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Getty ImagesThe race to be Ohio’s next governor has turned ugly amid uproar over one of the most viral attack ads of the midterm elections campaign.Republican candidate Vivek Ramaswamy released an ad featuring his opponent’s estranged mother urging Ohioans not to elect her daughter. “She’s lied her entire life,” Donna Arthur says in the video.But the ad leaves out that her daughter, Democratic candidate Amy Acton, alleged she was raped by Arthur’s husband 40 years ago when she was just 12. Getty ImagesActon and her brother were removed from their mother’s custody when her stepfather, Cledith Arthur, was arrested and…
Witkoff tells freed US prisoner Stephen Hubbard: Putin ‘sends you blessings’Russia released a 74-year-old American citizen who was jailed for allegedly fighting on behalf of Ukraine, as President Vladimir Putin met US envoy Steve Witkoff in St Petersburg for talks.Stephen Hubbard had been taken to the city’s Pulkovo Airport, Putin said during the meeting early on Wednesday.President Donald Trump later said the former teacher was “on his way back home” and “there was no ‘swap’ necessary”. Following the release, Witkoff called Putin a humanitarian.Hubbard, who was sentenced to almost seven years in a penal colony in 2024, was accused of…
Getty ImagesInternational governments and agencies have urged websites to address two critical cyber-security flaws in a programming language which powers much of the internet.The vulnerabilities were found within the PHP programming language, with a fix issued on Wednesday afternoon. Multiple cyber-security agencies have urged organisations unable to apply fixes in time to consider taking their sites down, leaving bodies such as the Finnish government, Edinburgh council and the BBC to take pages offline.The flaws were discovered by AI, with cyber-security firm Wiz saying they were the “most severe vulnerabilities ever discovered” by the tech, which is reshaping the cyber landscape.The…
Press AssociationKing Charles paid tribute to the Aberfan community’s strength, resilience and “unconquerable spirit” on the disaster’s 60th anniversaryThe King has described the Aberfan disaster which killed 116 children and 28 adults as the “most tragic of days imaginable” on its 60th anniversary. Pantglas Junior School and a number of nearby houses in the village near Merthyr Tydfil, south Wales, were catastrophically engulfed in coal slurry after the colliery spoil tip collapsed on 21 October 1966.King Charles III, Queen Camilla and the Prince of Wales joined survivors and bereaved families on Wednesday and laid wreaths and a posy with the…
LIVEKing talks of ‘most tragic of days imaginable’ as he meets survivors of Aberfan disaster 60 years onOn this day in 1966, a colliery spoil tip collapsed, engulfing a junior school and nearby homes.
Watch: Zelensky says US military intelligence sharing “works now”US special envoy Steve Witkoff has arrived in Russia to meet President Vladimir Putin after Ukraine’s leader said American intelligence sharing about deadly Russian strikes “works now”.Kyiv had accused the US of recently withholding such intelligence, causing Ukrainians to lose their lives – a claim rejected as “scandalous” by Washington.Volodymyr Zelensky was speaking after meeting Witkoff in Oslo on Tuesday for talks later described as “constructive” by a US official.The Ukrainian president and his European allies said it was now up to Russia to respond to the proposals agreed in Oslo when…
Anadolu via Getty ImagesNearly 5,000 healthcare workers have been trained to deal with EbolaKenya is grappling with its first ever outbreak of Ebola, a disease which neighbouring countries, such as Uganda and Democratic Republic of Congo, are used to dealing with.Nine cases have now been confirmed including its first patient, who travelled from DR Congo and died two weeks ago.Four relatives of the first victim, three health workers and a hospital cleaner have now tested positive, meaning they are all linked to him.But concerns are rising that the virus could start spreading further, even as the government has sought to…
Getty ImagesAli G’s appearance at the Wimbledon men’s final on Centre Court went viral in July”This is the biggest gathering of cultural appropriators in history,” Sacha Baron Cohen tells the camera in his parody of a street accent.Behind him, hundreds of fans cram onto a London Underground escalator, all wearing Ali G’s trademark yellow shell suit and skullcap. Baron Cohen shouts the character’s catchphrases through a megaphone, with the crowd enthusiastically finishing each one.Earlier this month, more than 300 fans attended an official Ali G lookalike competition, ferried around London on an open-top bus that stopped at landmarks including Big…
Huge crowds watch attempt to save shark stranded in South Korean canalA third attempt has been made to guide the 9ft 10in (3m) shark back to the open sea. 2 hrs agoAsia
Watch: ‘Her heart and her mind are in good shape’, husband of Helen Haines saysHelen Haines, the Australian MP who was hit by a car in what authorities say was a deliberate attack, has lost both her legs, her husband has confirmed.Phil Haines said the”horrendous incident” caused his wife significant injuries but “her heart and her mind are in good shape”. He added that the “good news in all this is that she’s alive”.The alleged attacker, 43-year-old Brendan Nugent, faces multiple charges and appeared in court for the first time on Wednesday.Nugent was arrested moments after he allegedly drove his…