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2 hours agoBy Anthony Zurcher, @awzurcher, North America correspondentEPADonald Trump when he arrived at the campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania A spray of bullets may have only grazed Donald Trump in Pennsylvania on Saturday night, but they killed one rally attendee and critically wounded two others.They have also torn through the 2024 presidential campaign, damaging the social and cultural fabric of the nation. The illusion of security and safety in American politics – built over decades – has been dramatically shattered.Trump received only minor injuries but it was close – a photograph by Doug Mills of the New York Times appears to show…

1 hour agoBy BBC Culture team, BBC NewsEuro 2024: Celebrities out in force to wish England well ahead of finalEd Sheeran, Little Simz, Kate Beckinsale and Sir Patrick Stewart are among dozens of celebrities and sports stars who have sent personal messages of support to England ahead of the team’s Euro 2024 final later.The messages will feature in a montage during a pre-match special on BBC One and BBC iPlayer, hosted by Gary Lineker.Among them are contributions from Ricky Tomlinson, who played football manager Mike Bassett, Al Murray as the Pub Landlord, and Craig David singing “we got the Euros in our…

Police in Kenya say they found five bags filled with the dismembered remains of a number of women at a rubbish dump in the capital Nairobi on Saturday. Detectives have been scouring the site in the Mukuru slum since Friday, when the corpses of six other women were found in sacks floating in a sea of rubbish.Officers said the bags recovered on Saturday included severed legs and two torsos, speculating that the deaths could be related to the activities of cultists or serial killers. But the country’s police watchdog said on Friday that it was investigating whether there was any…

A man with a rifle was seen on a rooftop minutes before shots were fired at a Donald Trump rally in Pennsylvania, a witness has told the BBC. Greg, the witness, said the man had crawled on top of a building just outside the event in Butler County on Friday evening.He said he pointed the gunman out to police.”I’m thinking to myself ‘Why is Trump still speaking, why have they not pulled him off the stage’… the next thing you know, five shots ring out.”The former president was swarmed by Secret Service agents and escorted away. He was seen with…

Secret Service agents have rushed former President Donald Trump off stage after what sounded like gunshots rang out at a rally in Pennsylvania.Footage showed him grimace and raise a hand to his ear, before ducking as sharp cracks – apparently shots – broke out. He was quickly swarmed by secret service agents and rushed off stage to a waiting vehicle. In a statement Trump’s campaign said he was “fine” and was being “checked out” at a local medical facility. “President Trump thanks law enforcement and first responders for their quick action during this heinous act,” spokesman Steven Cheung said. The…

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski has said Warsaw is considering a proposal from Kyiv to shoot down Russian missiles heading towards Polish territory while they are still in Ukrainian airspace.The proposal was included in a joint defence agreement between the two countries signed during President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Warsaw earlier this week.”At this stage, this is an idea. What our agreement said is we will explore this idea,” Mr Sikorski told the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.He said some Russian missiles fired from the St Petersburg area towards Ukrainian targets near the western city of Lviv, not far from…

Two French international rugby players have been charged with the aggravated rape of a woman following a match in Argentina, prosecutors in the South American country say. Hugo Auradou, 20, and Oscar Jegou, 21, are accused of raping a 39-year-old woman after France beat Argentina on Saturday. She alleges that they raped her multiple times and beat her in a hotel room in the city of Mendoza. The pair, who chose “not to testify” at a hearing in the city, say they had consensual sex with the woman and deny rape. They will remain in custody while authorities investigate further.…

Renowned sex therapist and talk show host Dr Ruth Westheimer, who spoke openly about sex and intimate subjects, died on Friday at 96 years old. Her publicist confirmed her death to BBC News partner CBS News without providing a cause. Ruth Westheimer, often referred to as Dr Ruth, became known for talking openly about sex, becoming a pop culture icon as well as a best-selling author with guides like “Sex for Dummies”. She pushed for having open conversations about sex with a non-judgmental approach. Dr Ruth, who spoke with a German accent, is a Holocaust survivor who was born in…

15 hours agoBy Nick Thorpe, BBC Budapest correspondent@PM_ViktorOrbanViktor Orban finished off his global tour with Donald Trump, dubbing his visit “Peace mission 5.0″Hungary’s Viktor Orban has no peace plan of his own, but he has spent the past two weeks on a whistle-stop tour of Kyiv, Moscow, Azerbaijan, Beijing, Washington and even Mar-a-Lago, on a one-man mission that has infuriated leaders in the EU and US.”Peace will not come by itself in the Russia-Ukraine war, someone has to make it,” he proclaims in videos posted daily on his Facebook page.He has been bitterly attacked by both Brussels and Washington for breaking EU…

Strictly Come Dancing star Graziano Di Prima has confirmed that he is leaving the show. In a statement on Instagram, he said he “deeply regrets” the events leading up to his departure and acknowledged that his “intense passion and determination to win might have affected my training regime”.A BBC spokesperson confirmed that Di Prima was “no longer a part of the line-up of professional dancers for the upcoming series”. “While we would never comment on individual cases, it is well-known that the BBC has established a robust duty of care procedures, and if issues are raised we will always take…