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John Snowling, a retired police sergeant, was married to Marie for more than three decades, They have two adult children. He killed three people, including his wife's dining companion and a man. In an image from video, authorities work at the scene of a fatal shooting Wednesday, Aug. 23, 2023, at Cook's Corner, a biker bar in rural Trabuco Canyon, California  TRABUCO CANYON: The retired police sergeant who opened fire during a lively Wednesday evening at a popular Southern California biker bar had traveled from Ohio to confront his estranged wife, shooting her in the face before turning his gun on the crowd, authorities said. John Snowling killed three people, including his wife’s dining companion and a man who approached him as Snowling retrieved additional guns from his truck, and wounded six others, Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes said Thursday. He was fatally shot by deputies within minutes of the rampage. The shooting unfolded as a cover band entertained guests duri...

Some now have HIV or are raising the children of their rapists. Others live with incontinence or chronic pain, along with the cultural stigma around such attacks. A Tigrayan refugee rape victim who fled the conflict in Ethiopia's Tigray sits for a portrait in eastern Sudan. NAIROBI: Scores of women and girls in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region were sexually assaulted, often by multiple men alleged to be combatants, after a peace agreement last year ended the conflict there, according to a new study of medical records released on Thursday. The youngest girl raped was 8 years old. The Tigray conflict killed hundreds of thousands of people and left untold thousands of women and girls with the trauma of sexual assault. At least 128 sexual assaults occurred after the peace agreement was signed last November, according to the study, which looked at records from the start of the conflict in November 2020 through June. With most health facilities destroyed or looted as Ethiopian forces...

Onam sadya has undergone several makeovers these past years. The latest to face the white heat on the culinary anvil is payasam. TNIE brings you the latest changes and how Malayalis view them. Chenathandum Cherupayar Thoran, Dragon Fruit Nurukku Gothamb Payasam and Zucchini Olan.  Chenathandum Cherupayar Thoran By Vijayalekshmi Sarang, a former school teacher from and food enthusiast from Attappadi Ingredients Elephant yam stem: 1 stem (washed and cleaned well)  Green gram (soaked overnight): 1 ½ cup  Chopped shallots: ½ cup  Grated coconut: 1 cup  Rice: for spluttering  Dry chilli: 2   Curry leaves: as required  Salt: as required  Turmeric powder: 1 teaspoon  Green chillies: 4 (slit and seeds removed) Method of preparation  Cook the soaked green gram and drain the water, and keep it aside. In a pan, pour coconut oil and splutter a few rice grains in it, then add dry red chili pieces and curry leaves. Add the sliced shallots ...

The police said they have seen the viral video and will ask the Education Department to take action against the teacher                         UP Teacher Asks Students To Slap Muslim Boy In Class, Sparks Row  New Delhi: A teacher was seen on camera telling schoolchildren to slap a boy at a private school in Uttar Pradesh’s Muzaffarnagar, sparking massive outrage over her action. The police said they have seen the viral video and will ask the Education Department to take action against the teacher. The boy is a Muslim. The police said they are investigating whether the teacher’s action was communal in nature. In the video, the teacher used communal words, which the police have also confirmed. “We have taken cognisance of a viral video where a woman teacher is getting some school students to hit a classmate for not learning Mathematics tables. We have also spoken to the school principal about the objectionable comment ...

The prime minister of the Indian Ocean nation Christian Ntsay had initially put the toll at "12 dead and some 80 injured". This videograb shows a body being brought to hospital in Antananarivo on August 25, 2023 following a stampede at a stadium where at least 13 people, including seven children were killed.  ANTANANARIVO: At least 13 people, including seven children, were killed Friday in a crowd stampede at a stadium in the Madagascar capital of Antananarivo, according to the Red Cross and a local member of parliament. “So far 13 people have been killed and 107 injured,” said opposition MP Hanitra Razafimanantsoa on a local radio station. The Red Cross, who were on the scene, added: “We don’t yet have the final list. Seven minors died.” The prime minister of the Indian Ocean nation Christian Ntsay had initially put the toll at “12 dead and some 80 injured”. The stampede occurred at the entrance to the Barea stadium where a crowd of around 50,000 spectators had arrived to ...

Vikram’s payloads were turned on Thursday morning. An image of lander Vikram captured by the Chandrayaan 2 orbiter Pradhan.  The picture was released by the official handle of the Chandrayaan 3 mission BENGALURU: A day after rolling down the Chandrayaan 3’s lander Vikram’s ramp and doing its first “moonwalk”, rover Pragyaan’s both payloads were turned on even as it completed a distance of eight metres. Pragyaan was deployed from the lander in the wee hours of Thursday. In a statement on X, ISRO said, “All planned rover movements have been verified. The rover has successfully traversed a distance of about 8 metres. Rover payloads LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscope) and APXS Alpha Particle X-ray Spectrometer are turned on. All payloads on the propulsion module, lander and rover are performing nominally.” (Sic) The space agency also shared a video on how the ramp on Vikram’s lander facilitated the roll-down for Pragyaan, besides how its solar panel was deployed. “A two-segme...

The statement of the victim was recorded under CrPC Section 164 under the supervision of the magistrate and Police said that Junaid will be arrested soon. Police had arrested him for allegedly raping a minor girl KOZHIKODE: The police, under the leadership of DySP V V Latheesh, have intensified their search for Junaid Aliyar, 25, who abducted his neighbour, a 20-year-old college student, and raped her at his house in Thottilpalam. Junaid escaped from the crime spot an hour before the police came to rescue the student on Thursday. Police said they have received clues about Junaid’s location and that he will be arrested soon. Meanwhile, the statement of the student was recorded under CrPC Section 164 under the supervision of the magistrate. As per the statement, she was given drugs, beaten up and raped by Junaid. She also said the accused threatened her and took nude pictures. So far, the girl has only mentioned Junaid in the crime. However, the investigation team is also checking...

The accident happened at around 5: 15 a.m., when one of the passengers in the coach was making tea using an LPG cylinder, which triggered the fire. A massive blaze erupted in a stationary coach in Madurai on Saturday killed nine passengers.  MADURAI: At least nine passengers, including three women, were charred to death in a fire that broke out inside a halted tourist coach (party coach) near Madurai Railway Junction in the early hours of Saturday. The accident happened at around 5: 15 a.m., when one of the passengers in the coach was making tea using an LPG cylinder, which triggered the fire. According to the Railway officials, five men and three women who were believed to be sleeping during the time were charred to death. One more deceased person’s gender is not known. Madurai district collector M S Sangeetha, who rushed to the station to enquire, said nine persons were killed in the fire accident in the train compartment and 20 others with injuries have been admitted to a hos...

Addressing an event here, the president hailed "the unprecedented success of the scientists of India" which has made India the first country to reach the South Pole of the moon. President Droupadi Murmu .  NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu on Friday said new information obtained from the moon through Chandrayaan-3 would benefit the whole world. Addressing an event here, the president hailed “the unprecedented success of the scientists of India” which has made India the first country to reach the South Pole of the moon. “She expressed confidence that through the Chandrayaan-3 mission new information would be obtained from the lunar land which would benefit the whole world,” a statement issued by the Rashtrapati Bhavan quoted her as having said. President Murmu also released a postage stamp in memory of Dadi Prakashmani, former chief of Brahma Kumaris, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan Cultural Centre here. This stamp was released under the ‘My Stamp’ initiative of the Department ...

On Sunday last, Gandhi had claimed that Modi's statement that not an inch of the land in Ladakh has been taken over by China is not true. Congress leader Rahul Gandhi interacts with locals during his visit to Leh, on Monday, Aug. 21, 2023.  KARGIL: Raking up the border issue, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Friday said every individual in Ladakh knows that China has “taken away our land” and claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s assertion that not an inch of land was taken away was “absolutely false.” The former Congress president’s remarks come after Prime Minister Modi and Chinese President Xi Jinping held a conversation on Wednesday on the sidelines of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa) summit in Johannesburg. The conversation was not a structured bilateral meeting and was an informal one. “I visited the whole of Ladakh on my motorcycle over the past week. Ladakh is a strategic place and when I was at Pangong lake, one thing was clear that China had t...