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Death toll in clashes between ethnic groups at UN displacement camp in South Sudan now more than 20

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:31:47 GMT

JUBA, South Sudan (AP) — The death toll from clashes between displaced people inside a U.N. site in South Sudan has risen to more than 20, with more than 50 others wounded, the medical charity MSF said Friday. The statement by the organization, which is also known as Doctors Without Borders, said that two of its staff were among those hurt. Some of the injured were being airlifted to the capital, Juba.“While the situation was relatively calm this morning, many women and children who fled the camp are yet to return in fear of escalation,” said Luz Linares, MSF’s head of mission in the country.Thursday’s clashes in the Malakal camp occurred between members of the Shilluk and Nuer ethnic groups, a local representative of the displaced people told The Associated Press. The U.N. office in South Sudan said the fighting began with a stabbing, and that its mission had reinforced the military and police presence in the area in “close collaboration” with South Sudan’s milita...

Bodycam video shows former Loveland cop punching handcuffed woman

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:31:47 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Body camera video has been released of a now former Loveland police officer punching a woman in the face after she spits on him while she was in custody.Loveland Police Chief Tim Doran explained in a video released Friday why he fired Russell Maranto, 28, for unnecessary use of force. He included a short clip of the body camera video showing the minutes before Maranto punched Angelia Hall, 59, in the face while she was in custody in a hospital ER room and after. She is using explicit language and yelling at the officers and nurses. She spits at Maranto and he immediately punches her in the face. The other officer in the room grabbed Hall and separated her and Maranto. The video below is an excerpt from the body camera footage released by the Loveland Police Department. The blurring seen in the clip was in the original video posted by LPD. Edits to the audio were made by FOX31. Viewer discretion is advised. The full video posted by Loveland police can be seen on thei...

Denver has already exceeded the average rainfall for June

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:31:47 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) — Just one week into June, Denver has already exceeded its average monthly amount of rainfall. It has been a wet month in the Mile High City, and it looks to be more of the same in the coming week. The Pinpoint Weather team has been tracking the rain for some time, and more afternoon thunderstorms are on the way for Friday.All that rain has helped Denver reach its average monthly accumulation in just the first seven days of the month. Pinpoint Metrologist Kylie Bearse said that Denver has had 2.03 inches of rainfall in June so far. This Colorado community is among the nation’s safest suburbs Three days ago, on June 6, Denver was just 0.10 inches away from the monthly average, and now it has exceeded it.On average, June gets 1.94 inches of rainfall. Flooding potentialWith more rain on the way this weekend, residents in Lyons are warned to prepare to evacuate due to possible flooding. Not only has Colorado seen continuous days of rain, but the state is also already se...

This is what Nuggets players listen to before a game

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:31:47 GMT

DENVER (KDVR) -- Music can change the energy of a room, and that includes the Denver Nuggets locker room.The team posted a video on Twitter in which they asked players what song they would play to "hype up the locker room."Here's what they play to "get the vibes right." Photos: 40 years of Nuggets jerseys in history Ish Smith did not hesitate to recommend "Knuck if You Buck" by Crime Mob, and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope was ready with his answer, "We Ready" by Pastor Troy.Jeff Green brought some genre variety to the playlist."I would put on some country," he said. "I'll play 'Broadway Girls' by Morgan Wallen for everyone because it's kind of a mixture of both."Several players seemed to agree that Lil Baby has some good basketball beats that the whole team can jam to."Anything Lil Baby," Collin Gillespie said.Bruce Brown said "Lil Baby at this moment. That's somebody who I think, you know with the age difference of the team, that everybody pretty much listens to. Even Joker." ‘You’...

Biggest tornadoes in Colorado of the past decade

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:31:47 GMT

DENVER (Stacker) — Of the 1,600-plus tornadoes that happen around the world each year, the vast majority occur in the United States.A large part of the central U.S.—dubbed Tornado Alley—has become famous for its high number of annual tornadoes; however, even though it has been enshrined in films like "The Wizard of Oz" and "Twister," the storms can happen anywhere. The Southeast experiences tornadoes at a similar frequency, and even seemingly unlikely states like Hawaii have experienced them.Meteorologists use the Enhanced Fujita scale to classify tornadoes' severity. The storms are ranked on a scale of EF0 to EF5 based on wind speed and related damage, with EF5 storms having wind speeds above 200 mph. Most tornadoes in the U.S. have wind speeds below 110 mph—making them primarily EF0 and EF1 storms. Still, even smaller-scale storms can cause significant damage. EF0 and EF1 storms have contributed to more than $900 million in property damage since 2012, averaging $75,000 p...

Donald Trump described Pentagon plan of attack and shared classified map, indictment says

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:31:47 GMT

MIAMI (AP) — Former President Donald Trump described a Pentagon “plan of attack” and shared a classified map related to a military operation, according to an indictment unsealed Friday.The document marks the Justice Department’s first official confirmation of a criminal case against Trump arising from the retention of hundreds of documents at his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago.Trump disclosed the existence of the indictment in a Truth Social post Thursday night as well as in a video he recorded.The indictment accuses Trump of having improperly removed scores of boxes from the White House to take them to Mar-a-Lago, many of them containing classified information.THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.MIAMI (AP) — Donald Trump has been indicted on charges of mishandling classified documents at his Florida estate, a remarkable development that makes him the first former president in U.S. history to face criminal charges by the federal government that he once o...

14-year-old Bay Area teen is about to graduate from college, work for SpaceX

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:31:47 GMT

SANTA CLARA, California (KGO) — Bay Area native Kairan Quazi is an exceptional 14-year-old – next week he will become the youngest graduate in the history of Santa Clara University.On June 17, Quazi will be graduating with a degree in computer science and engineering from SCU.He can’t drive or see an R-rated movie, but Quazi landed his first job as a software engineer for SpaceX which he’ll be starting next month.Quazi was born in Pleasanton. His parents say he was speaking in full sentences at two years old.“During third grade, it became very obvious to my teachers, my parents, and my pediatrician that mainstream education wasn’t the right path for my accelerated learning ability,” Quazi said.Not only was his IQ seen as profoundly gifted, so was his emotional intelligence. Quazi started at Las Positas Community College when he was nine years old and transferred to SCU when he was 11.If you ask him – he’ll say he’s had a fa...

Estonia re-ups entry ban on head of Russian church

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:31:47 GMT

Estonia’s Foreign Ministry banned 58 Russians from entering the country on Friday, including the head of the Russian Orthodox Church, Patriarch Kirill, one of the most ardent supporters of Russian President Vladimir Putin and his invasion of Ukraine.“Patriarch Kirill is one of the greatest adherents and proponents of Putin’s ideology,” said Margus Tsahkna, the country’s foreign minister, in a press statement. “It was about time he was blacklisted. He has justified and abetted the war against Ukraine.”The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, according to the statement, on Friday renewed the recently expired Magnitsky list, which allows Estonia to ban foreigners they found guilty of human rights abuses. In 2022, the Ukrainians and the British imposed sanctions on Kirill, while a European Union effort in June 2022 was blocked by Hungary. But the European Parliament did adopt a resolution condemning Patriarch Kirill’s role in “providing theological cover for Russia’s war...

EU countries reject making non-consensual sex a criminal offense across the bloc

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:31:47 GMT

Brussels’ plan to class all non-consensual sex as rape across the EU was rejected by national governments.In March 2022, the European Commission presented a draft law aimed at protecting women from violence ranging from female genital mutilation to cyberstalking. It also sought to make all EU countries classify non-consensual sex as rape punishable with a maximum penalty of at least eight years in prison. But after over a year of divisive talks, EU governments on Friday rejected the rape proposal. More specifically, while they backed the law as a whole, they removed the provision about rape. Sweden, which holds the rotating presidency of the Council, had managed to clinch agreement among countries a week ago that moves the EU closer to ratifying the 2011 Istanbul Convention — an international treaty meant to reduce violence against women across Europe. Those negotiations exposed a cultural war between Eastern European countries such as Poland, Hungary and Bulgaria, and ...

Arise, Sir Jacob! Boris Johnson doles out knighthoods to top Brexiteers

Published Sun, 29 Dec 2024 13:31:47 GMT

LONDON — Jacob Rees-Mogg and a series of arch-Brexiteers are to be given knighthoods and damehoods as a part of Boris Johnson’s newly-released resignation honors list.Several aides closely connected to the COVID rule-breaching Partygate scandal were also nominated for gongs, after months of speculation.Resignation honors allow an outgoing British prime minister to draw up a list of people they believe should gain knighthoods, damehoods, seats in the U.K.’s unelected House of Lords, and other titles.Former ministers and close Johnson allies Rees-Mogg, Priti Patel, Simon Clarke, Conor Burns and Amanda Milling were among those to be nominated for knighthoods and damehoods by the ex-prime minister.They join backbench Tory Brexiteers Michael Fabricant and former Conservative Party chair Ben Elliot, the nephew of Queen Camilla, in the queue for knighthoods — meaning they will be able to style themselves “Sir.”Former senior No. 10 civil servant Martin Reynolds, a top...