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This is an article by a former Royal Navy officer giving his perspective on the tragic collision between the ship Dali and the Francis Scott Key Bridge. It is based, as he says, on the best information he had available at time of writing.

BENGALURU — After claiming to have landed near the south pole of the Moon, the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO) released what they claim is the first photo taken by their lunar lander. Unfortunately, several critics have called the authenticity of the photo into question as it features Bollywood dancers, an astronaut on a tiger, and a man riding a rocket narrowly escaping an explosion as he backflips onto the lunar surface.

KIEV, Ukraine (AP) – Ukrainian authorities have launched an investigation after a midair collision between two warplanes in the west of the country killed three pilots. Ukraine’s air force spokesman Yuri Ihnat told Ukrainian television on Sunday it wasn’t immediately clear how long the probe would take. According to the air force’s Telegram page, two L-39 training military aircraft collided on Friday during a combat mission over Ukraine’s western Zhytomyr region. Three pilots were killed, including Andriy Pilshchykov, a well-known pilot with the nickname “Juice” who was an outspoken advocate for Ukraine getting F-16 fighter jets.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán accused the European Union of abandoning Christian heritage in favour of “hedonistic” paganism of LGBTQ+ campaign against pro-family nations. Speaking before the 32nd Bálványos Summer Free University and Student Camp festival of ideas in in Romania’s Baile Tusnad on Saturday, the Hungarian leader struck out against the European Union for giving up on its democratic ideals, engaging in population replacement, and of trying to impose leftist ideology surrounding gender upon Christian countries. ......“The Lord above us all, Hungary before everything else. Come on Hungary, come on Hungarians!”

England is in the middle of a profoundly disturbing social experiment. For the first time in a mature democracy, a Government is waging a campaign of aggressive discrimination against its indigenous population. In the name of cultural diversity, Labour attacks anything that smacks of Englishness. The mainstream public are treated with contempt, their rights ignored, their history trashed. In their own land, the English are being turned into second-class citizens.

British police are standing by an off-duty officer who was filmed subduing a man suspected of theft, making threats, and carrying a knife on a crowded London Underground train by headbutting him to the floor.

Sir Kim Darroch, the British Ambassador to the U.S. described by President Trump as “a very stupid guy”, has resigned his post. The final straw, he has claimed, was watching future Prime Minister Boris Johnson repeatedly failing to support him last night in a TV debate. This is great news for a number of reasons. First, it means that Britain is now free to appoint a replacement ambassador prepared to nurture the Special Relationship rather than undermine it with snarky memos dissing President Trump. Second, it has quite ruined the day of Britain’s liberal elite – aka the Wankerati. Anti-Brexit,...

PROTESTERS have built a wall in an attempt to stop migrants from using a shelter. A 59-feet long and six-feet tall wall has been constructed in front of a hotel, which is set to welcome 85 migrants. The French government has sent migrants based in Paris and Calais to welcome centres across the country. But residents of Semeac in the French Pyrenees constructed a barrier around the disused Formula 1 hotel as they believe that their small town will not be able to cope with the number of new arrivals.

WHILE police battled rioters in Sweden's capital - a US comedian crassly joked that Swedish crime almost only happens in films. Despite the ongoing incident, Stephen Colbert saw fit to joke about the violence as he tore into both President Trump and Fox News.

TRAIN passengers were left with breathing problems in Sweden tonight after a masked man threw liquid on them as the carriage doors slammed shut - trapping them inside. The attack happened on a subway train at Sankt Eriksplan station in Stockholm, where emergency services rushed to the scene. One passenger onboard said commuters were left in a state of panic, most suffering from breathing problems and others desperately rushing for the exits. Reports initially stated the man threw a rucksack into the carriage, but Swedish police have confirmed it was a noxious liquid instead – the motives behind the incident...

Speaking to Charlie Stayt on BBC Breakfast, Mr Corbyn was asked: “There is a story going about that you have set a date for when you are going to quit as Labour leader?” Mr Corbyn replied: “That is in the ‘I made it up yesterday.com’” The 67-year-old said the report was “absolute nonsense”. Jeremy CorbynBBC Jeremy Corbyn accused the BBC of promoting fake news “So your future as Labour leader is absolutely intact, you have not considered for a moment whether you as leader are damaging the party,” Stayt asked again. A clearly vexed Mr Corbyn said: “I am really...

Undocumented Filipinos facing deportation from America due to US President Donald Trump’s crackdown on illegal immigrants and refugees cannot expect help from the Duterte administration. President Duterte made this clear as he expressed support “out of respect” for Trump’s temporary freeze on the entry of refugees into the United States and his ban on travelers from seven Muslim-majority nations. Trump’s action drew widespread condemnation. “To Filipinos there (in the United States), you better be on the right track. If you are not allowed to stay there where you are staying, get out because if you are caught and deported, I...

Holland’s prime minister accepted on Thursday that his government “plainly cannot go on” with ratifying an association agreement between the European Union and Ukraine after voters decisively rejected the treaty. The final outcome of an “advisory” referendum showed a “no” vote of 61 per cent and a turnout of 32 per cent – just above the 30 per cent threshold needed for the result to be valid. The poll was hailed as a boost for Eurosceptics across the continent, including those campaigning for Britain to leave the EU. Nigel Farage, the leader of Ukip, described the Dutch result as a...

Northern Japan is raising an alarm, as the area surrounding the Fukushima Nuclear disaster zone has been overwhelmed by radioactive wild boars, whose population has increased dramatically over the past 4 years, as they breed freely in the exclusion zone. With the number of animals steadily growing, the boar population has been devastating the crops of farms in the area. Since the nuclear disaster of 2011, damage to agriculture caused by boars in the Fukushima prefecture has doubled, amounting to some $15 million, according to a report from The Times. Boars also pose a threat to public safety, as reports...

London, Paris, Stockholm and Berlin are among the European cities featuring some 900 'no-go areas' of large immigrant populations, Hungary's government has claimed. On a new website aimed at drumming up opposition to the EU's proposed migrant distribution scheme, the country claimed authorities in the regions had 'no control' over residents. It also claimed that in these areas 'with a high number of immigrants', the 'norms of the host society barely prevail,' the site said.

Sen. Ted Cruz(R-TX)97% declined to answer a question on Monday about whether he has ever been unfaithful to his wife Heidi. ‘Senator Cruz,’ DailyMail.com asked him, ‘can you please swat down more definitively this National Enquirer piece by telling us on the record that you’ve never been unfaithful to your wife?’ But instead of making a blanket declaration that he has been faithful during the entirety of his 14-year marriage – a move that would effectively end the vicious news cycle – Cruz stood silently as campaign surrogate Carly Fiorina leapt in to intercept the question and change the subject.

Remember when Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980? That's right. Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980. In a series of nine stories in 1980 on "Crucial States" -- battleground states as they are known today -- the New York Times repeatedly told readers then-President Carter was in a close and decidedly winnable race with the former California governor. And used polling data from the New York Times/CBS polls to back up its stories. All of which will doubtless serve as a reminder of just how blatantly polling data is manipulated by liberal media -- used essentially as a...

BRUSSELS, Belgium – UK Independence Party (UKIP) members of the European Parliament have today called on the European Union’s (EU) Foreign Policy chief, Federica Mogherini (pictured), to step down after she broke down in tears at a Brussels press conference yesterday. Speaking to Breitbart London this morning in the increasingly abandoned Belgian capital, defence spokesman Mike Hookem MEP and Jane Collins MEP said those who played a part in engineering the migrant crisis should take responsibility for it.

FROM gold plated taps to Italian marble, the £200 million revamp of Trump Turnberry is giving extra sparkle to the jewel on the Ayrshire coast. DONALD Trump has promised to make Turnberry bigger and better than ever, and for £200million it looks like he’s getting plenty of bang for his buck. The billionaire magnate’s radical overhaul is transforming the iconic 110 year old Ayrshire hotel and golf course, which reopens on June 1.

On Saturday evening, Saint Peter’s Basilica will commemorate “Earth Hour” by switching off all the lights on its iconic façade and dome, joining a host of other world monuments in demonstrating “concern for the future of our planet.”