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by Kyoko Hasegawa TOKYO, Japan (AFP) — Britain and Japan will step up the pace of sanctions against nuclear-armed North Korea after its “outrageous” firing of a missile over Japan, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Thursday. “We condemn North Korea in the strongest words possible for a reckless act which was a clear violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions,” May told a press briefing during an official visit to Japan. “In response to […]
STOCKHOLM, Sweden (AFP) — A Swedish policeman was stabbed in a bustling Stockholm square on Thursday, with nothing to indicate it was a terror attack, police said. “A police officer has been stabbed in the back and the neck,” inspector Ronnie Tellberger told AFP, saying the assailant attacked him from behind. The suspect was arrested at the scene, a witness told AFP. The motive for the attack was not immediately clear. “There’s nothing to indicate […]
HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — Finnish authorities on Tuesday said they had released two of the four suspects held in custody following this month’s stabbing attack that killed two and wounded eight. All four had been placed in pre-trial detention last week on suspicion of murder and attempted murder with terrorist intent but two of them were later cleared, a statement from the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) said. “There is no longer any reason […]
Reuters — UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson said in a tweet late on Monday (August 28) he was “outraged” by “reckless provocation” of North Korea’s latest missile launch. North Korea fired a missile early on Tuesday that flew over Japan and landed in the Pacific waters off the northern region of Hokkaido, South Korea and Japan said, in a sharp escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula. The last North Korean projectile to fly over […]
by Frank Zeller Agence France Presse BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — A male nurse jailed for life two years ago for killing two hospital patients with lethal drug overdoses murdered at least 90 patients in total, and possibly twice as many, police said Monday, calling it post-war Germany’s worst killing spree. Niels Hoegel, 40, was jailed in February 2015 for two murders and four counts of attempted murder or causing bodily harm on intensive-care patients at […]
MADRID, Spain (AFP) — The number of people killed in twin vehicle attacks in Spain last week rose to 16 on Sunday, local authorities in Barcelona said. “This morning a 51-year-old German woman died after being treated in a critical condition in hospital,” said a statement from the region’s civil defense. The attacks on Las Ramblas boulevard in Barcelona and in the seaside resort of Cambrils left around 120 wounded. The woman who died on […]
HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — The identity of the main suspect in the stabbing attack this month in the Finnish city of Turku has been confirmed, police said Sunday. Investigators have determined that Abderrahman Mechkah, an asylum seeker whose name had previously been released by police, is a Moroccan born in 1994. “The police have interviewed the main suspect, and he is willing to communicate with the interviewing police officer,” the National Bureau of Investigation said […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — British police investigating Friday’s sword attack outside Buckingham Palace in London arrested a second man on Sunday, as authorities in Belgium, Finland and Spain probed their own terror attacks. “The man was arrested on suspicion of being involved in the commission, preparation or instigation of terrorism at 10:15 hours (0915 GMT) today and he has been taken into custody,” a police statement said. It came hours after Islamic State jihadists […]
HELSINKI, Finland (AFP) — Finnish police have released three of the seven suspects held following a stabbing spree that killed two people last week, they said in a statement Saturday. But four men are still in custody after last week’s attack in the southwestern city of Turku, which investigators are treating as the country’s first terror attack. They include the main suspect in the attack, which took place on August 18, a man police initially […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A man arrested under the Terrorism Act after deliberately driving at police outside Queen Elizabeth II’s Buckingham Palace residence in London had a “four-foot sword” in his car, police said on Saturday. Upon being challenged by officers, the 26-year-old attacker “reached for what we now know to be a four-foot sword which was in the front passenger foot well,” the police statement said. “The man, who repeatedly shouted Allahu akbar […]
LONDON, United Kingdom (AFP) — A man who attacked police Friday with a knife outside Queen Elizabeth II’s Buckingham Palace residence in London has been arrested under the Terrorism Act, police said. “Detectives from the Metropolitan Police’s Counter Terrorism Command are now investigating the incident which occurred near Buckingham Palace,” the Metropolitan Police said in a statement.
by Cédric Simon Agence France PresseA knife-wielding man was shot dead on Friday after he wounded a soldier in the center of Brussels, in what Belgian authorities called a “terrorist attack.” The man, who prosecutors said yelled “Allahu akbar” (God is greatest) during the assault, was shot by soldiers on a street in the city which has been on high alert since terrorist attacks on its metro and airport last year. “We believe that it […]
