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A KITCHEN gadget from Amazon has been recalled over a “serious” risk of exploding.
The Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) has now banned all imports of the Moongiantgo Food Dehydrator.
The entire product appeared to be riddled with issues, including faults with its fuse.
On the OPSS website, it states: “The product is a serious risk of fire as the fuse has insufficient granular filler to ensure safe operation under fault conditions.
“If the product experiences an electrical fault whilst in use, it may catch fire or explode.”
According to the body, it does not meet the requirements of Electrical Equipment Safety Regulations 2016 or the Plugs and Sockets Safety Regulations 1994.
The product was used to dehydrate various food items such as fruits, herbs, vegetables and meats.
A similar item listed on Amazon, which meets the regulation standards, says it is fitted with a high-powered rear fan which delivers “consistent airflow throughout”.
The description reads: “A sleek digital control panel gives you full command of the dehydration process.
“Set the temperature anywhere between 30°C and 90°C, and use the programmable timer for up to 24 hours of continuous drying.”
Another Amazon product was recalled over serious risk of injuries.
The Soppycid Reusable Water Balloons have been removed from the online marketplace following the safety concern.
The toy was available in a pack of six on Amazon for £18.
“The product presents a serious risk of injuries because it contains accessible magnets with a magnetic flux index that exceeds the acceptable level,” the product’s risk description reads.
“Small, high-powered magnetic products can easily be swallowed and, when ingested, have the potential to cause serious internal injuries within the gastrointestinal tract.
“The product also requires improvement to marking,
labelling and documentation.”
Another children’s toy was removed from the website over fears it could cause serious injury.
The swimming float was also urgently recalled over fears it could cause serious injury or even drowning.
The Joycat Baby Float, sold on Amazon, has been flagged as a safety risk.
Authorities found that its attachable canopy could lift the float from the water in windy conditions, putting children in danger.
The alert was issued in the UK following a border inspection.
The blue and yellow sea-themed swim seat, intended for babies and toddlers, poses a “serious risk of injuries”, according to the Product Safety Report.
If the float becomes airborne, a child could be thrown out and suffer an impact injury or drown.
A HOLLYWOOD star who gave up being a drug dealing bikie is now fighting ISIS through the dripping jungles of central Africa.
The Machine Gun Preacher is on a mission to rescue child sex slaves on the continent – and is has come up against the notorious terror group.
The priest, real name Sam Childers, is battling ISIS in the Congo as he continues his holy war to save abused children.
He’s famously known as being the inspiration behind the movie Machine Gun Preacher.
The film starred an A-list cast of Gerard Butler as Childers, Michelle Monaghan as his wife, and Michael Shannon.
Machine Gun Preacher told the story of how Childers came to be fighting in Africa after growing up in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
Once a criminal, he found God, turned his life to charity work in Africa and dedicated himself to saving children.
Machine Gun Preacher – the film – showed him battling Joseph Kony and his Lord’s Resistance Army in 1997.
Now he’s released a self-made documentary – trying to raise money to take the fight to ISIS in Congo.
He said: “I’m not worried about dying. I’m 62 years old. The last thing I worry about is dying. I worry more about living than dying.”
After being hammered in the Middle East, ISIS turned to Africa and is now enslaving thousands of children as its militants rampage through impoverished areas.
Childers has a network of orphanages, schools, and farms set up across the centre of the continent.
But he’s come into combat with ISIS as they have expanded into Congo.
He said: “We don’t want to see our children be kidnapped, sold in prostitution.
“We don’t want to see none of that so I’m willing to do whatever I have to do… and I’m willing to answer for it.
“They are murderers. They’re killers.
“I’m not afraid of none of them.”
Some 5.4million people have been killed in Congo’s ongoing conflicts since 1998 – but the wars have gone largely ignored in the West.
Three children were beheaded by rebel fighters in February and dozens more killed when they took a village.
Childers’ belief in God has given the preacher the strength to keep fighting – even against militant Christian groups.
The Lord’s Resistance Army raped and abducted girls, mutilated them, and enslaved boys into being child soldiers.
He said: “I’ve been ambushed over 10 times. Been in over 10 major battles. They tried to assassinate me over 10 times.
“That’s just in the Kony War.”
Despite the gun battles, Childers says that he was in more danger while a bikie and drug dealer in America.
He said: “I fought in guerrilla warfare, or been in war over 25 years, and I never was shot in Africa.
“I was shot once and stabbed 3 times in America.”
Childers said the soldiering was a means to an end – supporting the good work his organisations do through orphanages and farms.
“What you got to realize those rescues and to be active in stuff like that costs a lot of money.
“I have a lot of children and orphanages and children’s homes that got to be taken care of.”
Now, he runs a private military company in Congo that works with local forces to try and save children.
Childers said many of the children he rescued were severely mentally damaged by their time spent in captivity.
He said: “They cannot be kept in a normal orphanage with other children until after one year.
“That’s if the people believe they’re doing well. That’s doing the mental evaluations.”
But Childers revealed that he preferred to work with children rather than adults, saying they could work through the mental challenges they faced from being victims of rape or violence.
But it’s not just ISIS that his charities are fighting, with disease and hunger also continuing to kill children.
Childers said: “So then we feed over 10,000 meals a day. The majority of the children we feed only eat one meal a day, and that’s the meal we’re feeding them.”
Now, the preacher has released a new film trying to raise money for his work.
“Our goal is to do a hundred 1,000 downloads by the end of this year and that money’s used for children, man, you know. And so, instead of telling everyone, hey, send me $20.
“We’re asking everyone. Look, you want to hear a good story. You want to hear a good story of redemption. You want to hear a good story of saving people’s lives. You want to hear a good story of giving all.”
Childers was born into a difficult household with a heroin addict mum and drunkard dad.
They were always Christians, but in his teens Childers got in with the wrong crowd, he said.
“I started doing what they were doing to fit in, smoking cigarettes, smoking marijuana.
“12 years old: drinking, eating pills.
“13, 14 years old: snorting cocaine.
“Then, at 15 years old, I woke up one morning, and here I got a heroin addiction. You know, I’m shooting up cocaine, shooting up heroin.”
Childers quit school and said he turned himself into one of the biggest drug dealers in Grand Rapids, running narcotics from all over the US.
He said: “The only good thing was my dad brought me and my brothers up to be hardworking people.
“I always held a job, even though I was a cocaine addict heroin addict.
“But I made a lot of money selling drugs.”
Childers said he always believed in God, but “I thought I had everything I needed.
“I had money. I had drugs, guns, women motorcycles.”
But then in his early 20s, Childers got into a bar fight that was so awful it changed the course of his life.
“There were big guys, tough guys laying on the floor crying, holding their guts in.
And I said that night, if I get out of here, I’m I’m done living this life.”
His charity work has seen Childers honoured with the Mother Teresa Memorial International Award for Social Justice in 2013.
ISIS has extended its bloody grip in Africa to the Congo in recent years.
The terror thugs are taking advantage of high levels of poverty and an already destabalised nation.
ISIS formally announced its arrival in the country – which it calls the Central Africa Province – in 2019.
It claimed another rebel group – the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) – as its affiliate in the Congo and neighbouring Uganda.
The ADF, originally a Ugandan Islamist rebel group formed in the 1990s and had already established a stronghold in eastern Congo’s North Kivu and Ituri provinces.
The ADF rebranded to ISIS and adopted its jihadist rhetoric and tactics.
The group began releasing propaganda via ISIS’s media channels, portraying its local attacks—mainly against civilians, Congolese soldiers, and UN peacekeepers—as part of the global jihad.
Hundreds of civilians have been killed in brutal raids, massacres, and bombings by the terror group.
The Congolese army has launched several offensives to knock out ISIS – but has struggled to fully eliminate them.
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TAKE a look at this three-bedroom property that has entered the market for €279,000 – and it’s just a short drive from a busy Irish town.
Located in the beautiful village of Ballintogher, Co Sligo, the pad is perfect for a family.
The village offers a local supermarket, restaurants, pubs, a cafe, a primary school and a community centre.
The public transport options are good, providing connections to Sligo, Drumkeeran, Dowra and Dromahair.
And Sligo Town is only a 20-minute drive for those who want to have more options for shops, restaurants and supermarkets.
The city has their own transport hub, providing connections to major cities including Galway, Dublin and Ballina.
Parents will appreciate the wide range of schools in the area, with some offering private bus services that are available to make their lives a bit easier.
The beautiful semi-detached residence is situated in the heart of the village, making it a prime location for families.
Entering the property, you are greeted by a spacious hallway with access to the living room, the kitchen/dining room, the utility room, the toilet room and the stairwell to the first floor.
The living room is spacious and features an open fireplace, beautiful wooden flooring, a bay window overlooking the property, built-in shelving units and a TV point.
The kitchen features gorgeous built-in cream and wooden units, marble countertops, a tiled backsplash, integrated appliances, a kitchen island with a breakfast bar and a large window overlooking the garden.
And the dining area features a large wooden table that seats up to six people and double doors that lead directly to the patio, allowing for seamless indoor-outdoor living.
The utility room is equipped with built-in units, a washing and drying machine, storage units and back door access to the garden.
The room also has access to the toilet room, which has tiled flooring, a wash hand basin, a toilet and storage units.
The first floor consists of a primary bedroom with an ensuite bathroom, three standard bedrooms and a main bathroom.
The primary bedroom features gorgeous wooden flooring, a double bed, wardrobe units, a built-in TV stand with a TV port, a large window overlooking the garden and built-in storage units.
The ensuite bathroom has tiled flooring and comes with a built-in electric shower unit, a wash hand basin, a toilet and storage units.
The spacious bedrooms have wooden flooring, a double bed, wardrobe units, a large window and space for storage units.
One of the bedrooms is currently used as a movie room but can be easily transformed into a home office, a home gym or a playroom.
The main bathroom is fully tiled and comes with a bathtub with a showerhead, a wash hand basin with storage, a toilet and a heated towel rail.
The spacious garden comes with a garden shed for storage and a patio area that’s perfect for outdoor dining and entertaining.
The property features oil-fired central heating, woodgrain PVC windows and doors, an insulated attic and access to wired fibre broadband.
The BER rating for the pad is C2.
MMA icon Ben Askren is “unresponsive” in hospital after being struck down by severe pneumonia.
The former MMA and wrestling star infamously came out of retirement to face Jake Paul in a boxing match in 2021.
Askren, a former Olympian, was active in MMA for over a decade.
News of his hospitalisation broke during UFC 316 in New Jersey on Saturday night.
Funky has not been active in the squared circle since his exhibition with Paul almost four years ago.
But he is fondly remembered in wrestling circles as one of the greatest grapplers of all time.
Askren, 40, is currently battling “a sudden and severe onset of pneumonia”.
His wife Amy penned a heartfelt update on her husband’s condition.
She wrote on Facebook: “You may have heard that my husband Ben is going through something.
“He developed severe pneumonia, which came on very suddenly.
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“He’s currently in the hospital and unable to respond to anything at this time.
“We welcome all prayers for healing and for peace.
“We are trying to keep life as normal as possible for our children currently and doing our best to support them thoughtfully, so please refrain from discussing it with them for now.”
Fans were quick to send their well wishes to the Askren family.
Former UFC champ Henry Cejudo wrote on X: “Pray for Ben Askren.”
One fan wrote: “You got this Ben, keep fighting.”
While another commented: “Wishing the best for Ben Askren and his family. Ben was an innovative and creative wrestler in his prime and now he builds up some of the best wrestlers America has ever seen. The wrestling world owes a debt of gratitude to a man like him.”
He’s currently in the hospital and unable to respond to anything at this time.
Amy Askren
Askren began wrestling at the age of just 6.
He competed for the Missouri Tigers in college, twice becoming a D1 national champion.
Askren was a member of the 2008 US Olympics wrestling team, where he lost in the quarterfinals to Cuba’s Ivan Fundora on points.
Following his Olympic adventure, the Iowa-native transitioned into MMA.
He boasted 19 wins from 22 MMA pro fights, with his first loss coming in an infamous flying kick KO by Jorge Masvidal five seconds into their bout at UFC 239.
Askren’s highly publicised boxing bout with YouTuber Paul saw 500,000 PPV buys.
Paul, then aged 24, won the bout via TKO in one minute and 59 seconds of the first round.
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AN urgent investigation has been launched after a baby died at home yesterday.
Police have described the sudden tragedy in Middlesbrough as “unexplained”, with detectives now carrying out enquiries.
The force has not revealed where exactly the incident took place.
A statement by Cleveland Constabulary last night said: “Officers were called to an address in Middlesbrough earlier today, Saturday 7th June, following the death of a baby.
“The death is being treated as unexplained and detectives have been carrying out some enquiries at the address.
“Our thoughts are with the family of the deceased child at this sad and difficult time.”
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