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Police said the charge of actual bodily harm was related to an alleged assault on a police officer in a custody suite, following the incident at Huntingdon.

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Jimenez, 25, was charged in federal court on assault on a federal officer.

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Noble was convicted in July of assaulting three people and initially given a suspended jail term, but, following an appeal, his sentence was quashed and he was sentenced to nine years in prison.

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It has instead pushed forward with its ground assault while renewing its campaign of strikes against Ukraine's energy grid, in what Kyiv says is proof Moscow is not interested in peace.

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Ukraine has deployed special forces to the eastern city of Pokrovsk, where it is under pressure from an intense Russian assault involving thousands of troops, Kyiv's top commander said Saturday.

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