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A smiling mugshot has been released of a man who allegedly killed his father before showing his severed head in a YouTube video.

Warning – The article contains details of a graphic nature

Justin Mohn, 32, from Pennsylvania, has been charged with first-degree murder and abusing a corpse after police found his father decapitated in the bathroom of his home in Bucks County on Tuesday night.

In the YouTube clip, Mohn is seen wearing gloves and holding his father’s head in a plastic bag. Later in the video, the head can be seen in a cooking pot. The video has since been taken down.

Mohn then denounced his father as a traitor for being a longstanding US government employee, and called for the death of all federal officials, NBC News reported.

It added that Mohn espoused right-wing conspiracy theories and spouted them in the 14-minute-long video which was removed because of “strict policies prohibiting graphic violence and violent extremism”, according to a YouTube statement.

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Authorities are investigating the video.

Mohn was reportedly very active on social media, where he promoted his self-released music and books, including dystopian science-fiction.

Police said he was arrested about 100 miles away in Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania.

Captain Pete Feeney of the Middletown Township Police Department said: “We didn’t know where he was going and what his intentions were when he left here.”

“Fortunately, we were able to get a location based on his cellphone.”

Police took him into custody, Mr Feeney said.

Mohn was also charged with possessing an instrument of crime with intent.

He was denied bail and is scheduled for a hearing on 8 February.

Ukraine and Russia have exchanged around 200 prisoners of war from each side.

Russia’s defence ministry said the swap involved 195 soldiers on each side – but President Zelenskyy said 207 Ukrainians were freed in Wednesday’s exchange.

There was no immediate explanation for the different figures.

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“We remember each Ukrainian in captivity. Both warriors and civilians. We must bring all of them back. We are working on it,” the Ukrainian president wrote on X.

The Russian military said, without providing details or evidence, the Russian prisoners of war “faced deadly danger in captivity” and will be flown to Moscow for treatment and rehabilitation.

The exchange comes a week after Russia accused Ukrainian forces of shooting down a military transport plane carrying Ukrainian prisoners of war, who were going to be swapped for Russian counterparts.

Missiles fired from across the border brought down the plane in Russia’s Belgorod region on 24 January, the defence ministry said.

The crash killed all 74 people on board, including six crew members and three Russian servicemen, local authorities in Belgorod, which borders Ukraine, said.

Moscow said 65 Ukrainian prisoners were on the plane.

The incident also led some Russian officials to publicly question the possibility of future prisoner swaps.

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Ukrainian officials confirmed last week a prisoner swap was due to happen that day but said it had been called off.

It said it has seen no evidence the plane was carrying prisoners.

An Italian woman being bound in chains while appearing in a Hungarian court has sparked outrage in her home nation.

Ilaria Salis, an anti-fascist activist, was arrested in Budapest last year on suspicion of being involved in attacks against participants in Hungary’s Day of Honour commemorations.

Each year on 11 February scores of neo-Nazis honour the failed escape attempt by Nazi forces and Hungarian soldiers out of Budapest during the Red Army’s siege of the city in 1945.

It also drums up support of vehement anti-fascist demonstrators.

Salis was seen in court being led by a guard with a chain in hand.

She was also handcuffed and her legs shackled limiting her movement, in what has been described as “humiliating conditions” by the Italian government.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni spoke to her Hungarian counterpart Viktor Orban about Salis’s detention, a local news site reported.

The two leaders are on good terms, though this is a delicate situation for the far-right-led government of Ms Meloni.

The Italian foreign ministry called on the Hungarian deputy ambassador to protest after Salis appeared in court earlier in the week.

The ministry cited European and international law calling for the need to respect the dignity of prisoners “including the way in which defendants are transferred to court and the guarantees of a fair trial”.

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It also requested Salis be placed under house arrest instead of being held in prison before her trial – the conditions of which made the front page in Italian newspapers following reports she was bound by the neck in a cell with mice and cockroaches.

The ministry demanded Salis’s lawyers have access to a video of the alleged incidents so a defence could be established.

Senate president Ignazio La Russa, who is a member of Ms Meloni’s Brothers of Italy party, said Italian law “prohibits inmates from being exhibited with handcuffs and in conditions of humiliation, whereas this isn’t the case in Hungary”.

If Salis is convicted, prosecutors have requested 11 years in prison for her.

Hungarian prisons are reportedly short of the standards of the European Convention on Human Rights, with regards to detention conditions and overcrowding.

جنيف – واس:

شدد 14 رئيس وكالة أممية ودولية على ضرورة مواصلة دعم وكالة «الأونروا» وعدم الحيلولة دون تنفيذ ولايتها المتمثلة في خدمة أناس في أمس الحاجة للمساعدات.

جاء ذلك في بيان مشترك صادر عما يُعرف باللجنة الدائمة المشتركة بين الوكالات وهي أعلى منصة للتنسيق الإنساني في منظومة الأمم المتحدة.

وقالوا إن الأحداث الرهيبة المتنامية في غزة منذ السابع من أكتوبر، تركت مئات الآلاف بدون مأوى وعلى حافة المجاعة، مضيفين أن الأونروا، باعتبارها أكبر منظمة إنسانية في غزة، توفر الغذاء والمأوى والحماية للسكان حتى مع تشريد ومقتل موظفيها.

من جانبها حذّرت منظمات الأمم المتحدة من التخلي عن سكان قطاع غزة، ومنع وكالة «الأونروا» من القيام بمهام مساعدة الأشخاص الذين هم في أمسّ الحاجة إليها.

وأكدت المنظمات الدولية في بيان مشترك، أن القرارات التي تتخذها مختلف الدول بوقف تمويل الأونروا ستكون لها عواقب كارثية على سكان قطاع غزة، في الوقت الذي لا يملك أي كيان آخر القدرة على تقديم حجم ونطاق المساعدات التي يحتاجها 2,2 مليون شخص في غزة بشكل عاجل، داعيةً إلى إعادة النظر في هذه القرارات.وأشارت الوكالات الأممية إلى أن سحب الأموال من الأونروا أمر محفوف بالمخاطر، وسيؤدي إلى انهيار النظام الإنساني بقطاع غزة، ما يترتب عليه عواقب إنسانية بعيدة المدى وحقوق الإنسان في الأراضي الفلسطينية المحتلة.

Adele has announced she will play in Europe for the first time since 2016, with four nights booked in Germany.

The Grammy-winning singer shared on social media that she will be performing in Munich’s Messe exhibition centre – which boasts a capacity of 80,000 – in a booking she called “a bit random”.

At the end of 2023, she was asked if she wanted to perform a summer run of shows in Germany, saying: “I’ve been content as anything with my shows in London’s Hyde Park and my residency in Vegas, so I hadn’t had any other plans.”

Adele explained however that she was “too curious to not follow up and indulge in this idea” to come back to Europe.

“A one-off, bespoke pop-up stadium designed around whatever show I want to put on? Ohh!?,” she said.

“Pretty much slap bang in the middle of Europe? In Munich? That’s a bit random, but still fabulous!

“Right after the Euros? Come on England! With the Olympics next door? Go on Simone! And some of my favourite artists playing shows too? Why…YES!! I haven’t played in Europe since 2016!”

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She signed off the post saying “Guten Tag babes,” and shared a link where fans can register for tickets.

The ‘Someone Like You’ hitmaker will perform at Munich Messe on 2, 3, 9 and 10 August.

According to setlist.fm, which tracks live performances, Adele has played in Germany just 14 times.

Her last show in the country was on 15 May 2016, at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. Her first ever was at the Stage Club in Hamburg back in 2008.

Adele is also performing the last leg of her Las Vegas residency Weekends With Adele, which runs through to mid-June.

Ticket registration for the Munich shows is open now at Adele.com and closes on 5 February. General sale then opens to the public on 9 February.