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BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) — British Prime Minister Theresa May will urge internet companies to do more to remove extremist content Friday as she makes a shortened visit to the G7 summit following the Manchester attack. As British authorities hunt accomplices of the bomber who killed 22 people at a concert on Monday, May will use a meeting with world leaders in Italy to emphasize the importance of tackling the spread of terror online. “The threat […]
BURY, United Kingdom (Reuters) – The mother of a Manchester bombing victim asked for unity on Wednesday (May 24). Charlotte Campbell, who was visibly emotional, urged people to “stay together” after giving thanks for the support she received following Monday’s (May 22) suicide attack which killed 22 concert-goers, including her 15-year-old daughter Olivia. In a last conversation, Campbell had been thanked by Olivia for allowing her daughter to go to the Ariana Grande concert. The […]
by Rosie Scammell Agence France Presse MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) — Britain raced Thursday to track down a jihadist network suspected of orchestrating the Manchester concert attack, while a row escalated between London and Washington over leaked material from the probe. As more children were named among the 22 victims of Monday’s massacre, the suicide bomber’s father and brother were arrested in Libya and police in Britain made new arrests. However, British authorities were left […]
TRIPOLI, Libya (Reuters) – The father of the bomber who killed 22 concert-goers in an attack in Manchester told Reuters in the Libyan capital on Wednesday (May 24) that he had last spoken to his son some five days ago, by phone, and that “everything was normal.” Ramadan Abedi, who was detained by a Tripoli counter-terrorism force during the interview, said his son Salman had told his family that he was heading on pilgrimage to […]
MANCHESTER, United Kingdom (AFP) — Twenty-two people were killed in Monday’s suicide attack on a Manchester pop concert, including an eight-year-old girl, teenagers and several parents who had come to collect their children. Here are the victims named so far in what was the deadliest terror attack in Britain since the 2005 London bombings: ‘Beautiful little girl’ Eight-year-old Saffie Rose Roussos from Leyland in Lancashire, northwest England, is the youngest victim among those named so […]
BRUSSELS, Belgium (Reuters) – European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and members of the college of Commissioners observed a minute of silence on Wednesday (May 24) in solidarity with the victims of an attack in Manchester that killed 22 people. Guenther Oettinger, European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources said Europeans “mourn with the British people.” The minute of silence was held on the sidelines of the weekly commissioners meeting, while EU flags hung at half-mast […]
British police raided a property in the Manchester district of Fallowfield where they carried out a controlled explosion on Tuesday (May 23). The raid followed a suicide bombing that killed 22 people, including children, in an attack on a crowded concert hall. Manchester remained on high alert, with additional armed police drafted in. The suspected attacker was named as Salman Abedi, aged 22. Two United States officials who have been in contact with British authorities […]
MOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin said he was ready to boost anti-terror cooperation with Britain in a condolence message to Prime Minister Theresa May over the “inhuman” attack in Manchester, the Kremlin said Tuesday. “We firmly condemn this cynical, inhuman crime. We expect that those behind it will not escape the punishment they deserve,” Putin said in a statement published by the Kremlin. “The Russian head of state confirmed his readiness to […]
People react online after 22 people have been killed in a suspected terrorist attack during a pop concert by US star Ariana Grande in the northwest English city of Manchester.
by Edouard Guihaire Agence France Presse MANCHESTER, United States (AFP) — Twenty-two people, including children, were killed and dozens injured when a man detonated a bomb at a pop concert by US star Ariana Grande, in Britain’s deadliest terror attack in 12 years. Screaming fans, many of them teens, fled the venue in panic after the bomb blast at the end of the concert in the northern English city of Manchester on Monday evening. “There was […]
