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Jul 26, 2024 - World

Arsonists used crude methods but disruption to opening of the Olympic Games in Paris was severe It was about 1.15am when the SNCF maintenance workers, carrying out repairs by moonlight, spotted the group of people a little further down the railway line near a signal box outside the sleepy village of Vergigny, in the northern French department of Yonne.They were concerned enough by the unlikely sight at such an hour to approach the intruders, and then to make a call to the local police as those they had interrupted ran off into the dark. Continue reading...

Jul 26, 2024 - World

Alleged Mexican kingpin Ismael "El Mayo" Zambada has pleaded not guilty to U.S. drug trafficking charges, court records showed on Friday, after he and a son of another drug lord were arrested on Thursday in El Paso, Texas.

Jul 26, 2024 - World

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visited former U.S. President Donald Trump at Trump's Florida resort on Friday for a meeting that could ease tensions between two leaders who forged a close alliance during Trump's years in the White House.

Jul 26, 2024 - World

Nakash, 13, Aayat, 11, and Muhammad Hanan, 7, ‘missed beyond measure’, say Khurram Malik and Naumana Gul KhanThe parents of three children who died in an east London house fire have paid tribute to them, saying they were “loved beyond words and missed beyond measure”.The children who died after the blaze in East Ham on 13 July were named by police on Friday as 13-year-old Nakash Malik, 11-year-old Aayat Malik and seven-year-old Muhammad Hanan Malik. Continue reading...

Jul 26, 2024 - World

US announces arrest of two leaders of organised crime group as Mexican authorities say they were in the darkThe Mexican president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador, has called for “transparency” after the sudden and secretive arrests by US authorities of two top leaders of the Sinaloa cartel, one of Mexico’s most powerful organised crime groups.Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada García, 76, founded the Sinaloa cartel with Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán Loera, and has been a top target of US law enforcement for decades, with a $15m bounty on his head. Continue reading...