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2020 OLYMPIC GAMES The 2020 Olympic Games has been postponed until 2021 on March 24 – becoming one of the last major sporting events this summer to fall victim to the coronavirus. Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe held a crucial conference call with Olympics chief Thomas Bach on Tuesday to formally decide a plan and … Read more
Donald Trump cancels G7 summit at Camp David in June and will hold it by video conference instead in latest event felled by coronavirus United States, Italy, Japan, Canada, France, Germany, Britain as well as the European Union had been due to convent at Camp David in June But Trump canceled the event Thursday and … Read more
Doomsday ‘preppers’ have revealed their $1,000-a-year camp in case of societal meltdown, stuffed with enough flour, rice, toilet paper and other essentials to last its inhabitants for 25 years in the case of societal meltdown. The Fortitude Camp in West Virginia, two hours outside the capital Washington, sells itself as ‘real’ life insurance in the … Read more
Rob Lawrie was cleared of smuggling charges by a court in France in 2016. On January 13 that year, he was cleared of the most serious charge after he appeared before a judge and pleaded with the country to show ‘compassion’ for his actions. Mr Lawrie admitted illegally trying to get Bahar Ahmadi, four – also … Read more
A barrage of rockets has hit an Iraqi military base housing US-led coalition troops for the second time this week, security officials said. Three coalition service personnel – a British woman and two Americans – were killed in the first attack on Camp Taji on Wednesday. It was the deadliest attack on coalition troops in … Read more
Life behind the bars of one of Nazi Germany’s most notorious prisoner of war camps has been revealed with a collection of photographs. German photographer Johnannes Lange was tasked with documenting every failed Allied escape from Colditz Camp in Leipzig during the Second World War. Among the shots is a solider sheepishly poking his head … Read more
The defence secretary has warned there will be a ‘strong response’ after a missile attack on Camp Taji, Iraq killed a British servicewoman. Lance Corporal Brodie Gillon, 26, along with two American troops, was killed when 15 small rockets hit the military camp to the north of capital Baghdad on Wednesday. A further dozen people were wounded … Read more
These are the desperate scenes from a sprawling migrant camp taking root on the Turkish-Greek border yesterday. Athens said the number of attempted illegal crossings had surged to 35,000 in a week as Turkey was accused of using the migrants as pawns. As tents were pitched at Pazarkule on the Turkish side of the border, … Read more
A gruesome WWII photo album made from the skin of Nazi death camp victims has been found at a bric-a-brac antiques market in Poland. The battered WWII album was handed over to staff at the Auschwitz Memorial Museum after the buyer noticed the cover had ‘a tattoo, human hair and a bad smell’. Museum experts … Read more
‘That was easy peasy!’: Six-year-old adventurer’s reaction after she becomes the youngest Briton ever to reach the 17,500ft Everest Base Camp Ashleen Mandrick, from West Sussex, completed the epic journey that challenges even the fittest of adults The youngster walked unaided with her 11-year-old brother Nicolas and her mother Victoria in December They started their … Read more