Luigi Mangione has pleaded not guilty to all federal charges brought over the fatal shooting of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York last year. The 26 year old, who was arrested in December and accused of shooting Mr Thompson outside a Manhattan hotel, faces the charges of murder and stalking. His not guilty plea...
The Israeli military has said an “operational misunderstanding” led to the killing of 14 emergency workers in southern Gaza last month. An inquiry into the incident by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) found a series of failings. It said the killing of a UN worker shortly afterwards was “a breach of orders during a combat...
Abdinasir Ali BBC Somali service Astaan TV Guudey Mohamed Geedi, a married father of 11, was shot dead not long after finishing a film warning of the devastation clan killings cause “No man avenged has ever risen from the grave” is the haunting tagline of a film that has shocked Somalis to the core in...
Nikhil Inamdar Thousands of neighbourhood stores, unable to compete with online apps, have closed down, according to reports The corner shop Ramji Dharod has manned for over six decades is now on the brink of closure. The store sits in a bylane in the central Indian city of Mumbai’s busy shopping precinct, and has served...
Simon Ward & Gavin Bevis BBC News, East Midlands Supplied Bhim Kohli, 80, died in hospital after being attacked at Franklin Park The brutal killing of an elderly man, carried out by a racially abusive 14-year-old boy with a thirst for social media notoriety. This is the assessment of Leicestershire Police Det Ch Insp Mark...
A 15-year-old boy and 13-year-old girl have been convicted of the manslaughter of 80-year-old Bhim Kohli, who was fatally attacked at a park in Leicestershire. Leicester Crown Court heard that during the “intense attack”, the boy racially abused Mr Kohli and slapped him in the face with a slider shoe while he was on his...
The Palestine Red Crescent Society has called for an independent international inquiry into Israel’s killing of 15 emergency workers in southern Gaza. The organisation released the full video found on the phone of one of its eight paramedics who died when troops fired at a convoy of ambulances on 23 March, which it said constituted...
The killing of fifteen emergency workers has drawn international condemnation. BBC Verify’s Merlyn Thomas examines new footage published by the Palestinian Red Crescent. Production by Emma Pengelly, Mohammad Shalaby, Richard Irvine Brown, Paul Brown and Thomas Spencer. Graphics by Mark Edwards Read full article at source...
Footage circulating in the aftermath of the attack showed a newborn who was decapitated by the bombing. Israeli forces bombed a UN clinic in Gaza serving as a shelter for displaced Palestinians on Wednesday, killing at least 22 people just days after officials discovered 15 first responders who had been executed by Israeli soldiers and...
The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has said it is “outraged” at the deaths of eight medics killed on duty in Rafah in southern Gaza. The nine-person ambulance team came under heavy fire in al-Hashashin on 23 March, said the IFRC. Their bodies were retrieved on Sunday after access was...
Part of the Series Struggle and Solidarity: Writing Toward Palestinian Liberation I was jolted awake at 2 am this morning by the deafening sound of explosions and relentless bombardment here in the Rimal neighborhood in Gaza where I live. The noise was so overwhelming, I couldn’t tell where it was coming from. I was in...
Paul Antony Butler has pleaded guilty at Plymouth Crown Court to the murder of university lecturer Claire Chick. Butler, 53, of Stangray Avenue, Plymouth, also admitted one charge of possession of a bladed article. Ms Chick, 48, was found seriously injured in West Hoe Road just before 21:00 GMT on 22 January and later died...
