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UK Athletics pleads guilty to corporate manslaughter over death of Paralympian Abdullah Hayayei LONDON — UK Athletics Ltd has pleaded guilty to corporate manslaughter over the death of Paralympian Abdullah Hayayei, who was fatally struck on the head by a metal pole during a training session in east London in 2017. Hayayei, 36, who represented the United Arab Emirates, died on July 11, 2017, at Newham Leisure Centre after part of a throwing cage fell on him. He had been preparing to compete in the F34 classification in the…

A peer-reviewed study published in The Lancet estimates that more than 75,000 people were killed in Gaza during the first 16 months of Israeli attacks, a toll researchers say is significantly higher than the figure announced by authorities there. The analysis covers October 2023 through January 2025 and concludes Gaza’s health ministry is not inflating its numbers — if anything, it is undercounting the dead. “We can conclude with great confidence that the ministry of health for Gaza is not inflating the death toll and in…

The Kremlin has dismissed as “baseless” a joint assessment by five European countries that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was poisoned with the potent toxin epibatidine, a claim that resurfaced as supporters marked two years since his death in an Arctic prison colony. Britain, Sweden, France, Germany and the Netherlands said in a joint statement Saturday they believe Navalny, President Vladimir Putin’s fiercest domestic opponent, was killed with epibatidine, a rare alkaloid found in poison dart frogs. The…

U.S. Judge Margaret Garnett on Thursday barred prosecutors from seeking the death penalty against Luigi Mangione, the 27-year-old accused of gunning down United Healthcare chief executive Brian Thompson in New York in December 2024. In a ruling that reshapes the federal case, Garnett dismissed two death-eligible counts against Mangione — murder and using a gun with a silencer — effectively taking capital punishment off the table. Mangione still faces two federal counts of stalking, and he remains charged with murder at the…

A U.S.-based rights group says it has confirmed the deaths of nearly 6,000 people amid a wave of anti-government protests in Iran, as Tehran warned Washington against intervening and a nationwide internet blackout obscured the true toll. The Human Rights Activists News Agency (HRANA) reported it had verified 5,848 deaths since demonstrations that began over economic grievances in late December swelled into mass protests against the Islamic Republic, with the largest crowds on Jan. 8. HRANA said the confirmed dead include 209…

Minneapolis — A fatal shooting by a federal agent in Minneapolis has intensified scrutiny of President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown after a month marked by five shootings tied to enforcement operations and a surge in deaths in immigration detention. The man killed Tuesday was identified in local reports as Alex Pretti, 37, a U.S. citizen, registered nurse and licensed gun owner. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said a U.S. Border Patrol agent opened fire after Pretti resisted attempts to disarm him. Local…

Spain’s rail network reeled from a fourth accident in less than a week as authorities recovered two more bodies from the wreckage of last weekend’s high-speed train collision in Andalusia, raising the death toll to 45. The discovery comes hours after a commuter train struck a crane arm near the port city of Cartagena in the southeastern Murcia region, lightly injuring six, officials said. An Andalusia emergency services spokesman said the bodies were retrieved from a Renfe-operated train that crashed into a derailed Iryo…

Spain began three days of national mourning after a high-speed train collision near Adamuz in the southern province of Córdoba killed 41 people and injured more than 120, authorities said. Investigators are focusing on a suspected faulty rail joint as they work to determine why the crash occurred on a straight section of track where both trains were within the speed limit. The crash happened Sunday when an Iryo service traveling from Málaga to Madrid derailed near Adamuz, about 360 kilometers south of the capital, crossed…

At least 40 people were killed and 122 injured after a high-speed train derailed and was struck by an oncoming service in southern Spain late last night, authorities said, in the country’s deadliest rail disaster since 2013. Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez declared three days of national mourning and visited the crash site. The collision occurred at 7:45 p.m. near Adamuz in the province of Córdoba, about 360 kilometers south of Madrid. State rail operator Renfe said roughly 400 people were aboard the two trains — an Iryo…

More than 500 people have been killed in two weeks of protests across Iran, a U.S.-based rights group said, as Tehran warned it would target U.S. bases and Israel if President Donald Trump follows through on threats to intervene on behalf of demonstrators. HRANA said it has verified the deaths of 490 protesters and 48 security personnel, and more than 10,600 arrests since the unrest erupted on Dec. 28 over soaring prices before expanding into the largest challenge to the clerical establishment since 2022. Iran has not…