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Officer in Breonna Taylor shooting accused of sexual assault
Sweden says 34 year mystery of Palme assassination is solved
Why Kenyans are begging their president for freedom
Chicago sees deadliest day in 60 years amid protests
Iran says it will execute man convicted of spying on Soleimani for CIA
Iran says it will execute informant who led CIA to Soleimani
George Floyd murder suspect Derek Chauvin has bail set at $1.25m

Officer in Breonna Taylor shooting accused of sexual assault

Posted: 10 Jun 2020 02:32 PM PDT

"LMPD is aware of these allegations and investigators are looking into them," a spokesman for the Louisville Metro Police Department said.

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Sweden says 34 year mystery of Palme assassination is solved

Posted: 10 Jun 2020 08:29 AM PDT

Closing a chapter on Sweden's most notorious unsolved crime: the assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme.

[Head of investigation, Hans Melander, spoke via a translator on Wednesday:] "Well we can say that this is one of the biggest police investigations in the world. It is often compared to the assassination of JFK and also with the Lockerbie bombing and if we look to Sweden then of course it is by far Sweden's biggest criminal investigation ever.''

Palme, the leader of Sweden's Social Democrats, was shot dead in central Stockholm in 1986 after a visit to the cinema.

A Swedish prosecutor closed the case on Wednesday (June 10).

Krister Petersson, who has led an investigation into the case since 2017, said the killer was Stig Engstrom, a suspect long known to Swedes as "Skandia man" after the company where he worked, with offices near the scene of the shooting.

Engstrom, known to have been at the scene, was repeatedly questioned in early investigations but dismissed as a serious suspect at the time.

He died in the year 2000.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said on Wednesday (June 10) that he hoped the findings could begin healing the wounds left by the national trauma of the assassination 34 years ago.

Lofven said that while a conviction and more definitive evidence would have been desirable, the current investigation had gone further than previous inquiries.

Palme's son, Marten, told public service radio he also believed Engstrom was the killer, but said, quote, "unfortunately there is no real conclusive evidence."

Conspiracy theories around the assassination blamed a range of forces, from the CIA and Kurdish separatists to the South African security services.

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Why Kenyans are begging their president for freedom

Posted: 10 Jun 2020 02:26 AM PDT

About 1.2 million people have lost their jobs since coronavirus hit the East African state in March.

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Chicago sees deadliest day in 60 years amid protests

Posted: 09 Jun 2020 02:23 PM PDT

As protests against George Floyd's death raged on 31 May, 18 people were killed in just one day,

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Iran says it will execute man convicted of spying on Soleimani for CIA

Posted: 09 Jun 2020 08:24 AM PDT

Tehran says it has sentenced an Iranian man to death for spying on behalf of the United States and Israel against Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian general who was killed in an American air strike earlier this year.

Soleimani was killed in a drone attack in Iraq on January 3rd, although Iran says that the espionage case is not related to his assassination.

Iran says the man, Mahmoud Mousavi-Majd, was arrested much earlier, in October 2018.

An Iranian judiciary spokesman said that he, quote, ''shared information about the whereabouts of martyr Soleimani with our enemies''.

Adding that his death sentence has been upheld by a supreme court and "he will be executed soon."

Washington blamed Soleimani, the second most powerful man in Iran at the time, for masterminding attacks by Iran-aligned militias on U.S. forces in the region.

Officials have not said whether Mousavi-Majd's case is linked to Iran's announcement last summer that it had captured 17 spies working for the CIA, nor have they said whether it's linked to another announcement in February that it had sentenced a man to death for spying for the CIA and attempting to pass on information about Tehran's nuclear program.

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Iran says it will execute informant who led CIA to Soleimani

Posted: 09 Jun 2020 02:22 AM PDT

An Iranian citizen who provided information to U.S. and Israeli intelligence services on the whereabouts of Iran's slain Revolutionary Guards commander Qassem Soleimani will be executed soon, Iran's judiciary said on Tuesday. On Jan. 3, a U.S. drone strike in Iraq killed Soleimani, leader of the Revolutionary Guards' Quds Force. Washington blamed Soleimani for masterminding attacks by Iran-aligned militias on U.S. forces in the region.