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A missing woman, whose dad took his own life after failing to find her, disappeared voluntarily, police have said.Hannah Kobayashi, 30, missed a connecting flight from Hawaii to New York in Los Angeles on 8 November and vanished days later after sending "alarming" texts to her family. Her father Ryan retraced her footsteps with relatives and volunteers, but was found dead in a car park near a Los Angeles airport on 24 November.Overnight, police said Hannah wanted to "step away from modern connectivity" and was last seen crossing into Mexico with her luggage.Los Angeles police chief Jim McDonnell said there was no evidence Hannah was trafficked or a victim of a crime and classified her disappearance as a "voluntary missing person". "We've basically done everything we can do at this point. S...

Sir Keir Starmer has for the first time said it was British policy to "put Ukraine in the strongest possible position for negotiations".During a speech at the Lord Mayor's Banquet in London on Monday, the prime minister said he wants Ukraine to be in a position of strength "so they can secure a just and lasting peace on their terms that guarantees their security, independence - and right to choose their own future". But make no mistake. This is a significant shift.Only last month, both Sir Keir and French President Emmanuel Macron were promising to "support Ukraine unwaveringly and for as long as necessary to thwart Russia's war of aggression".War latest: Things 'look bad' for Ukraine, key figure admits In the summer, his predecessor Rishi Sunak stated British policy on Ukraine was based o...

A court in Vietnam has upheld a death sentence for a real estate tycoon after rejecting her appeal against a conviction for embezzlement and bribery, state media reported. Truong My Lan, the chairwoman of real estate developer Van Thinh Phat Holdings Group (VTP), was sentenced to death in April for her role in a financial fraud worth more than $12bn, Vietnam's biggest on record. The 68-year-old chair of VTP was found guilty of embezzlement, bribery and violations of banking rules following a month-long trial. Image: Lan was found guilty of embezzlement, bribery and violations of banking rules in April. Pic: AP Lan and her accomplices were charged with illegally controlling the Saigon Joint Stock Commercial Bank (SCB) betwee...

In scrubland on the outskirts of Tyre, southern Lebanon, they started digging out the bodies - 186 of them.One family of women, mothers and daughters all dressed in black, fell on the coffin of their brother, their son, stroking it, sweeping the dust off, wailing. His name was Hussein Fakih and he was a Hezbollah militant.This was not an ordinary graveyard. Image: Pic: Michael Greenfield/Sky A makeshift mass grave, the corpses were mainly those of Hezbollah fighters. A temporary solution while the war was at its raging peak. Get them in the ground quick. Bury them later.Framed against a bright blue sky, a yellow digger scraped the topsoil off. People wore masks to protect against the overpowering stench.Others went to the e...