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Author Salman Rushdie has said he feels “lucky” to be alive in his first interview since he was stabbed in New York. Speaking to the New Yorker magazine, Rushdie said his “main overwhelming feeling is gratitude” that he had not been more…
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Japan on Tuesday executed a man convicted of killing seven people in a truck ramming and stabbing rampage in Tokyo’s popular Akihabara electronics district in 2008, the justice ministry said. Justice Minister Yoshihisa Furukawa said…
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A suspect was arrested in Norway after at least three people were stabbed with a sharp object, leaving one critically injured Friday, police said. Police at first said the attack in the village of Nore as random, but later clarified that…
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A man wielding a knife stabbed several people and ran over another in southern Israel on Tuesday, killing four, in one of the deadliest attacks in the country in recent years. The assailant, who Israeli media have identified as a Bedouin…
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Israeli police killed a Palestinian man on Sunday morning after he stabbed an officer in Jerusalem, police said. The man “approached police officers who were stationed at the Bab Huta Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, pulled out a knife…
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Three people, including two students on their way to take university entrance exams, were stabbed Saturday just outside of a test venue, and authorities arrested a 17-year-old student at the scene on suspicion of attempted murder, Tokyo…
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Israeli police fatally shot a woman who tried to stab officers in Jerusalem’s Old City on Thursday, police said. According to a police statement, the attacker attempted to stab police in one of the streets leading to the Al-Aqsa mosque,…
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A 22-year-old Afghan man who is suspected of having stabbed seven men in a town in southern Sweden, leaving three of them in critical condition, was remanded in pretrial custody for at least two weeks on Friday. The Eksjo District Court…
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British police announced that a person in his twenties was killed and a teenager was injured in a stabbing accident in Kilburn, London. The police indicated that no suspects were arrested at this stage, confirming that they are…
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At least two people have been stabbed to death in the Canadian city of Quebec by a man armed with a sword and dressed in medieval clothing, police say. Five other people were wounded. A man in his mid-20s was arrested shortly before…
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