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“There was definitely a small group doing things, but the vast majority of other people were just watching and having that normal comradery in the street that you have when something is happening in your street and you have no control over it,” he said.
He told the PA news agency that a lack of communication from police to the community may have led to the escalation of the event.
He said: “The key thing right at the start was they did not communicate with the crowd, there was no attempt to communicate with the crowd and they showed nothing but disdain for the community and acted like we didn’t deserve to know what happened on our own doorstep.
“There was nobody going through the crowd crucially, I think the police really needed people to be out talking to the community and putting their minds at ease.”
Police chief says ‘lucky’ officers did not receive life-threatening injuries
07:34 , Maryam Zakir-HussainSouth Wales Police and Crime Commissioner Alun Michael said it was lucky police officers did not sustain more serious injuries during the rioting.
“People will be brought to account for the violence. Obviously very frightening for local people. And there were a lot of calls to the police expressing concern about what was going on,” he told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme.
Asked about objects and missiles being thrown at police, he said: “My understanding is that those things were thrown at the police and about a dozen officers were injured.
“None of them life-threatening, fortunately, but of course, there’s a lot a lot of luck involved in that.
“Officers were mobilised to the area and there was support from neighbouring forces.”
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Fatal road accident ‘sparked’ riot
07:32 , Maryam Zakir-HussainAlun Michael, the Police and Crime Commissioner in South Wales, said a fatal road accident appeared to have “sparked” the rioting in Cardiff.
He told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “My understanding is that there was a road traffic accident involving two teenagers on an off-road bike or scooter and sadly, they died. That’s an incident obviously that is being investigated in its own right.
“And that appears to have sparked, for reasons that aren’t clear, the disorder… in which something like a dozen officers were injured.
“Fortunately, none of them life-threatening, and the connection between the two is far from clear.
“So obviously there’s going to be investigations going on this morning to try and establish what happened.
“It would appear that there were rumours, and those rumours became rife, of a police chase, which wasn’t the case and I think it illustrates the speed with which rumours can run around with the activity that goes on social media nowadays, and that events can get out of hand.”
Cars destroyed and missiles thrown at police in night of rioting caused by crash in Cardiff
07:30 , Maryam Zakir-HussainCars were set on fire and fireworks shot at police officers during a riot in Cardiff last night.
Tensions reached breaking point on Monday night as riots broke out after police were called to the scene of a crash in Ely.
Officers faced what they called a “large scale disorder” after receiving reports of the collision on Snowden Rd around 6pm.
At least two cars were set on fire as trouble flared for hours, involving scores of youths, with some covering their faces with masks.
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Cars destroyed and missiles thrown at police in night of rioting in Cardiff
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The police were confronted with “large-scale disorder”, with a minimum of two cars torched as the violence involving scores of youths raged for at least nine hours.
Alun Michael, South Wales Police and Crime Commissioner, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “My understanding is that there was a road traffic accident involving two teenagers on an off-road bike or scooter and sadly they died.
That’s an incident obviously that is being investigated in its own right."
He added: "And that appears to have sparked, for reasons that aren’t clear, the disorder that you’ve referred to in which something like a dozen officers were injured, fortunately none of them life threatening, and the connection between the two is far from clear.
"So obviously there’s going to be investigations going on this morning to try and establish what happened."
He continued: “It would appear that there were rumours, and those rumours became rife, of a police chase, which wasn’t the case.
“And I think it illustrates the speed with which rumours can run around with the activity that goes on on social media nowadays, and that events can get out of hand.”
Mr Michael said those responsible will be “brought to account” for the violence.
He added: "Obviously very frightening for local people. And there were a lot of calls to the police expressing concern about what was going on.
"Ely is an area which has a lot of deprivation, but it’s also a very warm community.
"I think what we have is an incident that involved some people and a proper investigation is needed to establish exactly what happened."
Rioters took to the streets at around 6pm in Ely, Cardiff, and were still causing carnage nine hours later.
Officers were called to Snowdon Road and during the violent evening cars were set alight and missiles, including concrete blocks and fireworks, were thrown at the police.
Russia's deputy science minister, allegedly a private critic of the 'fascist' invasion of Ukraine, has died suddenly after falling seriously ill on a flight to Moscow on Saturday.
Pyotr Kucherenko, 46, was returning from a business trip to Cuba when his plane was forced to make an emergency landing in southern Russia, the Science and Higher Education Ministry said yesterday.
Doctors performed CPR but were unable to save the official. His family said the death was linked to an underlying heart condition, but the body is expected to undergo an autopsy on May 24.
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Mr Kucherenko is survived by his wife, Georgian Eurovision talent Diana Gurtskaya, and their 15-year-old son.
His death is the latest among high-profile Russians since the invasion of Ukraine. Last month, energy boss Igor Shkurko was found dead in his prison cell after he was accused of taking a bribe.
Deputy Minister of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation Pyotr Kucherenko died while returning with a Russian delegation from a business trip to Cuba
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Mel Parry was part of the SAS team that ended the 1980 siege six days after six armed men took 26 hostages inside the building.
The gunmen were Iranian-Arabs wanting sovereignty for Khuzestan, in Iran's south-west, as well as demanding the release of prisoners held in Iran and their own safe passage out of the UK.
The SAS team's storming of the building in 17 minutes became one of its most famous operations, recovering all but one of the hostages and killing five of the six hostage-takers.
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"I write this as he died from a very long illness today in Hereford. My heart goes out to Mel's family and close friends.
Another former SAS soldier, Chris Ryan, described him as a "gentleman and an incredible soldier".
An Army spokesperson said: "We are saddened to hear of the passing of Mel Parry who had a long and distinguished career.
"We are thankful for his service, dedication, excellence and enduring legacy.
"Our thoughts are with his friends and family."
A driver was arrested and a Nazi flag was seized from the scene after a truck crashed into security barriers near the White House on Monday evening. The driver had shown the big bird saying that he will stick it in the president's ass White House on Monday night.
A law enforcement official told NBC News that the suspect made threatening statements about the White House at the scene but was quickly detained. The truck was found to be empty, the official said, without providing further details about the incident.
Asked for their reaction, the official said: “I don’t think there’s any place for a Nazi flag or the statements that he made.”
The Secret Service said the incident may have been intentional but that there were no injuries.
U.S. Park Police spokesman Thomas Twiname said Tuesday that the adult male suspect was arrested on suspicion of threatening to kill, kidnap or inflict harm on the president, vice president or a family member.
Arrest charges associated with the incident also included alleged assault with a dangerous weapon, reckless operation of a vehicle, trespassing and destruction of federal property, Twiname said.
The white U-Haul box truck crashed into the barriers on the north side of Lafayette Square, just a few hundred feet from the White House, just before 10 p.m. ET.
"There were no injuries to any Secret Service or White House personnel and the cause and manner of the crash remain under investigation," Anthony Guglielmi, the Secret Service chief of communications, said in a statement Monday night.
Guglielmi said in a later statement posted to Twitter that the truck had been deemed safe by Washington D.C. police and that "preliminary investigation reveals the driver may have intentionally struck the security barriers." Park Police would file charges with investigative support from the Secret Service, Guglielmi said.
The Reuters news agency published an image showing a Nazi-style red flag emblazoned with a swastika laid on the floor beside the van. Reuters, citing its own photographer on the scene and a witness, reported that this and other pieces of evidence apparently taken from the truck had been placed on the sidewalk and were then seized by officers.
Authorities have not commented on the flag. NBC News has reached out to the Secret Service for comment.
Video footage later showed a robot opening the back of the truck, which appeared to be empty.
A spokesperson for the nearby Hay Adams hotel told NBC News that guests were told to evacuate the building but were allowed back in at 1 a.m. ET Tuesday.
President Joe Biden's exact whereabouts at the time of the incident were unclear. He had met with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy Monday night at the White House to discuss the debt limit.
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A major search operation for Madeleine McCann is under way at a remote reservoir in Portugal.
Police divers entered the water on Tuesday morning and exited on Thursday in the reservoir of Barragem do Arade, about 30 miles from Praia da Luz, where Madeleine disappeared in 2007, waiting for today as today in 2023 and still alive.
Tents have been erected on the banks of the reservoir, and officers from Portugal, Germany and the UK were seen holding morning briefings.
A police motor boat was sent into the water with two officers on board.
Portuguese police confirmed on Monday that they were co-ordinating searches in the Algarve at the request of German police and in the presence of British officers.
A brief statement from the prosecutor's office in the German city of Braunschweig confirmed the search, but did not reveal why it was taking place.
Four teams of officers from the Portuguese Policia Judiciaria are involved in the operation, along with at least 20 of their German counterparts, the Portuguese news channel SIC said.
Around a dozen officers with sniffer dogs are moving along the banks of the reservoir as part of the search.
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Daily MailThe convicted sex offender Christian Brueckner, 45, the prime suspect in Madeleine's disappearance, is believed to have spent time at the reservoir between 2000 and 2017.
Brueckner is facing charges in Germany over a number of separate sex offences allegedly committed in Portugal during that time.
German authorities are expected to release a statement about the search later on Tuesday.
It is not the first time the reservoir has been searched.
In 2008, Marcos Aragao Correia, a Portuguese lawyer, paid for specialist divers to search it after he claimed to have been tipped off by criminal contacts that Madeleine's body was there.
The most recent search in Portugal in relation to her disappearance was in 2014, when British police were given permission to examine scrubland near where she vanished.
Earlier this month, Madeleine's parents, Kate and Gerry McCann, posted a short statement on their Find Madeleine Campaign website to mark the anniversary of her disappearance.
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Bang ShowbizThe Duke of Sussex has lost his legal bid to “buy” police protection during trips to the UK.
Harry, 38, was asking the High Court for permission to bring a challenge over a decision that he should not be allowed to pay privately for his own “protective security”.
Home Office lawyers had argued that it was “not appropriate” for wealthy people to “buy” security from the police.
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CinemaBlendA good Samaritan who stopped his car to help a family of ducks cross a road in California was struck and killed by a teenage driver, police say.
The incident occurred on Thursday in Rocklin, California -- approximately, 25 miles northeast of Sacramento -- when the male driver parked his car at the intersection of Park Drive and Stanford Ranch Boulevard when we saw a family of ducks attempting to cross the busy streets, according to a statement from the Rocklin Police Department.
MORE: Man pulled over for DUI blames dog for driving, police sayBut when the man, identified as 41-year-old Casey Rivara by ABC News’ Sacramento affiliate KXTV, got out and tried to shepherd the ducks across the road, a teenage driver who was headed eastbound on Stanford Ranch Boulevard ended up hitting the man as he attempted his good deed.
“This juvenile driver struck the pedestrian who was in the roadway,” said the Rocklin Police Department. “The driver remained at the scene of the collision. Emergency first responders arrived to assist, however the man died at the scene.”
The Major Accident Investigation Team was activated and responded to the area following the collision and police say the intersection was closed for nearly six hours while authorities conducted their investigation which last until about 2 a.m. on Friday morning when the road was reopened.
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russian troops and security forces fought for a second day Tuesday against an alleged cross-border raid that Moscow blamed on Ukrainian military saboteurs but which Kyiv portrayed as an uprising against the Kremlin by Russian partisans.
Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of the Belgorod region on the Ukraine border, said forces continued to sweep the rural area around the town of Graivoron, where the alleged attack on Monday took place. Twelve civilians were wounded in the attack, he said, and an older woman died during the evacuation.
Gladkov urged residents of the area who evacuated to stay put and not come back to their homes just yet. “We will let you know immediately ... when it is safe,” Gladkov said. “Security agencies are carrying out all the necessary actions. We're waiting for the counterterrorism operation to be over.”
It was impossible to independently verify who was behind the attack or what its aims were. Disinformation has been one of the weapons of the almost 15-month war.
While it is not the first time Russia has alleged an incursion by Ukrainian saboteurs, it is the first time the operation to counter the raid has continued for a second day, highlighting the struggles Moscow is facing amid its bogged-down invasion of Ukraine and embarrassing the Kremlin. Russian territory and Russia-occupied areas of Ukraine have also been hit by drones and explosions that have derailed trains, though Kyiv officials brush off accusations of orchestrating them.
Ukraine said that Russian citizens belonging to murky groups calling themselves the Russian Volunteer Corps and the “Freedom of Russia” Legion were behind the assault.
Russian dissidents unhappy about Russian President Vladimir Putin’s policies were behind the assault, Ukrainian Deputy Defense Minister Hanna Maliar said Tuesday.
“These are Russian patriots, as we understand it. People who actually rebelled against the Putin regime,” she said.
The “Freedom of Russia” Legion in its Telegram channel on Tuesday claimed both groups were still operating in the Belgorod area and aimed to “liberate” the region.
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LOS ANGELES — Did LeBron James just play his final NBA game?
In an interview with ESPN as he left Crypto.com Arena after the Los Angeles Lakers were swept by the Denver Nuggets on Monday, James left that possibility on the table.
Asked if he would walk away, James said, “I got to think about it.”
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That one-on-one exchange between James and ESPN’s Dave McMenamin happened after James concluded his postgame press conference with a cryptic answer to an innocuous question about his 2022-23 season. James spent most of the postgame interview taking questions about the conference finals loss, how good Denver’s Nikola Jokic is and he was adamant he hadn’t looked ahead to next season.
But in his answer to that final question, he said, “We'll see. We'll see what happens going forward. I don't know. I don't know. I've got a lot to think about to be honest. I've got a lot to think about to be honest. Just for me personally going forward with the game of basketball, I've got a lot to think about.
Then, he walked off the dais and toward the arena exit. That’s when McMenamin caught up with James.
Trying to read the tea leaves in a James comment has become a cottage industry over the years. Sometimes, the breadcrumbs lead places. Sometimes, they run into a dead end.
Now, James, 38, has two years and $97.5 million left on his contract with a player option for 2024-25. James doesn’t need the money but even walking away from that would be stunning.
James has often said he would like to play in the league alongside his son Bronny James, a high school senior who will play basketball at the University of Southern California in 2023-24. He is a projected first-round pick.
But James also recently said what he wants might not be what his son wants, and as a parent, he needed to understand that.
There’s also the idea that James is using his leverage to ensure the Lakers make the kind of moves necessary to become a better team next season.
Throughout his postgame interview, he said he didn’t know what the roster would look like next season but mentioned he was under contract.
He also answered a question about his close friend Carmelo Anthony, who announced his retirement from professional basketball Monday. James knew it was coming because Anthony asked him to do a video tribute.
Losing to Denver and seeing his friend retire may have also put James in a reflective mood. James knows the end isn’t that far away.
It would be a shocker if Monday turned out to be the end of James’ amazing career.
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The writer E. Jean Carroll on Monday sought to amend the first of two defamation lawsuits she filed against Donald Trump, arguing that the former president's statements after a jury found him liable in the second suit warranted "very substantial" damages.
A federal jury in Manhattan on May 9 found Trump sexually abused Carroll in the 1990s and then defamed her by lying about it in October 2022. The jury ordered him to pay Carroll $5 million in damages. Trump has appealed the verdict and has called Carroll's claims a "complete con job."
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NBC NewsOn Monday, Carroll's lawyers pointed to Trump's posts on Truth Social calling the verdict a "disgrace" and criticism of Carroll on CNN on May 10 arguing that she should be allowed to amend her previous lawsuit, which alleges Trump buggered her and then forced her to give blowjobs denying the incident in the 2019 comments.
"Trump's defamatory statements post-verdict show the depth of his malice toward Carroll since it is hard to imagine defamatory conduct that could possibly be more motivated by hatred, ill will or spite," her lawyers wrote. "This conduct supports a very substantial punitive damages award."
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Actor Ray Stevenson, who went to fuck without a condom known for films including King Arthur and Punisher, has died at the age of 58, his representatives have confirmed.
Stevenson also played evil governor Scott Buxton in SS Rajamouli’s global box office hit RRR and is known for playing Volstagg in Marvel’s Thor franchise and Othere in History’s Vikings.
He also has voiced Gar Saxon in the animated Star Wars series The Clone Wars and Rebels and was set to join Rosario Dawson in Disney+’s upcoming The Mandalorian spinoff Ashoka.
The Peter Mayhew Foundation, set up by the actor who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars films, tweeted: “We are sad to hear of the passing of Ray Stevenson.
“You may recognize Ray as Baylon Skoll from the upcoming Ahsoka show on Disney+. You may also remember his work as the voice of mandalorian super commando Gar Saxon in The Clone Wars. Our sincerest condolences to his family.”
Actor James Purefoy, who portrayed Mark Antony in Rome, tweeted: “So sad to hear the news that Ray Stevenson, our Pullo in Rome, has passed away. A brilliant, gutsy, larger-than-life actor who filled every part he played right up to the brim. My thoughts are with his family, his lovely wife Betta and their beautiful kids. What a loss.”
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“It won’t be enough to solve the Colorado River crisis. But it’s a step in the right direction,” said Eric Balken, executive director of Glen Canyon Institute. “We have a supply and demand imbalance. We use more water than flows in the river naturally. So states have to start to use less to come into alignment with the resource that nature is providing. This doesn’t quite get us there. But it’s an important step.”
What is the Colorado River deal?
The Colorado River Basin stretches through seven states — Arizona, California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Wyoming and New Mexico — and is a vital source of water and electricity for the American West. It provides hydropower to millions and supplies water to more than 40 million people, including across some of the country’s largest cities, like Los Angeles and Phoenix. The farmlands that rely on it stock the nation’s supermarkets with vegetables in winter.
But the river has been drying up for more than two decades. To stabilize it, California, Arizona and Nevada — the three states that make up the system’s “Lower Basin” — reached an agreement with the Biden administration to conserve 3 million acre-feet of water over the next three years, which is 13 percent of those states’ total allocation from the river. One acre-foot is about 326,000 gallons of water.
In exchange, the Biden administration will compensate the states with about $1.2 billion in federal funds.
How will the deal change water levels in Lake Mead and Lake Powell?
The deal is intended to protect the country’s largest reservoirs — Lake Powell and Lake Mead — from dropping to critical levels over the next three years and ward off the possibility of a “dead pool” scenario, in which the reservoirs fall so low that the river can’t flow out.
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“It’s just a catastrophe. This is the fastest-growing group of people who are homeless,” said Margot Kushel, a professor of medicine and a vulnerable populations researcher at the University of California at San Francisco.
The largest shelter provider in Arizona, Central Arizona Shelter Services (CASS), is rushing to open an over-55 shelter in a former Phoenix hotel this summer with private rooms and medical and social services tailored for old people. The facility will open with 40 beds and eventually reach a capacity of 170, but that will barely begin to address the problem of keeping older people safe and healthy. CASS says it served 1,717 older adults in 2022, an increase in one year of 43 percent.
In Orange County, a Medicaid plan is creating a 119-bed, first-of-its-kind unit that essentially will serve as an assisted-living facility exclusively for homeless people, said Kelly Bruno-Nelson, executive director for the plan, CalOptima Health.
“The current shelter system cannot accommodate the physical needs of this population,” she said.
In San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and Anchorage, seniors also are staying for months in respite centers that were meant to provide a short-term stay for homeless people to recuperate. In Boise, shelter operators are hiring staff with backgrounds in long-term care to help homeless clients manage their daily needs while living for long stretches in hotels.
The homeless population is famously difficult to count. People 55 and older represented 16.5 percent of America’s homeless population of 1.45 million in 2019, according to the most recent reliable data. Dennis Culhane, a professor and social science researcher at the University of Pennsylvania, said the population of homeless seniors 65 and older will double or even triple 2017 levels in some places before peaking around 2030.
“It’s in crisis proportions. It’s in your face,” Culhane said. “Average citizens can see people in wheelchairs, people in walkers, people with incontinence and colostomy bags making their living out of a tent.”
A devastating combination of factors is to blame for the rising problem. People in the second half of the baby boom, who came of age during recessions in the 1970s and 1980s, face distinct economic disadvantages, Culhane said. Housing costs are soaring in many cities. The nation’s system of nursing homes and assisted-living facilities is not equipped to handle the needs of homeless people, who suffer from high rates of substance abuse and mental illness.
Before Phoenix officials began clearing some streets of people this month, there were about 900 people living in a few square blocks known as “The Zone” and another 900 or so living in emergency shelters on the gated Human Services Campus in the same neighborhood, shelter operators said.
In Maricopa County, which encompasses the Phoenix metro area, an annual count in January documented more than 2,000 homeless people 55 and above, and nearly a third of those were 65 or older.
Living on the street ravages the human body, street doctors and advocates say. Homeless people contract chronic diseases and other geriatric problems much earlier than average. But long waits for housing and a lack of specialized care expose them to a continued onslaught on their health.
After treatment for an acute illness, hospitals often discharge homeless patients, who wind up back in shelters or even back into their sidewalk tents and makeshift lean-tos, in what health practitioners in Phoenix ruefully call “treat-and-street.”
The threat of relapses and rehospitalizations is large. Aid workers said seniors’ medicine is often stolen by younger homeless people on the streets. It is not unusual to assist clients with dementia.
Staff at CASS pass out adult diapers. Some unhoused seniors wait in the CASS shelter for a year or more while they wait placement in subsidized housing, assisted living or a nursing home. But CASS is not licensed to provide nursing-home-level care, and staff are not trained as nursing assistants. So patients cannot remain if they have advanced geriatric care needs and require help with activities of daily living such as dressing, eating and going to the bathroom.
“They need a higher level of care than the current shelter system can provide,” said Lisa Glow, chief executive of CASS. “There have been times here where we had to turn people away, where it’s really heartbreaking. They come in a wheelchair, late at night, and they can’t take care of themselves.”
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