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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.
Brazilian who intervened in Dublin knife attack insists he's no hero
AFP, Published on 25/11/2023
» DUBLIN - A Brazilian delivery driver branded a hero for helping subdue a knife-wielding assailant suspected of attacking children outside an Irish school told AFP Saturday that he acted "like every parent would".
Dublin riot highlights 'far-right' agitation over Ireland immigration
AFP, Published on 25/11/2023
» DUBLIN - Riots in Dublin this week have highlighted growing social tensions in Ireland, with political leaders and others blaming far-right agitators for stoking unrest over increased immigration in recent years.
French town pays tribute to those who chased off knife attacker
AFP, Published on 12/06/2023
» ANNECY (FRANCE) - Hundreds of residents of the French town of Annecy gathered Sunday to honour the people who rushed to stop a man accused of stabbing six people, including four toddlers, at a playground last week.
Macron visits young knife-attack victims
AFP, Published on 09/06/2023
» ANNECY, France: French President Emmanuel Macron was visiting preschool children badly wounded in a mass knife attack by a Syrian refugee, as police questioned the attacker Friday.