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Five former police officers accused of fatally beating 29-year-old Tyre Nichols last month in Memphis, Tennessee, US, all pleaded not guilty yesterday. Demetrius Haley, Tadarrius Bean, Justin Smith, Emmitt Martin III, and Desmond Mills, Jr., all free on bail, were each charged with a count of second-degree murder, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, official misconduct, and official oppression. Shelby County Criminal Court Judge James Jones scheduled the next hearing for May 1. "We understand that there may be some high emotions in th

US actress and model Raquel Welch died yesterday in Los Angeles, California, Stephen LaManna, her manager, announced. She was 82 years old and had suffered a brief illness. Welch was one of the most successful actresses of her time, with 30 film and 50 television roles throughout her career. Jo-Raquel Tejada was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1940. She was raised in California, sweeping teen beauty pageants, then working as a local weather forecaster. Divorced with two children, she lived in Texas, modelling for Neiman Marcus and working as

On Monday, Pakistan's government reversed its block on all Wikimedia Foundation projects, including the online encyclopedia Wikipedia. Regulator Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) had imposed the indefinite ban Friday, alleging the websites hosted "sacrilegious content" offensive to Islamic beliefs. Human rights advocates rebuked the government over the block, including Amnesty International, which declared it an "unjustifiable restriction on the right to freedom of expression". Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif assembled a commission of

{{DISPLAYTITLE:"A commonsense proposal": Wikinews interviews Michelle Tilley, Campaign Director for Yes on 820}} On March 7, voters in the US state of Oklahoma will decide on State Question 820, the Marijuana Legalization Initiative. If the initiative passes, adults 21 and older could own up to an ounce (28.35 grams) of recreational marijuana and cultivate "not more than six (6) mature marijuana plants and six (6) seedlings" in their homes, and some convictions for marijuana possession could be expunged. The state's profits earned by taxin

On Friday, Scottish theatre and film actor and producer Alan Cumming said how "the British Empire profited at the expense (and death) of indigenous peoples around the world" affected his decision to return the OBE he received in 2009. For his 58th birthday, the two-time Tony awardee announced on Instagram "the misgivings I have being associated with the toxicity of empire" outweighed the "great good" his receiving of the order represented for the LGBT community. Cumming was bestowed the chivalric honour, which stands for 'Order of the British

Supporters of far-right former president Jair Bolsonaro stormed the Brazilian Congress and the Supreme Court and surrounded the presidential palace in Brazil's capital Brasília today, a week after the inauguration of leftist opponent Lula da Silva. Police have now retaken the buildings and detained hundreds of those in the mob. In a scene that recalled the 2021 storming of the US Capitol, a mob, donned in Brazil's national colours green and yellow, marched from the army headquarters to the Three Powers Plaza that connects the government build

Aerial evacuations took place and food was airlifted in yesterday after a devastating flood Western Australia emergency services minister Stephen Dawson called the 'worst in a century' isolated communities in the Kimberley. Flooding began last week after heavy rain from Tropical Cyclone Ellie swelled local rivers, bolstered by La Niña. Notably, the Fitzroy River broke a 2002 record of , reaching a water level of on Wednesday, according to a Bureau of Meteorology spokesperson. The Bureau today released a statement warning while the storm has

The United States Congress, convened Tuesday to begin its 118th session. Vice President and ex officio President of the Senate Kamala Harris swore in new and reelected Senators in the Senate chamber beginning shortly after noon EST (17:00 UTC). The Republican-majority House of Representatives is holding a roll call election for Speaker. In the first ballot for Speaker on Tuesday, all 212 House Democrats voted for their leader, Representative Hakeem Jeffries, 203 House Republicans voted for their leader, Representative Kevin McCarthy, while 1

Two helicopters operated by Sea World Helicopters collided near the Sea World theme park located in Gold Coast, Australia Monday, leaving four people dead and three critically injured. The helicopters, believed to be taking off and landing, crashed on a nearby sandbar at around 2 PM AEST (UTC 4:00). Witnesses reported a loud bang before seeing one landing nearby and another crashing down after the helicopters moved too close to each other. It is believed that one helicopter, taking off with 7 passengers collided with a helicopter landing with

Russian Wikinews attended a December 8 presentation by Russian traveler and photographer Viktor Pinchuk at the Ilya Selvinsky Museum in Simferopol, Crimea of his textbook "Basics of fine-art photography", published on English and Russian Wikibooks. During the speech, Pinchuk took questions from the audience about the textbook, which includes 35 chapters blending instruction and examples and eleven photo exhibitions taken from June 2005 to July 2014. They include photos taken from his extensive travels whilst on 'hobo tours', as discussed in a

The United Nations General Assembly voted 143-5 Wednesday to reprimand Russia for its October 5 annexation of four regions of what is internationally recognized as Ukraine. During Russia's ongoing invasion, forces held four referenda on the prospect of joining Russia in four Ukrainian oblasts (provinces) that were widely condemned as illegal. On October 5, President Vladimir Putin passed legislation incorporating the territories. Text from the resolution, first presented before the Security Council September 30, declares the referenda and an

On Monday, September 19, Elizabeth II, the late Queen of the United Kingdom and the fourteen Commonwealth realms received a state funeral at Westminster Abbey, London, England before she was buried at Windsor Castle in Berkshire. The royal state funeral at Westminster Abbey was attended by some two thousand people including hundreds of national leaders, heads of state and foreign royalty. "Few leaders receive the outpouring of love that we have seen," said Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby. Outside hundreds of thousands of people had gathe