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'Heroic' worker praised as man charged over UK train stabbings
AFP, Published on 03/11/2025
» HUNTINGDON (UNITED KINGDOM) - A man has been charged with 10 counts of attempted murder following a mass stabbing on a London-bound train, as a critically wounded train worker was hailed Monday as a hero for stepping in to protect passengers.
Hope and hate: how migrant influx has changed Germany
AFP, Published on 29/08/2025
» BERLIN — Men sit outside shisha bars and women in hijabs push strollers past Middle Eastern restaurants and pastry shops in Berlin's Sonnenallee, a wide avenue which has become a symbol of how much Germany has changed in the last decade.
French mosque murder suspect arrested in Italy
AFP, Published on 28/04/2025
» NîMES (FRANCE) - A man suspected of stabbing a young Malian to death in a mosque in southern France and then filming his victim writhing in agony has been arrested after surrendering to police in Italy, the prosecutor said on Monday.
Macron warns against religious hate after Muslim killed in mosque
AFP, Published on 28/04/2025
» LA GRAND-COMBE (FRANCE) - France's President Emmanuel Macron lashed out Sunday against "racism and hatred" after the brutal stabbing to death of a Muslim in a mosque in the south of the country.
UK teen faces sentencing over murders that sparked riots
AFP, Published on 23/01/2025
» LIVERPOOL - A British judge is due on Thursday to sentence a teenager who murdered three young girls in a stabbing spree last year that sparked the country’s worst riots in over a decade.
UK teen pleads guilty to girls' murder that triggered riots
AFP, Published on 20/01/2025
» LONDON — A teenager on Monday pleaded guilty to killing three young girls in a stabbing spree last year that sparked the United Kingdom's (UK) most violent riots in a decade.
Britain's violent riots: What we know
New York Times, Published on 08/08/2024
» LONDON - After days of violent rioting set off by disinformation around a deadly stabbing rampage, authorities in Britain had been bracing for more unrest Wednesday. But by nightfall, large-scale anti-immigration demonstrations had not materialised, and only a few arrests had been made nationwide.
UK PM warns social media firms after Southport riots
Published on 02/08/2024
» LONDON - British Prime Minister Keir Starmer warned social media companies that they must uphold laws that prohibit the incitement of violence online after misinformation about a fatal mass stabbing earlier in the week sparked violent scenes.
Two children killed in attack near Taylor Swift-themed event
New York Times, Published on 30/07/2024
» LONDON — Two children were killed and another nine children and two adults were injured in a knife attack at a children’s dance class Monday morning in Southport, a seaside town near the northern English city of Liverpool, according to the local police.
French ‘hero’ invited to stay in Australia
Published on 16/04/2024
» SYDNEY - Australia has invited a French national who confronted a knife-wielding attacker in a Sydney mall to stay in the country permanently, heeding calls from the public who had hailed him as a hero who deserved citizenship.