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Three Spanish tourists and an Afghan civilian have been killed in a shooting attack in Bamiyan province, central Afghanistan.The Spanish prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, wrote on social messaging platform X that he was “shocked by the news of the murder of Spanish tourists in Afghanistan”.The Spanish foreign ministry said that the consular emergency unit had been fully mobilised and the victims and their families were being assisted.Four suspects were arrested at the scene in Bamiyan, a top tourist area, and officials said an investigation was under way. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the late-evening attack.Earlier on Friday,…

Two months ago, authorities rescued a 17-year-old girl who was trafficked from Mexico into Ventura County, California, and texted 911 asking for help.On Thursday, the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office announced that authorities rescued the girl on May 9 after she sent a message to 911. It added that the information was received in Spanish and translated into English.In the messages, the girl did not know where she and her kidnapper were, but she was able to identify landmarks and provide other identifying information, authorities said. While 911 dispatchers communicated with the girl, other communications center team members provided immediate information…

A newly released video shows Sean “Diddy” Combs manhandling and kicking singer Cassie Ventura – his former girlfriend – in plain view of hotel surveillance cameras in 2016, before the rapper, music producer and businessman rapidly settled a lawsuit that she brought against him this past November, according to footage exclusively obtained by CNN.The video in question illustrates in the most graphic nature possible one of the beatings alleged and described in Ventura’s lawsuit, which Combs had vehemently denied.Ventura’s lawsuit preceded federal authorities’ March raid of Combs’ properties in Los Angeles and Miami as part of a sex-trafficking investigation.Combs, in…

Lewis Hamilton, long a thorn in Ferrari’s side, will emerge as a potential hero on the Italian circuit this weekend. The Imola Emilia-Romagna Grand Prix will be Hamilton’s first race in front of the Ferrari faithful since signing with the Scuderia in February, although he still drives for Mercedes. fan Hamilton embodies the vision of a return to scarlet glory.Hamilton shocked F1 and Mercedes when he announced he had reached a deal to join Ferrari in 2025, the team he has been with since the start of his career. Ferrari last won the drivers’ title in 2007, when Kimi Raikkonen…

David DePape, a rightwing conspiracy theorist who broke into Nancy Pelosi’s northern California home in 2022 and bludgeoned her husband with a hammer, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.A federal jury convicted him of attempted kidnapping of a federal official and assault on the immediate family member of a federal official in November 2023, just over a year after the attack in the former House speaker’s San Francisco home.David DePape in Berkeley, California, on 13 December 2013. Photograph: Michael Short/APDePape broke in through the back door in the early hours of 28 October 2022 with plans to kidnap…

FFor 27 years, 10 months and 26 days, the most interesting thing about Scottie Scheffler was his golf balls. Considering that’s what he paid for, you’d think that would be enough. But the fact is that since Scheffler climbed to the top of the world rankings in March 2022, the sport has demanded more and more of him. Trouble is, he has nothing to give except his faith, his family, and his attachment to a beat-up 2012 GMC Yukon. Say it quietly, but the truth is, a lot of people are worried about Scheffler, who many consider to be the…

Lacey Carroll headed straight to Harborview Medical Center after touching down in Seattle following a three-day stay on David Copperfield’s private island in the Bahamas. It was August 2007 and – according to police records – she had gone to get medical treatment for sexual assault. The 20-year-old later alleged to Seattle police and in court filings that she had embarked on the long journey to Musha Cay – the islands in the Bahamas that Copperfield reportedly bought for $50m in 2006 – because she had been offered a chance to do promotional work and some modeling there along with…

Feyenoord manager Arne Slott has confirmed for the first time that he will succeed Jurgen Klopp as Liverpool manager.Slott’s deal to replace Klopp has been in effect for three weeks but has yet to be officially announced, while Liverpool prepare to see off their legendary manager at Anfield on Sunday. However, speaking at a press conference on Friday, Slaughter said: “I can confirm that I will be a trainer there next year.”Until now I didn’t think this was the preparation for my last game, but now it starts. At the beginning of the week you think about training and things…

The two most famous sets of initials in US politics clashed in a chaotic House hearing on Thursday, as the progressive star Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, or AOC, objected fiercely to an attack on another Democrat by the far-right Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, or MTG.The oversight committee hearing concerned Republican attempts to hold the US attorney general, Merrick Garland, in contempt, for refusing to release tapes of interviews between Joe Biden and the special counsel Robert Hur.Things went wrong when MTG made a partisan point, trying to tie Democrats to the judge in Donald Trump’s criminal hush-money case – which, by drawing…

I met my ex in our last year of high school. After a year of university we married when we were only 18. The first 10 years were rocky, with many family crises that put stress on our relationship, and at one point I left my husband. We reunited within a few months and changed our attitudes and goals. From then on I vowed to accept and find the good. We were married for 25 years, through his many infidelities and my anxieties. We didn’t have any children because he didn’t want to be a father. Finally, there was a…