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The Detroit Lions, Cincinnati Bengals and Baltimore Ravens did not pay tribute to Charlie Kirk before their NFL games on Sunday following his assassination in Utah this week. The New York Jets, Miami Dolphins, Tennessee Titans, New Orleans Saints, Pittsburgh Steelers and Dallas Cowboys all halted proceedings before their respective kickoffs to remember the life of the 31-year-old MAGA star. Daily Mail has contacted the Lions, Bengals and Ravens to ask why they did not honor Kirk. There are still six NFL games to be played this weekend.

Vladimir Putin has mysteriously disappeared from public view as his regime issued apocalyptic World War Three nuclear threats over the use of long-range Western missiles by Ukraine against Russian territory. It is unclear if during the past 12 days of high international tension the Kremlin dictator has been holed up in a hi-tech bunker, unwell, underwent another round of plastic surgery, took a secret holiday or simply chose to remain out of sight. Yet Putin, 72, has not been definitively seen since an appearance at the Valdai Forum in Sochi on November 7 when he congratulated a "courageous" Donald Trump...

Ukraine has carried out its first attack into Russia with the American ATACMS system since the new go-ahead came from Washington, Ukrainian media reports. The target was a military facility near Karatev in the Bryansk region, a source told the media company RBC. It was successfully destroyed, the source said. The place is about 130 km from the border.