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<p>Train drivers are striking again this week (PA)</p>
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Strike hits London trains as 'police incident' shuts Dartford bridge

A number of stations including Blackfriars are shut as a result of the Aslef industrial action

7 May 2024
<p>A man was seen carrying a samurai sword at the scene in Hainault</p>
Crime

Boy, 14, dies and four others injured in sword rampage in Hainault

A man, 36, was arrested after multiple people were stabbed after a van was driven into a building in a suburban street

30 Apr 2024
<p>The alleged kidnapping took place 
on Moundfield Road in Stamford Hill</p>
Crime

Five teenagers arrested after 'attempted kidnap' of Jewish man

The incident is being treated as a possible antisemitic hate crime

30 Apr 2024
<p>The WCK has not been working in Gaza for four weeks</p>
World

World Central Kitchen to return to Gaza after seven aid workers killed

The NGO made the decision to return as ‘the humanitarian situation there remains dire’

30 Apr 2024
<p>Grace O'Malley-Kumar was knifed 23 times</p>
UK

Grace O'Malley-Kumar’s parents back calls to award her George Cross

The 19-year-old Londoner died trying to save her friend

30 Apr 2024
<p>Shaheen Chishti</p>
Crime

Stalker jailed after seven-year campaign of harassment and threats

Shaheen Chishti gave explicit details about sexual acts he wanted to perform to his victim’s mother

29 Apr 2024
<p>The dam burst in Kamuchiri Village Mai Mahiu, Nakuru County</p>
World

At least 40 killed after dam collapses in Kenya

The East African country has seen deadly floods caused by ongoing rains

29 Apr 2024
<p>Galeana ‘loves boxes’, her owner said</p>
World

Cat posted hundreds of miles in return Amazon package

The pet survived days in a box with a pair of steel-toed work boots

29 Apr 2024
<p>The scene in Sulphur, Oklahoma, after a tornado hit</p>
World

Baby among at least five killed after tornadoes rip through central US

A four-month-old baby is among those who died

29 Apr 2024
<p>Multiple Waterloo lines are affected</p>
UK

South Western trains via London Waterloo disrupted all day

Services are likely to be delayed, cancelled or revised

26 Apr 2024
<p>Military groups from the two nations have been fighting for decades</p>
World

What is the conflict between Rwanda and Congo?

Everything you need to know about the difference between Rwanda and Congo - and the war between them

26 Apr 2024
<p>Many workers were wearing MAGA hats or hard hats with pro-Trump sitckers on them</p>
World

Trump visit supporters at construction site on way to hush money trial

Fans had waited through the night to see the former president

25 Apr 2024
<p>The house boasts almost 2.5 acres of semi-moated gardens</p>
UK

Captain Tom’s daughter puts family home on market for £2.25million

The property is a seven-bedroom, Grade II Listed 18th-century building in Bedfordshire

25 Apr 2024
<p>A demonstrator is restrained by police at a pro-Palestinian protest at the University of Texas</p>
World

Riot police arrest students at US campuses amid Israel-Gaza protests

US House Speaker is heckled at Ivy League Columbia University in New York, while a university in California shut its campus for the rest of the week

25 Apr 2024
<p>A pod of pilot whales stranded on a beach at Toby's Inlet in Western Australia</p>
World

160 pilot whales stranded on Australian beach with 26 confirmed dead

Euthanising the beached whales is usually the most humane outcome, wildlife authorities have said

25 Apr 2024
<p>Civil Defence Authority teams continue to remove the decomposed and dismembered bodies of Palestinians from under the rubble in Khan Yunis</p>
World

UN chiefs 'horrified' about reports of mass graves at Gazan hospitals

Hundreds of bodies were exhumed at two major hospitals

24 Apr 2024
<p>Five people on a boat full of 112 were killed </p>
World

Some of the migrants killed in Channel crossing may have been crushed

Several of the victims may have suffocated while being crushed inside the boat

24 Apr 2024
<p>Elon Musk has an issue with the PM’s assumption of jurisdiction</p>
World

Australian PM calls Elon Musk 'arrogant billionaire' amid video row

A court has ordered X to take down footage of an alleged terrorist attack in Sydney

23 Apr 2024