her mother on sinking migrant boat by man who had just seen his wife and daughter drown' in disaster that saw dozens killed off Italy
27/06/24 09:53Survivors claimed the man carried out the unspeakable attack after seeing his wife and daughter drown, Italian media reports, 'venting' his fury on the helpless girl in front of her mother.
Paranoid android: South Korean civil servant robot 'commits suicide' after mysteriously 'circling in one spot as if something was there'
26/06/24 11:20Witnesses saw the officer mysteriously 'circling in one spot as if something was there' before the accident occurred, but the exact cause of its fall is still being investigated, a city council official said.
Wish you were here? Madrid is lashed with storms, floods and hail while brutal gales hammer France and Switzerland amid wild weather extremes across Europe - as Britain basks in 30C heat
26/06/24 09:58Huge trees were brought crashing down and locals and holidaymakers had to take refuge in bars and shop entrances in Madrid amid a deluge of rain. Storms caused flooding in France and Switzerland.
Kissing someone without their 'consent' is sexual assault, Spanish court rules months before country's disgraced FA chief faces trial over Jenni Hermoso 'kissgate' scandal
26/06/24 07:43The issue of whether an unsolicited kiss can be considered sexual assault is a hot topic in Spain since Luis Rubiales provoked outrage by kissing star player Jenni Hermoso on the lips.
Outrage in Germany as judge jails woman, 20, for sending online insults to a gang-rapist - after all but one of nine men convicted of attack on girl, 15, were allowed to walk free from court
25/06/24 04:20The man was one of nine attackers who were found guilty of brutally raping a 15-year-old girl in a city park in Hamburg. Anger grew online and his phone number was leaked, which people then messaged.
'It's treasonous!' Desperate Kenyan government sends in the ARMY after thousands of protesters storm parliament resulting in the deaths of ten people after police opened fire during deadly tax reform riots
25/06/24 01:18Kenya's capital city has plunged into chaos amid riots over tax hikes, forcing the government to call in the army after a blaze erupted at the country's parliament and cops killed at least ten people.
ICC issues war crimes arrest warrants for Putin's top general
25/06/24 12:22Warrants were issued for the alleged war crimes of directing attacks at civilian objects and causing excessive incidental harm to civilians, as well as the crime against humanity of 'inhumane acts' in Ukraine.
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