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Getty ImagesAttorneys for Luigi Mangione, who is accused of killing United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson in New York, are meeting federal prosecutors on Friday amid US media reports of a potential plea agreement.Mangione faces two federal charges of stalking resulting in death, each carrying a maximum sentence of life in prison. It was not immediately clear which charges are under discussion.”There’s a conference scheduled for 11 am on Friday, and that’s all we can say at this time,” Jamie McDonald, the US Attorney for the Southern District of New York (SDNY), said this week.Mangione also faces a separate state trial…
World Food Programme/PAMichael Ryan was among the 157 people killed on board the Ethiopian Airlines planeThe widow of an Irish United Nations employee, who died in 2019 following a Boeing 737 Max crash in Ethiopia, has been awarded $29m (£21.5m) in damages.A jury in Chicago in the United States awarded the sum to Michael ‘Mick’ Ryan’s family after his widow Naoise Connolly Ryan brought a civil suit against the aircraft manufacturer.Her lawyers have said the verdict “represents an important measure of accountability and justice”.A Boeing spokesperson said the company is “deeply sorry to all who lost loved ones” and they…
AFP via Getty ImagesThe second of the two 706-megawatt nuclear reactors at Cernavodă was disconnected just before midday on ThursdayRomania has shut down its only nuclear power station because of extremely low water levels in the Danube river caused by prolonged hot weather affecting much of Europe.The Cernavodă plant, where two reactors produce about 20% of Romania’s electricity, is not expected to be restarted within the next 10 days.Earlier this week, authorities tried to increase the water flow to the plant – which uses the Danube for cooling – by sinking barges loaded with rocks in the river.Neighbouring Hungary has…
Getty ImagesThousands of US military members who have been living aboard an aircraft carrier for more than 250 days are reportedly contending with food shortages, broken plumbing, exhaustion, and other hardships, leading a lawmaker to demand answers from the Pentagon and putting pressure on the Trump administration over the Iran war.Military news outlets reported multiple sailors on the USS Abraham Lincoln have considered jumping overboard, as well. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth on Thursday called reports of poor conditions “completely misrepresented”.The carrier left California in November for the South China Sea and was sent to the Middle East ahead of attacks…
ReutersL-R: Michael McLeod, Alex Formenton, Carter Hart, Dillon Dube and Cal FooteFour ice hockey players who were acquitted of sexual assault last year should remain barred from representing Canada at international level because they broke Hockey Canada’s code of conduct, an independent appeals board has ruled.The board recommended that four of the five acquitted players remain suspended from all Hockey Canada-sanctioned programmes.The fifth player, Alex Formenton, was also deemed to have broken conduct rules, but is now being reinstated. The former players for Canada’s under-20s junior hockey team were accused of sexual assault over an incident that took place in…
Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov believes that Ukraine cannot be conquered, only destroyed by PutinAt the Moscow offices of newspaper Novaya Gazeta, the corridors are silent.There is an overwhelming sense of emptiness.”There is no newspaper anymore,” former chief editor Dmitry Muratov tells me in an exclusive interview, published on the BBC News YouTube channel.Muratov, 64, co-founded Novaya Gazeta more than 30 years ago. It became the flagship for hard-hitting independent journalism in Russia, shining a light on human rights abuses and high-level corruption.It was recognition for courageous reporting.But it didn’t protect the paper.EPAMuratov auctioned off his Nobel Prize medal…
‘Maybe the message is getting through’: Surgeon on eclipse eye damageEye experts are warning people to be on the alert for any signs their vision has been damaged by looking at the sun during Wednesday’s eclipse.The symptoms can include blurred vision, a central blind or dark spot and increased sensitivity to light.After the previous total eclipse of the sun that was visible in the UK in 1999, around 70 people were left with damaged sight.Many of them had spent less than a minute looking at the spectacle, without realising they were harming their eyes.The sun is incredibly bright, even when…
EPAThe Israeli army pictured in the West Bank village of Qusra on WednesdayThe Israeli military says it will deploy additional troops to the occupied West Bank after failing to force away Israeli settlers who have trapped two Palestinian families in their homes since Sunday. The Abu Ridi and Hassan families – who live on the outskirts of the village of Qusra, south of Nablus – made appeals for help after their water and power supplies were cut off and their food stocks ran low.The case is the latest to draw attention to the relative impunity of settlers and how Israeli…
AFP via Getty ImagesBruno Foucher has served in CAR since 2023France has opened disciplinary proceedings against its top diplomat in the Central African Republic (CAR) over accusations of misconduct.This emerged after a report in a French weekly that Ambassador Bruno Foucher allegedly had brought dozens of women into his official residence and had sex with some of them. He has not commented publicly.The allegations, which refer to events said to have happened between January 2024 and March this year, prompted investigations by France’s foreign ministry into a potential security breach.A French diplomat told the BBC that the ministry has since…