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LONDON, United Kingdom (Reuters) – London Mayor Sadiq Khan joined Muslim worshippers on Monday evening (June 19), less than 24 hours after a man driving a van had targeted a group leaving the same centre in north London, and praised the city’s response to the attack. After attending prayers at the Muslim Welfare House, near Finsbury Park Mosque, Khan said London would not allow any such action to divide communities. “What you’ve seen over the […]
CARDIFF, United Kingdom (AFP) — A 47-year-old father of four, Darren Osborne, was named in the British press as the man arrested on suspicion of ploughing a van on Monday into a group of Muslims in London. Nine people were hospitalized after a white driver, who witnesses said shouted: “I want to kill all Muslims”, slammed into a crowd near a mosque in the Finsbury Park area of London. One elderly man, who had collapsed […]
PATTANI, Thailand (AFP) – Six Thai soldiers were killed and four injured when a roadside bomb ripped their patrol truck apart in the insurgency-plagued south on Monday, police said. The bomb hit the pick-up as it was carrying ten soldiers along a dirt road in Pattani province, leaving a pile of rubble and twisted car parts. “The roadside bomb exploded before noon, killing six and injuring four,” said Preuk Liengsuk, the police chief of Thung […]
ALEXANDRIA, United States (Reuters) – The Federal Bureau of Investigation is calling on the public to help provide more information on James Hodgkinson, the 66-year-old man suspected opening fire on Wednesday (June 14) during a practice for a charity Congressional baseball game morning. Congressman Steve Scalise was among those shot. FBI Special Agent in Charge for the Washington Field Office, Timothy Slater, didn’t get into specifics other than to clarify some confusion in the media about […]
PARIS, France (Reuters) – Fans at the Stade de France paid tribute to the victims of the recent militant attacks in Manchester and London before a soccer friendly between France and England on Tuesday (June 13). The Oasis song “Don’t Look Back in Anger” rang out as the teams emerged from the tunnel, with fans holding up red and white placards to form the England flag. The song, which was sung spontaneously in Manchester at […]
by Ali Noorani and Eric Randolph Agence France-Presse TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) – Iran’s supreme leader shrugged off attacks on Wednesday by gunmen and suicide bombers in Tehran that killed 13 people as United States president Donald Trump warned the nation was reaping what it sowed. The assault was the first claimed by the Islamic State group in Iran, and was the worst terror strike to hit the nation in years. “These fire-crackers that happened today […]
TEHRAN, Iran (AFP) — Two people were killed in twin attacks on Iran’s parliament and the grounds of revolutionary leader Ruhollah Khomeini’s mausoleum on Wednesday, state media reported, along with a female suicide bomber. A security guard was killed when gunmen burst into Tehran’s parliament complex, while a gardener was killed when armed assailants entered the grounds of Khomeini’s mausoleum in the south of the city, the ISNA news agency reported. © Agence France-Presse
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British police on Wednesday said a 30-year-old man had been arrested following the London Bridge terror attack which killed seven people and injured 48. Officers arrested him in the eastern London suburb of Ilford, near Barking, where two of the assailants lived. The Saturday attack was claimed by the Islamic State and follows the May 22 suicide bombing at the Manchester Arena by Salman Abedi, killing 22 people. There are […]
PARIS, France (AFP) — A French police officer shot and injured a man who attacked him with a hammer outside Paris’s Notre-Dame cathedral on Tuesday, authorities said. Police sealed off the area in front of the cathedral, where the attacker lay injured on the ground. The attack comes with France on high alert for more jihadist strikes after a weekend attack in London, where extremists used a van and knives to crush to death and […]
SYDNEY, Australia (AFP) — The Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for taking a woman hostage in a Melbourne apartment during an incident in which three police officers were injured by gunfire. Australian police on Monday shot dead the man who had taken the woman hostage and said they were investigating whether the incident was terror-related. Hours later, the Amaq news agency — which is affiliated with the Islamic State group — said: “The executor […]
by Andrew Beatty Agence France Pressse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — President Donald Trump seized on the London terror attack to demand that the United States ban on travelers from some Muslim-majority countries be reinstated Monday, sparking a diplomatic row with Britain and jeopardizing his legal defense of the measure in the process. In the wake of Saturday’s deadly attack, Trump renewed calls for a travel crackdown, while attacking London’s Muslim mayor, the media, Democrats, judges […]
by Brian Knowlton Agence France Presse WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Donald Trump lashed out Sunday at London’s mayor Sadiq Khan, accusing him of downplaying the threat of terrorism a day after knife-wielding men mowed down and stabbed revelers in the British capital. London’s mayor swiftly shot down the United States president’s remarks, made in a series of overnight tweets, as critics accused Trump of exploiting a terror attack for political gain. A spokesperson said […]
