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By Daniel Trotta, Reuters A photo of Tyre Nichols is positioned prior to a press conference on 27 January, 2023 in Memphis, Tennessee. Photo: AFP A second former Memphis police officer pleaded guilty on Friday to federal charges in the death of Black motorist Tyre Nichols, whose videotaped beating by five Black officers in January 2023 shocked the United States. Emmitt Martin III, one of five fired officers facing criminal charges, was also expected to plead guilty to related Tennessee state charges, the Shelby County District Attorney's Office said in a statement. Martin pleaded guilty to two of the four federal counts against him - one for depriving Nichols' civil rights, and another for witness tampering - and agreed to cooperate with the investigation, according to his plea agree...

Police stand near the scene of fatalities and injuries in an attack at the 650th anniversary celebrations of German city Solingen. Photo: Gianni Gattus / DPA / AFP Several individuals were killed on Friday night when a man stabbed passers-by at random with a knife at a city festival in the western German city of Solingen, newspaper Bild reported. Bild reported that the event occurred around 9.45pm local time and that at least three people were dead and multiple people were wounded. Witnesses said the perpetrator was at large, the paper added. The local newspaper Solingen Tageblatt reported on its website that the attack occurred at a festival to honour town's 650 years. Local police said they were not yet able to comment. More to come... - Reuters Source link

Commonwealth War Graves Commission workers clean a cemetery on the Gallipoli peninsula following a large wildfire. Photo: Supplied / Commonwealth War Graves Commission At least two war cemeteries containing the remains of New Zealand soldiers were affected by a fire in Gallipoli, it has been confirmed. The wildfire was one of a number of large blazes that damaged large swathes of Turkey last week. At the time, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission said it would take some time to carry out a full-scale inspection of all the cemeteries across the peninsula, which number more than 30. "Whilst there is extensive fire damage to the gardens, trees and horticulture in and around the cemeteries, it appears there has been no damage (other than superficial) to the headstones, graves and memorial...

By Giselda Vagnoni and Guglielmo Mangiapane, Reuters Divers from Italy's fire service have been working to retrieve bodies from the wreck. Photo: AFP Italian rescue divers have found the body of the last person missing after British tech magnate Mike Lynch's family yacht sank off Sicily, believed to be his daughter Hannah, a source close to the matter told Reuters on Friday. The British-flagged Bayesian, a 56-metre-long luxury sail boat carrying 22 passengers and crew, was anchored off the port of Porticello, near Palermo, when it capsized and rapidly sank after being struck by a pre-dawn storm on Monday. The source did not identify the body as belonging to 18-year-old Hannah Lynch, but she was the only person still unaccounted for. Italian news agency Adnkronos said she was found in...