8 h. ago Key suspect in murder of Scot in Kenya accused of violent extortion plots against tourists

Bernard Mbunga Mbusu is one of three men police are hunting in connection with Campbell Scott's murder.

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14 h. ago ‘Ceasefire’ is a hollow word for Palestinians – the killings, displacements and denial of aid continue | Nesrine Malik

A winding down of operations in Gaza has allowed Israel to turn its attention to the West Bank, with devastating effectsIt has been just over six weeks since a ceasefire came into effect in Gaza, and it’s clear that it would more accurately be called a “reduce” fire, rather than a cessation. Scores of people are still being killed; enough, in any other scenario, to be deemed both alarming and newsworthy. More than 100 people have died since 19 January, Gaza’s civil defence service spokesperson says. Those killings constitute, alongside other breaches, a grim record of hundreds of reported ceasefire violations by the Israeli government.The latest among them is Israeli authorities’ decision to halt humanitarian aid into Gaza, in order to put pressure on Hamas to accept new ceasefire terms: mere hours after the first phase of the ceasefire expired, Israel cut off all supplies. In doing so, Israel is using food and civilian relief as a political tool to achieve its objectives, a move th...

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39 h. ago After 80 years of transatlantic ties, Europe forges a new alliance

Germany, France and UK sweep away old rules in pledge to do ‘whatever it takes’ to defend Europe from Russian threatWhen he rose to his feet at prime minister’s questions on Wednesday, Keir Starmer delivered a stirring tribute to six British soldiers who lost their lives in Afghanistan 13 years ago.He read out their names very deliberately, one by one. The House was silent. The prime minister then added a tribute to a 22-year-old British Royal Marine, also killed on 6 March, but in 2007 in Helmand province. Continue reading...

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47 h. ago ‘Etched in my mind’: reporter describes South Carolina firing squad execution

Jeffrey Collins of the Associated Press recalls experience of watching Brad Sigmon die for 2001 murdersA reporter for the Associated Press who watched as South Carolina executed a convicted murderer by firing squad has described the experience, saying that the killing was now “etched” in his mind.Jeffrey Collins, who has witnessed executions in South Carolina for the news agency for 21 years and has seen 11 people killed using three methods, wrote a short essay about the experience. Continue reading...

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53 h. ago Russia launches devastating attack on Ukraine after Trump’s defence of Putin

Latest attacks came hours after Donald Trump said Vladimir Putin was ‘doing what anybody would do’Ukraine war – live updatesRussia launched a devastating attack on Ukraine on Saturday, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens more, hours after Donald Trump defended Vladimir Putin and said the Kremlin leader was “doing what anybody would do”.Two ballistic missiles hit the centre of Dobropillia in the eastern Donetsk region. Fire engulfed a five-storey apartment building. As emergency services arrived, Russia launched another strike on the same area. Eleven civilians were killed, with five children among the 30 injured. Continue reading...

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69 h. ago MI5 investigation of groomed schoolgirl who was accused of plotting to blow up a synagogue continued up until she killed herself even after terror charges were dropped, inquest hears

The hearing was told MI5 had 'no indication' from intelligence it gathered prior to Rhianan Rudd's death that she had intended to end her own life.

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3 d. ago Girl, 16, accused of terror investigated by MI5 until death, inquest told

Rhianan Rudd, 16, was charged with terror offences after saying she wanted to blow up a synagogue.

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3 d. ago Jagtar Singh Johal shares emotional call with dad after India terror charges thrown out

Jagtar Singh Johal from Dumbarton has been through a seven-year nightmare detained in an Indian prison for charges that prosectors have brought not evidence of.

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3 d. ago San Carlos Apache teenager's death reverberates throughout Indian Country

A San Carlos Apache teen who was reported missing and then found dead marks one of the latest tragedies as Native American communities continue to grapple with the epidemic of people being killed or going missing at high rates

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4 d. ago ‘A certain kind of chaos’: Errol Morris unpacks Charles Manson theories

The esteemed documentarian looks back at the shocking murders with a new lens, questioning how much anyone really knows about why it happened“I’m quite convinced that, no matter what I say, I’m not going to be able to convince you to kill for me,” film-maker Errol Morris says drily. “And, alas, I have to say that I don’t have the desire to kill anybody or to convince you to kill on my behalf. It just isn’t there. Call it a weakness of will or weakness of character.”This is not a sentiment that an interviewer is used to hearing from an interviewee. But it makes more sense in context. Morris, who has previously worked as a private detective, is discussing his new documentary, streaming on Netflix from Friday, which challenges official accounts of the most infamous killing spree of the 1960s. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Girl accused of terror took overdose days before charge, inquest told

Rhianan Rudd, 16, died in a children’s home in May 2022 five months after her terror charges were dropped.

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5 d. ago Brazil fights Harvard to reclaim African rebel’s skull after 190 years

The remains were taken to the US during a slave revolt and held in a Harvard museum after racist studiesIn January 1835, wearing religious robes and carrying amulets inscribed with prayers and passages from the Qur’an, hundreds of African Muslims staged the most significant urban slave revolt in the more than 350 years of slavery in Brazil.About 600 Malês – as Muslims of Yoruba origin were known – attempted to seize control of Salvador, the capital of the Bahia state and then the country’s second most important city, but were ultimately defeated by the police, who killed 70 rebels. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago ‘You took the life of someone who had given you life’: the women killed by their sons

Nearly one in 10 women who have died at the hands of men in the UK in the past 15 years were killed by their sons. Here are 10 such casesMore than 170 mothers killed by their sons in 15 years in UK, report reveals‘A real injustice’: mothers killed by their children is still a hidden issue in UKA report has revealed that more than 170 mothers across the UK have been killed by their sons in the past 15 years – nearly one in 10 of all women who died at the hands of men.Here we look at 10 cases of mothers killed by their sons. They underline the range of ages, backgrounds and family circumstances of the victims and perpetrators, and some key factors – most strikingly, mental health problems – that led to the killings. Continue reading...

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6 d. ago Schoolgirl accused of terrorism ‘thriving’ in weeks before death, inquest told

Rhianan Rudd, 16, died at a children’s home in May 2022 around five months after her terror charges were dropped.

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6 d. ago Scots MP demands Jagtar Singh Johal release from jail after Dumbarton man cleared of terror charges

EXCLUSIVE: Douglas McAllister wants the UK Government to give a response in the Commons after 37-year-old Dumbarton man Jagtar Singh Johal had terror charges against him dismissed.

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6 d. ago Jagtar Singh Johal detained in India for 7 years acquitted in terror case

Jagtar Singh Johal has terror charges in connection with political violence in the north of India after he was arrested while visiting Punjab for his wedding back in 2017.

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7 d. ago Murder plot accused stole Ming dynasty porcelain from Geneva museum, court told

Three men are accused of plotting to murder former cage fighter Paul Allen.

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7 d. ago Middle East crisis live: Israel accused of using ‘food as weapon of war’ in aid blockade on Gaza

Egypt and Qatar condemn Israel’s decision to block goods and supplies from entering Gaza, saying it violates the ceasefire dealA 70-year-old man was killed and others injured in a knife attack in the northern Israeli city of Haifa on Monday morning, medics say.“Paramedics and EMTs have pronounced the death of a man around 70 years old and are providing medical treatment to and evacuating four injured individuals”, Israel’s Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency service said, after the police reported the suspect was killed. Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Extreme online violence may be linked to rise of ‘0 to 100’ killers, experts say

Criminal justice specialists call for new approach to identify emerging type of murderer with no prior convictionsThe rise of “0 to 100” killers who go from watching torture, mutilation and beheading videos in their bedrooms to committing murder suggests there could be a link between extreme violence online and in real life, experts have said.Criminal justice experts advocated a new approach, inspired by counter-terrorism, to identify an emerging type of murderer with no prior convictions, after cases such as Nicholas Prosper, who killed his mother and siblings and planned a primary school massacre. Continue reading...

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1 week ago UK teenager who killed herself after terror charges ‘was groomed by neo

Rhianan Rudd, 16, was referred to Prevent by her mother after becoming ‘fixated on Hitler’, inquest toldA teenager who killed herself after becoming the youngest person in the UK to be charged with terror offences had been groomed online by an American “neo-Nazi”, an inquest has been told.Sixteen-year-old Rhianan Rudd, who was autistic, had been referred to the government’s Prevent counter-radicalisation programme by her mother, Emily Carter, the counsel to the inquest, Edward Pleeth, told the hearing. Continue reading...

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