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PC Joe Gerrard has spoken to the BBC about his ordeal as the man who tried to kill him is jailed. Source link

Omid Scobie says he included the names in an earlier version of the text of Endgame. Source link

The United States Treasury Department announced sanctions on people around the world, including officials in Afghanistan, China and Iran, who have committed or contributed to human rights abuses. In a statement, the Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said it had imposed sanctions on 20 people …

Rwanda has facilities ready to host asylum seekers but some there are not sure it is a good idea. Source link

The U.S. held military exercises with the South American country of Guyana after Venezuela voted to take over an oil-rich part of its neighbor.  “In collaboration with the Guyana Defense Force, the US Southern Command will conduct flight operations within Guyana on December 7,” the American embassy in Guyana wrote …

Three men and two women are given long jail sentences after Vishal Gohel’s murder in January 2022. Source link

Ryan Wyn Jones stabbed a mother at least 30 times, before attacking two children in a house. Source link

Thousands of tons of dead sardines have washed up on a beach in northern Japan for unknown reasons, officials said Friday. The sardines and some mackerel washed ashore in Hakodate on Japan’s northernmost main island of Hokkaido on Thursday morning, creating a sliver blanket along a stretch of beach about …

Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance described the discovery as a “Christmas cracker”. Source link

People across Wales looked to sky on Thursday and saw the usually grey clouds lit up with a pink glow. Particles in the atmosphere can scatter sunlight, allowing us to see certain colours more vividly, explained BBC weather presenter Sabrina Lee. “When it came to Thursday’s sunset we had different …