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Monday, August 24, 2026 12:40 PM ET

Daily Mail - World

Moscow accused the UK of 'participating in this war' as Andy Burnham arrived in Kyiv for his first foreign visit. The PM announced that European defence firm MBDA has been given permission to share information on UK components for the long-range Scalp missile - the French version of the Storm Shadow. He insisted there would be no let-up in the UK's support for Ukraine against Vladimir Putin's aggression, branding Russia's threats to the UK 'outrageous'.

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Bradley Townsend, 33, from Barnsley, had travelled to Russia in April of this year to join Putin's army despite having no military experience. In a social media post, Townsend stated his reason for joining was to 'repay the favour' to miners in Donbas who had donated a month's wages to Yorkshire miners during strikes in the 1980s.

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A British father has been swept away to his death after he and his family were caught in a rip current while swimming on the Indonesian paradise island of Lombok.

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The drone was spotted near runway 12 at Malaga Airport at around 9pm, prompting incoming flights from cities including London, Birmingham, Bristol and Cork to divert.

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Ms Clara claims she was very rudely told they did not make raw eggs when she asked for the eggs to be less runny.

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Iranian state TV has been accused of broadcasting a segment that detailed threats to Barron Trump, Donald Trump's youngest son.

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Harald, Europe's oldest current head of state, was hospitalised on Monday and was treated for anaemia.

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Ukraine today marked its Independence Day with huge drone attacks on three major Russian online shopping hubs and an audacious bid to strike Vladimir Putin's military cosmodrome.

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The 18-year-old pleaded with the grey-bearded Governor Abdullah Sarhadi, who appears to have one eye, explaining calmly that her husband is violent and beats her. But the heartless elder, once an insurgent outsider and seasoned Taliban commander in the 1990s who now serves as governor of Jawzjan province, dismisses the anonymous girl's appeal and tries to persuade her to stay with her husband. He goes on to call women 'deficient in intellect', 'mindless' and 'don't know a thing', comments that receive approving laughter by the group of men that surround him.

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A Russian soldier nearly ended his own life after accidentally firing an RPG at his own feet during training. In footage shared across social media, the rookie soldier was seen gingerly picking up an RPG launcher and placing it on his shoulder. After fumbling with it for a few seconds, he seemingly tried to take it back down to readjust it.

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Putin's newest submarine - designed to carry Poseidon doomsday weapon 'which can unleash tsunamis' - launches for the first time

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As of autumn, careless crossers will be fined up to £64 (€75) or more if they are caught violating the new guidelines.

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Iran dismissed Donald Trump's threats as 'empty talk' as Washington prepares to ramp up economic pressure on Tehran.

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Jacques Moretti, 49, is being held over claims of violence against his wife Jessica, 41, at the couple's home in Switzerland.

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Trade talks between the countries collapsed this week, when Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney withdrew from negotiations hours before Trump's 50 per cent tariffs were due to kick in.

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Kunal Chandude, 19, is believed to have approached the cliff edge, threatening to take his own life following a dispute over the purchase of an iPhone.

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The beast attacked a 52-year-old holidaymaker and her 12-year-old daughter in Gallipoli, as well as a 47-year-old man staying in the same accommodation on Thursday evening. In the tense clip, the man can be seen trying to defend himself from the animal with kicks and punches after intervening on the attack on the mother and daughter inside a tourist facility in Punta Pizzo.

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British tourists are being fleeced by bars and restaurants in Gran Canaria with hidden prices, added extras and misleading menus designed to confuse diners. An undercover Daily Mail investigation found holidaymakers repeatedly handed menus without prices, bogus taxes and items added to bills they hadn't ordered. We uncovered a series of subtle tactics used by hospitality staff to rip off unsuspecting tourists.

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France may have broken tourism records, but its reign at the top is already under threat from a familiar favourite with Brits.

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Amanda Maria Souza de Oliveira leeched off the kindness of the couple by convincing them to care for her, and lying to explain her grown-up appearance.

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While most councillors are focused on fixing problems with traffic lights or bin collections, Julien Ferrat wants to turn the city of Mannheim into a 'swinger's paradise'.

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The images that shocked the world: How Taliban's medieval barbarity was exposed by video showing a woman stoned to death for adultery

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'I wanted to die': Husband and wife kidnapped on October 7 reveal hell they endured in Gaza - from seeing girls 'beaten to pieces' and sexually assaulted to being starved and tortured

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A man who was raised by wolves in rural Spain has died at the age of 80.

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Locked up like an animal in cage...forced to witness rape and slaughter...tortured until they prayed for death: October 7 hostages' most horrifying accounts yet of what they endured at the hands of Hamas

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Heartbreaking final moments of 'Sleeping Beauty of Everest' who begged climber 'don't leave me here to die' before her body froze in time in mountain 'death zone'

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WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT: Ainhoa Caballero Medina has requested to be euthanised in Spain after she says an attempted murder by her ex-boyfriend.

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The women raped by the Taliban: Victims describe horrific sexual abuse at the hands of multiple men as punishment for getting a job or posting on social media

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Inside South Africa's whites-only enclave where young people are flocking after deciding 'it's not so wonderful elsewhere' and it's nicer to be 'the majority'

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The underground movement has emerged from the shadows under the public representation of Igor Volobuev, a former banking executive who defected to Ukraine.

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How Iran's ruthless enforcers use rape to crush dissent: Brutal sex attacks on victims as young as 12 used to strike fear into protesters, rights groups reveal

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Stripped, electrocuted and forced to fight each other to the death on camera: New evidence shows how Putin's commanders are torturing their own men

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In the summer of 1974, an all-women group of eight climbers set off to scale one of the Soviet Union's highest peaks - only for them all to perish in a -40C blizzard.

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Inside Putin's horrific torture gulags where inmates are gassed in 'elephant masks', used as 'human furniture' and forced to endure 'Putin's phone'

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Secrets of Kim Jong Un's sexual 'Pleasure Squad': Women and girls hand-picked to 'satisfy' North Korean leaders so a young virgin's life force can be absorbed during sex

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Jalisco New Generation Cartel (CJNG) frontman Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes, 59, was eliminated on Sunday in a joint Mexican military and US-backed operation in Tapalpa.

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How animals have been used for espionage from Hvaldimir the roving Russian whale to American 'bat bombs' and a 'spy squirrel' unit caught behind enemy lines

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Sadistic human experiments inside Japan's notorious WW2 Unit 731 where PoWs were infected with plague, raped and buried alive are brought to life in ultra-violent Chinese movie

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Over the span of 41 days, the high school student was abducted by four teenage boys aged between 16 to 18, subjected to unimaginable abuse, repeatedly raped and ultimately murdered.

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The girl who gave birth aged FIVE: Incredible mystery of the child who became the world's youngest ever mother

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Sun, sea and smugglers: The scourge of narco gangs delivering drug shipments on Spain's tourist beaches in full view of holidaying families

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The shocking scene was captured in a picture titled The Vulture and the Little Girl - although the child was later revealed to be a young boy - by South African photographer Kevin Carter in 1993.

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How AK-47-wielding ISIS fanatics turned Bataclan theatre into a 'slaughter house' as Paris marks 10-year anniversary of massacre that left 90 dead and shocked the world

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The Christian who threw himself to the lions - and somehow survived: Moment man who believed he was Biblical character Daniel is mauled while trying to 'convert' big cats in their zoo enclosure

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Deep inside Russia 's military machine, the tyrant is quietly assembling an arsenal designed not to win a war in Europe, but to decimate whole nations at the push of a button.

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Inside the whites-only town where new arrivals are strictly vetted and residents deny being racist

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Inside China's execution conveyor belt: How 'mobile injection vans and firing squads are used to put thousands to death a year' - outstripping capital punishment figures for the rest of the world combined

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Local police have often explained the deaths as accidents or suicides, but many cases appear suspicious to family members of the deceased, and are often left insufficiently investigated.

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The bloodthirsty gangs ravaging Brit backpacking mecca including 'Los Killers' cartel led by mass murderer and his glamorous girlfriend - as three women are tortured to death on live-stream

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The bloodthirsty terror tactics of Mexico's cartels: How ruthless drug gangs punish their enemies and spread fear from mass beheadings to CANNIBALISM - after nine students were found with hands hacked off

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The coastal nation has seen murder rates soar in recent years as drug lords and criminal masterminds dug their hooks into fresh territory and exploited its ports for maximum profit

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Putin's secret space weapon: Kremlin's mysterious Cosmos 2553 satellite 'is fitted with dummy warhead' in 'forerunner to nuke that could wipe out rival spacecraft and cause chaos on Earth'

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People who have come back from the dead... and what they say is waiting for us on the other side

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The melting of Arctic ice opens up a massive new frontier, unlocking a treasure trove of previously untapped natural resources, new trade routes, and strategic superiority

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How a baseless internet rumour has forced Brigitte Macron to prove she is a woman in a US court: Astonishing full story that led to French president's wife facing Candace Owens

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The humbling of Macron: From getting slapped by his wife, and egged by the public to dwarf comparisons and a snub by Trump - all the times the French president was brought back down to earth

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Brits Abroad has long been shorthand for chaos, from nightclub beatdowns and brawls over sun loungers to rape and murder charges at tourist hotspots around the world.

9 months ago

Un-believable! The Western influencers making a living by telling the world how wonderful North Korea is (maybe someone should tell them Kim Jong Un executes people who try to leave)

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Majorca counts the cost of rejecting tourists: Restaurants and bars say their season has been devastated after UK families took their cash elsewhere in wake of anti-tourist protests

10 months ago

The lifeless body of Alan Kurdi, a two-year-old Syrian boy, was found washed up on a beach near the Turkish resort of Bodrum, his red T-shirt and blue shorts soaked in seawater.

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'Women are not safe anywhere': Inside 'rape fantasy' chat rooms where men expose footage of family members - even their own sisters or mothers - to equally perverted strangers

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Inside horrifying paedophile sect run by one-eyed Nazi colonel in German-style Chilean village where children were tortured and abused... and which is now a tourist hotspot

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From 1911 to 1929, dozens of women across Nagyrev and the Tiszazug region turned to homemade arsenic poison to get rid of husbands, parents, lovers, and even children.

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