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A British base jumper has died after his parachute failed to open during a stunt in Thailand, according to reports.The man has been named by a number of news outlets as Nathy Odinson. The 33-year-old from Cambridgeshire is said to have jumped from a 29-storey building in the coastal resort of Pattaya on Saturday night.According to the Daily Mirror, police lieutenant Kamolporn Nadee, deputy inspector of Investigations at the Bang Lamung district police station, said: “The parachute that the deceased used to jump malfunctioned and was not centred as expected.”Forensics officers are investigating the case further. They are examining the…

“We just have to forget it,” said Jürgen Klopp in the moments following his first match since announcing Friday he’d leave Liverpool. But for the fans who sang his name in the opening minute of a 5-2 FA Cup win over Norwich, despite his request not to, he’ll be impossible to forget, let alone replace. “I just can’t believe it. I think the whole city’s in shock, everyone around the world is in shock. Even now, it’s not sinking in,” Beryl Mealand, a Liverpool local who has been going to Anfield for over 50 years, told DW ahead of the game. “I watched his interview and all I did was sob. I just cried the whole way. But I believe everything he said. He’s done everything for the club, what more can we ask for?…

The French capital Paris is set to be the site of a showdown on Monday between the government and angry farmers determined to indefinitely “besiege” the city in protest to agricultural policy. President Emmanuel Macron’s administration, however, has vowed to keep farmers from shutting down the city. On Sunday, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin ordered a massive police deployment to “prevent any blockade” by breaking up convoys of trucks and tractors headed for the city, its airports or its central market. Unionized farmers from Lot-et-Garon region previously announced their intention of cutting off Rungis International Market, which supplies Paris and the surrounding…

Tens of thousands of people protested in Madrid on Sunday to reject a government plan to provide amnesty for Catalan separatists over their failed 2007 secession bid. Madrid has been rocked by a number of protests over the proposed amnesty, and Sunday’s rally was organized by the conservative opposition party Partido Popular (PP).  PP leader Alberto Nunez Feijoo and former prime minister Mariano Rajoy, as well as president of the Madrid region Isabel Diaz Ayuso attended the demonstration. The amnesty bill will be considered in Spain’s lower house of Parliament on TuesdayImage: Oscar Gonzalez/Sipa USA/picture alliance Police estimates put the crowd attendance…

Three American troops have been killed and 34 injured in a drone attack in Jordan.Those killed in the attack were sleeping in a tent at a place called Tower 22 in northeast Jordan, near the Syria border, and some of those injured are being evacuated from the country. US President Joe Biden said the attack was carried out by “radical Iran-backed militant groups” in Syria and Iraq on Saturday night.Middle East latest as Joe Biden blames ‘radical Iran-backed militant groups’ for drone attack”While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know it was carried out by radical…

Felicitas Rauch’s departure from Wolfsburg to join North Carolina Courage in the US was a surprise. That it came a week after Bayern Munich’s Lina Magull left to join Inter Milan was a shock. Two seasoned Germany internationals have left their homeland for the chance to play abroad. But are the moves a sign of a bigger shift in women’s football or just two players looking for something new? When Pernille Harder and Magdalena Eriksson joined Bayern Munich at the start of the season, not only did the women’s Bundesliga look set for another thrilling title race but it also appeared Germany’s…

Jordan’s Air Force is increasingly striking targets in Syria linked to drug and weapons trafficking. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based war monitor, at least nine people were killed by the strikes in recent days.  “The situation has escalated to a concerning level to Amman officials, as smugglers recently began moving weapons and explosives across the border, increasing the security threat in Jordan exponentially,” a Syria expert at the International Crisis Group told DW. So far, Syria has limited its reaction to condemning Jordan’s airstrikes. A recent statement from the Syrian Foreign and Expatriates Ministry said, “Such strikes at Syrian…

Three United States service members were killed and “many” wounded Saturday in a drone attack on US forces stationed in northeastern Jordan near the Syrian border, US Central Command said. President Joe Biden on Sunday blamed Iran-backed groups for the attack and has vowed reprisals.”While we are still gathering the facts of this attack, we know it was carried out by radical Iran-backed militant groups operating in Syria and Iraq,” Biden said in a statement released by the White House. Wounded soldiers evacuated for further treatment US Central Command said at least 25 service members were wounded, but the number might rise.  Two different officials…

Lily Ebert, one of the last remaining survivors from Auschwitz-Birkenau, told Sky News that she believes the Holocaust could happen again.The 100-year-old was 20 years old when she was deported from her hometown in Hungary to the concentration camp. Her mother, and younger sister and brother, were killed by Nazis in gas chambers.Speaking to Sky News’ Trevor Phillips along with her great-grandson Dov Forman, Ms Ebert was asked whether she fears that the Holocaust could happen again 78 years later.”That is a very difficult question to answer for me,” she said. “But we see it can, because it happened. “It’s…

Iran said on Sunday it had simultaneously launched three satellites into orbit, nearly a week after the launch of a research satellite by the Revolutionary Guards. “Three Iranian satellites have been successfully launched into orbit for the first time,” state television reported. The launch comes amid heightened tensions in the wider Middle East over Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas in the Gaza Strip, sparking fears of a regional conflict. What do we know about the launch? Footage released by Iranian state television showed the overnight launch of the missile, which bore the slogan “We Can” in Farsi, likely a reference…