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911 calls reveal moments after Renee Nicole Good was shot by ICE agent in Minneapolis
Emergency calls have revealed the moments after mother-of-three Renee Nicole Good was shot in her car by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officer in Minneapolis.

"They just shot a lady. Point blank range in her car... She's f*****g dead. They f*****g shot her," one caller told 911, demanding courageous police officers be sent to the scene to help.

"There's like 50 f*****g ICE agents over here," the caller added, according to transcripts acquired by Sky News US partner network NBC.

He also said there was video footage of the shooting on 7 January, which enflamed tensions in a city at the focus of the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and led to nationwide protests.

The Trump administration claimed the ICE officer acted in self-defence after Ms Good used her vehicle as a weapon - a version of events rejected by state and local officials.

"ICE fired two shots through her windshield into the driver. She tried to drive away but crashed into the nearest vehicle that was parked," a second caller described the shooting to 911, adding that the driver was bleeding.

A third person told a dispatcher that ICE shot an observer in her car, and it crashed.

When asked if she could see the person who was shot, the woman replied: "I had to walk away because I have young kids, and ICE is everywhere over there..."

Good shot in the chest, arm and head

When paramedics arrived at the scene, they found Ms Good still alive, with gunshot wounds to her chest, forearm and face, according to an incident report by the Minneapolis Fire Department.

She was "unresponsive, not breathing, with inconsistent, irregular, thready pulse activity", with bulging eyes, dilated pupils and blood running from her left ear, according to the report.

Paramedics treated Ms Good on the sidewalk before moving her to the street corner, away "from an escalating scene involving law enforcement and bystanders".

They applied a tourniquet and gave her CPR before she was taken to hospital in an ambulance. Hospital staff stopped resuscitation efforts at 10.30am, less than an hour after the shooting.

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'Agitators' throwing snow

In a call apparently made by a Homeland Security employee, the man said shots had been fired and that they needed assistance from paramedics and local police.

"We had officers stuck in a vehicle and we had agitators on the scene," he said.

The first 911 calls were received at 9.38am, according to the police report. Traffic was shut down five minutes later and police taped off the scene. By 10.04am, the ICE agent who shot Ms Good had left the scene.

The police report also described "agitators" in the crowd cutting crime tape, slashing tyres, throwing snow and ice "at federal agents but not at MPD [Minneapolis Police Department]". Border Patrol officers used pepper spray about 20 minutes after the shooting.

By 11.20am, all ICE agents had left the scene, with the FBI arriving at 11.31am.

Much of the 911 transcripts have been redacted and blacked out, with hidden portions labelled "Law Enforcement", according to NBC.


'People power' opposition supporters shout as voting count in Uganda election turns violent
Heavily-armed military officers yell at us to kneel on the ground in front of the shuttered shop fronts facing Kibuye roundabout in central Kampala as the jolting sounds of gunfire and stun grenades ring out.

Dozens of soldiers gather to enforce the temporary detention. Some are in balaclavas, and others are bare-faced and berating.

It is clear from their threats that journalists are as unwelcome as the protesters calling for an end to Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni's 40-year rule.

Eventually, we are pardoned by a senior commander who directs his soldiers to return our cameras and says: "I forgive you, but don't embarrass us."

Uganda has been plunged into a state-enforced internet blackout, and the media are being forcefully restricted from reporting on the unfolding scenes of unrest, as votes for the next president are tallied and disputed.

When we first arrived at the frenetic roundabout to film the crackdown on protesters, a local journalist showed us the dent of a baton on his bicep and warned: "I told them I was press and they beat me."

'People Power'

Across the road, a man sprints away from a huddle of soldiers who hang back to search and beat another man before taking him away.

Men driving Boda Boda motorcycle taxis express their discontent from across the street before nearby gunfire drives them off.

Drivers yell "people power!" from their cars, one of the rallying cries of opposition leader Bobi Wine. One man holds firm on the side of the road to express himself, saying: "Right now, people are voting for Bobi Wine. He has been cheated of his vote!"

A large billboard of Mr Museveni hovers above this chaos. His election campaign slogan, "protecting the gains", feels violently literal.

The military forces targeting the supporters of his main opponent are led by his son, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the head of the Ugandan People's Defence Force (UPDF) and, to many, his heir apparent.

All of this unfolded before Bobi Wine's National Unity Party (NUP) announced that security agents had broken into his home, an army helicopter landed in his compound and abducted him on Friday night.

The Ugandan government has denied the NUP's claims.

The chair of national strategic communications committee in Uganda said Bobi Wine and his wife are "safely in their home" and under the protection of police.

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Claims of his arrest could fuel national protests to rival those of the 2021 election and be met with an even more brutal response.

The stand-off between his supporters and the state earlier in the day was mirrored by a feverish brawl in Kampala's Kololo tally centre after a disputed declaration of vote counts, handing wins to Mr Museveni.

"I have the right to speak! I have the right to speak," an opposition party official yells into the face of the ruling party's stern agents backed by the military and police flooding the counting tent.

The screams of objection from a member of Wine's party spill out of the counting tent: "We want our win! This is a protesting vote! We want our win! They are protecting the criminals."

The military and police close in on him and violently drag him on to a police truck. He joins 300 other supporters, and officials that the NUP says have been arrested and disappeared in recent weeks.

A fellow NUP member, 23-year-old university student Elizabeth Namagembe, is breathless from frustration.

"We have Ugandans that have voted and this is their right to choose a leader," she tells us in tears outside the tent with soldiers and police standing watch behind her.

"The international community, what can they do for us? Because us Ugandans have come out to fight - we have voted, and we have requested no violence."


Italy's Meloni posts anime selfie - as Japan PM serenades her for birthday
Giorgia Meloni might have a new best friend in world politics after Japan's prime minister laid on cake and gifts - and even sang happy birthday to the Italian leader.

The women snapped a selfie together - with Ms Meloni later posting an anime version next to the caption: "Two distant nations, but ever closer. Friendship and harmony."

Sanae Takaichi, 64, became her country's first female leader in October, echoing Ms Meloni's achievement in 2022.

The Italian prime minister's trip to Tokyo comes a day after her 49th birthday - and she appeared delighted when Ms Takaichi led an Italian rendition of happy birthday and presented her with cake and candles.

There were also earrings for "stylish" Ms Meloni, according to a post on Ms Takaichi's X account, as well as gifts from Hello Kitty maker Sanrio for her young daughter.

The pair shared a long hug as they said goodbye and video captured Ms Meloni telling the Japanese leader: "Count always on me, okay? For whatever you need. I know it's not easy but we'll do it together."

Away from the gifts, there were the usual diplomatic pledges to deepen cooperation in areas such as security, the economy, and science and technology.

"Giorgia and I confirmed that we will elevate our relationship from a 'strategic partnership' to a 'special strategic partnership' and aim for even greater heights," Ms Takaichi said on X.

Both leaders are conservatives and had working-class upbringings, with the Japanese PM previously citing former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher as an inspiration.

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Judging by Ms Meloni's comments and body language, it could be the start of a warm political friendship.

The Italian is also known for her close relationship with President Trump and she was the only European head of state invited to his inauguration last year.


Nurses in transgender row suffered harassment from NHS trust, tribunal rules
An employment tribunal has delivered its judgment in the case of a group of nurses who complained about a transgender colleague's use of a female changing room.

It found that the nurses from Darlington Memorial Hospital suffered harassment from their NHS trust, with the "effect of violating the dignity of the claimants and creating a hostile, intimidating, humiliating and degrading environment for them".

The nurses took County Durham and Darlington NHS Trust to the employment tribunal over a policy that allowed their colleague, Rose Henderson - who was born male but identifies as a woman - to use the changing room.

Rose Henderson had used the facility since starting at the hospital as a student in 2019. The complaints from other nurses began in 2023.

"Women were in distress - their dignity and privacy was being violated," Bethany Hutchison, one of the nurses who brought the case, had told Sky News.

"Women should be allowed to have safe single sex facilities. Particularly when you're just about to start a shift - we have to undress to our bra and knickers. It's not appropriate to have a biological male in there."

The tribunal upheld the complaint of indirect sex discrimination as it concluded that by permitting a trans woman to use the female changing room, the trust was in breach of health and safety laws and had "infringed the claimants' right to respect for private life" under article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The judgment said the trust had subjected the nurses to harassment by not taking their concerns seriously, including by "referring to the need for the claimants to be educated on trans rights and to broaden their mindsets", and providing inadequate facilities.

But it concluded that Rose Henderson had not personally harassed or victimised the claimants.

The tribunal also rejected the claim that the trust had victimised the claimants.

A spokesperson for County Durham and Darlington NHS Foundation Trust said: "We are taking time to review the judgment carefully and will comment further once we have had the opportunity to consider it in full."

Ms Hutchison said the ruling is "a turning point" and "no woman should be forced to choose between her job and her safety".

She said: "Women deserve access to single-sex spaces without fear or intimidation. Forcing us to undress in front of a man was not only degrading but dangerous.

"Today's ruling sends a clear message: the NHS cannot ignore women's rights in the name of ideology."

Ms Hutchison told Sky News the nurses had feared losing their jobs or being "struck off the register" as a consequence of pursuing the case. She added the government needed to "intervene" by implementing guidelines to respond to the issue.

Rose Henderson had said the nurses were guilty of "direct discrimination and harassment that has created an intimidating, hostile, degrading, humiliating and offensive environment, due to my protected characteristics".

The nurses' claim included allegations that Rose Henderson had harassed colleagues inside the changing room.

One of the nurses, Karen Danson, told the tribunal that Rose Henderson repeatedly asked her whether or not she was getting changed yet - and said this triggered a panic attack due to prior trauma. Rose Henderson denied the allegations, which the tribunal rejected.

The case was originally brought by eight nurses but one had to withdraw due to ill health.

The Darlington case is one of the first to test out in the courts the Supreme Court's landmark judgment in April 2025. The ruling in For Women Scotland vs The Scottish Ministers defined 'woman' as someone who was born female.

The judgment has already had a far-reaching impact on transgender people and the use of single sex spaces.

In late 2025, both Girl Guiding and the Women's Institute announced they would no longer accept transgender girls and women as members.

In December 2025, Scottish nurse Sandie Peggie only won part of a tribunal case against NHS Fife following a transgender colleague's use of a female changing room.

The tribunal found the trust had harassed her Ms Peggie, but dismissed all of her claims against her trans colleague Dr Beth Upton.

"I am grateful to the Darlington nurses for the courage they have shown in securing this important legal victory which has only strengthened my determination to continue with an appeal to overturn the judgment in my own case," she said.

Campaigners for transgender rights have criticised both the Supreme Court judgment and the way it has been interpreted.

Dr Victoria McCloud was the UK's first transgender judge, who is now mounting a legal challenge against the judgment, arguing trans people were denied the opportunity to give evidence to the court.

"It simply isn't the case that the law says you must exclude trans women from changing rooms, lavatories, places like that," Dr McCloud told Sky News.

"The Supreme Court wasn't asked to, and didn't make any decision about women's spaces. I don't know any sensible lawyers who would say the For Women Scotland judgment was in any way clear."

In Dr McCloud's view, the judgment has been "wilfully misinterpreted" to exclude trans people from single sex spaces, leading to a rise in abuse against the transgender community.

She told Sky News: "As a trans woman, I'm just at much at risk of rape as anyone else. We have been monstered, and aliened."

The government is yet to publish official guidance around the use of single sex spaces following the Supreme Court's decision, meaning the debate continues on, both inside and outside the courts.


Former Tory councillor jailed for 20 weeks for stalking Dame Penny Mordaunt
A former Tory councillor has been jailed for 20 weeks after being found guilty of stalking ex-cabinet minister Dame Penny Mordaunt.

Edward Brandt, 61, was found guilty of the offence in November following a trial at Southampton Crown Court, but was acquitted of the more serious offence of stalking involving serious alarm or distress.

In a victim impact statement read to the court, the former Conservative cabinet minister said: "I am completely exhausted due to the stress, every time I step out of the building I am looking over my shoulder and checking to see if he is there.

"I am living in a constant fear of a confrontation. It's hugely impacted all aspects of my life, both my professional life and personal life, and I cannot stress enough how much I am exhausted by it."

The court previously heard Dame Penny believed Brandt was a "real threat" and feared "sexual violence" because of his "creepy" behaviour.

The trial was told that Brandt sent at least 17 emails and three phone messages to Dame Penny, as well as turning up at her Portsmouth constituency office out of hours between 11 September 2023 and 12 May 2024.

Brandt, who lived on the Isle of Wight at the time, failed to comply with the terms of a conditional caution issued in April 2024, which required him to complete a victim awareness course and not to contact Dame Penny, the trial heard.

'I am not giving up'

The divorced father of two then left two voicemail messages for her on 6 and 10 May, and in one of the messages, he said: "I am going to go on gently knocking at your door in order to shake your hand, I am not giving up."

Sentencing Brandt, Judge William Mousley KC said: "I am satisfied that there is a real risk of you reoffending or causing harm to other people."

He said it was clear that Brandt's behaviour had a "very significant and enduring impact" on Dame Penny.

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Brandt, who had worked as a professional sailor and used to be a Tory councillor for East Hampshire District Council, told the court that he wanted to shake Dame Penny's hand, and that his intention was "entirely political and entirely harmless".

He was also sentenced for seven breaches of a stalking protection order in December 2025 by failing to notify police of devices capable of connecting to the internet and of the creation of accounts on Facebook and Snapchat.

The stalking protection order is in place until November 2034.

Brandt was handed 12 weeks in jail over the stalking offence and another eight to serve consecutively for the breaches of the order.


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