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Police used 'justified' force in fatal shooting of one-year-old, says Mississippi attorney general5 hours agoMax MatzaCourtesy of family attorney Benjamin CrumpMississippi police used "justified" force when they shot at a car during a shoplifting investigation, killing a one-year-old boy inside, the state's attorney general has ruled. Kohen Wiley was killed in June while sitting on his mother's lap in the passenger seat of a car that police say was being driven at officers in the city of Senatobia. Authorities have said they were called about a report that nappies and baby clothes were allegedly stolen. His mother has denied the allegations. Neither she nor the driver of the vehicle have been charged with a crime. A lawyer for the Wiley family denounced the attorney general's findings on Monday and called for the release of footage from the incident. Police were called to a Walmart store on 14 June after a report of baby supplies being allegedly stolen. According to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation, officers arrived to find two women and a child walking towards a car. Officers tried to stop the vehicle but it was allegedly driven at one of them, nearly striking an officer.

The man accused of killing NHL star Johnny Gaudreau and his brother Matthew will stand trial early next year.

Ugandan police say a male body has been found in a village near Kampala, and his head has yet to be located. An exiled vocal critic of the Rwandan government has been found decapitated near Kampala, south-central Uganda, according to a police spokesperson, in a case which remains under investigation. Ugandan police said on Monday they were investigating the “murder of a male adult (around 50), whose head was cut off, and up to now, the head has not yet been recovered”, spokesperson Kituuma Rusoke told reporters, adding that the body had been identified by relatives as Robert Kabera. The body was found in Luwala, a village near Kampala, and the killing likely took place late on October 16 or early on October 17, police added. Robert Kabera, a former sergeant who fled Rwanda several years ago, was living in Uganda. The former soldier was not critical of the government during his time with the military, but grew increasingly opposed to Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Kabera had a YouTube channel, “Major Robert TV”, with 144,000 subscribers.

In the eastern Pacific, where El Niño tends to strengthen hurricane activity, it has been a very active season so far. There have been 22 named storms and 12 hurricanes, including 10 major hurricanes. This is already above the number that would typically develop in the whole of an average season, with two months left to go until its end. Here, El Niño provides the ingredients of higher ocean temperatures and weaker winds high in the atmosphere, making it easier for storms to gain strength. Hurricane Polo is one such example of this. The hurricane experienced rapid intensification, producing wind gusts of 180 mph (285 kmh), fueled by the very warm waters produced by El Niño. Polo was also one of three hurricanes churning away in the same basin at the same time, along with Odalys and Nolo. Moreover, it has happened twice now in the space of a month. Earlier in September, the energy produced by exceptional ocean heat resulted in three simultaneous hurricanes in the central and eastern Pacific: Lowell, Karina and Marie. Until this year, the last time there had been three Pacific hurricanes at the same time was 2015. In contrast, the Atlantic Ocean has remained eerily quiet.

Russia launched new attacks on Ukraine's energy infrastructure using ballistic missiles and jet-powered drones, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Monday, adding that Kyiv again received no early warning of the attack from partner countries that previously shared their intelligence. Zelenskyy is grappling with recent Washington moves benefitting Russian President Vladimir Putin, including waiving U. S. sanctions on Moscow and signing a deal to import diesel from Moscow. Moscow and Kyiv, meanwhile, were discussing the possible evacuation of the Russian-occupied front-line city of Oleshky in the southern Kherson region, where about 2,000 people have been cut off from food and medical supplies for months, according to a Ukrainian human rights official. Zelenskyy said speed restrictions are still in place on Kyiv's use of the military-grade version of U. S. company SpaceX's satellite internet service. Full service was being restored at the end of last week, but Zelenskyy said Monday that the restrictions are still slowing Ukraine's drones along the front. People carry their belongings with them, after leaving their office in Kyiv, following a Russian air attack on Monday.