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It is understood that Jota and his brother were travelling in a car that came off a road in the province of Zamora
The Liverpool forward Diogo Jota has been killed in a car accident in Spain. He was 28, a father of three young children and had married his long-term partner, Rute Cardoso, less than two weeks ago.
The tragic news was first reported in Portuguese media. It is understood that Jota and his brother, 26-year-old André, were travelling in a car that came off a road in the province of Zamora.
More details soon …
Novelist and husband suspected of helping to sell bullion taken decades ago from ship that sank off Brittany in 1746
An 80-year-old US novelist and her husband are among several people facing a possible trial in France over the illegal sale of gold bars plundered from an 18th-century shipwreck after French prosecutors requested that the case go to court.
Eleonor “Gay” Courter and her husband, Philip, 82, have been accused of helping to sell the bullion online for a French diver who stole it decades ago. They have denied knowledge of any wrongdoing.
Jason Clare to introduce new powers to expand spot checks at childcare centres and cut off funding for operators who fail to meet safety standards, as Greens call for independent federal watchdog
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The federal government will fast-track legislation in the next sitting week to cut funding to childcare centres that fail to meet safety standards, after shocking allegations of sexual abuse by a worker in Melbourne’s western suburbs.
It comes as the Victorian government announced former South Australian premier Jay Weatherill and senior bureaucrat Pamela White have been appointed to lead an urgent review of childcare safety.
Gaza’s health ministry says the number of Palestinians killed by Israel in this conflict has now passed 57,000
Israeli airstrikes and shootings have killed 82 Palestinians in Gaza overnight, including 38 while attempting to get humanitarian aid, hospitals and the Health Ministry said on Thursday.
Israel’s military did not have an immediate comment on the strikes, AP reports.
