Houthi forces appeared to be making slow advances on Wednesday in south-west Yemen, approaching the city of Taiz and firing a missile and an explosive towards the airport in Aden, the chief international hub of the Saudi-backed government.

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Christa Pike’s lawyer Randy Spivey added that she was “at peace” last Wednesday, adding: “She helped the execution team find what they thought was venous access. She was kind and polite as they worked for an hour, stabbing her arm with needle after needle, and then she felt the burn of the pentobarbital.”

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A prominent Call of Duty esports commentator has opted to resign from his role after pursuing a romantic relationship with his co-commentator's ex-wife.

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A fraudster has been jailed for helping to scam medical companies out of millions of pounds through bogus personal protective equipment (PPE) deals during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Craig Morris, 43, and Jogesh Bhandari, 60, bought luxury cars, holidays and a new home after pretending they could supply millions of boxes of nitrile gloves in the US and Germany.

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Elijah is a freelance news writer at Polygon. He was an associate editor at The A.V. Club and Paste, and has been featured in outlets like Game Informer, Fanbyte, Unwinnable, and more. He loves media in all forms, from fighting games and horror flicks to slow cinema and visual novels. He's from the Greater Boston area.

We’re used to films about hope and rejuvenation in the final days of the Second World War, but there’s a more novel perspective to be found in “Krux” — set in an isolated village in northeast Germany, where many of the locals have been so brainwashed by Nazism that the end of the war may as well be the end of the world. Tony Vahl’s ultra-stern, intensely atmospheric debut feature cultivates such a siloed mood of apocalyptic despair that you can almost, in the very low-lit moment, forget the historical context for all this doomsaying. It’s an effective evocation of the lasting effects of totalitarian gaslighting, even on a populace no longer beholden to the regime in question — and one that feels relevant to a contemporary political landscape of cultish extremist loyalties.

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