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Trio of hikers who set out on treacherous Scottish ridge found dead
The trio set out Saturday in Glen Coe to hike the Aonach Eagach, a 10-kilometre knife-edge ridge that tops out at 1100 metres and has precipitous drops.
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‘Attenzione pickpocket!’: Italian TikTok sensation’s far-right link draws scrutiny
Monica Poli, whose anti-thief videos filmed in Venice made her a sensation on TikTok and Instagram, is also a member of a key Italian far-right party.
One BBC journalist cops more than 80 per cent of abuse aimed at broadcaster
Even Marianna Spring’s hiring by the BBC is fodder for conspiracy theorists who “love to say that [the BBC] created my role because they knew COVID was coming”.
- by Gabriella Swerling
Russia retaliates against Ukraine for tanker attacks, unleashing drone barrage
Ukraine’s air force said Russia launched 70 attack drones and missiles, including cruise missiles from aircraft and Iranian-made, Shaheds.
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Renewables
Spanish renewables giant sounds stark warning on Australian projects
It is the builder of Australia’s biggest wind farm, and its CEO says bad behaviour within the renewable sector could put community support for future projects at risk.
- by Rob Harris
Loch Ness ‘monster hunters’ wanted for biggest search in 50 years
Researchers will use technology that has never before scanned the waters and a hydrophone that picks up acoustic signals – “any Nessie-like calls” – underwater.
- by Justine McDaniel
Crowd of 1.5 million brave heat to see the Pope
Pope Francis delivered a short, improvised but impassioned address at what has been dubbed the Catholic Woodstock, telling young people nothing is free in life but God’s love.
- by Philip Pullella and Catarina Demony
Ukrainian drone strikes second Russian tanker
Moscow strongly condemned what it sees as a Ukrainian “terrorist attack” on a civilian vessel in the Kerch Strait and promised retaliation.
- by Hanna Arhirova
Ukrainian official admits attack on Russian warship at Black Sea
A Russian warship was seriously damaged by a Ukrainian drone on the Novorossiysk naval base, although Russia said it had fended off the attack.
- by Hanna Arhirova and Emma Burrows
Navalny sentenced to 19 years in prison colony for ‘extremism’
The extreme nature of the sentence – which bars him from family visits or even letters for 10 years – has shocked even pro-Kremlin figures.
- by Robyn Dixon
Opinion
Brexit
Britain isn’t stuck in the past, it’s stuck in the present
Britain has become Limboland, a nation in which one of its most famous tea-towel epigrams is in danger of becoming a looping incantation: Keep calm and carry on.
- by Nick Bryant