By Pavel Polityuk and Simon Lewis KYIV/KRAMATORSK, Ukraine (Reuters) -Ukraine has so far staved off any major Russian advance into the north of its Donetsk region, but pressure is intensifying with heavy shelling on the city of Sloviansk and nearby populated areas, the Ukrainian military said on Wednesday. Russia and separatist proxies were already in …
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By Brendan O’Brien and Steve Gorman HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (Reuters) – The man charged with killing seven people at a Chicago-area July Fourth parade slipped past the safeguards of an Illinois “red flag” law designed to prevent people deemed to have violent tendencies from getting guns, officials revealed on Tuesday. The disclosures raised questions about …
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By Lisa Richwine LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A California man was found guilty on Wednesday of first-degree murder in the shooting death of Grammy-winning Los Angeles rapper Nipsey Hussle in 2019. A 12-person jury in Los Angeles County convicted Eric Ronald Holder Jr., 32, in the killing of Hussle outside a clothing store the rapper …
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By Brendan O’Brien WAUKEGAN, Ill. (Reuters) -The man accused of killing seven people and wounding dozens of others at an Independence Day parade outside of Chicago admitted to authorities that he carried out the shooting, a prosecutor said on Wednesday during the suspect’s first court appearance. Robert Crimo, the 21-year-old suspect facing seven counts of …
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DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s governing coalition is set to lose its formal majority in parliament after one of its deputies defied it in a vote, a government lawmaker said. The government will as a result be reliant on sympathetic independent deputies to pass legislation in the coming months, the lawmaker said. A member of the …
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By Renju Jose SYDNEY (Reuters) -A wild storm system has moved away from Sydney after pounding Australia’s largest city with four days of torrential rain, satellite images showed on Wednesday, although river waters stayed above danger levels, forcing more evacuations. The year’s third major flooding episode saw more than 85,000 people in New South Wales, …
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By Eric Cox and Brendan O’Brien HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (Reuters) – The man accused of attacking a Fourth of July parade in a Chicago suburb bought his rifle legally, fired more than 70 rounds from a roof and dressed in women’s clothing to blend into the fleeing crowd afterwards, local officials said on Tuesday. The …
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By Brendan O’Brien and Tom Polansek HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. (Reuters) -A teacher at a synagogue and a grandfather in his 70s who came from Mexico to visit his family were among those killed in the shooting at a Fourth of July parade in Chicago suburb Highland Park, according to family and friends. Nicolas Toledo was …
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(Reuters) – Former Minneapolis Police Officer Derek Chauvin will be sentenced later this week for violating the civil rights of George Floyd during the arrest that ended in Floyd’s killing. Chauvin, who has already been sentenced to 22-1/2 years in prison for intentional second-degree, third-degree murder, and second-degree manslaughter by a state court, pleaded guilty …
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By Stephen Grey VALLETTA (Reuters) – The man accused of detonating a car bomb that killed a prominent Maltese journalist has confessed to the crime in an interview with a Reuters reporter and says he will soon implicate others in plotting to assassinate her. Speaking from jail in his first comment on the case, George …
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