The police chief of the city where a black motorist was killed has resigned along with the officer who shot him. Police Chief Tim Gannon and Officer Kim Potter quit…
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World Wide: More countries stop using Johnson & Johnson vaccine over blood clots
The US, South Africa and European Union will temporarily stop the rollout of the Johnson & Johnson (J&J) Covid jab, after reports of blood clotting. Six cases were detected in…
USA: Biden says troops to leave Afghanistan by 11 September
US President Joe Biden is set to announce that American troops will leave Afghanistan by 11 September, officials have told US media. The US would miss a May deadline for…
USA: Facebook mistakenly removes French town Ville de Bitche’s page
Facebook has been criticised for temporarily removing the official page of the small French town of Bitche. The social network’s algorithm confused the name of the town in Moselle, north-east…
Denmark: Six from UK and US charged with US$175m fraud
Prosecutors in Denmark have charged three Britons and three Americans with defrauding the Danish treasury of more than 1.1bn kroner ($175m; £130m; €150m) through a German bank. Two British citizens…
Russia: Is Moscow preparing to invade Ukraine?
Sabre-rattling or preparations for war? Since mid-March, there have been many warnings from Ukraine and Western governments that Russia is massing troops in Russian-annexed Crimea and around the eastern Ukraine…
USA: US agencies call for pause in Johnson & Johnson vaccine
US health authorities are calling for a pause in the use of the Johnson & Johnson Covid-19 vaccine, after reports of extremely rare blood clotting cases. The Food and Drug…
Japan: Authorities approve releasing Fukushima wastewater into ocean
Japan has approved a plan to release more than one million tonnes of contaminated water from the destroyed Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea. The water will be treated and…
UK: ‘World’s biggest rabbit’ stolen from owner’s garden
An award-winning four-foot long rabbit is thought to have been stolen from its enclosure. Darius, a continental giant rabbit, went missing from his home in Stoulton, Worcestershire, on Saturday night.…
France: Manhunt after ‘execution’ shooting in Paris
Paris police are hunting a gunman after what a witness described as an “execution” shooting outside a hospital in the French capital. A man in his 30s was killed and…