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  A youngster has been charged with the homicide of Rayon Pennycook, 16, who was once stabbed to demise in the street. Rayon Pennycook used to be attacked in in Corby, Northamptonshire, quickly earlier than 7pm on Tuesday and died at the scene. He was once stated to have been dragged into a combat with different neighborhood boys after their girlfriends had fallen out. A 17-year-old boy has now been charged with his homicide and was once due to show up earlier than Northampton Magistrates’ Court this morning. Two different boys, aged 15 and 17, have been launched on bail pending similarly inquiries. In a assertion launched previously this week, Rayon’s household stated they have been left feeling ‘devastated’. They added: ‘In fact, there are no phrases which can precisely describe the ache we are suffering. It is unbearable. He used to be simply a boy, a 16-year-old boy with his entire existence beforehand of him. ‘He had hopes, goals and aspirations, and was once in the manner of maki

  Ministers are working to scrap social distancing however preserve face masks and work from domestic practise in vicinity after the June 21 'Freedom Day' amid worries over the spread of the Indian variant. The Treasury is stated to be prioritising the quit of the 'one metre plus' rule and the 'rule of six' indoors, in a bid to kickstart the British economic system which has been battered via successive lockdowns considering March closing year. Though the Government needs to quit restrictions on mass gatherings to enable festivals, live shows and carrying activities to go ahead, ministers are stated to be involved that the variant ought to jeopardise the roadmap and are discussing contingency plans that would suggest solely a partial give up to shutdown. It comes as Britain on Friday recorded greater than 4,000 day by day instances for the first time considering April, and as the R cost - which measures the common quantity of humans every infected individual wil

  CAMPAIGNERS have called for a minimal unit price for alcohol in England after research confirmed that the measure has reduce consumption in some of the heaviest-drinking households in Scotland and Wales. A 50p minimal unit price was once introduced in Scotland in 2018 and in Wales round the begin of the lockdown last year, and subsequent research have proven that the coverage has had a lasting impact. Research by Newcastle University posted in the Lancet Public Health journal indicates that the best discounts in ciders and spirits bought have been viewed amongst households that sold the most alcohol. Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, chairman of the Alcohol Health Alliance, said: “Westminster has said time and time once more that it is ready for proof from Scotland and Wales on minimal unit pricing — meanwhile, eighty human beings a day are loss of life from an alcohol-related cause. “The proof is right here — it’s time for the authorities to introduce minimal unit pricing in England in ord

  India has reported its lowest covid case numbers in more than 40 days, with around one hundred sixty five thousand new infections today during the country's devastating second wave of the virus.  Police in Delhi have made more than 350 arrests for fraud relating to counterfeit medical supplies. Many families have fallen victim to the con men offering fake oxygen and drugs on social media.  This was Delhi in its darkest hour, the peak of the second wave in India's capital. The patients gasping for breath, but at a time of desperate prayers, often unanswered among dwindling supplies and to the profiteers and the covid con men. This was one scam among many fire extinguishers sold as oxygen cylinders on social media. Ayana Traore is a lawyer by training, but she was ensnared by scammers as she tried to save her mother, Sadhana. The 50 year old business woman was fun, loving and energetic when she came down with covid doctors prescribed injections of the antiviral drug Ramdisk sev

  For eight years, Derenda Hancock has ushered girls from their motors to the doorways of Mississippi’s solely abortion clinic, donning a rainbow vest as she shields them from protesters waving spiritual pamphlets and shouting “turn back!” thru bullhorns. Hancock, a 62-year-old part-time waitress, grew accustomed to repeated tries through lawmakers and anti-abortion activists to block get right of entry to to abortions at the Jackson Women's Health Organization where she leads the clinic's volunteer escorts. But the future of that get entry to feels threatened like by no means earlier than after the U.S. Supreme Court thrust the clinic's noisy town block into the core of the country's contentious debate over abortion rights. The court docket on Monday agreed to assessment Mississippi’s bid to ban most abortions after 15 weeks of pregnancy, a Republican-backed measure enacted in direct task to the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling that legalized abortion nationwide. The c

  The Nigerian government has been advised to ensure the protection of every child as enshrined in the Constitution. This comes amid concern at the non domestication of the child's right at two thousand and three by 11 states in the country.  In 2003, Nigeria adopted the Child Right Act to domesticate the Convention on the Rights of the Child. The Children's Rights Act of 2003 expands the human rights bestowed to citizens in Nigeria's 1999 constitution to children of this law was passed at the federal level. Only state assemblies can make it effective and also codify the law. Currently, 11 states are yet to domesticate the Child Rights Act.  This has raised concerns about the government's commitment to the protection of the rights of a child as enshrined in the Constitution. Child rights advocates also anime Umali is concerned about this and has expressed worry about the plight of the child.   The future of the Nigerian children are bright and therefore they must be pro

  Transport Secretary Grant Shapps tweeted that the pass was once fundamental "to hold passengers safe". Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab instructed MPs the interception of the flight was once a "shocking assault on civil aviation". Dissident journalist Roman Protasevich, 26, used to be eliminated from the airplane and arrested at Minsk airport on Sunday. Belarus scrambled a fighter jet to pressure the aircraft - which was once journeying from Athens in Greece to Vilnius, Lithuania - to land in the Belarusian capital after pronouncing there had been a bomb threat. Police took Mr Protasevich away when passengers disembarked. Mr Shapps stated he has additionally suspended the working allow of Belarus' kingdom airline, Belavia, efficaciously banning it from the UK. The airline's timetable indicates it operates a three-times weekly flight from Minsk to London's Gatwick airport. Meanwhile Mr Raab informed the House of Commons the interception used to be a "

  The targetted assaults on police and INEC amenities continued on Sunday with an attack on a police division and an workplace of the electoral business enterprise on Sunday evening. The latest attacks took place in Awka, Anambra State. The gunmen Sunday night attacked the B Division of the Nigeria Police Force and the workplace of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Awka. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) gathered that the utterly armed attackers got here in three Hilux vans at about eight p.m. on Sunday. A witness who nearly ran into the bothered location placed between the famous Ekwueme Square, Awka, stated the bandits shot into the air shut to one hour at B Police Division earlier than intending to INEC office. The source, who requested now not to be named, stated earlier than intending to INEC, the gunmen drove to Aroma junction and shot in the air for about 10 minutes which made residents scamper for security earlier than they headed down to INEC. Though the s

  The assault in Dong village of Jos North happened at about eight p.m. on Sunday as the village got here below siege with sporadic gunshots. The Village Head, Daniel Choji advised Channels Television that the attackers got here beneath the cowl of darkness to unleash terror on the community. He stated the assault left eight individuals lifeless comprising of 5 females, two males, and an infant. In some other assault in Kwi village of Riyom Local Government place simply about a kilometre distance to the Yakubu Gowon Airport, the attackers invaded the neighborhood on Sunday night time leaving eight humans dead and one injured. The member representing the Constituency in the Plateau State House of Assembly, Timothy Dantong validated to Channels Television that 4 men and 4 women had been killed in the attack. He described the assault as barbaric, dispassionate and inhuman. He additionally referred to as on safety operatives to stay up to their obligations through responding to misery call

  Now, as many as 400000 people have had to leave the city of Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo over fears of another eruption from Mount Nyiragongo. That's according to the United Nations.   The city looks like a ghost town. More than 30 people are known to have died when the volcano first spewed out lava at the weekend. And there are growing concerns about the number of displaced people. Roulston has this report. Once again, thousands are on the move in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the evacuation of nearly a third of Goma's 670000 has been ordered, as authorities say Mount Nyiragongo could erupt again soon as word spread. Many more decided to leave. Authorities have said the people should follow the routes and directions on where to go in the event of an eruption. They said people should leave without panicking so as not to cause death or accidents. But unfortunately, when people see some fleeing, they go because they're afraid. And this is what they&#