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By Tiphaine LE LIBOUX, Murielle KASPRZAK PARIS, Oct 31, 2023 (AFP) – French police on Tuesday shot and seriously wounded an unarmed woman who was making threats at a train station in Paris during morning rush hour, police and prosecutors told told AFP. According to witnesses the 38-year-old woman, who was completely veiled, shouted “Allahu akbar” (“God is Greatest”) and “made threats”, a police source said, adding that “police fired because they feared for their […]
SAITAMA, Japan, Oct 31, 2023 (AFP) – Police were surrounding a post office in Japan late Tuesday as a suspected gunman held an unknown number of people hostage, with local media reporting two people injured in a possible shooting at a nearby hospital. It was not immediately clear whether the two incidents were related, but reports said that the suspect in the hospital case had sped away on a motorbike. Images on television showed the […]
HONG KONG, Oct 30, 2023 (AFP) – Four former student leaders of a Hong Kong university were jailed for two years Monday for inciting others to wound police after they “glorified” a knife attack on an officer, said a judge. On July 1, 2021, a man stabbed and wounded a police officer in a busy shopping district before taking his own life in what authorities called an act of “domestic terrorism”. Several days later, […]
By Inès BEL AIBA LEWISTON, United States, Oct 28, 2023 (AFP) – The suspect in a mass shooting in the US state of Maine has been found dead after a two-day manhunt that mobilized hundreds of law enforcement agents to find the culprit in the deadliest mass shooting in the United States this year. Robert Card, a 40-year-old Army reservist, died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, and his body was found at 7:45 pm (2345 […]
JAKARTA, Oct 27, 2023 (AFP) – An Indonesian court on Friday handed death sentences to eight Iranian drug traffickers found guilty of smuggling more than 300 kilograms of crystal meth into the Southeast Asian country. Indonesia has some of the world’s toughest anti-drug laws but has held off conducting executions for several years. A judge in Banten province on Java island ordered that all eight men be executed by firing squad for the gang’s role […]
LEWISTON, United States, Oct 27, 2023 (AFP) – Police in Maine struggled for a second day Friday to catch a man who gunned down 18 people with a semi-automatic rifle in a bowling alley and a bar in a town where locals were enjoying an evening out. In Lewiston, a hard-scrabble city in the mostly rural north-eastern state, there was an atmosphere of dread and bewilderment as residents waited indoors, while authorities erected roadblocks and […]
By Inès BEL AIBA LEWISTON, United States, Oct 27, 2023 (AFP) – An urgent police dragnet entered its second day late Thursday for a man accused of gunning down 18 people at a bowling alley and a bar in the US state of Maine, as President Joe Biden mourned “yet another senseless and tragic mass shooting.” Dozens of law enforcement agents surrounded the family home of 40-year-old suspect Robert Card, but by mid-evening agents left […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 26, 2023 (AFP) – Police have released the name of an “armed and dangerous” person of interest in the deadly Maine shootings that have claimed the lives of at least 22 people and left many more injured. Police in the city of Lewiston said they are trying to locate Robert Card, 40, “as a person of interest regarding the mass shooting at Schemengees Bar and Sparetime Recreation this evening,” adding that he “should […]
WASHINGTON, Oct 26, 2023 (AFP) – At least 22 people were killed and “many, many more” were injured in shootings in the city of Lewiston, Maine Wednesday evening, city officials reported, overwhelming local hospitals with gunshot victims. City Councilor Robert McCarthy told CNN that the death toll had risen to 22 in the shooting spree that took place at a bowling alley and also at least one other location, a local restaurant and bar, according […]
By Xinqi SU and Holmes CHAN HONG KONG, Oct 25, 2023 (AFP) – Hong Kong leader John Lee used his policy address on Wednesday to sound the alarm on the threat of “soft resistance” — a vague term used by Chinese politicians to signal a new chapter in their crackdown against dissent. The phrase has no clear definition nor is it included in the city’s laws, but this week it appeared in a guilty verdict […]
DETROIT, Oct 22, 2023 (AFP) – Police probing the stabbing death of the president of a US synagogue said Sunday that no evidence has emerged of anti-Semitism as a motive. Detroit police chief James White said in a brief statement that his force is interviewing “individuals with information that may further the investigation” into the death Saturday of Samantha Woll. He gave no details. “No evidence has surfaced suggesting that this crime was motivated by […]
By Clara LALANNE LONDON, Oct 20, 2023 (AFP) – Elianne Andam was headed to school like any other teenager in London last month when she was stabbed to death, becoming the latest victim of rising knife crime in England and Wales. The 15-year-old suffered a “brutal attack” in Croydon, south London, shortly after she and her friends had stepped off a public bus on a Wednesday morning, prosecutors have said. A 17-year-old boy arrested nearby […]
