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When Memphis, a city in southwest Tennessee, had a record number of homicides in 2021 for the second year in a row, many were calling for action. Attention turned to the Memphis Police Department to tackle the murder rate, which led to the creation of the Scorpion Unit in October 2021. “MPD’s New SCORPION UNIT

Of all the words used prior to prepare us, nothing spoke louder than the pictures. That the images were captured on police bodycams made it the more chilling – a murderer’s eye view, as the indictment would have it. The video footage is as shocking as it is haunting. Having stopped Tyre Nichols in his

Seven people have been killed and several injured in a shooting at a synagogue in Jerusalem, according to Israeli police. The gunman was shot and killed and a large police presence was at the scene. Several others were injured in the shooting, including a 70-year-old woman in critical condition and a 14-year-old boy in serious

The alleyways that run inside the Balata refugee camp are narrow, claustrophobic and full of uncollected rubbish. Posters celebrating dead militants are stuck to the walls. Children are everywhere – more than half the population of the camp is under 25. We were escorted to meet fighters from Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade, one of the

Poland will send 60 more tanks to Ukraine, on top of the 14 it has already pledged to the war effort, the Polish prime minister has said. The country has angled itself as one of Ukraine’s key allies in its war with Russia, and had already pledged to hand over 14 German-made Leopard 2 tanks,

Fossil fuel lobbyists should be kicked out of the negotiating rooms at the international COP climate talks, global groups have urged the United Nations. In a letter to the UN and its climate arm, which convenes the annual summit, more than 450 global campaigning organisations said any oil company representative or industry lobbyist should “not

A chemical strike that killed 43 people in the Syrian city of Douma in 2018 was almost certainly the work of Syria’s air force, a watchdog has found.  An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog has established there are “reasonable grounds to believe” Syria‘s air force dropped two cylinders containing chlorine gas in what

A number of rockets fired from the Gaza Strip have been intercepted by Israel’s missile defences. The cross-border fire came after an Israeli raid in the occupied West Bank on Thursday that led to the largest single death toll in years of fighting in the area. The overnight rockets triggered sirens in Israeli communities near

Hannah Lewis was seven when she watched a Nazi death squad execute her mother. Her family was rounded up by Hitler’s troops and forced to march to a labour camp in the Polish village of Adampol in 1943. Hannah’s father, Adam, escaped from the camp to join the partisans, a Jewish resistance movement during the

Mohe is known as China’s North Pole for a good reason. It is the country’s most northern city and is a very, very cold place. It’s difficult to describe what temperatures this low feel like. On Sunday it hit -53C, a new low for the coldest temperature recorded in the country since modern monitoring began.

Russia’s Wagner Group has claimed the body of one of the missing British aid workers in Ukraine has been found. Christopher Parry, 28, and Andrew Bagshaw, 48, were last seen on Friday leaving Kramatorsk for Soledar. Ukraine war latest – Putin dealing with an ‘internal power struggle’ A spokesperson for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development

A man with a home-made weapon attacked six people at the Gare du Nord train station in Paris, leaving one with major injuries, French police have said. The attacker was shot several times by officers and taken to hospital with serious injuries, a police spokesperson said. His motivations were not immediately clear, the force added.

The family of one of the British aid workers missing in Ukraine have said they are “very worried and concerned” about his health and whereabouts. Chris Parry, 28, was last seen on Friday morning leaving Kramatorsk for Soledar with fellow Briton Andrew Bagshaw before contact was lost. In a statement his family said: “We are

Two Britons who were reported missing in Ukraine have been named. Andrew Bagshaw and Christopher Parry, who are volunteers helping with civilian evacuation and humanitarian efforts in the war-torn Donetsk region, were reported missing by the area’s police department. ‘The whole ground is covered in corpses’ – Ukraine war latest The pair were last seen