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Joseph Benza III, main officer involved in incident with Emmett Brock, pleaded guilty in federal court last weekAt least eight deputies with the Los Angeles sheriff’s department have been dismissed for their roles in the arrest and beating of a transgender man in February 2023, the Los Angeles Times reports. An FBI investigation remains ongoing.Deputy Joseph Benza III, the main officer involved in the incident with then 23-year-old Emmett Brock, pleaded guilty in federal court last week to one felony count of deprivation of rights under the color of law, which carries a maximum of 10 years in prison. Continue

Three-week-old Sila is the third baby to die from the cold in Gaza’s tent camps in recent days, according to doctorsA baby girl froze to death overnight in Gaza, while Israel and Hamas accused each other of complicating ceasefire efforts that could wind down the 14-month war. The three-week old baby was the third to die from the cold in Gaza’s tent camps in recent days, doctors said.The deaths underscore the squalid conditions there, with hundreds of thousands of Palestinians crammed into often ramshackle tents after fleeing Israeli offensives. Israel’s bombardment and ground invasion of Gaza has killed more than

Family and friends hold grave fears for man identified as Oscar Jenkins who was reportedly captured by Russian soldiers in Donbas regionGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastMoscow is looking into reports that the Russian army may have captured an Australian citizen fighting with Ukrainian forces, while a foreign affairs official noted Canberra’s “hostile stance towards Russia” at a briefing.Family and friends hold grave fears for Australian man Oscar Jenkins who was reportedly captured by Russian soldiers while fighting alongside Ukrainian forces in the Donbas region. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/26/oscar-jenkins-russia-responds-australian-fighter-captured-ukraine Author : Australian Associated

Dangerous fire conditions set to sweep across south-east as Victoria, NSW and SA prepare for Boxing Day scorcherGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastDangerous fire conditions are set to sweep across several states as the south-east braces for a Boxing Day scorcher.Damaging winds will fan extreme fire danger on Thursday as hot and dry weather envelops large parts of Victoria, south-west New South Wales and much of eastern South Australia. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/dec/26/boxing-day-bushfire-risk-high-grampians-victoria-south-eas Author : Australian Associated Press Publish date : 2024-12-25 20:54:19 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Aircraft carrying 62 passengers and five crew was en route from Baku to Grozny in Chechnya Twenty-nine people have survived after a passenger plane operated by Azerbaijan Airlines burst into flames as it crashed near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after veering hundreds of miles off its planned route.The flight was carrying 62 passengers and five crew members with 38 killed in the crash, according to Kazakhstan’s deputy prime minister, Kanat Bozumbayev. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/kazakhstan-plane-crash-aktau-azerbaijan-airlines-baku-grozny-fog-chechnya Author : Ashifa Kassam and agencies Publish date : 2024-12-25 19:49:07 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Unrest at maximum security prison in the capital Maputo, reportedly left 33 people dead and 15 injuredDozens of people have been killed in a prison riot in Mozambique on Christmas Day, authorities have said.The riot, reportedly at the maximum security prison in the capital Maputo, left 33 people dead and 15 injured, according to police general commander Bernardino Rafael. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/dozens-killed-in-mozambique-prison-riot-on-christmas-day Author : Reuters Publish date : 2024-12-25 19:54:08 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Bengal tiger, cougars, a lynx and bobcats dead as disease spreads rapidly among US poultry flocks and dairy herdsTwenty big cats, including a Bengal tiger, four cougars, a lynx and four bobcats, have died after contracting bird flu at an animal sanctuary in Shelton, Washington.The big cat deaths come as bird flu, a highly pathogenic avian influenza, has spread rapidly through poultry flocks and dairy herds in the US, infected and killed domestic cats, and caused a severe illness in a person in Louisiana. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/twenty-big-cats-die-bird-flu Author : Edward Helmore Publish date : 2024-12-25 19:21:59 Copyright

Police watchdog investigating shooting in residential area in Worcestershire on Christmas EvePolice fired Tasers during a stand-off with a knife-wielding man in Worcestershire before a firearms officer shot and killed him, the police watchdog said.Officers were called by West Midlands ambulance service to an address in Redditch at about 2pm on Christmas Eve after concerns were raised for the safety of a 39-year-old man with a knife. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/25/police-officers-fired-tasers-at-knifeman-before-fatal-gunshot Author : Nadeem Badshah and PA Media Publish date : 2024-12-25 18:42:08 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Donations, not restricted by campaign finance laws, come as industries seek favor with incoming administrationUS business leaders are spending big on Donald Trump’s second inaugural fund, which is predicted to exceed even the record-setting $107m raised in 2017.The donations, which are not restricted by campaign finance laws, come as industries and business leaders seek to curry favor with the incoming administration after the president-elect decisively won a second, non-consecutive term in November. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/dec/25/us-business-leaders-trump-inaugural-fund Author : Edward Helmore Publish date : 2024-12-25 18:07:10 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Odds of winning jackpot are 1 in 302,575,350, compared with 1 in 24 for any Mega Millions prize, and tickets cost $2The Mega Millions jackpot has surpassed $1bn after no ticket matched all six numbers drawn on Christmas Eve. That means the estimated jackpot for Friday’s drawing is $1.15bn, potentially the fifth-largest jackpot in the game’s history.“We know that many people will likely receive tickets to Friday’s drawing as holiday gifts, and what a gift that would turn out to be if you ended up with a ticket worth a $1.15bn jackpot,” Joshua Johnston, lead director for the Mega Millions

Study warns region’s exponential rise in incarceration is fuelling the disease, with cases increasing by 19% between 2015 and 2022 High incarceration rates in Latin America – the region with the world’s fastest-growing prison population – are exacerbating tuberculosis in a region that is bucking the global trend for falling incidents of the disease, experts have warned.A study published in The Lancet Public Health journal has estimated that, contrary to previous assumptions, HIV/Aids is not the primary risk factor for tuberculosis in the region – as it remains in Africa, for example – but rather imprisonments. Continue reading... Source link

The Finnish electricity grid’s head of operations says sabotage can’t be ruled outAn undersea power cable linking Finland and Estonia broke down on Wednesday, Finland’s prime minister said, the latest in a series of incidents involving cables and energy pipelines in the Baltic Sea.The Finnish electricity grid’s head of operations, Arto Pahkin, told the public broadcaster Yle that sabotage could not be ruled out. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/finland-estonia-power-cable-hit-in-latest-baltic-sea-incident Author : Agence France-Presse in Helsinki Publish date : 2024-12-25 15:36:57 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Three explosions caused Ursa Major to sink off Spanish coast, says company linked to Russian defence ministryA Russian cargo ship that sank on Tuesday in the Mediterranean Sea was the target of an “act of terrorism”, according to the vessel’s owner.The Ursa Major sank while it was sailing through international waters between Spain and Algeria, leaving two crew members missing, Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/russian-cargo-ship--ursa-major-owner-sinking-mediterranean-terrorism Author : Pjotr Sauer Publish date : 2024-12-25 15:58:18 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Hundreds march on state prosecutor’s office to demand justice after 15 people killed when renovated roof collapsedHundreds of university students have rallied in Belgrade to protest against the policies of Serbia’s president, Aleksandar Vučić, and his ruling Serbian Progressive party (SNS), which they blame for a railway disaster last month in which 15 people died.The concrete awning of the recently renovated roof of the train station in the northern city of Novi Sad caved in on 1 November, killing 14 people and injuring three. One of the injured died later. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/serbian-students-rally-in-belgrade-in-latest-protest-over-train-station-disaster Author : Reuters in

New president of the Royal Society for Blind Children calls for better design of AI-driven technologyBlind and partially sighted people are being excluded from the benefits of artificial intelligence tools and facing “a new level of discrimination”, the new president of the Royal Society for Blind Children has claimed as he called for better design of everything from video games to AI agents.Tom Pey said existing difficulties for blind children were “now compounded because they’re excluded distanced from their non-disabled peers, because those people can experience games, alternative realities and the AI-driven visual types of technology”. Continue reading... Source link

Evaluation could lead to limits or bans on substances commonly used in the production of plastic and rubberThe Environmental Protection Agency is launching a formal review of five highly toxic plastic chemicals, including vinyl chloride, the notorious compound at the center of the East Palestine, Ohio, train wreck fire.The move could lead to strong limits or bans on the substances. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/25/epa-vinyl-chloride-toxic-plastic Author : Tom Perkins Publish date : 2024-12-25 13:00:12 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

Democrat Kris Mayes is ‘not afraid’ of Trump administration and vows to push back against key immigration policiesKris Mayes, the attorney general of Arizona, has vowed to fight the incoming Trump administration over key aspects of its immigration policy, including any attempt to set up deportation camps on Arizonan soil or remove thousands of migrant “dreamers” who came to the US as children.In an interview with the Guardian, Mayes said that any move by Donald Trump in his second presidential term to unpick the rights of dreamers to remain and work in the US would be a “bright red line

Zelenskyy describes cruise and ballistic missile strikes, which caused blackouts in several regions, as ‘inhuman’Russia-Ukraine war live – follow the latest updatesChristmas morning in Ukraine was overshadowed by a massive Russian aerial attack using cruise missiles to target energy infrastructure across the country, which Volodymyr Zelenskyy condemned as “inhuman”.“Today, Putin deliberately chose Christmas to attack. What could be more inhuman? More than 70 missiles, including ballistic missiles, and more than a hundred attack drones,” the Ukrainian president said on Telegram. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/dec/25/russia-christmas-day-attack-ukraine-energy-system Author : Pjotr Sauer and agencies Publish date : 2024-12-25 12:39:55 Copyright for syndicated

Once the apex of conspiracy theories, the influential group signals a shift by naming ex-Nato chief as new co-chairThe former head of Nato, Jens Stoltenberg, has been named the new co-chair of the influential Bilderberg Group, which convenes a yearly transatlantic policy conference and has long been the subject of conspiracy theories around the extent of its power to shape global events.After a turbulent decade at the helm of the alliance’s military, Stoltenberg now takes over at its pre-eminent discussion forum: a fiercely private four-day event frequented by prime minsters, EU commissioners, bank bosses, corporate CEOs and intelligence chiefs. Continue

Lucy Powrie was 15 when she read Agnes Grey. Ten years on she is chair of the Brontë Parsonage MuseumLucy Powrie was 15 years old when she first read Anne Brontë’s 1847 novel Agnes Grey and instantly, intensely, fell in love. “There was just this moment of, I suppose, feeling like I’d come home. I’d found something that was just better than anything I had ever found in my life.”Already a wildly enthusiastic reader, she had been blogging about books since the age of 12, and hosting a book review channel on YouTube since she was 13. Discovering Anne Brontë,

Research firm Omdia says dip to £931m due to Hollywood strikes but wave of blockbusters likely to renew recoveryThe UK box office is forecast to surpass £1bn next year for the first time in six years, but cinema bosses still say moviegoing will not return to pre-pandemic levels until 2026.The pace of the hoped-for recovery at the box office was disrupted by the Hollywood actors’ and writers’ strikes last summer, which delayed the release of a number of blockbusters. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/25/uk-box-office-forecast-2025-cinema-film Author : Mark Sweney Publish date : 2024-12-25 10:00:08 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

Exclusive: Reducing rate of misogynistic killings is key to halving violence against women and girls, says Jess PhillipsTackling the “scourge of femicide” in the UK will be a central part of the government’s promise to drastically reduce violence against women and girls, the minister leading the policy has said.Revealing details of one of Labour’s central missions in office for the first time, Jess Phillips said the success of the government’s target to halve violence against women and girls had to include reducing the rate at which women are killed by men. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/25/labour-will-tackle-scourge-of-femicide-to-hit-manifesto-target-says-minister-jess-phillips Author : Alexandra

Ambulance service called armed officers to an address in Redditch over concerns for the safety of a man with a knifePolice shot a man dead in Worcestershire on Christmas Eve.West Midlands Ambulance Service called armed officers to an address in Redditch at about 2pm after concerns were raised for the safety of a man with a knife. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/dec/25/police-shoot-man-dead-in-worcestershire-on-christmas-eve Author : PA Media Publish date : 2024-12-25 09:15:54 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to the linked Source.

In a little understood quirk of nature foresters have been putting the aspen tree under duress to promote flowering On a nature reserve deep in the Scottish Highlands there is a polytunnel which houses a small forest of slender grey aspen trees. It is known as the “torture chamber”.The aspen is one of the UK’s scarcest but most valuable trees. And to produce the tiny, delicate aspen seeds being harvested by the charity Trees for Life, these 104 specimens are deliberately made to suffer. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/dec/25/stressed-out-trees-helping-charities-restore-valuable-aspen-forests Author : Severin Carrell Scotland editor Publish date : 2024-12-25

Ras Desta Damtew’s solid gold Imperial Order of the Star of Ethopia failed to sell on auction site this monthThe descendants of a hero of Ethiopia’s resistance against European imperialism are seeking to retrieve a gold medal taken from him by Italian troops, after the artefact’s current holder failed to sell it at an online auction earlier this month.The solid gold Imperial Order of the Star of Ethiopia used to be in the possession of Ras Desta Damtew, a son-in-law of Emperor Haile Selassie and a guerrilla army commander whose capture and execution in 1937 spelled the end of Ethiopia’s