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“In March 2023 a disgruntled former Jehovah's Witness member shot dead six people from the Christian group's congregation in the German city of Hamburg, before turning the gun on himself.”
“The country has some of Europe's strictest gun laws, including a requirement for anyone under 25 to pass a psychiatric exam before applying for a gun licence.”
“Since the GFC, fearfulness has led to rates of job churn, entry and exit, falling by around a third in the UK.”
“In the UK, ITV has so far used the breaks to bring in the USA women’s manager Emma Hayes for tactical analysis.”
“Cricket has had hydration breaks for some time, and hydration breaks if you’re watching the cricket are always sponsored, normally by a water.”
“The coffee firm faces a £1m animal welfare campaign after it delayed its promise to phase out the use of “frankenchickens” in its food, it emerged earlier this week.”
“The pilot’s union Balpa said 94 per cent of its members voted for the cut in pay, agreeing to take up shares in the ailing flag-carrier instead.”
“The pilots, who earn an average salary of around £80,000, will also see their flying allowances cut by 20 per cent.”
“A deadline for agreeing 3,700 job cuts and a two-year pay freeze with cabin crew and administration staff passed without a deal on 30 June, and talks are continuing to try to break the deadlock.”
“An angry GMB union, which represents many of these BA workers, says it will parade 12 lemmings in cages outside the airline’s annual meeting at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre in Westminster today, and will hold up placards saying…”
“Walsh, who has agreed to work for nothing in July and sacrifice his monthly salary of £61,000, says the airline’s losses are running at almost £3m a day.”
“France’s squad is worth €1.436bn (£1.238bn), according to CIES, while Spain’s players are valued at a total of €1.407bn (£1.213bn).”
“Germany have the only other squad valued at more than €1bn”
“Aston Villa’s Morgan Rogers is the England player with the highest estimated transfer value, of €137m (£118m).”
“Strait of Hormuz – which supplies around 40 per cent of Europe’s jet fuel – remains closed.”
“flights to Dubai will not resume until October or later.”
“700m barrels of oil”
“New EU rules have left Brits facing summer holiday chaos on an unprecedented scale, with five hour waits at passport control and thousands missing flights altogether.”
“In a joint open letter to European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen, representatives from ACI Europe, Airlines 4 Europe and the International Air Transport Association (IATA) said that the new digital bureaucracy is hitting “milli…”
“Back in June, the president of ACI Europe Stefan Schulte issued a stark warning to European politicians: “Stop pretending […] that EES is working just fine. It is not.””
“United Utilities (UU), the UK’s largest listed water company supplying seven million people in the North West of England, is planning to sell surplus gas to the National Grid.”
“Millwall earned a place in the League One play-off final after holding Leeds United to a 1-1 draw at Elland Road, ensuring a 2-1 aggregate victory.”
“One-nil down from the away leg, Jermaine Beckford missed a penalty for Leeds before Luciano Becchio netted to level the aggregate scores.”
“Trainer Aidan O’Brien secured a one-two finish as Black Bear Island, ridden by Colm O’Donoghue, clinched the Dante Stakes at York.”
“The 12-1 shot edged out stablemate, and Johnny Murtagh charge, Freemantle (13-2) in the Derby trial with Sans Frontieres finishing third.”
“England’s initial 17-man elite training squad”
“fixture against France on 13 June.”
“Francesco Molinari shot a nine-under-par 63”
“Johan Edfors is at eight-under, two clear of English trio Nick Dougherty, Oliver Wilson and Robert Rock, who share third place on six-under.”
“A total of 381 million people in Europe, excluding Turkey, will see temperatures surpass 30C”
“42 million people across much of Germany, particularly in the Berlin area.”
“some 11 million people will be affected.”
“As the model is accurate within a range of around 6.5 kilometres (4 miles), it cannot fully reflect urban heat islands”
“Porsche produced well over 35,000 examples of the 964, and we’re saving cars that wouldn’t be economical to repair.”
“Attendance is down an estimated 20 per cent on last year as corporate expense accounts are slashed.”
“Jewellery demand fell by almost a quarter compared with the same period in 2008 to 339.4 tonnes.”
“Gross domestic product was down 1.9 per cent in the first three months of the year from the previous quarter.”
“Last week was a really exceptional week…three days in a row with record-breaking temperatures.”
“Concerns about the impact of the Iran war are still bubbling away in the background, with households bracing for higher bills...”
“I hereby announce the first target that will be struck: as soon as I finish speaking, I will sign an evacuation order for Khan al-Ahmar. This is only the beginning.”
“In 2024, they settled at the edge of the village, 100 meters from the last houses”
“The rest of the school is closed: it now opens only two days a week for lack of funding, as the Israeli Finance Ministry withholds part of the tax revenues owed to the Palestinian Authority.”
“Like Khan al-Ahmar, 46 Bedouin communities are threatened with expulsion by the current decision.”
“Since 1970 and an initial expropriation ordered by the Israeli government for the construction of the settlement of Maale Adumim, Khan al-Ahmar has known it was in danger.”
“Israel decided last August to revive the E1 project.”
“As early as 2011, before becoming a minister, Smotrich was leading a public and legal campaign with Regavim—an organization recently placed under European sanctions—to demolish the Bedouin village.”
“he did once gift King Charles a fully functioning, antique Victorian lavatory as a birthday present”
“and also recently announced a landmark five-year deal with the United States Tennis Association (USTA), becoming the first official wearable partner of the US Open and integrating across its coaching and membership programs.”
“The UK government temporarily reduced the “use it or lose it” slot usage requirement at major UK airports, including Gatwick Airport, from the standard 80 per cent to 70 per cent due to disruptions to shipping routes through the Strait of …”
“The airport saw a 31 per cent drop in air passengers from the Middle East, down to 450,000 in May, as the Iran war continues to wreak havoc on global travel.”
“Xsolla, a global video game commerce company that helps developers launch, grow, and monetize their games, today announced its sponsorship of Game Camp France this 18-19 June 2026.”
“Across Paris, Lyon, Lille, Bordeaux, and Nantes, studios already have the talent and creativity; what they’re forging now is the ecosystem to match.”
“Play was suspended after just three hours 15 minutes following sustained heavy rain in New York, before a complete halt was called around 2pm local time.”
“Half of the 156-man field had yet to start their first rounds with the opening groups only having completed 11 holes.”
“United States Golf Association reluctant to declare a champion until 72 holes have been played.”
“World No3 Paul Casey is currently two shots off the four-way lead on one-over-par after five holes.”
“World No1 Tiger Woods was also one-over after six holes.”
“France, Italy and Spain levy a 10 per cent rate.”
“cost £12.5bn”
“cost the taxpayer £12bn”
“costed the VAT cut at £10.5bn”
“cost £12bn – or as much as £14bn”
“54-day incident”
“around 140 people ill”
“four hospitalisations”
“around 16,000 homes”
“Paris-based IEA, which advises 28 nations, boosted its global estimate for daily oil demand by 120,000 barrels to 83.3 million barrels in its monthly report.”
“The gain was driven by the US and China.”
“It was the first time the IEA had upped its oil forecasts since last August.”
“The US uses 22.5 per cent of the world’s crude.”
“Ten years ago today, however, on Thursday 23 April 2016, came a simple Yes/No vote on whether the UK should remain in the European Union.”
“the UK did not formally leave until 31 January 2020”
“In June 1975, the electorate voted 67-33 to stay in”
“Schuol said the victims -- four women and two men -- were all child welfare workers, and had all been shot "in a brutal manner".”
“A seventh person was wounded and reported in a stable condition.”
“The suspect lives in Hanover, about 200 kilometres to the south.”
“Schuol said the shelter in Stade -- a town on the Elbe river, about 50 kilometres west of Hamburg -- is run by a private provider...”
“In February 2020, a far-right extremist shot dead nine people and wounded five others in the central German city of Hanau.”
“In March 2023 a disgruntled former Jehovah's Witness member shot dead six people from the group's congregation in Hamburg, before turning the gun on himself.”
“Germany has some of Europe's strictest gun laws -- they require anyone under 25 to pass a psychiatric exam before applying for a gun licence.”
“The suspected gunman tried to flee in a car driven by a 65-year-old woman -- believed to have "a close connection to the gunman's family" -- but was captured after a short chase, Schuol said.”
“The number of people playing padel more than doubled to 860,000 last year, according to the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA).”
“Net migration increased to a record 944,000 in March 2023, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS)”
“but has since fallen and was 44 per cent lower in December 2025 than a decade earlier”
“Gold climbed to the highest price in more than three months in London”
“Gold, which typically moves inversely to the US$, added 10 per cent last month, the most since November.”
“The airport, which handled 3.3m passengers last year (a 12 per cent rise on 2007), expects to see passenger numbers fall 10 per cent this year.”
“The brightest spot on the airport’s horizon this year is the British Airways (BA) business class-only launch from London City to New York JFK on 29 September.”
“This will see the British flag carrier flying modified Airbus A318s with 32 flatbed seats twice a day across the Atlantic with a check‑in time of just 15 minutes.”
“The aircraft will take off from City’s runway, which is only 1,199 meters long, about a third as long as Heathrow or Gatwick.”
“Gooding’s burly figure has long been a fixture at the airport that was built by builders Mowlem and first began to operate on 26 October 1987.”
“Airlines offer a 20-minute check-in time for passengers with hand luggage and a minimum of 30 for those with luggage.”
“A “no-queues” policy means the average time for a passenger to process security takes two minutes.”
“a meeting in London yesterday with Morgan Tsvangirai, prime minister of the troubled African nation.”
“including Sir Martin Sorrell, chief executive of the advertising and media group WPP, and Sir Richard Branson of Virgin.”
“European Commission bosses spent €600m (£506m) of taxpayers’ money this year in an attempt to rescue farmers from the effects of a collapse in dairy product prices.”
“wholesale prices of butter have plunged from $3,700 per tonne to $1,800 in the past year.”
“On April 15, Mediapart published an article”
“A month later, Libération also criticized Excellence Ruralités”
“Led by team captain Frank Dalleres, and decked out in a new team kit, City PM stormed to triumph (once), winning their game against GLA Athletic 4-3.”
