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by Alice Ritchie / Fayruz Rajpar Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) – “A number” of people have been killed in a massive fire in a west London apartment block on Wednesday, London Fire Brigade chief Dany Cotton told reporters at the scene. “There have been a number of fatalities. I cannot confirm the number at this time due to the size and complexity of the building,” Cotton said. The massive fire ripped through the 27-storey apartment block […]
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 […]
LONDON, United States (Reuters) – Eyewitnesses posted videos to social media of a bomb disposal team near the site of the new United States Embassy in London on Wednesday (June 7). British police said they carried out a controlled explosion in southwest London, but the vehicles which triggered the action turned out not to be suspicious. The video shows a bomb disposal robot exiting a police van while sniffer dogs explore the street, which is […]
by Franck Iovene / with Angus MacKinnon in Rome Agence France-Presse FAGNANO, Italy – Youssef Zaghba, one of three authors of Saturday’s deadly attack in London, was intercepted last year en route to Syria and flagged to Britain as a possible jihadist, Italian authorities said Tuesday. Zaghba, a 22-year-old with dual Moroccan-Italian nationality, was briefly detained after being stopped at the airport in Bologna, central Italy in March 2016. Italian prosecutors were unable to bring […]
by Richard INGHAM Agence France-Presse LONDON, United Kingdom – Police on Tuesday identified the third attacker in the weekend terror assault in London amid mounting anger, two days before an election, over how the jihadist killers had apparently escaped surveillance. With flags at half-mast, Britain fell silent at 11:00 am to remember the seven killed and dozens injured on Saturday — a mourning ritual now grimly familiar after two previous attacks in less than three months. […]
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 James Pheby Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Police identified two of the London attackers on Monday after Britain’s third terror assault in less than three months, as Prime Minister Theresa May came under mounting pressure over security just days ahead of elections. National counter-terrorism police chief Mark Rowley named two of the three slain assailants as Khuram Butt and Rachid Redouane, revealing that Butt had been known to security services. The aftermath […]
by James Pheby Agence France Presse Police carried out fresh raids and arrested “a number of people” on Monday after the Islamic State group claimed an attack by three men who mowed down and stabbed revellers in London, killing seven people before being shot dead by officers. Saturday night’s rampage at a popular nightlife hub around London Bridge by men wearing fake suicide vests was the third deadly terror attack in Britain in less than […]
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 […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — Seven people were killed in a terror attack in London on Saturday night when a van smashed into pedestrians on London Bridge before three assailants went on a stabbing spree. The trio of attackers were shot dead by the police at the scene. Here is what we know about the attack, which came 12 days after a suicide bombing in Manchester and just days ahead of Britain’s general election on […]
by James Pheby Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — The Islamic State group claimed responsibility Sunday for an attack by knife-wielding men who mowed down and stabbed revelers in London, killing seven people before being shot dead in a barrage of police gunfire. Saturday night’s rampage at a popular nightlife hub around London Bridge by three men wearing fake suicide vests was the third deadly terror attack in Britain in less than three […]
by Alice Ritchie Agence France Presse LONDON, United Kingdom — Three assailants smashed a van into pedestrians on London Bridge before attacking revellers in a popular nightlife hub with knives, leaving seven dead in the third deadly terror attack in Britain since March. Britain’s main political parties temporarily suspended campaigning for Thursday’s general election and Prime Minister Theresa May held an emergency meeting following the rampage on Saturday evening. “It has now been confirmed sadly […]
