‘We are down in the school shelter, but the children can still hear the explosions& & Ukrainians rebuild in face on onslaught

Once the air siren starts, it takes the group of small children, all 300 of them, eight minutes to make it to safety. In summer, when there are fewer coats to put on and no icy surfaces to navigate, they can manage it in three.

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Inside Mohamed Fayed&s murky world of vice, victims and violence

The atmosphere in the helicopter as I flew across the English Channel towards Paris was sombre. On Tuesday, September 2, 1997, two days after Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed had died in a car crash in Paris, I was sitting in Mohamed Fayed&s helicopter with three men ordered by Fayed to challenge the official version of the circumstances which led to their deaths.

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Israeli hostages& release from captivity is met with families& laughter and tears

Hamas has released the last six living hostages expected under the first phase of its ceasefire with Israel with a week remaining.

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Bulgaria's anti-euro protesters try to storm EU mission building

Several thousand supporters of Bulgaria's ultra-nationalist Revival party scuffled with police on Saturday while trying to storm the building of a European Union mission during a protest against the country's plans to adopt the euro next year.

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Germany is in fearful mourning while the far-right AfD surges ahead in polls ahead of election

A middle-aged woman clutching an emptied cardboard box stands silently over the latest pile of fresh red flowers to be laid on the roadside near Munich&s central station.

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Berlin Holocaust Memorial stabbing suspect ‘wanted to kill Jews& & investigators

The suspect in a stabbing attack at Berlin&s Holocaust Memorial that seriously injured a Spanish tourist is a Syrian refugee who apparently wanted to kill Jews, investigators said.

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