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LONDON — An pressing manhunt has been launched for a British soldier awaiting trial on terror-related costs, who escaped from a jail in southwest London, the nation’s counterterror police stated Wednesday. ...

Sara Sharif's mom says she is haunted by the sight of her murdered daughter's physique in a mortuary.The 10-year-old lady was discovered lifeless in her house in Woking, Surrey on 10 August after her father Urfan Sharif known as 999 from Pakistan. Police now wish to query him, his accomplice Beinash Batool and brother Faisal Shahzad Malik who're believed to have fled to Pakistan with 5 kids the day earlier than Sara's physique was discovered. Image: Sara Sharif. Pic: AP The younger lady's mom Olga Sharif, who separated from Mr Sharif in 2015, spoke to the Polish tv programme Uwaga! on Wednesday. "One of her cheeks was swollen and the opposite facet was bruised. Even now, after I shut my ey...

JERUSALEM — Morocco’s senate president has postponed a historic go to to Israel on account of a medical emergency, the Israeli parliament introduced Wednesday. ...

Leaders of African nations needing to pay for costly local weather measures have known as for a brand new world tax on polluting industries like fossil fuels, delivery and aviation to assist elevate funds.The proposal is the fruits of the primary ever African Climate Summit, held in Kenya and involving leaders from the continent of 1.3 billion folks - a inhabitants set to double by 2050. The cash could be used to offer "dedicated, affordable and accessible finance for climate positive investments at scale" and insulate them from altering home pursuits, the Nairobi Declaration stated.Leaders additionally known as for a reform of the worldwide monetary system that at the moment makes it far dearer for international locations in Africa to borrow cash than it does for internation...

NEWS AND ANALYSIS: Chinese navy researchers have made important advances in growing and testing strategic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) weapons that may disable electronics on U.S. warplanes and even complete navy bases, in keeping with a report by three open-source intelligence analysts. ...

The rain that Storm Daniel has dropped at components of Greece is endless.For these caught within the downpour, which has been torrential in locations, the phrase used time and again is "biblical". The rain comes after weeks of wildfires destroyed big areas of the nation. Image: The seaside city of Volos the place the ocean mixes with floodwaters We travelled by central Greece to the worst affected areas and located cities and villages minimize off by the rising floodwater. Many of the roads had been abandoned as folks heeded authorities warnings to remain inside. As we drove we noticed that swathes of the countryside had been slowly turning into inland seas because the rain continued to f...

KOSTIANTYNIVKA, Ukraine — The Russian missile that struck Wednesday in japanese Ukraine turned an out of doors market right into a fiery, blackened smash the place weeping civilians seemed for family members among the many mangled, burned our bodies scattered throughout the bottom. ...

It was a sunny place to debate darkish crimes.The important court-room in Bruges is a transformed chapel and, right here, the sunshine streamed by means of stained-glass home windows and the sound echoed off the arched roof, approach above us. And into this room walked Hewa Rahimpur to face allegations that he was the central determine in an organised crime group that had organized for an extended line of migrants to cross the English Channel utilizing inflatable boats.Rahimpur has been charged together with 20 different males, most of whom had been right here for the primary day of the trial. Image: Hewa Rahimpur in courtroom in Bruges Image: Defendants in Brug...

UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations launched $125 million from its emergency reduction fund Tuesdat to spice up underfunded humanitarian operations in 14 international locations world wide, saying wants are skyrocketing. ...

Four exquisitely-preserved Roman swords have been discovered after 1,900 years in a cave close to the Dead Sea.The swords, their picket hilts, scabbards and metal blades had been discovered throughout an excavation by Israeli archaeologists two months in the past, it was introduced on Wednesday. Researchers imagine the swords - which had been discovered with a pilum, the top of a javelin - had been stashed within the cavern by Jewish rebels throughout an rebellion towards the Romans within the 130s CE.The artefacts had been dated primarily based on their typology and are but to endure radiocarbon relationship.Archaeologists discovered the swords whereas returning to a cave close to the desert oasis of Ein Gedi to doc an inscription discovered a long time in the past. "At the ...