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Jeremy Corbyn formally blocked from running for Labour at next election

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:17:50 GMT

LONDON — Labour’s ruling body on Tuesday blocked former leader Jeremy Corbyn from standing for the U.K. opposition party as an election candidate.Corbyn’s successor Keir Starmer — who has tried to remodel the party after a crushing election defeat under Corbyn in 2019 — proposed a motion to Labour’s National Executive Committee preventing it from selecting Corbyn as a candidate in the next general election.A Labour spokesperson confirmed Tuesday that the motion had passed 22-12.Corbyn was suspended from the Labour whip by Starmer in 2020, after saying the scale of antisemitism cases in the party had been “dramatically overstated for political reasons.”But he has remained a member of the Labour Party, meaning he has continued to attend local party meetings in Islington North, the seat he has represented since 1983.The NEC’s Tuesday decision was reached in under 90 minutes, despite dissent in the meeting from left-wing members of the ruling body.While Starmer’s...

Knife attacker kills 2 at Islamic center in Lisbon

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:17:50 GMT

Two women died in a knife attack on Tuesday at Lisbon’s Ismaili Center, home to a minority branch of Shia Islam. According to Portuguese police, the attacker was shot after being confronted by officers. He was arrested and taken to hospital after the attack, in which a third person was also injured. “Today, at 10:57 a.m., we were informed that a knife attack was taking place at the Ismaili Center, located on Avenida Lusíada, in Lisbon,” police wrote in a statement, adding that the attacker was shot after refusing to lay down his weapon and approaching officers with the knife.In a statement, Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa issued condolences, “I express my solidarity and condolences to the Ismaili community and the families of the victims of this morning’s attack on the Ismaili Center in Lisbon,” and praised the police who “immediately proceeded to arrest the suspect.”According to multiple local media reports, the suspect in the fatal ...

Police: Trooper dragged by car after conducting motor vehicle stop in Fall River

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:17:50 GMT

A trooper was dragged by a car after conducting a motor vehicle stop in Fall River early Tuesday morning, according to state police.The trooper, who is assigned to the State Police-Dartmouth Barracks, conducted a motor vehicle stop for a violation around 12:30 a.m. at the intersection of Pleasant and 17th Streets in Fall River. As the trooper was standing beside the car speaking to the female operator, the operator began to drive away. Police say the trooper reached into the vehicle in an attempt to prevent the suspect from fleeing and was dragged approximately 100 feet before becoming disengaged from the car. Police say the suspect fled from the scene. The trooper was examined and treated at St. Luke’s Hospital for related injuries. He was discharged around 4 a.m. and returned to his shift to identify and locate the suspect. The incident remains under investigation and no additional information has been released.

Police: Driver shot by officer in Manchester, NH pointed what looked like gun

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:17:50 GMT

MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — An 18-year-old man who was shot and wounded by a police officer had pointed what looked like a black handgun at the officer following a short vehicle chase, police in Manchester said.Police later determined the weapon was a BB gun, Manchester police said in a news release Monday.The man was taken to a hospital, where he was in stable condition. He was charged with reckless conduct with a deadly weapon, criminal threatening and disobeying an officer. He was scheduled for an arraignment Tuesday and was being represented by the New Hampshire public defender’s office.Police received multiple 911 calls late Sunday regarding a driver traveling at a high rate of speed, passing other cars, running red lights, and doing donuts in the middle of the road.A city police officer found the vehicle and tried to stop it, but the driver speeded off. Following a short pursuit, an officer found the vehicle in a parking lot. The officer attempted to make contact with the dr...

Blaze kills at least 39 people at migrant detention center near Mexico-US border

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:17:50 GMT

(CNN) — At least 39 people died in a fire at a migration center in Ciudad Juarez, a city on Mexico’s border with the United States, officials said Tuesday.Authorities said the fire at the office of National Migration Institute (INM) occurred after they picked up about 71 migrants from the streets of the city.The cause of the fire or the victims’ nationalities have not been released by Mexico’s National Migration Institute, who have launched an investigation into the blaze.“It is with deep sadness and grief that we learned of the fire that occurred inside the INM in Ciudad Juárez,” Andrea Chavez, Ciudad Juarez’s federal deputy, tweeted on Tuesday.We will wait for the official information and, from this moment on, we send our condolences to the families of the migrants. FGR initiated the investigation,” Chavez said.Body bags were lined up near the scene of the fire, which had been extinguished, Reuters reported a witness as saying. Most ...

Tractor trailer takes down power lines in Quincy

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:17:50 GMT

A tractor trailer took down power lines on Granite Street in Quincy Tuesday morning, according to police. National Grid is on scene in the area of 50 to 125 Granite Street as of 9 a.m. Officials say it will take several hours to fully restore power to the area. \Drivers are asked to avoid Granite Street between Whitwell Street and the Granite Connector. This is a developing story; stay with 7NEWS on-air and online for the latest updates.

Like sands through the hourglass, so are the seconds of Haywood Highmith’s Heat life

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:17:50 GMT

At a point of the season when every minute counts, Haywood Highsmith has found himself at a juncture where every seconds counts, with that essentially how his playing time has come to be measured.Injected into the Miami Heat mix when backup center Cody Zeller was sidelined with a broken nose and when Omer Yurtseven was unable to gain the confidence of coach Erik Spoelstra as the backup to Bam Adebayo, Highsmith emerged as the ultimate short-timer.In Saturday night’s home loss to the Brooklyn Nets, there was 1:52 in the first quarter, and that was it for the half.In last Wednesday’s victory over the visiting New York Knicks, there was 1:46 in the first quarter, nothing else the rest of the half. Then, in the second half, a single stint of 2:19.And the game before that, a road victory over the Detroit Pistons, there was a single 1:28 stint in the third quarter on the night, 88 total seconds of action.“No, never ever did anything like this,” Highsmith said with ...

What we know about the Nashville Christian school shooting

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:17:50 GMT

NASHVILLE — Six people were killed at a small, private Christian school just south of downtown Nashville on Monday after a shooter opened fire inside the building containing about 200 students, police said.Police received a call about an active shooter at The Covenant School — a Presbyterian school — around 10:15 a.m. Authorities said that about 15 minutes after that call to police, the shooter was dead. The remaining students were ferried to a safe location to be reunited with their parents.Here’s what we know and don’t know about the shooting:HOW MANY PEOPLE WERE KILLED?Nashville police said six people, including three students, were killed. The victims were identified as Cynthia Peak, 61; Katherine Koonce, 60; Mike Hill, 61; and Evelyn Dieckhaus, Hallie Scruggs, and William Kinney, all age 9. Police officers also killed the shooter.The website of The Covenant School, founded in 2001, lists a Katherine Koonce as the head of the school. Her LinkedIn profile says she has led the sch...

Trooper dragged from traffic stop in Fall River

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:17:50 GMT

A Massachusetts State Trooper was dragged 100 feet on the road after a female driver fled a traffic stop in Fall River, state police said.The trooper was treated at the hospital and returned to his shift early this morning, according to state police.The incident began at 12:30 a.m. on Pleasant street in Fall River. The trooper pulled the woman over for a motor vehicle violation.As the trooper was speaking with the diver, she pulled away from the stop, dragging the trooper 100 feet before he was able to get loose from the car.  The woman fled the scene, according to state police.The trooper was treated at St. Luke’s Hospital and later returned to his shift to continue the investigation, state police said.The investigation is ongoing.

French court refuses to extradite Italian former militants

Published Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:17:50 GMT

PARIS (AP) — France’s highest court ruled Tuesday against extraditing 10 former far-left militants who were convicted of attacks in Italy carried out in the 1970s and 1980s.The two women and eight men fled Italy after their convictions and before they could be sent to prison. Now ranging in age from 62 to 79, they have lived freely in France for decades.The crimes of which they were convicted include the killing of a Carabinieri paramilitary general and the kidnapping of a judge, both in 1980.A Paris court also had ruled against their extraditions, and the decision was appealed last year. But Tuesday’s decision by the Court of Cassation is the final French legal ruling on the decades-long affair.Resistance by French authorities to incarcerating the Italians has long been a thorny issue between Paris and Rome.Over the years, Italy has sought the extradition of around 200 convicted former militants believed to be in France.Under a 1980s policy known as the “Mitterrand doctrine,” named...