(Al Jazeera Media Network) The city of Memphis has released shocking video of the violent encounter between Tyre Nichols, a 29-year-old black man, and the five police officers charged with murder in his beating death earlier this month in the United States.
The footage from police body-worn and dashboard cameras was posted on Friday evening on the city’s Vimeo site, a day after the officers were charged with second-degree murder, assault, kidnapping, official misconduct and oppression.
The footage...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Pope Francis has criticized laws that criminalize homosexuality as “unjust”, saying God loves all his children just as they are and called on Catholic bishops who support the laws to welcome LGBTQ people into the church.
“Being homosexual isn’t a crime,” Francis said during an interview on Tuesday with The Associated Press.
Francis acknowledged that Catholic bishops in some parts of the world support laws that criminalize homosexuality or discriminate against the LGBTQ...
(BBC News) Donald Trump will be allowed back on to Facebook and Instagram, after Meta announced it would be ending its two-year suspension of his accounts.
The suspension will end "in the coming weeks,” the social media giant said.
In a statement, Nick Clegg, Meta's president of global affairs, said the public "should be able to hear what their politicians are saying."
The then-U.S. president was indefinitely suspended from Facebook and Instagram after the Capitol riot in...
(The Conversation) South Africans had to deal with the worst ever series of power cuts in 2022. All told, the country lost a record 205 days of electricity due to constant breakdowns at the coal-fired power plants run by Eskom, the state-owned electricity utility. The plants are old and have not been sufficiently maintained.
The country's energy crisis has been escalating since April 2008, when scheduled power cuts were first implemented.
One of the biggest casualties of more than a decade...
(BBC News) The U.S. state of California is reeling from its third mass shooting in eight days after a man shot dead seven former co-workers south of San Francisco.
The attacks took place in the coastal city of Half Moon Bay. Some of the victims were Chinese-American.
Suspect Chunli Zhao, 66, was arrested after driving to a police station.
It comes as the state mourns the deaths of 11 people in Monterey Park – about six hours...
(BBC News) Japan's prime minister says his country is on the brink of not being able to function as a society because of its falling birth rate.
Fumio Kishida said it was a case of "now or never."
With a population of 125 million, Japan is estimated to have had fewer than 800,000 births last year. In the 1970s, the annual figure was more than two million.
Birth rates are slowing in many countries, including Japan's neighbours.
But...
(Al Jazeera Media Network) Brazil President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has dismissed the country’s army chief General Julio Cesar de Arruda in the wake of the storming of several government buildings by the supporters of former President Jair Bolsonaro.
Lula did not immediately release a statement on the replacement, but the official website of the Brazilian armed forces said General Julio Cesar de Arruda had been removed as head of the army. The AFP and...
(BBC News) Peru has closed its famous tourist site Machu Picchu indefinitely over the ongoing protests against the country's president.
The government said it closed the site, and the Inca Trail hike leading to it, to protect tourists and citizens.
Hundreds of people, mostly foreigners, are thought to be stranded at the foot of the site.
Dozens of people have been killed in weeks of violent protests, which began after the previous leader was ousted.
The protests have...
(BBC News) Germany has not yet decided whether to send Leopard tanks to Ukraine, or allow other countries to donate theirs, despite pressure on Berlin to act.
A meeting on Friday to co-ordinate military donations for Kyiv did agree to supply more armoured vehicles and air defence systems.
But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky earlier made a specific appeal for modern tanks to repel Russia.
Poland's foreign minister criticized Germany's reluctance to send tanks.
"Arming Ukraine in order to...
(Children's National Hospital) Contrary to popular belief, rest from school may not always be the best after a concussion, a new study published in JAMA Network Open finds. In fact, an early return to school is associated with a lower symptom burden after suffering a concussion and, ultimately, faster recovery.
"As a pediatric emergency physician who treats hundreds of youths with new and persistent concussion symptoms, I see far too many kids who are told to avoid...
