UN votes Russia out of human rights council citing Bucha killings

PHILADELPHIA - A veteran Philadelphia police officer is pleading with the suspects who authorities believe shot and killed her son earlier this year to come forward.Investigators on Tuesday shared a new video compilation that showed the moments leading up the shooting death of Hyram Hill Jr. in North Philadelphia last January.The new video contains images of two suspects.

Owing to the rise in the number of COVID cases and the positivity rate, the Centre on Tuesday wrote to states and UTs to keep monitoring the spread of the virus. It also directed Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Delhi, Maharashtra, and Mizoram to remain vigilant as these states are witnessing a sharp surge. 

COVID-19, the risk of infection remains higher than at any point in time prior to the ongoing Omicron wave, local health officials say.That’s why it’s essential that Londoners continue to “use the tools within your toolbox” to protect against infection and possible severe outcomes amid the sixth wave of the pandemic, driven by the highly transmissible Omicron subvariant BA.2, the region’s medical officer of health said.“The COVID-19 Provincial Science Table last week did allude to a levelling off of wastewater data and COVID wastewater counts across the province. It is still early days and we hope that that continues,” Dr.

Numerous companies are dropping requirements for facial coverings in the wake of yesterday's ruling by a federal judge in Florida that overturned the federal COVID-19 mask mandate on public transportation.

Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly said Wednesday that Canada would announce more sanctions against Russia in the coming days, saying the goal is to “suffocate the Russian regime” and ensure there are “no loopholes.” She also said she had had her deputy minister summon Russia’s ambassador to Canada to “make sure he is presented with the images of what happened” in the Ukrainian communities of Irpin and Bucha.

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Canada has announced it will be placing additional sanctions on Russia, targetting 14 “close associates of the Russian regime,” including Russian President Vladimir Putin’s two adult daughters.

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Patrick Lyoya, 26, was shot and killed by a Grand Rapids police officer on April 4.  GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. (FOX 2) - An independent autopsy performed on Patrick Lyoya showed that he was killed by a gunshot to the back of the head.Related: Patrick Lyoya's funeral scheduled for FridayDr.

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A grade 12 student at Leahurst College in Kingston is in some pretty elite company.

Keir Starmer said Tory MPs will make fools of themselves trying to defend Boris Johnson as he is expected to “apologise and then excuse himself” over the partygate fine.

Emmerdale village.However, Emmerdale spoilers have revealed things won't be exactly smooth sailing for the Woolpack chef. April Windsor prepares welcome home decorations for her father's return home, while Mary Goskirk tries her best to reassure Rhona Goskirk that she will be there to support her throughout his recovery.Meanwhile, back at the hospital, Marlon thanks nurse Gail for all her efforts over the last few weeks as he prepares to leave.At the village, Cain and Chas Dingle watch from the pub as an emotional Marlon arrives back home.But once he’s settled in, things become slightly chaotic as they start to work out a way of going forward.The family soon begin to realise that there are challenges on all sides and it’s an emotional time for them all.Not long after April, who has been taking Marlon's condition in her stride, is pleased to spend time with her dad.

The mother of a woman killed in a hit-and-run in Toronto last week has identified the victim as 30-year-old Erin Yoxall from Scotland.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa - Gas prices hit a record high this year and now people have to deal with the prices fluctuating every day. If you got gas on Monday, you probably noticed the prices are slowly creeping up again. According to AAA, the average gas price in Pennsylvania is $4.16 per gallon, which is 5 cents lower than it was last week.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa - Police are investigating a homicide that happened in Germantown Monday night.Police say at 9:16 p.m.

Martin Griffiths, United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief, said Monday that a humanitarian ceasefire in Ukraine is “not on the horizon right now” but could be possible in the coming weeks, adding that Russia “are not putting local ceasefires at the top of their agenda.”

Russia has begun its anticipated large-scale offensive operation in the eastern Donbass region of Ukraine, officials said Monday, marking a new phase in the nearly two-month-long war.

West Philadelphia bike shop allows kids to learn about bikes all while earning their own. PHILADELPHIA, Pa - To a lot of kids, a bicycle is a symbol of freedom.

COVID-19 on Monday.According to figures published on the Quebec government’s open data portal, 2,220 people were in hospital with the disease on Sunday, including 95 in intensive care — a decline of six from the day before.The site reports that 1,591 of those in hospital are 70 or older, including 43 intensive care patients, while there are 23 children under 10 hospitalized, including one in intensive care.

An image of a woman holding a cell phone in front of a LinkedIn logo displayed on a computer screen.On Tuesday, January 12, 2021, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images) LinkedIn users can now add "Stay-at-Home Mom," "Stay-at-Home Dad," or "Stay-at-Home Parent" to their list of job titles.The professional networking social media site recently added the options.

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The authorities in Haryana has made it mandatory for four NCR districts that includes Gurugram, Faridabad, Sonipat and Jhajjar to follow the mask mandate. 

For the first time in two years, many are able to celebrate Easter holiday weekend together with friends and family. But this has some concerned about a potential rise in COVID-19 cases

GE-brand French Door Refrigerators with bottom freezers in fingerprint resistant stainless steel recalled. (The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC))More than 150,000 General Electric refrigerators are being recalled because of a fall hazard, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC).The recall includes six models of the GE-brand French Door Refrigerators with bottom freezers in fingerprint resistant stainless steel, which were sold at home improvement and home appliance stores nationwide for over two years.The recall was initiated because the freezer handle can detach when a consumer tries to open the drawer, which poses a fall hazard, according to the CPSC.To date, there have already been 71 reports from consumers that the freezer handle detached, "resulting in 37 reported injuries, including three serious fall injuries," the CPSC said.The recalled appliance was sold at major home improvement and home appliance stores including The Home Depot, Lowe’s and Best Buy from February 2020 through January 2022.

PHILADELPHIA - Philadelphia police say an armed home intruder impersonating a police officer was shot and killed by a Mayfair resident Sunday night. Authorities say the shooting happened on the 7200 block of Battersby Street just after 10 p.m. Officers from the 15th District responded to the scene and found a man outside a doorway with gunshot wounds to the head, chest and arm, according to officials. Police say he was taken to Jefferson Torresdale hospital where he was pronounced dead at 10:19 p.m. According to Chief Inspector Scott Small, the deceased victim, who had a fake police badge around his neck, and another man approached an apartment where a 25-year-old was coming out. Small says the two men said they were police officers and forced their way inside the apartment. Officials say the suspects threatened to shoot and kill the 25-year-old as they were attempting to zip tie his hands. When the resident realized the two men were not police officers, he pulled out his own gun and shot one of the suspects, killing him, authorities say. Police are investigating a shooting in Mayfair that turned deadly when a resident fatally shot an armed home intruder impersonating a police officer, authorities say.  The other suspect ran out and authorities are looking for him, according to police. Scott says six shell casings were found on the steps to the apartment. FOX 29's Steve Kelley spoke to the man who fatally shot one of the intruders, and he's encouraging everyone who legally can own a gun to purchase one to protect themselves in Philadelphia as crime surges. RELATED: Police: At least 20 people shot, 4 people dead in separate shootings across Philadelphia over the weekend"I pulled out and shot right at him and that's it,"

COLOMBO (News 1st); The Human Rights Commission of Sri Lanka on Monday (18) has requested the government to implement the recommendations made by the Auditor General with regard to the special investigation on the Sugar Tax Scam.Chairman of the HRCSL Retired Supreme Court Judge Rohini Marasinghe in a statement to News 1st said that the unreasonable and arbitrary use of state power can violate the rights of Sri Lankan Citizens, and therefore the recommendations need to be implemented.Special Audit Investigation.The National Audit Office, in a recent report, has recommended that the government immediately recover the revenue due to the state, lost by slashing taxes imposed on imported Sugar.The report recommends monies be recovered from importers who made huge profits as a result of the tax cut.Dubbed the infamous ‘Sugar Scam’ in Sri Lanka, it was alleged that it did not benefit consumers but massively benefited the importers gain unconscionable profits.The recommendation was made after the National Audit Office conducted a ‘special audit’ to determine why the tax reduction did not benefit consumers.What happened- A flashback.The National Audit Office investigated the reduction of the special commodity levy imposed on imported sugar from Rs. 50/- per kilogram to Rs.

Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Western leaders have been quick to condemn Russia’s invasion. But many others have stayed neutral or muted, with some even blaming the West for what’s happening in Ukraine.

Mariupol, of which Moscow said it had taken almost full control, following almost two months of bloody fighting.After failing to overcome Ukrainian resistance in the north, the Russian military has refocused its ground offensive on Donbas, while launching long-distance strikes at targets elsewhere, including the capital, Kyiv.Eighteen people have been killed and more than 100 wounded in shelling in the past four days in the northeastern city of Kharkiv, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. Ukraine completes questionnaire for EU membership, official says “This is nothing but deliberate terror: mortars, artillery against ordinary residential quarters, against ordinary civilians,” he said late on Sunday.Russia denies targeting civilians and has rejected what Ukraine says is evidence of atrocities as staged to undermine peace talks.

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Even as Russia has become increasingly isolated as its invasion of Ukraine continues, one ally that has been steadfast in its support is Belarus. However, the country is now seeing an anti-war movement among its own people.

Delhi NCR in past couple of days, with a recent survey claiming that the Covid-19 cases may have gone up by almost 500% in the last 15 days. The survey was done on nearly 19% respondents in Delhi NCR.

COON RAPIDS, Minn (Fox 9) - A Minnesota couple visiting Mexico was murdered by gunmen on a highway near the popular tourist destination of Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, according to reports in Mexican media outlets and an online fundraiser organized by the family to pay for the funeral costs. Miguel Abrego Hurtado and Leticia Carrillo Arellano of Coon Rapids, Minn. were reportedly shot on April 7.

In our top story: Mariupol, Ukraine is on the brink of falling to Russia, which would mark the first major victory for Russian forces in nearly two months of war. Redmond Shannon reports on the latest in the war. Even as Russia has become increasingly isolated as its invasion of Ukraine continues, one ally that has been steadfast in its support is Belarus.

The shocking image came in from Tallinn. Dozens of women had gathered outside the Russian embassy in the capital of Estonia to protest the sexual violence and rape inflicted on Ukrainian women. Covering their faces with black masks, the women were clad just in shirts. This is a poignant reflection of the brutal times that we are living in. The dark shadow of war is stretching further. This is why speculation is rife in Finland once again. Citizens are being asked to acquaint themselves with techniques of modern warfare. Apart from this, the government has issued orders to put together rations, petroleum products and essential medicines for a period of three to 10 months.

SANTA ROSA, Calif. - A Northern California teenager missing for nine months has been found, and her stepfather has been arrested.Katuana Nateya Whisenant, 14, was located Saturday afternoon in Churchill County, Nevada, during a routine traffic stop, police said. A trooper pulled over the vehicle she was traveling in with her stepfather, Santos Flores-Roman, 39, of Santa Rosa. Flores-Roman was arrested and charged on suspicion of keeping a child from their parents.SEE ALSO: California teen found alive in Utah nearly 3 years after disappearanceWhisenant was unharmed and healthy, Crescent City Police Chief Richard Griffin said."It’s like child abduction but different, because she voluntarily ran away," Griffin explained.Whisenant had run away from her parents’ home in Crescent City to Santa Rosa where her father stepfather had moved, according to the Press Democrat. Since she is a Yurok Indian, tribal police contacted the Bureau of Indian Affairs, which subsequently involved the FBI in the investigation.SEE ALSO: San Bruno police arrest woman in hit-and-run, assault of officer"We had last located him in Chico based on his license plate," said Griffin. "Then, out of the blue we get this call that they found her.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video released on Saturday that the world should prepare in a “number of ways” for the possibility Russia might use nuclear weapons, though he did not give evidence for such an assertion.

Chester Police investigate a double shooting that killed one man and injured another on Carla's Lane. CHESTER, Pa. - Chester Police are investigating a double shooting that killed one man and injured another.Officials say the call came about 1:30 Sunday morning.

William Tatman, 43, is facing multiple charges after leading Delaware State Police on a pursuit in a stolen car.  REHOBOTH BEACH, Del. - Delaware State Police is investigating after a man allegedly stole a car and led police on a pursuit across the state. Police say troopers responded to the 20,000 block of Coastal Highway in Rehoboth Beach just after 5 p.m. on Saturday. According to investigators, a suspect, later identified as 43-year-old William Tatman, was seen going through vehicles on the property and he was confronted by a witness. Tatman then fled towards the Loft apartments across the road and got into a 2006 Infiniti M35 that was running in the back of the complex, police say. Authorities say troopers saw Tatman driving off in the car as the 21-year-old car owner getting dragged as he tried to stop him. Investigators say the trooper activated his emergency lights and sirens in an effort to stop the suspect, but he fled in the victim's car. Police say the pursuit began westbound on the Lewes-Georgetown Highway where the suspect tried to strike a trooper who was trying to deploy stop sticks. According to authorities, the pursuit continues to Rt.

Mariupol appeared on the brink of falling to Russian forces Sunday after seven weeks under siege, in what would give Moscow a crucial success following its failure to storm the Ukrainian capital and the sinking of its Black Sea flagship.The Russian military estimated that 2,500 Ukrainian fighters were holding out at a hulking steel plant with a warren of underground passageways in the last pocket of resistance in Mariupol.Moscow set a midday deadline for their surrender, saying those who laid down their arms were “guaranteed to keep their lives.” But the defenders did not submit, just as they rejected previous ultimatums. Russia warns Ukraine to lay down arms in Mariupol ‘to stop any hostilities’ “We will fight absolutely to the end, to the win, in this war,” Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal vowed on ABC’s “This Week.” He said Ukraine is prepared to end the war through diplomacy if possible, “but we do not have intention to surrender.”The capture of Mariupol would free up Russian forces to join an expected all-out offensive for control of the Donbas, the industrial region in the country’s east where the Kremlin has focused its war aims after abandoning, for now at least, any attempt to take Kyiv, the capital.The relentless bombardment and street fighting in Mariupol have left much of the city pulverized and killed at least 21,000 people, by the Ukrainians’ estimate.

PHILADELPHIA - Delaware State Police is investigating a fatal motor vehicle crash that sent four to the hospital and killed a teenager in Lewes, Delaware. According to police, the crash happened on Friday at 2:10 p.m. Investigators say a Honda CR-V traveling eastbound on Lewes-Georgetown Highway (Route 9) was approaching the intersection at Ebb Tide Drive when a 2009 Ram 1500 traveling westbound on the highway.The Honda failed to observe the stopped traffic and swerved into the westbound lane where the Ram swerved towards the shoulder, state police say. Police say the vehicles crashed "in a near head-on collision" and the Honda overturned and struck a utility pole before coming to a stop. According to investigators, five people were in the Honda, including an 18-year-old male and 17-year-old female from Bear, an 18-year-old female from Wilmington, and a 16-year-old female and 17-year-old male from Middletown. All of the passengers were transported to local hospitals with two having non-life-threatening injuries, two in critical condition and one who died from injuries at the hospital. According to police, 17-year-old Dakhyi Floyd of Middletown was identified as the teen who died. The 77-year-old driver of the Ram was treated and released from an area hospital, police say. Police are still working to determine who was driving the Honda and the crash remains under investigation, according to authorities. ___MORE LOCAL HEADLINES___DOWNLOAD: FOX 29 NEWS APP | FOX 29 WEATHER AUTHORITY APPSUBSCRIBE: Good Day Digest Newsletter | FOX 29 Philly on YouTubeAdvertisementFOLLOW: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter

Council For The Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE) and Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) cancel the 10th, 12th term 2 examinations citing rise in Covid-19 cases and synonymous health issue.

A Kingston, Ont. woman is calling on the community to help in her fight to stop the approval of a 16-storey building going up next to her home.

With COVID-19’s sixth wave spreading across Canada and so many people on the move, there’s concerns of a rise in cases and hospitalizations. Mike Drolet reports on the calls for caution from experts. To Ukraine, where officials are urging residents of Kyiv not to return home as the capital comes under renewed fire from Russia.

More than five years after her sons were murdered by their father, a mother has published a book detailing the tragedy. Sarah Ryan reports.

Russia told Ukrainian forces fighting in the besieged southern port of Mariupol to lay down their arms starting 6 a.m. Moscow time (0300 GMT) on Sunday to save their lives.

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Covid-19 cases to 4,30,39,972, while the active cases rose to 11,191, as per Union Health Ministry data updated on Friday. The death toll climbed to 5,21,743 with six new fatalities, the data updated at 8 am stated.