Col

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Midlands UK. Interested in humour, art, photos, news, history and good stuff. LCFC sufferer. I block anyone with a young female looking avatar who hasn't posted anything.

Hundreds of people have gathered in the northern Moroccan town of Fnideq, near the border with Spain’s Ceuta, flashing photos of their missing loved ones to passersby in the hope of tracking them down.

Russian strikes in and around Kyiv killed at least 14 people, ⁠injured 27 and ⁠damaged warehouses, ​emergency service officials said. Some reports put the death toll at 15.

Jordan is convening an emergency meeting over an “imminent” threat of an Israeli takeover of the most important Muslim site in Jerusalem, with the potential to “trigger a religious conflict”.

Women should not feel pressurised into experiencing an “ideal birth”, the new health secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said, promising a root-and-branch reform of standards after several damning maternity scandals.

The thing that I can't understand is that even if it was just a gift and nothing to do with politics, tax is due on any gift over £50k. Has he paid this? If not, why is he not in jail?

Everything in this country is corrupt Bankers, Markets, Politicians, Businessmen (and girls), Sport, especially football. The man in the street wants his country back, from Thatcher and her Spawn.

Eight of the biggest oil companies amassed profits of more than $90bn (£67bn) in just three months as the Iran conflict sent energy prices soaring and the emissions-fuelled climate crisis caused deadly heatwaves.

Wildfires in the south of France have revealed – and set off – a cache of around 400 World War Two-era shells and munitions in the village of Le Porge. Mayor Martial Zaninetti likened the explosions, initially thought to be gas cylinders, to “the sound of war”.