A mayor in Georgia State in US, Khalid Kamau, faces burglary and criminal trespassing charges
City Council member Natasha Williams-Brown, the mayor pro tem, will replace Kamau as acting mayor, WXIA reported. She told the station that the city will continue to function as usual as she takes over mayoral duties.
Kremlin says Russian President Putin met with Wagner boss Prigozhin days after abortive mutiny
The confirmation of a face-to-face meeting with Putin, who has branded Prigozhin as a backstabbing traitor, adds a new twist to the uncertainty surrounding the mercenary chief. His fate and whereabouts have been unknown since the abortive mutiny, which severely weakened Putin’s authority.
White dominated Texas Court of Appeal on receiving end for upholding loopholed evidence in murder trial
Reed’s attorneys challenged the ruling before the Texas Court of Appeal (CCA), arguing that Langley had abdicated his responsibility to make independent determinations about witness credibility by simply adopting the state’s proposed conclusions, which were rife with errors and factual misrepresentations about various testimony, including Hugen’s.
While evidence exonerates suspect, Texas court is sending Blackman Rodney Reed to gallows in bizarre murder trial
Reed, who is Black, was sentenced to death for the 1996 rape and murder of 19-year-old Stites, who was white. Her body was found on the side of a country road just outside Bastrop, Texas. Sperm recovered from Stites’s body was eventually matched to Reed, which prosecutors called the “Cinderella’s slipper” linking Reed to her death. But Reed insisted he was innocent; he said he’d been having an affair with Stites, who was engaged to a white police officer named Jimmy Fennell.
US Congressional Democrats question Biden’s decision to give Ukraine cluster bombs to fight Russia
Cluster munitions are prohibited by more than 100 countries. Russia, Ukraine and the United States have not signed on to the Convention on Cluster Munitions, which bans production, stockpiling, use and transfer of the weapons.
Judge in Oklahoma dismisses lawsuit seeking reparations for the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre
The lawsuit was brought under Oklahoma’s public nuisance law, saying the actions of the white mob that killed hundreds of Black residents and destroyed what had been the nation’s most prosperous Black business district continue to affect the city today.
Pope Francis’s footprint on Church stronger as he declares he’ll elevate 12 churchmen to cardinals
Whether Pope Francis will name even more cardinals depends on how long he lives. Francis spent nine days in hospital after surgery for an abdominal hernia last month. His recovery is going well and he is due to visit Portugal from August 2-4 and Mongolia from August 31 to September 4.
US Senate petitions FDA to probe youth craze over Logan Paul’s energy drink with caffeine of six Coke cans
Advertising itself as zero sugar and vegan, the neon-coloured cans are among a growing number of energy drinks with elevated levels of caffeine; in PRIME’s case, 200 milligrams per 12 ounces, equivalent to about half a dozen Coke cans or nearly two Red Bulls.
An estimated mob of 5,000 storms Tbilisi Pride Fest site, forcing organisers to cancel the event
Animosity toward sexual minorities is strong in Georgia, which is predominantly Orthodox Christian, and some previous LGBT events have met violent disruptions.
Sex scandal rocks BBC, presenter suspended over claims he paid teenager for explicit photos
Neither the star nor the youth was identified. Amid speculation on social media about the identity of the presenter, several of the BBC’s best-known stars spoke up to say it wasn’t them. Although the age of sexual consent in Britain is 16, it’s a crime to make or possess indecent images of anyone under 18.
