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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said an end to the conflict in Gaza "can be done the easy way or it will be done the hard way," as he urges Hamas to accept a proposal he and President Donald Trump plan to put forward.

ELEVEN members of a notorious organised crime family have been sentenced to death over international scam centres.

A Chinese court handed down the brutal sentence to multiple members of the Ming family, while other members were sentenced to suspended death sentences, life imprisonments, and fixed-term sentences.

The fixed term sentences ranged from five to 24 years.

Ming Guoping, Ming Zhenzhen, Zhou Weichang, Wu Hongming, Wu Senlong and Fu Yubin were six of the 11 defendants sentenced to die.

Other punishments included various fines, confiscation of property and deportation, a Chinese court heard.

A total of 39 Ming family members fronted court on Monday in Wenzhou, in eastern China.

According to China Central Television (CCTV), the Ming family criminal syndicate had exploited their influence in the Kokang region of Myanmar.

Operating since 2015, the family worked for one of the four clans who ran the Laukkai district, close to China’s border.

The area was turned into a hotspot for gambling, drugs and scam centres.

In 2023, Myanmar’s government cracked down on the illegal activities, arresting many members of the families and handing them over to Chinese authorities.

The region was chosen to exploit the Chinese desire for gambling – an illegal practice in China and many other neighbouring countries.

What started out as casinos evolved into fronts for money laundering, trafficking and dozens of scam centres.

Working with financiers, the family syndicate carried out telecom fraud, illegal casinos, drug trafficking and prostitution, implicating more than $1.4 billion (10 billion yuan) in illicit funds.

Estimates suggest that illegal casinos were generating several billion dollars in profit every year.

The syndicate and its enablers killed or injured people involved who attempted to escape or resist control.

In the process, 10 people died and two were injured.

The root location for what the UN later called the “scamdemic”, the centres saw more than 100,000 foreign nationals – including many Chinese people – being lured in and effectively imprisoned.

Captured people were forced to work long hours, running sophisticated online fraud operations targeting victims from all over the globe.

Once the most powerful family in Myanmar’s Shan State, the Ming family ran scam centres, some holding more than 10,000 workers.

The most notorious compound was known as Crouching Tiger Villa, where workers were routinely beaten and tortured.

The Ming family reign came to an end two years ago when insurgent groups formed an alliance and attacked the Myanmar military in the region.

The groups took control of the area forcing out local authorities, pulling the rug out from beneath the Ming family operation.

Ming Quechang – the family patriarch – reportedly killed himself and other family members were handed over to the Chinese authorities.

Some have since confessed to their involvement in the criminal activity.

Thousands of those working in scam centres were also handed over to Chinese police.

Earlier this year, pressure from Beijing forced Thailand to take action against scam centres on the Myanmar border.

The court found their conduct had constituted 14 crimes, including fraud, intentional homicide and intentional injury.

More than 160 people, including local legislators, political advisers, Ming family members and members of the public attended the trial.

The centres are still prevalent in Myanmar, however, have evolved cross-border into Cambodia.

Everton are LEADING against West Ham in the Premier League under the Monday night lights.

Michael Keane headed the Toffees ahead from a good James Garner cross, following some sloppy Hammers defending.

former Wolves, Tottenham and Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espirito Santo takes charge of his first game since replacing Graham Potter just two days ago.

The Hammers trip to Everton sees them face their old boss David Moyes at the new Hill Dickinson Stadium, where the Toffees are yet to suffer defeat in three matches.

• Kick-off: 8pm BST
• TV channel: Sky Sports Premier League
• Everton XI: Pickford, O’Brien, Tarkowski, Keane, Mykolenko, Garner, Gueye, Ndiaye, Dewsbury-Hall, Grealish, Beto
• West Ham: Areola, Walker-Peters, Kilman, Mavropanos, Diouf, Magassa, Fernandes, Bowen, Paqueta, Summerville, Fullkrug

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WAYNE ROONEY has admitted “it hurts” to see Manchester United the way it is and added he is desperate for his kids to see the club back on top.

Rooney, 39, is the Red Devils‘ all-time leading goalscorer and won everything there was to win as a player for the club, including five Premier League titles.

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However, little more than eight years on from his final United game, standards have plummeted through the floor as an increasingly desperate situation slides into deeper and deeper ignominy.

Rooney even claimed he did not even recognise the club anymore, slamming the players for a perceived lack of character and desire to win.

That fact was once again laid bare as Ruben Amorim‘s side limped to a 3-1 defeat away at Brentford to leave them 14th in the Premier League table.

Speaking on the Wayne Rooney show, the former England international referenced big characters from his own playing days such as Roy Keane and Paul Scholes who would be able to show “what the club means”.

But the most damning assessment came with Rooney’s desperation for his children to see the club win again.

Kai, 15, has played in the club’s youth set-up since 2020, while Klay, 12, is also in the youth ranks at United.

Rooney said: “I never grew up a Man Utd fan, I grew up an Everton fan.

“But I spent that much time with the football club, my family, my two children are now at the football club.

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“I’ve been involved in that club for over 20 years and what we’re seeing hurts.”

Rooney continued: “Only my eldest boy has seen Man Utd win a Premier League title.

“My kids don’t know what Man Utd being successful is. I want them to see that.”

Rooney also said: “The culture of that football club has gone. I see it on a daily basis.

“I see staff losing jobs, people walking out of jobs.

“I’ve got two kids [in the academy] at that football club and I really hope this doesn’t affect what they’re doing.

“What I’m seeing at that football club is not Manchester United.”

United host Sunderland at Old Trafford next Saturday, desperately hoping for a good result and performance to match.

That match will also come exactly one day before the one-year anniversary of when the United fan refusing to cut his hair until they win five in a row started his challenge.

THE National Lottery Set For Life numbers are in and it’s time to find out if you’ve won the top prize of £10,000 every month for 30 years.

Could tonight’s jackpot see you start ticking off that bucket list every month or building your own start-up as a budding entrepreneur?

You can find out by checking your ticket against tonight’s numbers below.

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The winning Set For Life numbers are: 07, 12, 31, 34, 35 and the Life Ball is 07.

The first National Lottery draw was held on November 19 1994 when seven winners shared a jackpot of £5,874,778.

The largest amount ever to be won by a single ticket holder was £42million, won in 1996.

Gareth Bull, a 49-year-old builder, won £41million in November, 2020 and ended up knocking down his bungalow to make way for a luxury manor house with a pool.

1. £1.308 billion (Powerball) on January 13 2016 in the US, for which three winning tickets were sold, remains history’s biggest lottery prize
2. £1.267 billion (Mega Million) a winner from South Carolina took their time to come forward to claim their prize in March 2019 not long before the April deadline
3. £633.76 million (Powerball draw) from a winner from Wisconsin
4. £625.76 million (Powerball)  Mavis L. Wanczyk of Chicopee, Massachusetts claimed the jackpot in August 2017
5. £575.53 million (Powerball)  A lucky pair of winners scooped the jackpot in Iowa and New York in October 2018

Sue Davies, 64, bought a lottery ticket to celebrate ending five months of shielding during the pandemic — and won £500,000.

Sandra Devine, 36, accidentally won £300k – she intended to buy her usual £100 National Lottery Scratchcard, but came home with a much bigger prize.

The biggest jackpot ever to be up for grabs was £66million in January last year, which was won by two lucky ticket holders.

Another winner, Karl managed to bag £11million aged just 23 in 1996.

The odds of winning the lottery are estimated to be about one in 14million – BUT you’ve got to be in it to win it.