D4vd hearing details high hopes and brutal end of girl at heart of murder case
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D4vd hearing details high hopes and brutal end of girl at heart of murder case

Texts reveal that singer and Celeste Rivas Hernandez had been in touch stretching back to when she was 11 years oldThe rising pop singer D4vd and 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez were in the throes of a clandestine relationship months before her mangled and decomposing body turned up last September stuffed in an impounded car registered to the musician.D4vd, born David Anthony Burke, is set to ...

Chinese test pilot who landed plane safely after cabin leak given first-class merit award
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Chinese test pilot who landed plane safely after cabin leak given first-class merit award

Chinese President Xi Jinping has honoured a veteran naval test pilot with a first-class merit award for defence science and technology. The pilot, Yang Yong, who had previously been awarded seven second- and third-class merit awards, has been testing planes launched from the country’s most advanced aircraft carrier, the Fujian. Yang featured in a documentary that aired this week on state broadcast...

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【地震速報】熊本 宇城市で震度5弱 津波の心配なし

1日午後9時47分ごろ地震がありました。この地震による津波の心配はありません。震源地は熊本県熊本地方で震源の深さは10キロ、地震の規模を示すマグニチュードは4.7と推定されます。各市町村の震度は以下のとおりです。▼震度5弱が、熊本県宇城市。▼震度4が、熊本市西区、熊本市南区、熊本県八代市、熊本県宇土市、熊本県美里町、熊本県西原村、熊本県御船町、熊本県嘉島町、熊本県益城町、熊本県甲佐町、熊本県氷川町。▼震度3が、福岡県みやま市、熊本市中央区、熊本市東区、熊本市北区、熊本県玉名市、熊本県山鹿市、熊本県菊池市、熊本県上天草市、熊本県阿蘇市、熊本県合志市、熊本県玉東町、熊本県和水町、熊本県大津町、熊本県菊陽町、熊本県高森町、熊本県南阿蘇村、熊本県山都町。

Spain leaving Schengen ‘not on table’ says France after Sánchez hits out at EU response to Ceuta crisis – Europe live

Spain leaving Schengen ‘not on table’ says France after Sánchez hits out at EU response to Ceuta crisis – Europe live

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Interior minister confirms France will not ask for Spain’s removal from visa-free travel arrangements, after Spanish PM condemned ‘selfish, polarising’ response of some countries to mass border crossingsBack to Ukraine, where nine people were killed in Kyiv this morning from a Russian missile and drone attack.Damage was reported in seven districts of the capital, according to Ukrainian officials, ...

【地震速報】熊本地方で震度5弱

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1日午後9時47分ごろ地震がありました。現在、震度3以上が観測されている地域は以下のとおりです。▼震度5弱が、熊本県熊本地方。▼震度3が、福岡県筑後地方、熊本県阿蘇地方、熊本県天草・芦北。今後の情報に注意してください。

Boy, 14, among 57 arrested in crackdown on triad-linked debt collection ring

Boy, 14, among 57 arrested in crackdown on triad-linked debt collection ring

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Hong Kong police have arrested 57 people, including a 14-year-old boy, in a crackdown on triad-linked illegal debt collection. Police said on Saturday that the operation, launched last month, had dismantled an illegal debt collection syndicate, along with a prostitution venue, a drug den and three illegal gambling parlours. Fifty-seven people, aged 14 to 70, were arrested and some of them had tria...

熊本震度7 同程度の地震注意 2日も猛暑予想 熱中症対策を

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7月28日に最大震度7の非常に激しい揺れを観測した熊本県では1日夜も震度3の揺れを伴う地震が発生するなど地震が相次いでいて、気象庁は引き続き最大震度7程度の揺れに注意するよう呼びかけています。熊本県では2日も猛烈な暑さが予想されていて、熱中症を防ぐためにできるかぎりの対策を取ってください。

Japan ends rescue at quake-hit shopping centre after explosion kills 7

Japan ends rescue at quake-hit shopping centre after explosion kills 7

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Japan’s Kumamoto prefectural government said on Saturday it has ended rescue operations at an Aeon shopping centre where seven workers died in an explosion shortly after a magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck the southwestern Japan prefecture four days earlier. Officials said there should be no more people unaccounted for after local police and firefighters, joined by the Self-Defence Forces and others...

Antarctica's Concordia Station hit minus 119.4°F, its coldest temperature in 16 years

Antarctica's Concordia Station hit minus 119.4°F, its coldest temperature in 16 years

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Antarctica's Concordia Research Station recorded its coldest temperature in sixteen years on July eighteenth. This extreme cold was caused by polar winter and high elevation conditions. The station sits atop the East Antarctic Plateau, far from ocean influences. Meteorologists attribute the deep freeze to a persistent high-pressure system. Such measurements offer valuable insights into Earth's cli...

Democrats’ ‘climate hushing’ prompts activists to turn up the volume

Democrats’ ‘climate hushing’ prompts activists to turn up the volume

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Nationwide actions seek to counter view that talking about climate crisis distracts from affordability messagingThis summer, torrential rains have washed away Texas neighborhoods, dangerous heat has blanketed swaths of the country, and smoke from Canadian wildfires has choked communities as far south as Florida.Research makes clear that global warming is making extreme weather events more frequent...

Purple reign: how shade became British gardeners’ favourite

Purple reign: how shade became British gardeners’ favourite

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Britons move away from trend of grey paving and pristine lawns in an embrace of colour, with lavender a top choiceIf you manage to spot a garden in bloom this summer, beyond the strips of bleached and torched grass, there may be one colour you see more than any other: purple, the horticultural hue of the season.Plants such as lavender, salvias and catmint are in vogue, according to the Royal Horti...

Why China’s JL-3 made waves with first submarine-based missile test in over 40 years

Why China’s JL-3 made waves with first submarine-based missile test in over 40 years

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The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) carried out a missile test in the Pacific last month. The July 6 launch – in which a dummy warhead travelled 8,000km (5,000 miles) – was China’s first confirmed submarine-based missile test since 1982, and the first known firing from a nuclear-powered submarine. The type of missile used has not been officially confirmed, but a report in the Global Times – a newsp...