Author: Truth Times News Desk

Duke of Sussex decides it is not safe to bring family after police protection request is turned down Meghan Markle will not accompany Prince Harry to London next week, along with their children Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, after a request for police protection during the visit was refused, Truth Times understands. The decision comes despite hopes that the trip might have provided an opportunity for the children to reunite with their grandfather, King Charles III, who has not seen them in person since 2022. The King is understood to have been keen for the visit to go ahead. According…

Hit-and-run mars historic World Cup night as Edgware Road erupts into scenes of disorder.A driver failed to stop after their car struck a pedestrian on Edgware Road in London on Friday night, during scenes of mass celebration following Egypt’s historic World Cup victory over Australia. Footage from the scene showed a grey 4×4 driving through a crowd of fans, many wearing Egypt shirts, before colliding with a man carrying a backpack as he crossed the road. He was left sitting motionless in the street. Rather than stopping, the car continued on its way, prompting bystanders to run to the injured…

Banned substance found in players’ samples linked to contaminated Mexican meat, as England fly in own chefs for last-16 tie Eight Tunisia players returned positive doping tests during a turbulent World Cup campaign, though officials believe contaminated meat eaten by the squad in Mexico is the likely cause rather than deliberate doping, according to Truth Times. The North African side, whose tournament had already been marked by chaos on and off the pitch, saw the players — including some based in the UK — return so-called atypical findings for clenbuterol, a substance that relaxes the airways and features on the…

French police investigate after viral listings raise fears — but platform insists no evidence of trafficking has been found A wave of unsettling listings on the second-hand marketplace Vinted has prompted French police to investigate whether the platform is being exploited by child traffickers, though the company itself says it has found no credible evidence to support the claim. The question has gripped social media in recent weeks, after users began noticing resale adverts for children’s toys priced at extraordinary sums and worded in ways many interpreted as sexually coded. Screenshots of the listings were compiled into videos by content…

CCTV footage of Kaushambi blaze goes viral days after driver and toll workers killed.Four people have died after a liquefied petroleum gas tanker crashed and burst into flames near a toll plaza in Uttar Pradesh’s Kaushambi district, according to Indian media reports. The accident happened on the morning of 26 June, when the tanker, travelling from Kanpur towards Varanasi, is reported to have lost control and struck a road divider. The impact caused a gas leak, which quickly ignited into a large fire that engulfed the surrounding toll plaza area, reports said. The tanker driver, named as Dharmendra Dwivedi and…

Britain’s elite Special Boat Service has barred Chinese-made electric vehicles from its headquarters in Poole, Dorset, in what is believed to be the first confirmed case of a special forces base blocking such vehicles on security grounds — as it emerges the ban is part of a far wider pattern of restrictions across UK military sites. The decision reflects growing alarm within the defence establishment that the sophisticated sensor arrays fitted to modern electric vehicles — including high-definition cameras, radar systems, ultrasonic detectors and laser-based mapping technology — could be exploited by Beijing to gather intelligence on sensitive installations. Under…

Two Metropolitan Police officers tracked down a local photographer to a pub in Chiswick and warned him he was close to committing a criminal offence over tweets criticising a Green Party councillor — despite repeatedly acknowledging throughout the confrontation that no crime had actually been committed. Alastair Hilton was celebrating with a friend at The Bell and Crown in Strand-on-the-Green on Thursday evening, marking a community victory after Hounslow Council backed down from ordering three historic Thames-side pubs to remove all outdoor seating, when uniformed officers approached him and asked him to step outside. What followed was a 12-minute exchange…

A man set himself on fire outside the United Nations headquarters in New York City on Thursday evening in an apparent act of political protest linked to Tibet, leaving him in a grave condition in hospital as police and UN security launched an investigation. The incident occurred at around 7pm on East 43rd Street and First Avenue in Manhattan, directly outside the UN complex. UN surveillance footage captured the man planting a Tibetan flag on the pavement before the self-immolation took place, according to sources cited by the New York Post. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital in a critical…

A volunteer cataloguing dusty naval correspondence at the National Archives in Kew stumbled upon one of the rarest documents in American history — a surviving early copy of the US Declaration of Independence, hidden in the British state archives for more than two centuries. Michael Scurr had been working through a volume of 18th-century Royal Navy papers on what he described as “just a boring old Thursday morning” in late May when he unfolded a sheet and recognised the opening words immediately. “In Congress, July 4, 1776. A declaration by the representatives of the United States of America…” He turned…

Albanian police have clashed with demonstrators outside the country’s parliament in Tirana, deploying tear gas, pepper spray and a water cannon against protesters who pelted officers with rocks, eggs and plastic bottles in the most violent confrontation yet in the month-long Flamingo Revolution. Three police officers were injured in Thursday’s clashes, Interior Minister Besfort Lamallari confirmed. Some protesters used part of a metal barrier to smash the windows of a police car during the confrontation, which erupted as several hundred people gathered outside the Albanian parliament chanting “Rama has to go to jail” and demanding the resignation of Socialist Prime…