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Police officers have been injured and their vehicles damaged during clashes with a large crowd at an illegal street party in south-east London.

Police were called following complaints from residents about noise and violence near Angel Town in Brixton on Wednesday night. Fifteen officers were injured, leaving two needing hospital treatment, as they broke up the “unlicensed music event”.

Four people were arrested for assault and public order offences.

A dispersal order had been put in place earlier in the day and police officers tried to encourage the crowd to leave. The event continued and more officers attended and the group became hostile towards officers, the Met said.

Footage on social media showed a number of police vehicles being smashed and officers being chased.

The city of Celaya in the Mexican state of Guanajuato was the scene of violent clashes over the weekend between members of the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel and Mexican security forces.

The gang had earlier torched more than 20 cars and set alight six shops. The cartel has so far mainly dedicated itself to fuel theft.

Celaya in central Mexico has seen a spike in violence as the Santa Rosa de Lima cartel has tried to defend its criminal enterprise in the central state of Guanajuato, which include extortion rackets and fuel theft.

The group has not only been involved in a deadly feud with its rivals, the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, but has also seen heavy bloody infighting with José Yépez and his former sidekick, Noe Lara Belman, better known as Puma, both claiming leadership of the gang.
More than 1,000 people have been killed in gang-related violence in the state in the three months from March to June, according to a tally by consulting firm Lantia Consultores.

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Russia is celebrating its biggest public holiday, Victory Day, with a military parade in Moscow that was meant to be held on 9 May.

It is 75 years since the then USSR defeated Nazi Germany. World War Two cost more than 20 million Soviet lives.

President Vladimir Putin reluctantly postponed the big annual celebration because of the coronavirus pandemic. But it was rescheduled ahead of a key constitutional vote, which could allow him a further two terms in power.

Moscow’s lockdown eased this month, but mass gatherings technically remain banned. Soldiers taking part had to go into quarantine ahead of the parade.

The number of confirmed cases in Russia rose above 600,000 on Wednesday, with another 7,176 new infections reported over the previous 24 hours. This is, however, lower than in May, when the country reported more than 10,000 new cases a day for more than a week.

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A US soldier has been charged with terrorism offences for planning a deadly ambush on his unit by sending information to a neo-Nazi group.

Ethan Melzer, 22, stands accused of sending sensitive details about his unit to the Order of Nine Angles. The US Department of Justice calls it an “occult-based neo-Nazi and racially motivated violent extremist group”.

He was allegedly planning for information to be passed to jihadists, who would then carry out an attack. His plan was thwarted late last month by the FBI and the US army. He was arrested on 10 June.

Private Melzer has been charged with conspiring and attempting to murder US nationals, conspiring and attempting to murder military service members, providing and attempting to provide material support to terrorists, and conspiring to murder and maim in a foreign country.

Private Melzer enlisted in the US Army in December 2018 and began his active service in June 2019.
“As alleged, Ethan Melzer, a private in the US Army, was the enemy within,” said Audrey Strauss, acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, in a statement. “Melzer allegedly attempted to orchestrate a murderous ambush on his own unit by unlawfully revealing its location, strength, and armaments to a neo-Nazi, anarchist, white supremacist group.”

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Secret efforts to groom and recruit teenagers by a neo-Nazi militant group have been exposed by covert recordings.

They capture senior members of The Base interviewing young applicants and discussing how to radicalise them. The FBI has described the group as seeking to unite white supremacists around the world and incite a race war. The recordings were passed to US civil rights organisation, the Southern Poverty Law Center, before some were shared with BBC One’s Panorama.

Rinaldo Nazzaro, founder of The Base, is a 47-year-old American. Earlier this year it was revealed he was directing the organisation from his upmarket flat in St. Petersburg, Russia.

The interviews, which took place via conference call on an encrypted app, followed a pattern – prospective members were asked by Nazzaro about their personal history, ethnicity, radicalisation journey and experience with weapons, before a panel of senior members posed their own questions.

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