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A serving Metropolitan Police officer has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice over an allegation linked to a BBC Panorama investigation. The officer is a sergeant based at Charing Cross police station and was arrested in relation to an incident that took place on Thursday, a statement from the Met said. They have since been bailed and suspended from duty. The arrest follows a Panorama undercover investigation that revealed serving Metropolitan Police officers at the central London station called for immigrants to be shot, revelled in the use of force and were dismissive of rape claims....

A “massive” Russian missile and drone attack has targeted power infrastructure across Ukraine, the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said. It is the largest coordinated assault since early September, with reports of multiple explosions across the country, according to authorities and local media. -snip- Ukraine’s largest private energy company, DTEK, said the latest Russian attacks caused “significant damage” to its thermal energy plants. It was the eighth large-scale attack on its energy facilities this year, the company said in a statement, adding that its plants had been targeted more than 190 times since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion in...