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Indonesian rescuers searched for four members of a Spanish family on Saturday after a tour boat carrying 11 people sank overnight near Padar Island, a popular destination within Komodo National Park, officials said. The boat was carrying the family of six, four crew members and a local guide when it went down on Friday evening after suffering engine failure on a trip from Komodo Island to Padar, said Fathur Rahman, who heads the Maumere Search and Rescue Office. He said three people were rescued...

A family was left heartbroken after a Christmas Eve meal turned into a tragedy when a 47-year-old man choked to death at the dining table on a piece of panettone and mandarin orange

Albert Douglas spent four years in a series of high-security jails where he was allegedly tortured by guards, deprived of food and water, following his arrest in Dubai

A Russian drone and missile barrage on Kyiv and its suburbs Saturday killed one person, wounded two dozen and cut off heating and electricity for hundreds of thousands of people left in freezing temperatures.

Hong Kong police have arrested a man after finding an extendable baton in his checked luggage bound for the United States, marking the second discovery of an unauthorised weapon in airline baggage this week. The force received a report on Friday after airport security staff made the find, prompting officers to arrest the 62-year-old local man. “Preliminary investigations showed that the man had hidden a suspected extendable baton, an unauthorised weapon, in his checked suitcase,” a police...

From the neoreactionary accelerationists of the Dark Enightenment to the AI-spun social credit web of the NEONERDS, today author and researcher Iain Davis takes us on a whirlwind tour of his new book, The Technocratic Dark State. Show notes and sources are available HERE.

Seamer Gus Atkinson adds to England’s injury problems by leaving the field on the second morning of the fourth Ashes Test against Australia.

Seamer Gus Atkinson adds to England’s injury problems by leaving the field on the second morning of the fourth Ashes Test against Australia.

The United States has banned imports of tires from a Chinese-owned factory in Serbia, citing evidence of forced labor. Former workers and local NGOs say the decision follows years of unresolved allegations involving migrant labor at the plant.

Two months ago, Afghanistan sealed its eastern border with neighboring Pakistan soon after Islamabad shut down all routes into the landlocked country. But the longest border closure is now wreaking economic havoc in both countries.

The fossil was so complete experts could see remains of the last meal it ate, 330 million years after it died.

The fossil was so complete experts could see remains of the last meal it ate, 330 million years after it died.