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The moment an officer jumps onto a runaway boat
Dramatic bodycam footage shows a deputy in Clearwater, Florida take on a thrilling chase to stop a runaway boat, culminating in a daring leap to halt the out-of-control vessel. The boat’s operator had fallen overboard and was safely rescued. After preliminary efforts to stop the boat failed, the officers matched the speed of the vessel…
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Armed experts re-enact Parkland school shooting for lawsuit evidence
Reuters By Max Matza BBC News Gun experts will fire live bullets inside a Florida school in a re-enactment of a 2018 mass shooting as part of a lawsuit. Family of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School victims in Parkland are suing an armed school security officer who stayed outside during the attack. Shots fired…
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Six former Mississippi officers plead guilty to torturing two black men
EPA By Nadine Yousif BBC News Six former Mississippi police officers have pleaded guilty to civil rights violations after assaulting two black men during a home raid in January. Authorities said the two men, Michael Jenkins, 32, and Eddie Parker, 35, had been beaten and shocked with Tasers and one of them was also shot…
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Mahek Bukhari: TikTok influencer guilty of murdering men in crash
PA Media By George Torr and Dan Martin BBC News A social media influencer and her mother have been found guilty of murdering two men who died when their car was rammed off the road. Saqib Hussain and Hashim Ijazuddin, both 21, from Oxfordshire, died on the A46 near Leicester in February 2022. It followed…
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Alexei Navalny: Russian opposition leader handed further 19 year jail term
Getty Images By Steve Rosenberg, Russia editor & Ece Goksedef BBC News, in Melekhovo & London The jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been handed a further 19 year jail term, at a trial in a remote penal colony. Mr Navalny was found guilty of founding and funding an extremist organisation and activities. He…
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UK Scouts pulled out of camp after S Korea heatwave
Reuters By Sean Seddon BBC News UK scouts are set to leave an international event in South Korea which has been hit by extreme heat. Hundreds have fallen ill at the outdoor World Scout Jamboree, which is attended by more than 40,000 young people from around the world. The British group of more than 4,000,…
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US jobs market holds steady despite rate rises
Getty Images Employment in the US held steady last month, raising hopes that the economy will avoid a painful downturn. Employers added 187,000 jobs, similar to June, while the jobless rate dipped to 3.5%, from 3.6% in the prior month, the Labor Department said. The report was the latest sign of economic resilience in the…
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Greta Thunberg pulls out of book festival appearance
EPA Climate activist Greta Thunberg has pulled out of an appearance at the Edinburgh International Book Festival over its links to the fossil fuel industry. She had been due to attend an event at the annual festival on 13 August. But she said she would now not do so because the festival receives sponsorship from…
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Watch as RAF jets intercept ‘zombie’ Russian aircraft
The RAF has released footage and photographs of fighter jets from RAF Lossiemouth intercepting Russian aircraft. Air force crews were deployed to Estonia to help patrol Nato airspace over the course of four months, during which they intercepted 50 Russian aircraft. The RAF personnel used “zombie” as their codeword for a Russian plane acting suspiciously.…
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Andrew Tate’s Romania house arrest lifted
EPA Controversial influencer Andrew Tate has been freed from house arrest in Romania pending his trial on rape and human trafficking charges. Andrew and his brother Tristan were arrested in March and charged in June. They deny the charges. The pair can move freely around the capital, Bucharest, and the surrounding Ilfov district where they…