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A Rolex stolen from John Wick star Keanu Reeves has been found in Chile, according to police in the South American country.The watch, which is believed to have been taken from the Hollywood actor in Los Angeles in December 2023, was discovered after an arrest linked to crimes in the nation's capital Santiago. Pictures posted online by the Investigations Police of Chile show an engraving on the back of the […]

A woman who died this month after being set on fire inside a New York subway train has been identified by police as a 57-year-old woman from New Jersey.The woman, Debrina Kawam, was registered to an address in Toms River, New Jersey, according to New York Police Department (NYPD). Officials had previously said they were using forensics and video surveillance to try to piece together the identity of the victim.She […]

A South Korean court has issued a warrant for the arrest of impeached president Yoon Suk Yeol after his short-lived attempt to impose martial law, the country's anti-corruption agency has said.The Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials, which is leading a joint investigation with police and military authorities into the power grab that lasted only a few hours, confirmed it requested the warrant from the Seoul Western District Court on […]

A team of US and South Korean investigators are to set to begin looking into the cause of the plane crash that left 179 people dead at Muan International Airport.The disaster on Sunday is the worst plane crash in South Korea's history - with the youngest victim a three-year-old boy, according to a list of passengers seen by local media outlets. South Korea's transport ministry has said the pilot reported […]

At the crash site at Muan Airport, you get a really strong sense of just how sudden and catastrophic it all was.There is an eerie quiet as the army sifts through the wreckage, picking up tiny bits of debris and placing them in small plastic bags. Tens of metres from the plane you can see countless passenger seats ripped apart and broken bits of aircraft equipment everywhere.Only the tail of […]

The world has experienced a "decade of deadly heat", the head of the UN says, as he urged countries to "exit this road to ruin".UN secretary general Antonio Guterres said the top ten hottest years on record had occurred in the past decade and warned the world was witnessing "climate breakdown in real time". "We must exit this road to ruin - and we have no time to lose," he […]

Russia's unconventional attacks against NATO "look like war" and allies must set new red lines that will trigger a retaliation if crossed, a former foreign minister has warned.Gabrielius Landsbergis, who stepped down as foreign minister of Lithuania earlier this month after four years in the post, told Sky News he did not believe the alliance was responding with sufficient speed and urgency to the threat. Moscow is accused of a […]

The pilot of a plane which crashed in South Korea reported a bird strike and declared mayday minutes before it went down, it has been revealed.Just two of the 181 people on board the Jeju Air plane survived the flight from Bangkok, Thailand, to Muan International Airport in South Korea. At 8.54am local time on Sunday (shortly before midnight in the UK) the plane's pilot was given permission to land.However, […]

No home, no work, no electricity and no way out.The helpless condition of a father in Gaza with twin newborn boys. One froze to death and the other is in an incubator battling sepsis."He was killed by neglect!" Yahia al Batran screams as he holds up the body of his 20-day-old son Juma'a. Image: Yahia al Batran cradling his son's body The baby's body is limp and his small face […]