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Brazilian police Detective Eduardo Fontes says a suspect has confessed to shooting British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira. Fontes said the man, Amarildo Da Costa De Oliveira, took investigators to a site where human remains were dug up, adding that they would work with Interpol to confirm the bodies' identities. Two suspects, brothers Amarildo and Oseney Da Costa De Oliveira, have been arrested in connection with the […]

Russia has barred top United Kingdom UK -based journalists and defence figures as part of sanctions, in response to UK measures on Russian public figures. The British Broadcasting Commission Bbc's Clive Myrie, Orla Guerin, Nick Robinson, and Nick Beake, who have reported from Ukraine, and Director General Tim Davie are on the list. A spokesperson said the BBC will continue to report independently and fairly. Sky TV, Times, Guardian, Channel […]

Naasón Joaquín García, the leader of the La Luz Del Mundo mega church, has been sentenced in a Los Angeles court to 16 years and eight months in prison. 53-year-old García, pleaded guilty last week to three counts of sexually abusing girls from his congregation, which made his sentence considerably shorter than the life imprisonment he could have faced had he been found guilty in a trial. To his followers, […]

A teacher wounded in a school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, has criticised police as cowards for delaying acting while his pupils were killed, stating that they had a bulletproof vest and he had non. In a harrowing interview Reyes, said he told his students to pretend to be asleep during the shooting, with eleven of them killed when the gunman raided his classroom and an adjacent classroom for over an […]

The Dominican Republic’s minister of environment and natural resources Orlando Jorge Mera has been shot and killed in his office by a close friend. Officials disclosed that 55-year-old Mera was holding a meeting at the time of the attack andat least six shots were heard. A presidential spokesman identified the assailant as Miguel Cruz, describing him as a childhood friend of the minister. Cruz is now in custody but the […]

President of the United State Joe Biden has said the US should ban assault-style weapons and high-capacity magazines to tackle thekillings from gun violence following string of mass shootings in the country. Biden in a primetime speech to the nation from the White House, said too many everyday places in America had become killing fields, stressing that if Congress cannot outlaw such weapons, it should seek to raise the age […]

Four people have been killed in a shooting spree at a hospital in Tulsa, Oklahoma . Police confirmed that the suspected shooter, who was armed with a rifle and a handgun, was also dead as they arrived the scene yesterday afternoon at St Francis Hospital in three minutes, which they said ensured the death toll wasn't higher. Speaking at a press conference yesterday, Deputy Police Chief Eric Dalgleish said they […]

The largest known plant on Earth, a Seagrass, roughly three times the size of Manhattan has been discovered off the coast of Australia . Using genetic testing, scientists have discovered that a large underwater meadow in Western Australia is in fact one plant and it is believed to have spread from a single seed over at least 4,500 years. Researchers from the University of Western Australia says the Seagrass covers about 200 square kilometers, adding […]