Unbiased headline news for Monday May 20, 2024 – At least 11 casualties were documented in assaults across Ukraine’s conflict-ravaged northeastern regions as Russia advanced its renewed offensive operations.
Within Kharkiv oblast, the focal point of the offensive thrust, the regional prosecutor’s office reported six fatalities and twenty-seven injuries from a Russian strike targeting the outskirts of Kharkiv city itself. Russia initiated an offensive drive in Kharkiv oblast late last week.
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An Israeli airstrike aimed at a residential structure in a central Gaza refugee camp claimed at least 27 lives, predominantly women and children, according to a local hospital’s account, the Associated Press conveyed.
Sunday’s bombing unfolded as clashes intensified across northern Gaza while Israel’s leadership voiced disunity over governance of the Palestinian territory after the war’s eight-month duration. It also coincided with a U.S. envoy’s regional visit, meeting various leaders through midweek.
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An exhaustive law enforcement probe has ascertained that Boeing whistleblower John Barnett’s demise was a suicide, per documents released by the Charleston Police Department.
Barnett had been in Charleston, South Carolina, testifying in his whistleblower lawsuit against the embattled aerospace corporation when on March 9 he was discovered deceased from a gunshot wound inside his vehicle in the hotel parking lot where he was staying. He was 62 years old. Police documents indicate officials have accepted suicide as Barnett’s cause of death.
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Law enforcement in Savannah, Georgia, is investigating a shooting incident that injured 11 individuals in the city’s downtown district on Saturday night.
The shooting erupted shortly before midnight in Ellis Square, a prominent landmark of Savannah’s historic quarter and a popular tourist draw. Multiple precincts responded at 11:55 p.m. to reports of gunfire in the area, the Savannah Police Department stated in a news release.
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Six fatalities resulted from a two-vehicle collision in Idaho on Saturday that involved a large passenger van, authorities stated.
Ten others sustained injuries in the crash on U.S. Highway 20 in Idaho Falls and were transported to local hospitals, Idaho State Police said in a statement. An eastbound pickup truck crossed the centerline around 5:30 a.m. and struck a westbound passenger van head-on, police reported. The van’s driver and five passengers succumbed to their injuries at the scene.
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A child was among the three victims killed when an Amtrak passenger train collided with a pickup truck, officials confirmed.
The deceased included a 6-year-old boy, a 66-year-old woman, and a 69-year-old man, North Tonawanda Police Department Captain Daryl Truty stated. None of the Amtrak crew members or its 21 passengers sustained injuries in the crash.
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The individual charged with assaulting actor Steve Buscemi on a Midtown Manhattan street has been held in jail on bond in New York, prosecutors revealed.
Police stated the 66-year-old actor, renowned for roles in “Boardwalk Empire,” “Fargo,” and other performances, was walking in Manhattan on May 8 when an unknown assailant punched him in the face. Police arrested a 50-year-old man Friday in connection with the assault, three days after releasing a photo of the suspect.
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The host of a news conference about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s extradition battle dryly welcomed journalists last week to the quote “millionth” press briefing on his court case.
Deborah Bonetti, director of the Foreign Press Association, was only half-joking. Assange’s legal saga has dragged on for well over a decade, but it could conclude in the U.K. as soon as Monday. Julian Assange faces a hearing in London’s High Court that could result in his extradition to the U.S. to face espionage charges.
