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By Jack Kim for Reuters People watch a television screen showing a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test, at a train station in Seoul. Photo: AFP / Jung Yeon-Je Korea fired a suspected long-range ballistic missile towards the sea off its east coast on Thursday, South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff said, a day after Seoul reported the North was making preparations to test-launch an intercontinental ballistic missile. The launch, at a sharply raised angle, was from an area near the North's capital, Pyongyang, at 7.10am (local time), the Joint Chiefs said in a statement. It did not confirm whether the missile had dropped. "It is believed the North Korea ballistic missile is a long-range ballistic missile fired at a high angle," the Joint Chiefs of Staff said in ...

England's test cricket captain Ben Stokes. Photo: PHOTOSPORT England's test cricket captain Ben Stokes said his house was burgled by a masked gang while his wife and children were at home. Stokes was in Pakistan at the time with the England team. APPEAL On the evening of Thursday 17th October a number of masked people burgled my home in the Castle Eden area in the North East. They escaped with jewellery, other valuables and a good deal of personal items. Many of those items have real sentimental value for me and my…— Ben Stokes (@benstokes38) October 30, 2024 The New Zealand-born player posted on social media pictures of the missing items, which included the OBE he received in 2020. "By far the worst thing about this crime is that it was carried out while my wife and two young child...

By Lauren Kent, Sophie Tanno, Taylor Ward and Mauricio Torres, CNN Persons climb on piled up cars following floods in Sedavi, south of Valencia, eastern Spain, on October 30, 2024. Photo: AFP / JOSE JORDAN At least 95 people have been killed by severe flash floods in Spain, according to authorities, as emergency responders scramble to find dozens of missing people. In the worst affected region of Valencia, 92 people were killed, according to Angel Victor Torres, Spain's Minister of Territorial Policy and Democratic Memory. Two others died in Castile-La-Mancha, and one person in Andalusia. Among the dead is a 71-year-old British man who died from hypothermia in Malaga, according to the city's mayor, Francisco de la Torre. Authorities said they are working to identify the victims. This...