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IS supporter found guilty of killing UK lawmaker David Amess

(AP) — A jury deliber-
ated for just 18 minutes Little said Ali bought the
Monday before finding a knife used to attack Amess
fervent Islamic State sup- five years earlier, and that Ali
porter guilty of stabbing tricked his way into meeting
lawmaker David Amess Amess by pretending to be
to death a slaying that one of his constituents.
shocked the nation and
sparked calls for increased Amess, 69, had been a mem-
police protection for poli- ber of Parliament since 1983.
ticians. He was pronounced dead at
the scene after the stabbing.
Ali Harbi Ali, 26, was found
guilty by London’s Central The prosecutor also said
Criminal Court of murder that Ali had researched and
and preparing terrorist acts. planned attacks on lawmak-
Ali stabbed the veteran Brit- ers and the Parliament build-
ish lawmaker to death last ing from at least 2019. The
year while he was meeting research included reconnais-
with voters at a church hall in sance trips targeting work
eastern England. and home addresses of two
other lawmakers, Mike Freer
Ali, who had spent years re- and Cabinet member Mi-
searching and planning po- chael Gove, he added.
tential attacks on lawmakers,
had defended his actions by The slaying of Amess shook
saying Amess deserved to die mali heritage, had denied “nothing less than an assas- by that young man who for the nation, as lawmakers of-
as a result of voting for air- charges of murder and pre- sination” carried out because many years had been plan- ten meet directly with the
strikes on Syria in 2014 and paring acts of terrorism. of a “warped and twisted and ning just such an attack and public. It came five years af-
2015. violent ideology.” who was, and is, a commit- ter Labour Party lawmaker Jo
Opening the trial, prosecutor ted, fanatical, radicalized Is- Cox was shot and stabbed to
Ali, a London man with So- Tom Little said the case was “It was a murder carried out lamist terrorist,” he said. death by a far-right extremist.

Mariupol mayor says siege has killed more than 10K civilians

(AP) — The mayor of storage facilities and refrig- forces in the Donbas region
the Ukrainian port city erators, Boychenko said. since 2014, and have declared
of Mariupol said Monday independent states. A major
that more than 10,000 ci- “Mobile crematoriums have confrontation between the
vilians have died in the arrived in the form of trucks: two countries’ fighters in
Russian siege of his city, You open it, and there is a Donbas would allow Rus-
and that the death toll pipe inside and these bodies sia to try to use its numbers
could surpass 20,000, as are burned,” he said. and greater military might to
weeks of attacks and pri- capture more territory there.
vation leave the bodies of Boychenko spoke from a Western military strategists
Mariupol’s people “car- location in Ukrainian-con- say Russia also hopes to force
peted through the streets.” trolled territory but outside Ukrainian fighters out into
Mariupol. The mayor said the open in more conven-
Speaking by phone Monday he had several sources for his tional battles in the east, rath-
with The Associated Press, description of the allegedly er than the successful hit-
Mayor Vadym Boychenko methodic burning of corpses and-run attacks Ukrainian
also accused Russian forces by Russian forces in the city fighters have often employed
of having blocked weeks of but gave few further details. so far.
thwarted humanitarian con- Russia has appointed a sea- discuss internal U.S. military churchyard resumed.
voys into the city in an at- The discovery of large num- soned general to lead its re- assessments.
tempt to conceal the carnage bers of apparently executed newed push in the eastern Galyna Feoktistova waited
there from the outside world. civilians after Russian forces Donbas region. With their offensive in many for hours in the cold and rain
retreated from cities around parts of the country thwart- in hopes of identifying her
Mariupol has been cut off by the capital, Kyiv, this month A senior U.S. defense offi- ed, Russian forces have relied 50-year-old son, who was
Russian attacks that began already has given rise to wide- cial said Monday that a long increasingly on bombarding shot and killed more than
soon after Russian President spread charges from Ukraini- Russian convoy is now roll- cities — a strategy that has a month ago, but eventu-
Vladimir Putin launched the ans and the West that Russia ing toward the eastern city of flattened many urban areas ally she went home for some
invasion of Ukraine in late is committing war crimes in Izyum with artillery, aviation and killed thousands of peo- warmth. “He’s still there,”
February, and has suffered Ukraine. and infantry support, appar- ple. her surviving son, Andriy,
some of the most brutal as- ently for the looming offen- said.
saults of the war. Boychenko Elsewhere Monday, U.S. of- sive. Ukrainian authorities accuse
gave new details of recent al- ficials pointed to new indi- Russian forces of committing In Mariupol, about 120,000
legations by Ukrainian offi- cations that Russia’s military More artillery is being de- atrocities, including a mas- civilians are in dire need of
cials that Russian forces have is gearing up for a major of- ployed near the city of sacre in the town of Bucha, food, water, warmth and
brought mobile cremation fensive in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk, while ground com- outside Kyiv, airstrikes on communications, the mayor
equipment to Mariupol to Donbas region, switching bat units that withdrew from hospitals and a missile attack said.
dispose of the corpses of vic- its focus after Russian forces around the Kyiv and Cherni- that killed at least 57 people
tims of the siege. failed in their initial drive to hiv areas appear destined for last week at a train station. Only those residents who
capture Kyiv. refitting and resupplying be- have passed the Russian “fil-
Russian forces have taken fore they position in Donbas, In Bucha on Monday, the tration camps” are released
many bodies to a huge shop- Moscow-backed separatists said the official, who spoke work of exhuming bod- from the city, Boychenko
ping center where there are have been battling Ukrainian on condition of anonymity to ies from a mass grave in a said.