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Jul 19 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Here's the latest on the global tech outage from reporter @matthfield:
Television channels, airports and banks around the world have been knocked offline in a massive outage causing Windows computers to suddenly shut down.
Sky News’s breakfast show was not on air on Friday morning, replaced by archive footage.
Downdetector, a website which monitors outages, reported sudden spikes in problems with websites including Microsoft applications, banking websites and airline apps.
Dec 31, 2023 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
🧵Here are our best extraordinary life stories from 2023 🎉
Number one: Jake is a trans man. He froze his eggs. Then he met Hannah, a trans woman. Now they have two children
Our Senior Technology Reporter @GazTheJourno will be here from 1pm today to answer all of your questions!
Drop them below 👇
✍️ @GazTheJourno: Elon Musk has always wanted to create a company called X.
The first X was in fact an online bank he set up in the late 1990s - and its CEO was Peter Thiel. That company later became PayPal and was bought by eBay in 2002.
🇺🇦 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures, a Telegraph investigation has found.
https://t.co/Pl4qbxCYAAtelegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 Elderly and vulnerable Ukrainians were taken into Russian territory, stripped of their citizenship, forced to give blood and left in agony from botched medical procedures.
🇺🇦 Exclusive: Alexander Lukashenko implicated in alleged war crime as boys and girls as young as six are taken to camps in 'forced deportation'
Read this exclusive in full from @sophia_yan, @Nat_Vasilyeva, and @VerityBowman here 👇
@sophia_yan @Nat_Vasilyeva @VerityBowman It is estimated that 2,150 Ukrainian children have been taken to at least four camps in Belarus since September 2022, with numbers expected to reach 3,000 by autumn this year.
Jun 25, 2023 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
🔴NEW: Russia coup latest: Wagner forces retreat as Prigozhin faces exile in Belarus
Follow all the latest updates on our Ukraine liveblog here: https://t.co/8hDD4Md9S3telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴NEW: The US was concerned about what would happen to Russia’s nuclear weapons during the armed coup staged by Yevgeny Prigozhin, an official has said.
🔴Putin to give televised address after Wagner Group 'coup'.
Follow the latest updates on our Ukraine live blog here 👉 https://t.co/OhGYo24QK7telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴President Vladimir Putin told Russians in a televised address that the mutiny by Yevgeny Prigozhin and the Wagner group was “a stab in the back for our troops and the people of Russia.”
Follow our liveblog below for updates ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/music/concerts…
⛺️ Britain’s biggest and greatest music festival has opened its doors to more than 200,000 revellers, dozens of acts – and who knows how many druids, farm animals and assorted eccentrics.
A French husband drugged his unsuspecting wife nightly in their house in Provence and invited at least 51 men to rape her over the course of a decade
Read the full story: https://t.co/7eP94RSCAStelegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
The forum was on a French web chat site whose exchanges are erased after a few hours and has been linked to criminal investigations into paedophile, racist or anti-Semitic content and the sale of illicit substances
🔴 Rescuers searching for the missing Titanic sub fear they may never be able to recover the bodies of the five people killed on the expedition
Follow the latest updates on our live blog ⤵️
https://t.co/WM8pyXUkoEtelegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
Sound of ‘anomaly’ was recorded on Sunday by a secret monitoring system, according to a report
🔴 The Duke of Sussex has arrived at the High Court to give evidence in his case against the Daily Mirror’s publisher over alleged unlawful information gathering.
Read more ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
🗣 Prince Harry used the witness statement he lodged in a High Court case against a tabloid newspaper to liken the state of the Government to that of the press.
⚠️ A Ukrainian dam has been destroyed in a major blow to the counter-offensive.
Read more ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴 The destruction of the Kakhovka dam in southern Ukraine is a fundamentally new stage of Russian aggression, a senior Ukrainian security official said.
🔴 Rishi Sunak has indicated that he is willing to defy the House of Lords and force his proposed law to tackle small boat crossings through Parliament, as peers threatened to delay the Bill.
Read more ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/…
🔴 The Tory poll lead over Labour in the 100 most rural seats in England has dropped from 39 points at the 2019 general election to just five points in a setback for Rishi Sunak.
🔴 At #WWDC23, Apple has unveiled its first-ever headset: Vision Pro.
The new VR device - which is controlled by users’ hands, voice and eyes - allows users to watch movies, shows and connect with others in a 3D immersive environment.
Read more here ⬇️ telegraph.co.uk/business/2023/…
⌚️The announcement marks the first time the world's largest company has moved into a new product category since launching the Apple Watch nine years ago.
🔴 The Duke of Sussex is due to appear at the High Court as his case against the publisher of the Daily Mirror over alleged unlawful information gathering begins.
For the latest updates ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/royal-family/2…
🔴 Prince Harry is set to give evidence this week in his court case against Mirror Group Newspapers (MGN) for unlawful information gathering.
🚨 BREAKING: A vehicle has been driven into the gates of Downing Street.
Images on social media showed a vehicle crashed into the gates, surrounded by emergency vehicles telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/2…
Staff in Downing Street were told they could not leave as police officers attempted to secure the scene.
Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, is understood to have been inside the Downing Street complex when the incident took place.
🔴 EXCLUSIVE: The founder of the US branch of Christian festival, Soul Survivor, says he fears he introduced hundreds of young men to a Christian “cult” leader accused of full-body oil massages, vigorous wrestling matches and spiritual abuse
Read… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
🔴 Paul Martin, who founded Soul Survivor USA in 2000, has come forward to speak out in The Telegraph to raise concerns about the ongoing Church of England investigation into Rev Canon Pilavachi, and to claim that Soul Survivor leaders in the UK were aware of allegations… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
May 12, 2023 • 4 tweets • 3 min read
🇺🇦 The head of the Wagner group has written to Russian defence minister Sergei Shoigu, asking him to personally come to Bakhmut to “independently assess” the situation, after a number of “successful counter attacks” from Ukrainian forces
Read more ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🇷🇺 Russia has denied that Ukraine has made any breakthroughs in its defence in Bakhmut, despite statements from Ukrainian officials that their forces have advanced two kilometres in the front line city
🇺🇸 As America’s controversial immigration policy known as Title 42 expires, chaos and confusion has been unleashed at the county’s border with Mexico
🧵 Thread 👇 telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔴Brought in at the start of the pandemic by Donald Trump, and continued by Joe Biden, Title 42 allowed the Republican administration to use public health policy to deport asylum seekers without a hearing
May 11, 2023 • 9 tweets • 3 min read
🔵Donald Trump is facing questions from the public in a live, televised town hall event on CNN a day after a civil jury found him liable for sexually assaulting a woman
Follow our live blog for the latest 👇
telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…
🔵Refusing to directly answer whether he lost the 2020 election, Mr Trump has once again claimed the election was rigged
He repeated debunked claims that cameras caught electoral officials "stuffing" ballot cards and that "millions of votes" were therefore not counted
May 10, 2023 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
🔴Kemi Badenoch has said it was impossible to push ahead with government plans to scrap all European Union laws because of Whitehall intransigence
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🔴On Wednesday, the Business Secretary announced that she can only immediately scrap or reform approximately 600 EU laws because of the situation she inherited