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LOS ANGELES, May 21, 2024 (AFP) – US police said Tuesday they are investigating the ketamine overdose death of “Friends” actor Matthew Perry, who died at his luxury Los Angeles home last year. Perry, who played Chandler Bing on the hit TV sitcom from 1994-2004, was found unresponsive in his pool at the age of 54, sparking a global outpouring of grief from fans and colleagues. An autopsy found the cause of his death was […]
INCARVILLE, France, May 14, 2024 (AFP) – Gunmen attacked a prison van at a motorway toll in northern France on Tuesday, killing at least two prison officers and freeing a convict who had been jailed last week. President Emmanuel Macron vowed that everything would be done to find those behind the attack, as hundreds of security forces were deployed for a manhunt to find the attackers and the inmate who were all still at large. […]
BEIJING, May 7, 2024 (AFP) – Two people were dead and 21 wounded after a man went on a stabbing spree at a hospital in southwest China on Tuesday, local officials said. “A knife attack occurred at the Chengnan Hospital in Zhenxiong County, which resulted in two deaths and 21 injuries,” a statement on the county’s official WeChat account said. The suspect — a man from a nearby village — is under investigation, authorities said. […]
By Sam Reeves FRANKFURT, Germany, May 6, 2024 (AFP) – Three more teenage suspects have been identified in relation to an attack in Germany on a European parliament lawmaker (MEP), authorities said Monday, after a 17-year-old turned himself in. Matthias Ecke from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democrats (SPD) was set upon by four attackers as he put up European election posters in the eastern city of Dresden on Friday night. The 41-year-old needed an operation […]
BERLIN, May 5, 2024 (AFP) – A 17-year-old has turned himself in to police in Germany after an attack on a lawmaker that the country’s leaders decried as a threat to democracy. The teenager reported to police in the eastern city of Dresden early Sunday morning and said he was “the perpetrator who had knocked down the SPD politician”, police said in a statement. Matthias Ecke, 41, European parliament lawmaker for Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social […]
TIJUANA, Mexico, May 5, 2024 (AFP) – Three bodies recovered from a cliff-top shaft in Mexico’s crime-hit Baja California state are very likely those of two Australian brothers and an American who disappeared on a surfing trip, local investigators said Saturday. The bodies were in an “advanced state of decomposition” when they were hoisted out of a shaft a few steps from the edge of the Pacific Ocean cliff, said state prosecutor Maria Elena Andrade. […]
SYDNEY, May 5, 2024 (AFP) – Western Australian police shot and killed a “radicalised” 16-year-old boy with a knife who had stabbed a man in a Perth car park, police and the state premier said Sunday. The teenager “rushed” at police who responded by shooting him twice with Tasers before firing a single fatal shot, they said. “There are indications he had been radicalised online. But I want to reassure the community at this stage […]
By Adrian DENNIS HAINAULT, United Kingdom, April 30, 2024 (AFP) – A 14-year-old boy died on Tuesday after a man wielding a sword stabbed the youth, two police and two other people, in a street attack in east London, police said. The man used what appeared to be a Samurai-type sword in the Hainault district shortly before 7:00 am (0600 GMT). Police said they arrested a 36-year-old man using Taser stun weapons and took him […]
GUATEMALA CITY, April 26, 2024 (AFP) – Guatemalan authorities on Thursday raided the offices of the international organization Save the Children in what the prosecutor’s office said was part of an investigation into alleged abuses against minors. A spokesperson for Save the Children confirmed that officials had entered its offices in Guatemala City, but declined to give more details. The operation was the result of “a transnational investigation of great significance, since it concerns actions […]
By David WILLIAMS SYDNEY, April 21, 2024 (AFP) – No one can know the mind of Sydney shopping mall killer Joel Cauchi, but psychiatrists say one underlying cause of his rampage is evident: he had schizophrenia, stopped his medication and fell out of treatment. People have searched for a fathomable motive since the April 13 knife attack at Bondi Junction, in which five women and a male security guard were stabbed to death and another […]
SYDNEY, April 15, 2024 (AFP) – Australian police on Tuesday said a brutal live-streamed knife attack at a church service in Sydney was a religiously motivated “terrorist” act, as they urged calm from the angered local community. Two people were stabbed when a 16-year-old suspect rushed the dais at an Assyrian church in western Sydney late Monday, slashing wildly at the bishop who was giving a sermon. The teen was immediately subdued by outraged congregants […]
SYDNEY, April 15, 2024 (AFP) – Four people are being treated for “non-life threatening injuries” after a stabbing at a church service in Sydney on Monday, emergency services said. Australian police said they had arrested one man. The incident came two days after a man with a knife killed six at a shopping mall in the east of the city. A video stream showed Monday’s gruesome attack at an Assyrian church unfold in real time. […]
