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adds video By Julio-Cesar Chavez, Andrew Hay and Joseph Ax for Reuters New York prosecutors have filed a murder charge against the suspect in the killing of a UnitedHealth executive, a brazen shooting that set off a manhunt that culminated in his capture in Pennsylvania earlier on Monday. The action brought an end to a tense five-day manhunt for the suspected killer. The suspect, identified as Luigi Mangione, 26, was captured in Altoona, Pennsylvania, after he was spotted eating at a McDonald's by a customer and an employee who believed he resembled the gunman, officials said at a news conference. When approached by two police officers inside the McDonald's and asked if he had recently been in New York, Mangione began to shake and went quiet, one of the responding officers said at a pre...

By Maya Gebeily and Michelle Nichols for Reuters Syrians sit on an abandoned government tank in front of a slogan that reads "We are your men, Bashar" and "Long Live Syria", in the Damascus suburb of Daraya. Photo: AFP / Rami Al Sayed Syrian banks, oil sector set to resume work on Tuesday US seeking ways to engage with Syrian rebel leaders now in charge Israel criticized by Egypt, Qatar and Saudi Arabia for seizing Syria buffer zone The lightning overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad has left Syrians, countries in the region and world powers nervous about what comes next, as the rebel alliance takes its first steps in a government transition. The United Nations Security Council met behind closed doors late on Monday, and diplomats said they were still in shock at how quickly Assad...

A booking photo, taken on 9 December 2024, obtained from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections shows Luigi Mangione. Photo: AFP / Pennsylvania Department of Corrections A man arrested in connection with the shooting of an insurance executive in New York was carrying a handwritten document suggesting he had "ill will towards corporate America", US police say. Luigi Mangione, 26, has been charged with weapons and other offences after he was arrested at a Pennsylvania McDonald's. A customer recognised his face from media coverage and notified an employee, who called police, officers said. They said Mangione initially produced a fake ID when approached by officers at the McDonald's. What we know about Luigi Mangione When they asked him to remove his face mask, they recognised him as a ...

By Kanishka Singh for Reuters The negative and one-star reviews showed up after Luigi Mangione, 26, was captured at a McDonald's in Altoona. File pic Photo: Jakub Porzycki / NurPhoto via AFP Google on Monday removed derogatory reviews about McDonald's after the suspect in the killing of UnitedHealth executive Brian Thompson was arrested at its restaurant in Altoona, Pennsylvania, where police say a customer alerted a local employee about him. The negative comments aimed at McDonald's were the latest in what is known as "review bombing," where an establishment is hit with a litany of bad reviews based on a political view or an occurrence unrelated to its actual business. In this case, the negative and one-star reviews showed up after Luigi Mangione, 26, was captured at a McDonald's in...

By Maayan Lubell and Emily Rose for Reuters Israeli military armoured vehicles cross the fence to Syria near the Druze village of Majdal Shams in the Israel-annexed Golan Heights on December 8, 2024. Photo: AFP / JALAA MAREY Israel will step up airstrikes on Syrian stores of advanced weaponry, Israeli officials said on Monday, and keep a "limited" troop presence on the ground, hoping to head off any threat that could emerge in the fallout of president Bashar al-Assad's overthrow. Israel has watched the upheaval in Syria with a mixture of hope and concern as it weighs the consequences of one of the most significant strategic shifts in the Middle East in years. "We are taking all the actions necessary to try to ensure our security with regard to the new situation in Syria," Israeli Pri...

People gather at the Sednaya prison as Syrian rescuers search for potential hidden basements at the facility in Damascus on 9 December, 2024. Photo: AFP / Mohammed Al-Rifai Families hunt through labyrinthine prison complex Thousands wait outside hoping for news of loved ones Efforts to find prisoners in hidden cells fruitless As families desperately scoured the filthy cells of Syria's forbidding Sednaya prison on Monday for any sign of long-detained relatives after its gates were flung open by rebels, hope for finding missing loved ones began to fade. Thousands of prisoners spilled out of president Bashar al-Assad's pitiless detention system after he was toppled on Sunday, sometimes to tearful reunions with relatives who believed they had been executed years earlier. But countless ...

Photo: X / @PepMangione Police have named the "strong person of interest" in the shooting of UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson in New York City as 26-year-old Luigi Nicholas Mangione. Mangione was born and raised in the state of Maryland and had ties to San Francisco in California, according to New York Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny, He was arrested in Pennslyvania - the state between Maryland and New York - but his last previous address was in Honolulu, Hawaii. Mangione was arrested after he was recognised by an employee at a McDonald's restaurant in Altoona. He was "sitting there eating", Kenny added. He credited the tip to the wide circulation of a photo the New York City Police Department released of Mangione without a mask on. Luigi Mangione's profile picture on ...

From top left, clockwise, US President Donald Trump, Raygun (Rachael Gunn), British singer Liam Payne, and All Blacks' Beauden Barrett. Photo: Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images / AFP, Odd Andersen/AFP, Emma McIntyre / Getty Images via AFP, Photosport The heated US election, Olympics and the viral memes from athletes, and One Direction star Liam Payne were among the top search terms from Kiwis on Google this year. The search trends cover the period from the start of the year until about 1 December. US election The New York Post is displayed in the window of a newsstand inside of Trump Tower in New York City, on 6 November, 2024. Photo: DAVID DEE DELGADO/AFP The US election was the number one most searched term in Aotearoa. It was always set to be a heated battleground as Joe Biden ...

By Alli Rosenbloom and Lisa Respers France, CNN Emilia Pérez (2024), directed by Jacques Audiard, starring Selena Gomez. Photo: Page 114 - Why Not Productions / Collection ChristopheL via AFP The nominees for the 82nd Golden Globe Awards included some former child superstars, along with some surprises. Actors Mindy Kaling and Morris Chestnut announced the 2025 slate of nominees which was led by the musical Emilia Pérez with 10 nominations. Ariana Grande and Selena Gomez, former child stars of Nickelodeon and Disney respectively, both scored nods - Grande for Wicked and Gomez for both the film Emilia Pérez and her Hulu series Only Murders in the Building. The surprises included Pamela Anderson's nomination in the best actress in a drama category for her performance in The Last Showgi...

Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan Murdoch at the Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, in 2017. Photo: AFP / Getty Images / Drew Angerer A Nevada commissioner has ruled against Rupert Murdoch's bid to change his family trust to consolidate control of his media empire in the hands of his son Lachlan, the New York Times reported on Monday, citing a sealed court document. Nevada commissioner Edmund Gorman concluded in a decision filed on Saturday that Rupert Murdoch and Lachlan, who is the head of Fox News parent Fox Corp and News Corp , had acted in "bad faith" in their effort to amend the irrevocable trust, the Times reported. The trust currently would divide control of the company equally among Rupert Murdoch's four oldest children - Lachlan, James, Elisabeth and Prudence - after his deat...