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[Link] Virginia Walmart manager opened fire in break room before killing six, witness says
Read: 23/11/2022 www.abc.net.au
Officers in Virginia responded to the mass shooting at the supermarket on Sam's Circle on Tuesday shortly after 10pm local time, Chesapeake Police spokesman Leo Kosinski said in a briefing. There was no clear motive for the shooting, which also left four people in the hospital.
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[Link] US military kills Islamic State leader in Syria airstrike
Read: 12/7/2022 www.theguardian.com
The US military killed a leader of the Islamic State on Tuesday in an airstrike in Syria, Joe Biden said.
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[Link] Ben Roberts-Smith to call ex-SAS member alleged to have committed war crime as his first reply witness in defamation trial
Read: 18/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A former Australian SAS soldier alleged by three newspapers to have ordered the execution of an unarmed elderly man in Afghanistan will be the first witness-in-reply called by Ben Roberts-Smith in his war crimes defamation trial.
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[Link] Multiple People Shot and Explosive Devices Found in Brooklyn Subway Stop
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
This is a developing story. Please refresh for updates. Emergency responders answered a call about reports of smoke in the subway station at 36th Street and 4th Avenue servicing the D, N and R lines, the email continued.
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[Link] NYPD Have Named a ‘Person of Interest’ in the Brooklyn Subway Mass Shooting
Read: 13/4/2022 www.vice.com
The individual is Frank R. James, 62. James rented a U-Haul vehicle in Philadelphia that officials have connected to the shooting, and vehicles’ keys were found at the incident.
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[Link] Witness in Ben Roberts-Smith defamation trial denies he is a ‘liar and a fantasist’
Read: 2/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
A former SAS soldier who testified that Ben Roberts-Smith ordered him to stage a mock execution of a comrade during a training drill has defended himself in court against accusations he was a liar and fantasist who was trying to justify his own failures as a soldier.
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[Link] Police Arrest Father Who Shot and Killed His 7-Day-Old Baby Girl
Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com
Police caught 24-year-old Shahazib Khan on Thursday in the Bhakkar district of Punjab province, 57 miles from his home in Mianwali district where he fatally shot his baby girl Jannat, whose name means “heaven” in Urdu.
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[Link] Amir Locke shooting: hundreds protest in Minneapolis after police killing of Black man
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
Hundreds of protesters took to the streets of downtown Minneapolis on Saturday demanding justice in the fatal police shooting of a young Black man, Amir Locke, during a “no-knock” raid on an apartment earlier this week.
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[Link] Yangon’s silenced streets: how a hotbed of anti-coup resistance was extinguished
Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com
As Thitsar* walked through her neighbourhood one December morning, she was struck by its emptiness. The bamboo shacks that line the streets of Hlaing Tharyar, an industrial township on the outskirts of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, lay in tatters, overgrown with weeds.
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[Link] Ex-soldier charged with wife's murder granted home detention bail
Read: 31/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
WARNING: This story contains content that some people may find distressing. Antony Ogar, 58, is accused of murdering 37-year-old Cherry Gerente Ogar at their Port Hughes home last July.
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[Link] SA paramedics tell parliamentary inquiry shortages leading to deaths and unnecessary suffering
Read: 30/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
South Australian paramedics say a shortage of crews is leading to deaths and unnecessary suffering.
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[Link] Dozens have finally been sentenced over the 2017 murders of two UN investigators in the Congo
Read: 30/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
About 50 people have been sentenced to death, many in absentia, in Democratic Republic of Congo in connection with the murders of UN experts Zaida Catalan and Michael Sharp in 2017, according to a defence lawyer in the case.
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[Link] Clash with separatist rebels sees death of three Indonesian soldiers in Papua
Read: 28/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Separatist rebels have killed three Indonesian soldiers and critically injured another during an attack on a military post in Indonesia's easternmost province of Papua.
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[Link] LAPD Emails Reveal Fallout of Citizen’s Botched Manhunt
Read: 27/1/2022 www.vice.com
After Citizen's CEO Andrew Frame offered a $30,000 bounty on the wrong person, LAPD officers said they would no longer work with Citizen.
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[Link] Oklahoma executes man for 2001 murders of two hotel workers
Read: 27/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
Oklahoma executed a man Thursday for the murders of two hotel workers during a robbery in 2001. Donald Grant, 46, received a lethal injection at the Oklahoma state penitentiary in McAlester and was declared dead at 10.16am.
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[Link] Police urge caution after man dies in unofficial search for missing police dog
Read: 23/1/2022 www.abc.net.au
Emergency services were called to help the man at about 7:00pm but he was pronounced dead at the scene. Officers cut back their search for PD Quizz on Sunday, six days after his disappearance.
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[Link] Prisoners Suspected of Smuggling Drugs Inside a Baby That Ended Up Dead
Read: 19/1/2022 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—A dead infant found in a trash can inside a notorious Mexican prison has fueled allegations that the child’s body may have been used to smuggle drugs into the facility.
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[Link] Amazon's retail CEO Dave Clark defends the company's response to the deadly Edwardsville tornado in internal memo: 'fast action saved lives'
Read: 19/12/2021 www.businessinsider.com
Amazon retail boss Dave Clark thanked employees in an internal memo on Wednesday, following his visit to the Edwardsville, IL, warehouse that was struck by a deadly tornado last week.
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[Link] Two shot dead in Moscow by man reportedly told by security guard to put on a face mask
Read: 8/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Four other people were wounded in the incident on Tuesday. Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin said a suspect had been detained.
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[Link] Disabled Man and Teenagers Among 11 Shot and Burned in Horrific Massacre
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Warning: This article contains graphic images. News outlet Myanmar Now reported locals as saying that some of the victims’ hands were tied when their bodies were found. Cries for help were reportedly heard during the fire, leading some to believe that they were burned alive.
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[Link] Video Captures Horrific Moment Military Truck Rams Into Unarmed Protesters
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
At least three civilians have been killed and dozens injured in Myanmar after a military truck was caught on camera speeding towards a crowd and running down unarmed protesters.
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[Link] TikTok Says Being Victim of Mass Shooting ‘Could Result in You Getting Hurt’
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
One student inside the school took their phone out and filmed the scene inside the classroom, where students were locked in. The gunman was outside, asking to be let in and pretending to be a sheriff. The students did not fall for it.
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[Link] Michigan Shooting Suspect’s Parents Could Be Charged for Not Locking Up Gun
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
The father of the 15-year-old charged in Tuesday’s horrific school shooting in Michigan bought the gun suspected in the killings just four days prior. Now, he and the child’s mother might be charged as well, the county’s top prosecutor said Wednesday.
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[Link] Alec Baldwin Claims He Didn’t Pull the Trigger That Killed ‘Rust’ Cinematographer
Read: 2/12/2021 www.vice.com
Hutchins, 42, was the director of photography on Baldwin’s western ‘Rust,’ which had just started filming when the shooting took place. Hutchins was shot in the chest and later died at the University of New Mexico Hospital in Albuquerque.
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[Link] US teen shoots and kills three fellow students, wounds six
Read: 1/12/2021 www.abc.net.au
Police said they did not know what the teenager's motives were for the attack at Oxford High School, about 50 kilometres north of Detroit. Officers responded at about 12:55pm to emergency calls about a shooter at the school. A teacher is among those wounded.
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[Link] Cop Caught on Video Shooting Man in Wheelchair 9 Times From Behind
Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com
The officer, Ryan Remington, has since been fired from the Tuscon Police Department as a result of the deadly shooting, police said Wednesday. Remington, a four-year veteran of the force, also faces possible charges in the fatal incident. Police say that sometime before 6 p.
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[Link] Tonga’s drug crisis: Why a tiny Pacific island is struggling with a meth epidemic
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
After more than four decades spent living in New Zealand, Ned Cook knew it was time to return to his home country of Tonga. His country was in the grip of a methamphetamine epidemic that was ripping families apart and overrunning the country’s hospitals and jails.
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[Link] Niger: two killed and 17 injured in clash with French military convoy
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
At least two people were killed and 18 injured in western Niger on Saturday when protesters clashed with a French military convoy they blocked after it crossed the border from Burkina Faso, Niger’s government said.
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[Link] Widow of former South Korean dictator Chun Doo-hwan offers ‘deep apology’ for brutal rule
Read: 28/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The widow of South Korea’s last military dictator has issued a brief apology over the “pains and scars” caused by her husband’s brutal rule as dozens of relatives and former aides gathered at a Seoul hospital to pay their final respects to Chun Doo-hwan.
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[Link] 27 People Drowned Trying to Reach the UK
Read: 27/11/2021 www.vice.com
At least 27 people drowned crossing the Channel in an attempt to reach the UK from France.
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[Link] Why Farmers Are Still Unhappy Despite Modi Withdrawing Controversial Farm Laws
Read: 26/11/2021 www.vice.com
In a surprise televised address last week, Indian prime minister Narendra Modi apologised to farmers and announced that the controversial farm laws they had been protesting for a year would be withdrawn.
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[Link] Mr. Goxx, the Crypto-Trading Hamster, Is Dead
Read: 25/11/2021 www.vice.com
Mr. Goxx did his last full shift of trading on Twitch four days ago. The stream went live during the next two days, but Mr. Goxx didn’t show. Fans speculated if he was sick. Today, we know the sad truth. Mr. Goxx’s human business partner announced the news on Twitch, Twitter, and Reddit.
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[Link] The Brutal Racism of the Trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers
Read: 23/11/2021 www.vice.com
Whether the defense likes it or not, the trial of Travis and Gregory McMichael and William “Roddie” Bryan is all about race.
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[Link] Court blocks bid to release secret Ben Roberts-Smith report
Read: 23/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Mr Roberts-Smith is suing The Age, Federal Capital Press and Fairfax Media, which reported serious allegations against him, including multiple unlawful killings in Afghanistan, which he denies.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Were Justified Because Break-Ins ‘Scared’ Them, Defense Says
Read: 22/11/2021 www.vice.com
Travis McMichael had every reason to fear a 25-year-old Black man running through his neighborhood and was justified in attempting to make a “citizen’s arrest” that led to the deadly shooting of Ahmaud Arbery, an attorney for the defense said in one final appeal to jurors.
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[Link] The deadly new risk Afghan women face: It starts with a strange phone call and can end with murder
Read: 22/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Her body was found riddled with bullets alongside three other women who had also been killed. Ms Ayoubi is a journalist and activist who left Afghanistan over concerns for her own safety.
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[Link] Shooting at holy site in Jerusalem kills one and injures four
Read: 21/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Israel says the shooting at a holy site for Jews and Muslims by a Palestinian gunman has left one dead and four injured. The attack took place near an entrance to a contested flashpoint shrine known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary, police said.
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[Link] Rapper Young Dolph shot dead while buying cookies
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Rapper Young Dolph, who was widely admired in the hip-hop community for his authenticity and fierce independence, has been shot dead at a cookie shop in the US city of Memphis, Tennessee.
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[Link] Darwin shooter left without lawyers after sacking expert legal team
Read: 18/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
Confessed killer Benjamin Hoffmann could be left to represent himself when he is sentenced over the killing of four men in 2019, after his high-profile legal team withdrew their services.
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[Link] Travis McMichael Admits Ahmaud Arbery Never Threatened Him Before Shooting
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Ahmaud Arbery did not threaten Travis McMichael or signal that he was armed in the moments before he was killed, but McMichael shot him dead during their struggle anyway, the Glynn County courthouse in Georgia heard Thursday.
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[Link] ‘He Had My Gun’: Ahmaud Arbery's Killer Claims It Was Self-Defense
Read: 18/11/2021 www.vice.com
Travis McMichael, one of three men who chased Black jogger Ahmaud Arbery in a truck with a confederate flag vanity plate, testified Wednesday that he shot Arbery during the confrontation because he believed Arbery was trying to take his gun.
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[Link] After Sierra Leone Explosion, a Health System Is Strained
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Victims are still dying from injuries after a fuel tanker burst into flames last week in Sierra Leone, a country that has no burn units.
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[Link] Father and Son Help Crack Unsolved 1969 Bank Robbery
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Theodore J. Conrad pulled off one of the biggest bank robberies in Cleveland’s history. The case eluded officials for decades, until an obituary appeared online and family secrets began to unravel. The boy watched as his father, John K.
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[Link] Why Music Drives Us to Mayhem
Read: 15/11/2021 www.nytimes.com
Mr. Ayers is a musician, writer and the U.S. head of the British record label 4AD. His memoir will be published by Viking in 2022.
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[Link] Al Jazeera bureau chief arrested in Sudan amid deadly anti-coup protests
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Sudanese security forces have raided the home of Al Jazeera’s Khartoum bureau chief and arrested him, the news outlet has said, a day after street protests across Sudan against a military takeover.
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[Link] US confirms 2019 airstrike hit crowd of Syrian women and children
Read: 15/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
The US military has confirmed for the first time a 2019 air strike in Syria that killed up to 80 people, mostly women and children, but claimed the strike was justified as it killed Islamic State fighters who were attacking coalition forces.
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[Link] Taxi Explosion Outside UK Hospital Declared Terrorist Incident
Read: 15/11/2021 www.vice.com
An explosion that took place outside a hospital in Liverpool on Sunday has been declared a terrorist incident, UK police have said. The male passenger died in the explosion while the driver managed to escape the car and was treated in hospital before being released today.
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[Link] Defense for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Doesn’t Want Famous Black People in Court
Read: 12/11/2021 www.vice.com
One of the defense attorneys for Ahmaud Arbery’s killers was in his feelings when he found out Rev. Al Sharpton stopped by the courtroom to sit with the slain young Black man’s family.
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[Link] After a Person Accidentally Kills Someone, How Do They Heal and Move On?
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
When news broke that Alec Baldwin shot and killed cinematographer Halyna Hutchins with a prop gun on a movie set, many were quick to litigate Baldwin’s level of responsibility and search for someone to blame.
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[Link] Richard ‘Lowtax’ Kyanka, Founder of Something Awful, Is Dead at 45
Read: 11/11/2021 www.vice.com
Richard “Lowtax” Kyanka—the creator of the era-defining Something Awful forums—died by suicide on November 9, Motherboard confirmed with the Lee’s Summit, Missouri police department.
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[Link] Father of Ahmaud Arbery’s Killer: ‘I Would Have Shot Him Myself’
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
Had Travis McMichael not shot Ahmaud Arbery in the chest twice with his shotgun and killed the 25-year-old Black man, Travis’ dad Gregory McMichael said he would have done it instead.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Dad Walked Out When Jury Was Shown Images of His Dead Son
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The first time photos of Ahmaud Arbery’s fatal injuries were shown during the trial of the three white men accused of killing him, his father Marcus Arbery Sr. stood up and left the courtroom. “If you seen your kid get blown apart with a 12-gauge shotgun, what would you do?” Arbery Sr.
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[Link] Paramedic Shot by Rittenhouse Believed He ‘Was Going to Die’
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
The high-profile Rittenhouse trial has now entered its second week.
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[Link] China's COVID death rate is curiously low. An anonymous Beijing doctor told us how they’re doing it
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
If accurate, the official figures highlight the benefits of the world's strictest zero-tolerance policy, which involved keeping borders closed and moving quickly to suppress small outbreaks.
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[Link] Tasmania shooting: two men dead and woman in hospital
Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Two men have died and a woman is in hospital after suffering gunshot wounds at a Tasmanian house with two children inside. Police were called to a property on William Street in Devonport after reports of shots fired about 1am on Saturday.
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[Link] Police Say TV Star Killed Himself Driving. His Family Say Cops Are to Blame.
Read: 7/11/2021 www.vice.com
MEXICO CITY—Since former child star, Octavio Ocaña, died from a bullet wound following a car chase with police, many Mexicans have been consumed with the question of who fired the fatal shot. Police said the 22-year-old TV actor accidentally shot himself in the head with his own gun last week.
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[Link] Ethiopian rebels form new alliance to oust PM as forces advance on the capital
Read: 7/11/2021 www.abc.net.au
The war, which has killed thousands of people and forced more than 2 million from their homes, has intensified in recent weeks. The Tigray People's Liberation Front claims to have captured several towns in recent days and says it is considering marching on the capital.
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[Link] Gene common in south Asian people doubles risk of Covid death, study finds
Read: 6/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
Scientists have identified a gene that doubles the risks of respiratory failure and death from Covid and could explain why people of south Asian heritage are more vulnerable to the disease.
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[Link] Lawyers for Ahmaud Arbery’s Killers Really Want to Stay Away From Race
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
During opening statements in the murder trial against Ahmaud Arbery's killers, defense attorneys avoided mentioning race almost entirely.
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[Link] Outrage as McDonald’s CEO appears to blame parents of slain Chicago children
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
McDonald’s chief executive, Chris Kempczinski, has sparked outrage after the emergence of a text exchange with the Chicago mayor, Lori Lightfoot, in which he appears to blame two Chicago parents whose children were fatally shot.
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[Link] ‘Honest mistake’: US strike that killed 10 Afghan civilians was legal, says Pentagon
Read: 4/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
A US drone strike in Kabul in August that killed 10 Afghan civilians was a tragic mistake but did not violate any laws, a Pentagon inspector general said after an investigation.
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[Link] All sides in Ethiopian war committed crimes against civilians, UN report finds
Read: 4/11/2021 www.sbs.com.au
The report covers most of the year-long conflict, fought by Tigrayan forces against the Ethiopian military and its key allies: forces from Ethiopia's Amhara region and soldiers from the neighbouring nation of Eritrea.
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[Link] Alec Baldwin Just Shot Someone and He’s Tweeting Through It
Read: 3/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. While filming a scene near Santa Fe, New Mexico for the Western last month, Baldwin, 63, shot and killed Halyna Hutchins, the film’s director of photography, and injured director Joel Souza.
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[Link] The Taliban Have a Growing ISIS-K Problem
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
The Taliban face a growing insurgency from ISIS-K, a jihadist group inspired by Islamic State and founded by former Taliban fighters in early 2015.
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[Link] How the 'Craigslist of Guns' Helps Arm Cartels in Mexico
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Investigators traced guns found in the border city of Reynosa back to Americans who used the website Armslist.
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[Link] Cops Admit Sharing Images of Murdered Sisters on WhatsApp
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Two Metropolitan police officers have admitted to taking, altering and sharing images of two sisters who were found dead in a London park this year.
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[Link] Alabama Judge Loses Job After Saying George Floyd ‘Got What He Deserved’
Read: 2/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Randy Jinks, the Talladega County Probate Judge, was removed from his position Friday.
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[Link] QAnon Surfer Accused of Killing His Own Kids May Mount Mental Health Defense
Read: 1/11/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Lawyers for the man accused of killing his own children with a spear gun because he was radicalized by QAnon conspiracy theories are seeking to delay his trial by six months to properly assess his mental health.
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[Link] Alleged TikTok ‘Skyrim IRL’ Murders Shows the Real Danger of Stalkerware
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Last week Ali Nassar Abulaban, a popular TikTok and other social media personality with over a million followers combined across his accounts, allegedly murdered his wife and a man.
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[Link] Man Shot Dead In Hail of Gunfire Over Crypto Mining Rigs, Police Say
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
On October 20, a man opened fire on people attempting to steal his cryptocurrency mining equipment in the Abkhazia region bordering Russia. According to police, the man killed one of his own friends while fending off the attackers and is now in custody.
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[Link] School Cop Who Shot and Killed Manuela ‘Mona’ Rodriguez Charged With Murder
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The former Long Beach, California, school safety officer who shot and killed an 18-year-old mother as she drove away from the scene of a fight will now face a murder charge.
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[Link] Mac Miller’s Drug Supplier Admits to Distributing Fentanyl-Laced Pills
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Stephen Andrew Walter—one of three men charged in connection with Miller’s death—agreed to a plea deal Monday, according to court documents filed in federal court in the Central District of California.
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[Link] Former Adviser Says Trump Let Thousands Die of COVID for no Reason
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. One of former President Donald Trump’s key coronavirus advisers thinks his administration could have prevented up to 40 percent of U.S. coronavirus deaths with a better pandemic response.
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[Link] More Live Bullets Found on ‘Rust’ Set After Alec Baldwin Shooting, Police Say
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Police have recovered three guns and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, both dummy and live, from the Rust movie set, according to a press conference Wednesday. Among the evidence collected was the Colt .
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[Link] Two Tourists Killed as Cartels Creep Into Mexico's Tulum Resort Area
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
But the October 20 killings revealed the dark underbelly of Mexico’s Riviera Maya, one that tourism officials along the vacation corridor have struggled to hide.
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[Link] It Took 7 Years To Charge Cops Who Shot Jamarion Robinson 59 Times
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Members of a U.S. Marshal’s task force shot Jamarion Robinson, a 26-year-old Black man with paranoid schizophrenia, 59 times during a raid on his girlfriend’s home in 2016.
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[Link] Police Thought They Saw Brian Laundrie Coming Home. It Was His Mom.
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. When Petito was reported missing, North Port Police set up cameras outside Laundrie’s residence. Laundrie had returned home alone Sept.
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[Link] Rightwing Chilean newspaper accused of ‘apology for Nazism’ over Göring article
Read: 26/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Chile’s main conservative daily newspaper has been accused of publishing “an apology for Nazism” after running an illustrated article commemorating the life of the German war criminal Hermann Göring.
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[Link] Human remains found in Florida belong to Gabby Petito's boyfriend Brian Laundrie, FBI says
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The FBI says human remains found in a Florida nature reserve belong to Brian Laundrie. Mr Laundrie was being sought as a person of interest in the death of his girlfriend Gabby Petito while the couple were on a cross-country road trip.
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[Link] Parkland school shooter pleads guilty to 17 counts of murder
Read: 23/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Nikolas Cruz has pleaded guilty to murdering 17 people during a rampage at his former high school in Parkland, Florida, leaving a jury to decide whether he will be executed for one of the nation's deadliest school shootings.
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[Link] 911 Allegedly Hung Up on a Man Who Wouldn’t Speak English. He Died.
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] What We Know About the ‘Skeletal’ Remains of Brian Laundrie
Read: 22/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The Federal Bureau of Investigation confirmed Thursday that remains found at a Florida nature park belonged to Brian Laundrie, the 23-year-old who was a person of interest in the death of his fiancée, 22-year-old Gabby Petito.
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[Link] Ahmaud Arbery’s Murder Trial Jury Is Proving Hard to Pick
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jury selection in the ongoing murder trial of Ahmaud Arbery’s killers is off to a rough start.
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[Link] Paris Hilton Just Spoke Out About Her Time in the “Troubled Teen Industry”
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. This week, Paris Hilton showed up in a somewhat unusual spot for the queen of early-aughts reality TV: Congress.
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[Link] Brazil's Bolsonaro May Face ‘Crimes Against Humanity’ Charge Over COVID
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
A panel of Brazilian lawmakers recommended Wednesday that President Jair Bolsonaro be charged with “crimes against humanity” due to his government's handling of the coronavirus pandemic. Brazil has been one of the world’s most hard hit countries with over 600,000 dead since the pandemic began.
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[Link] Pig Kidney Successfully Transplanted From Hog to Human
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Doctors in New York City transplanted a kidney grown in a pig to a brain-dead woman in a major step forward for xenotransplantation, a process in which human organs are grown in animals and then transplanted into humans.
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[Link] State of Emergency Declared Over Crime Spike and Cocaine Boom in Ecuador
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Lasso’s declaration comes amid spiraling violence in the country, and just 18 days after a confrontation in an Ecuadorian prison between rival criminal groups left 116 inmates dead, including six who were decapitated.
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[Link] Father and Son Gunned Down in Broad Daylight in ‘Gangland’ Shooting
Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com
Eighteen-year-old Salim Hamze was already dead by the time authorities arrived at the scene on Thursday morning, following multiple reports of what sounded like gunshots in an otherwise quiet western Sydney street. His father, Toufik, was slumped over in the utility truck beside him.
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[Link] Former Nazi camp secretary formally charged with more than 11,000 counts of accessory to murder
Read: 20/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Prosecutors accuse her of being part of the apparatus that helped the Nazis’ Stutthof camp function during World War II more than 75 years ago.
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[Link] Miya Marcano’s Family Just Sued Her Apartment Complex for Wrongful Death
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Last month, Armando Caballero, a maintenance man for Arden Villas, allegedly killed Marcano, a college student who was a tenant and employee at the apartment complex in Orlando, Florida.
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[Link] Court Mistakenly Gave Potential Jurors Access to Ahmaud Arbery’s Mental Health History
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Those documents include specifics about Arbery’s mental health and prior criminal history that a judge ordered suppressed and never brought up in court.
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[Link] A homeless man who died after being severely burned is being remembered as a gentle soul
Read: 19/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Aged in his 50s, Daniel Tommerup was cooking a steak outside Milton Hall on Frederick Street in Launceston's CBD when his clothes caught alight. He suffered burns to his lower body and was flown for treatment to the Royal Hobart Hospital, where he later died.
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[Link] Ben Roberts-Smith’s backers at Seven commissioned secret report into war crime allegations, court hears
Read: 19/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Ben Roberts-Smith’s TV station backers commissioned a secret report into war crimes allegations made against him by newspapers, the federal court has heard.
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[Link] Tributes Paid After Stabbing of ‘Kind and Good’ UK MP David Amess
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Politicians and public figures have paid tribute to a “hugely kind and good” MP, Sir David Amess, who has died after being stabbed in a church while meeting local constituents. “I am so deeply, deeply saddened by the tragic news that Sir David has passed away,” Khan wrote on Twitter.
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[Link] Two Dead After 12 Inmates Tried to Get Drunk on Hand Sanitizer
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Two prison inmates died and ten others were hospitalised in Sri Lanka’s capital Colombo after they ingested hand sanitiser to get drunk, prompting a ban on alcohol-based sanitising products in all prisons across the country, according to the Department of Prisons.
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[Link] Mexican Gangster Rapper ‘El Millonario’ Just Got Arrested on Murder Charges
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
Authorities allege that César Suárez, aka Millonario, was involved in the death of a 29-year-old male on the outskirts of the northern Mexican city of Monterrey in July.
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[Link] Man Gets Double Life Sentence For Killing His Wife With a Cobra
Read: 17/10/2021 www.vice.com
According to prosecution lawyers, Sooraj Kumar killed his wife, Uthra, for her gold jewellery and wanted to marry another woman. This was Kumar’s third attempt to murder his wife, they said. In March last year, Kumar allegedly set a viper to bite Uthra while she was staying with her in-laws.
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[Link] Man Sentenced to Death for Setting His TikToker Ex-Wife on Fire During a Livestream
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
The case infuriated Chinese women after media reports suggested that Lhamo had been suffering from Tang’s frequent beatings since the two married a few years ago. Her older sister said Lhamo called the police at least twice, but officers refused to interfere because it was a “family matter.
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[Link] Several people killed in bow and arrow attack in Norway
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
Several people have been killed and others injured by a man who opened fire with a bow and arrows in a town in Norway, according to local police.
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[Link] Afghan refugee stabbed to death in London in front of schoolchildren
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A teenage Afghan refugee was stabbed to death on a sports field in south-west London in front of schoolchildren playing rugby.The victim, named by the Evening Standard as 18-year-old Hazrat Wali, was attacked at about 4.
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[Link] President of Brazil says it ‘makes no sense’ for him to be vaccinated
Read: 14/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
More than 600,000 of his citizens have lost their lives to a Covid-19 outbreak he once pooh-poohed as a “little flu”, but Brazil’s science-denying president, Jair Bolsonaro, has announced he will decline to be vaccinated, saying “it makes no sense” for him to do so.
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[Link] Optimum distance to use a taser 3-4 metres, police shooting murder trial told
Read: 13/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
The murder trial of a police officer who shot and killed a woman armed with a knife has been told the best distance to deploy a taser is from 3 to 4 metres — around the same distance some witnesses put him at when he fired his gun.
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[Link] This Couple Caught COVID-19, So Authorities Drowned and Burned Their Dogs
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Pham Minh Hung and his wife had amassed a sizable menagerie—17 dogs and one cat, to be exact—pets that they considered their own children.
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[Link] Cops and Paramedics Involved in Elijah McClain Death Charged With Homicide
Read: 13/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The police officers and paramedics who stopped 23-year-old Elijah McClain and administered a fatal dose of ketamine to the unarmed Black man are being charged with homicide, more than two years after his death.
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[Link] A Drug Cartel Sent a Severed Head to Tijuana’s New Police Chief on His First Day
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
The next night, two more messages were reportedly found at different points in the city, repeating the same threat of bloodshed, but this time accompanied by what is believed to be animal meat.
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[Link] California man dies after being beaten by people he tried to hit with truck
Read: 11/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A man died after he tried to hit people on a sidewalk with his truck, crashed against a building then was pulled out and beaten by the group in southern California, authorities said.
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[Link] Australia expresses ‘sorrow’ after Afghan army deserter Hekmatullah, who killed three ADF soldiers, set free
Read: 11/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
The Australian government has expressed “sorrow” after a former Afghan soldier convicted of murdering three Australian soldiers in Afghanistan was released from custody in Qatar.
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[Link] 900 Detained After Seven ‘Targeted Killings’ in the World’s Most Militarized Zone
Read: 11/10/2021 www.vice.com
Teachers. A principal. And a well-known pharmacist. They were all shot dead in broad daylight last week in India-controlled Kashmir, heightening fear in the world’s most militarized zone.
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[Link] Long Beach School Cop Shot and Killed a Teen Mom
Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A Long Beach, California, school resource officer fatally shoting an 18-year-old mother in the head as she fled a fight in her car. Now, two days after died, police are investigating the shooting as a homicide.
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[Link] Man Allegedly Killed Pharmacist Brother to Stop Him Giving COVID Vaccines
Read: 7/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jeffrey Burnham, 46, is accused of stabbing to death 83-year-old family friend Rebecca Reynolds in Cumberland, Maryland and stealing her car on Sept. 29.
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[Link] Fifty police officers contacted woman arrested at Sarah Everard vigil on Tinder
Read: 6/10/2021 www.theguardian.com
A campaigner whose photograph during her arrest became the defining image of the vigil for Sarah Everard has said she felt afraid after about 50 police officers and security guards then “liked” her profile on the Tinder dating app.
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[Link] 'Tell them I'm delusional': Accused gunman's instructions prior to alleged murders
Read: 6/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Mihalis Makrylos said Mr Hoffmann came to his house in Darwin's northern suburbs, woke him up him around 2:00am and asked him to go with him to Royal Darwin Hospital (RDH).
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[Link] Warring Gangs Beheaded at Least 6 People in Ecuador's Bloodiest Prison Riot Ever
Read: 1/10/2021 www.vice.com
The latest conflict began with explosions and gunshots at the Litoral prison in the coastal city of Guayaquil on Tuesday.
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[Link] My Cousin Baptized My Dead Relatives Into the Mormon Church
Read: 30/9/2021 www.vice.com
My cousin has been baptizing my dead family members into the Mormon Church. I wasn’t thrilled when I found out. These baptisms are called “baptisms by proxy” or “baptisms for the dead,” and they’re pretty common in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
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[Link] These Gangsters Pretended to Be Lawyers To Kill Their Rival in Court
Read: 28/9/2021 www.vice.com
Stunning footage captured the moment after two gangs went head to head at a courtroom in India, resulting in three deaths and raising questions about security.
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[Link] Gabby Petito's Death Ruled a Homicide
Read: 22/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. The cause of death is pending final autopsy results. The FBI has also named Petito’s missing fiancé, Brian Laundrie, as a person of interest in the case.
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[Link] 'My husband would still be alive': Widow of SA Police officer claims ICAC delays contributed to husband's suicide
Read: 22/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The wife of a senior South Australian police officer who took his own life during an investigation by the state's anti-corruption watchdog has criticised the organisation and its processes. Doug Barr spent 43 years in the force and was involved with the investigation into the Salt Creek kidnapping.
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[Link] Near death of anti-vaccine cardinal is an “irony of life,” says Pope Francis
Read: 20/9/2021 arstechnica.com
Pope Francis, well-known for his freewheeling conversations with journalists aboard the papal plane, yesterday called out COVID-19 vaccine resistance within church ranks as he flew home from Hungary and Slovakia. And he went straight to the top. Well, the irony of life...
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[Link] Police Uncover Secret Torture Room in Hospital
Read: 20/9/2021 www.vice.com
Police say leaked videos show the abuse had been going on for at least three months in the largest and oldest public hospital in Lahore, Pakistan. It is unclear why the alleged torture was filmed. Police suspect it may have been filmed for entertainment purposes or for record-keeping.
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[Link] Alabama Had More Deaths Than Births Last Year Because of COVID-19
Read: 20/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. More people died in Alabama than were born there in 2020, a grim reminder of the toll of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as an unprecedented crisis in the state’s history.
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[Link] Teenager shoots dead six people, wounds several at Russia's Perm university
Read: 20/9/2021 www.abc.net.au
The gunman, who was identified as a student at the university, was initially reported to have been killed in the aftermath but Russian authorities later said that was not the case and added he was being treated in hospital.
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[Link] Alex Murdaugh Hired a Hitman to Kill Him for Insurance Money
Read: 16/9/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] A Cop Killed Another Cop. A Woman Was Charged Instead.
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Jenna Holm, who’s now 35, was holding the tip of a machete under her chin and walking down a Bonneville County street when two sheriff deputies confronted her in May 2020.
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[Link] Boogaloo Bois Are Using Amazon Ring Doorbells to Protect Them From the FBI
Read: 6/9/2021 www.vice.com
Paranoia is the bread-and-butter for Amazon’s Ring camera system.
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[Link] Former DA indicted for allegedly 'showing favor' to men accused of killing Ahmaud Arbery
Read: 3/9/2021 www.nbcnews.com
Jaquelyn Lee Johnson was indicted on charges of violation of oath of public officer and obstruction of a police officer, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr announced. Johnson served as Brunswick Judicial Circuit District Attorney when Arbery, a 25-year-old Black man, was shot last February.
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[Link] The Palestinian Authority’s crackdown on protest shows it will never serve its own people
Read: 1/9/2021 www.theguardian.com
On 24 June, Nizar Banat, a longtime activist and outspoken critic of the Palestinian Authority (PA), was reportedly arrested and beaten outside his cousin’s home in Hebron by the authority’s security forces – he died in custody shortly after.
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[Link] OnlyFans Model Murdered by Man Suspected to Be a Stranger
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Police were called to do a wellness check on Morr, whose legal name was Janae Gagnier, on Sunday. When they entered, they found her and a man, Kevin Alexander Accorto, deceased in the apartment.
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[Link] A Texas School District Shut Down After 2 Teachers Died of COVID
Read: 1/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Connally Junior High seventh-grade social studies teacher David McCormick, 59, died of COVID-19 on August 24, Connally ISD assistant superintendent Jill Bottelberghe told Fox News.
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[Link] ‘We Will Hunt You Down’: Biden Promises U.S. Retaliation for ISIS Attacks in Kabul
Read: 27/8/2021 www.vice.com
President Joe Biden has indicated that the United States will retaliate against the ISIS-affiliated suicide bomb attacks at Kabul’s international airport on Thursday afternoon – promising to “hunt down” the terrorists responsible. At least 90 Afghans and 12 U.S. Service Members – 11 U.S.
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[Link] Who is ISIS-K, the Islamic State offshoot in Afghanistan that has the Taliban worried?
Read: 27/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
Deadly explosions have rocked the edge Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport overnight killing and injuring locals wanting to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover, as well as US military personnel trying to help the evacuation effort.
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[Link] Afghan Soldier Killed As Unknown Sniper Opens Fire at Kabul Airport
Read: 26/8/2021 www.vice.com
An unknown sniper opened fire on US and German troops guarding the entrances to Kabul airport killing an Afghan soldier and wounding three others on Monday.
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[Link] Explosive Video Shows Police Wrapping Bag Around Suspect’s Head in Thailand. He Later Died.
Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com
Thailand has detained several police officers after a viral video showing the alleged torture and death of a man in custody, a gruesome scene that has shocked the country after it leaked online. Uproar spread across social media after the nearly 10-minute clip was first posted earlier this week.
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[Link] Human Remains Found in Landing Gear of Kabul Evacuation Plane
Read: 17/8/2021 www.vice.com
Human remains have been found in the landing gear of a U.S. Air Force plane that took off from the Kabul airport, after Afghans were seen clambering onto evacuating aircraft in a desperate attempt to flee the country.
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[Link] A Mexican Cartel Was Driven Out of Town By Indigenous Vigilantes Called ‘El Machete’
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
PANTELHO, Mexico - As smoke curled from neighboring buildings that had been ransacked and torched the day before, a couple of thousand Indigenous people armed with makeshift weapons gathered around city hall to hear their leaders speak.
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[Link] It’s Back to School in the Apocalypse, and Parents Are Losing Their Minds
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. It’s back-to-school season during the apocalypse, and Americans are celebrating by losing their minds.
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[Link] Death Toll Rising After a Violent Earthquake Shakes Haiti
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
The epicenter of the earthquake, which preliminary readings registered at a magnitude of 7.2, was located near Les Cayes, a port city of more than 70,000 residents near the country’s southwestern tip about 78 miles west of the capital Port-au-Prince.
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[Link] Angry Mob Lynched a Man Accused of Starting a Wildfire in Algeria
Read: 15/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Djamel Ben Ismail, 38, allegedly started a fire in the Tizi Ouzou district town of Larbaa Nath Irathen.
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[Link] He Built a Helicopter From Scratch... It Worked, Then It Killed Him.
Read: 13/8/2021 www.vice.com
Ismail Shaikh, a 28-year-old school dropout from the Indian state of Maharashtra, had a dream: to own a helicopter. After asking around, he soon realised that helicopters cost millions – money he didn’t have.
[Link] Taliban assassinates Afghan government's top media officer in Kabul
Read: 8/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
The Taliban shot dead the head of the Afghan government's media information centre at a mosque in the capital, the ministry said, days after warning they would target senior administration officials in retaliation for increased air strikes.
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[Link] US-Trained Cops in Mexico Killed Migrants, Set Them on Fire, Say Prosecutors
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
New evidence obtained by VICE World News paints a chilling picture of the killing of 19 migrants by pnear the U.S border in January. MEXICO CITY — Two trucks carrying migrants sped through dusty roads a few miles south of the U.S. border as four armored police cars gave chase.
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[Link] Police officer shot dead armed robber after being told not to intervene, Victorian coroner’s court told
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
An undercover police officer who shot dead an armed robber during the hold-up of a bottle shop had been told to let the crime occur rather than intervene, a Victorian court has heard.
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[Link] COVID Kills Street Food Vendor Recognized by Michelin Guide
Read: 6/8/2021 www.vice.com
Bangkok has long been recognized as one of the best places for street food in the world. But it only recently started making international lists after chef and crab omelette specialist Jay Fai became the first street food stall to be awarded a Michelin star in 2017.
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[Link] Swallow hard reality pill on virus deaths
Read: 5/8/2021 www.afr.com
Each life saved by the Sydney lockdown costs $330 million. It’s an unjustifiable expense that imposes large and disproportionate burdens on small business and the less well off.
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[Link] At least 17 killed by lightning at Bangladesh wedding party
Read: 5/8/2021 www.abc.net.au
At least 17 people were killed and more than a dozen injured on Wednesday when lightning struck a wedding party on a boat in northwestern Bangladesh, officials said.
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[Link] Man creates A.I. version of dead fiancée so he can still text her
Read: 27/7/2021 www.indy100.com
Joshua Borbeau’s fiancée, Jessica Pereira, died from a rare form of liver disease and the grieving man has now created an electronic version of her so he can text her. The story was reported by the San Francisco Chronicle and details how Borbeau created the A.I.
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