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The families of two Australians and an American who went missing in Mexico’s Baja California state have arrived in Tijuana to identify the bodies earlier found by the authorities. Two Australian brothers Callum (33) and Jake Robinson (30) and their American friend Jack Carter (30) had been on vacation surfing and camping when they went missing on April 27. Mexican authorities assisted by the the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) found three male bodies early on Friday. Grisly details of the killings Mexican prosecutors said the bodies all had bullet wounds to the head.  They were found dumped in a remote well some distance from their…

Lando Norris has ended Max Verstappen’s winning streak by securing the first victory of his career at the Miami Grand Prix.In his 110th Formula One appearance, the 24-year-old from Bristol took advantage of a safety car period to pull ahead of Verstappen. Verstappen followed Norris on the 180mph drag to the opening corner at the Hard Rock Stadium, but Norris managed to keep him at bay before turning in the fastest lap of the race. Image: Norris in action during the race. Pic: Reuters He crossed the line seconds ahead of Verstappen, who took second place ahead of Ferrari’s Charles…

An 18-member team of bakers in the French city of Suresnes, a western suburb of Paris, set a new Guinness World Record on Sunday by creating a 143.53-meter-long (461-foot-long) baguette. The team bested the previous record by more than 10 meters, reclaiming the title for France after it had been held by bakers from Como, Italy, for the past five years.A Guinness World Records judge was on site to confirm the recordImage: Stephanie Lecocq/REUTERS It was made during an event for the French Confederation of Bakers and Pastry Chefs. Confederation President Dominique Anract said, “A record for the longest handcrafted baguette…

Russian news agencies on Saturday reported that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had been added to a Kremlin wanted list. Though the Russian Interior Ministry provided no details about the charges leveled against Zelenskyy, it said that a case had been opened against him “under an article of the criminal code.” The move is seen as largely symbolic, since Zelenskyy is not on Russian soil. Russia justified its invasion of Ukraine on the grounds that Kyiv was supposedly repressing the country’s Russian-speaking citizens, with Russian President Vladimir Putin urging Kyiv’s military to overthrown Zelenskyy in a national address the day after…

A week that started with cautious optimism for a breakthrough in negotiations between Israel and Hamas has ended, perhaps unsurprisingly, with the prospect of peace in Gaza looking as distant as ever.It has taken two days of talks in Cairo, with a delegation from Hamas – and intermediaries from Egypt, Qatar and the United States – to expose the limitations of this exercise. There were indications in the lead-up to these talks that the parties had things to discuss usefully – even areas where they could reach an agreement.Israel was apparently open to a six-week cessation in hostilities in exchange…

Each day, buses driven by volunteers travel from the town of Sumy to the Ukrainian-Russian border and back. They’re collecting people who have crossed at the Kolotilovka-Pokrovka checkpoint, the former being a village in the Russian region of Belgorod and the latter in the Ukrainian region of Sumy. Since April 2022, this has been the only humanitarian corridor through which Ukrainians from the Russian-occupied territories can reach areas controlled by Kyiv. On this day, 11 people and a howling dachshund are on the bus to Sumy. The passengers are mostly women and older people, but two teenagers are also on board. Some people gaze wearily…

Rescuers in the southern Brazilian city Porto Alegre — the capital of Rio Grande do Sul state — used jets skis and boats to reach residents trapped on their roofs as floodwaters in the city continued to rise. Civil Defense officials say at least 103 of the city’s 1.4 million residents are missing and more than 88,000 have been forced to flee. The official death toll from the natural catastrophe now stands at 75. Sustained rains in the region have led the Guaiba River, which flows through Porto Alegre, to rapidly swell, triggering flooding and mudslides. Local officials say flooding has…

Two Australian brothers and a US tourist who went missing in northern Mexico were shot dead by thieves who wanted to steal their truck’s tyres, according to prosecutors. Three bodies found south of Ensenada, near where the men – Jake and Callum Robinson, from Australia, and American Jack Carter Rhoad – disappeared last weekend have yet to be officially identified. They were dumped in a remote, 15m/50ft-deep well, according to Baja California state prosecutors, who said family members of the victims are viewing the remains to see if they can be identified by sight.”The probability that it’s them is very…

Xi Jinping is visiting the European Union for the first time in five years. In France, the Chinese leader will face more pressure to influence Moscow. But in Serbia and Hungary, a friendlier welcome awaits. Source link

Antisemitic incidents are rising across the world at a rate unseen since World War II, with the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza spreading “a fire that was already out of control,” an annual report released on Sunday said. The report, issued by the Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University and the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) in the US, said that although antisemitism had increased since the atrocities carried out by the Islamist militant group Hamas in southern Israel on October 7 last year, the first nine months of 2023 also saw a rise in antisemitic incidents compared to 2022. The report…