Kenosha shooting: Protests erupt after US police shoot black man
Protests have erupted in the US state of Wisconsin after police shot a black man many times while responding to what they said was a domestic incident.
The man, identified as Jacob Blake, was taken to hospital for surgery and is now in intensive care, his family said.
Video posted online appears to show Mr Blake being shot in the back as he tries to get into a car in Kenosha.
Alexei Navalny: fairly likely Kremlin critic was poisoned, says Germany
Kremlin critic needs police protection because it is likely he was poisoned, says government
Andrew Roth in Moscow
The German government has said that the Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny requires police protection because of a “certain likelihood” he was poisoned, a spokesman has said.
“Because one can assume with a certain likelihood that we are dealing with a poison attack, protection is essential,” Steffen Seibert, the spokesman for the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, told a press conference on Monday morning.
Security has been increased at the Charité hospital complex in Berlin where Navalny is being treated for a suspected poisoning after falling ill during a flight in Russia last week.
New Zealand mosque gunman unmoved as sentencing begins
Brenton Tarrant, the white supremacist who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand, is facing life in prison without parole. The court is expected to hear from 66 survivors during his four-day sentencing hearing.
The sentencing of a gunman who killed 51 Muslim worshippers in New Zealand's worst mass shooting got underway on Monday under tight security.
Australian white supremacist Brenton Tarrant showed little emotion as he appeared before the Christchurch High Court handcuffed and dressed in gray prison clothes.
14 killed in Jolo twin bombings in southern Philippines
Female suicide bomber blamed for second of twin attacks in Mindanao town known as a stronghold of Abu Sayyaf Group.
At least 14 people have been killed and several others were wounded after two explosions, including one reportedly carried out by a female suicide bomber, struck the southern Philippine town of Jolo, according to authorities.
Philippine Red Cross Chief Richard Gordon said the first explosion hit at approximately noon (04:00 GMT) on Monday in the capital of Sulu, one of the country's southernmost provinces.
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro threatens to punch reporter in the face
Updated 1038 GMT (1838 HKT) August 24, 2020
Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has been captured on camera threatening to punch a reporter in the face, after being asked about alleged family corruption.
Bolsonaro, who was visiting the Metropolitan Cathedral in Brasilia on Sunday when a group of journalists met him outside, was seen on video threatening the O Globo newspaper reporter after being questioned about the allegations.
TILTING AT WINDMILLS: THE FBI CHASED IMAGINED ECO-ACTIVIST ENEMIES, DOCUMENTS REVEAL
At the wind energy industry’s behest, the FBI and DHS gamed out attacks against targets that they acknowledged face no threat.
FEDERAL AND STATE law enforcement officers gathered in the Midwest in February 2019 to practice their responses to a fictional threat: wind farm sabotage. They divided into four teams and pretended to be the bad guys, environmental saboteurs targeting the large grids of turbines that turn the wind into electric power. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Omaha, Nebraska, field office and the Iowa Division of Intelligence and Fusion Center had organized the “red hat” exercise, meant to provide insight into the minds of environmental activist adversaries that didn’t exist.
Each team developed an attack plan. One proposed ramming wind turbine infrastructure with a vehicle. Another sought to plant explosives on electrical transformers. And — although U.S. environmental saboteurs tend to not use guns — two of the teams suggested using firearms to attack electrical substations from a distance. The fact that cops themselves planned the attacks may have created a “bias toward the use of firearms,” the FBI later acknowledged in a pair of reports on the exercise obtained by The Intercept. However, the federal agents also concluded that “Environmental Extremists Likely Would Use Firearms To Circumvent Perceived Electrical Infrastructure Site Security Measures.”
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