Boy, 14, dies after man with sword stabs multiple people near London tube station A man has been arrested after driving a car into a home in east London before getting out and attacking members of the public with a sword, according to police. 04/30/2024 - 4:49 am | View Link
Man stabs police officer from behind in Jerusalem’s Old City Israeli police released footage on Tuesday showing a man stabbing a police officer from behind in Jerusalem’s Old City. 04/30/2024 - 2:37 am | View Link
Israel Police Officer Stabbed in Jerusalem's Old City by Turkish Citizen; Car Ramming Attempt in West Bank A police source said that the stabbing assailant is a Turkish citizen who arrived in Israel in the last 72 hours, most likely as a tourist. The police officer is in a moderate condition ... 04/30/2024 - 12:57 am | View Link
Cop moderately hurt in Jerusalem stabbing; assailant, a Turkish visitor, shot dead Border Police officer in Old City, is then shot dead The post Cop moderately hurt in Jerusalem stabbing; assailant identified as Turkish visitor appeared first on The Times of Israel. 04/30/2024 - 12:22 am | View Link
AP Top Stories April 30 A Top U.N. court rejects request by Nicaragua to order Germany to halt military aid to Israel; Israeli police officer injured in stabbing attack outside of Jerusalem’s Old City; One dead, others injured ... 04/30/2024 - 12:21 am | View Link
(NEW YORK) — Large numbers of New York City police officers began entering the Columbia University late Tuesday as dozens of pro-Palestinian protesters remained on the campus.
Demonstrators had occupied Hamilton Hall hours earlier after setting up an encampment earlier in the month.
Students had defiantly set up tents again after police cleared an encampment at the university on April 18 and arrested more than 100 people.
mdash; Two men have been charged with cutting down the popular 150-year-old Sycamore Gap tree next to Hadrian’s Wall last year in northern England, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Daniel Graham, 38, and Adam Carruthers, 31, were charged with causing criminal damage and damaging the wall built in A. D. 122 by Emperor Hadrian to guard the northwest frontier of the Roman Empire.
They were ordered to appear in Newcastle Magistrates’ Court on May 15.
The sycamore’s majestic canopy between two hills made it a popular subject for landscape photographers.
(PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti) — Haiti’s newly installed transitional council chose former Sports Minister Fritz Belizaire as the country’s prime minister Tuesday as it presses forward in its monumental task of trying to establish a stable new government amid stifling violence.
Belizaire replaces Michel Patrick Boisvert, the former minister of economy and finance who was the current interim prime minister.
LONDON — A man wielding a sword attacked members of the public and police officers in a east London suburb Tuesday, killing a 14-year-old boy and injuring four others, British authorities said.
A 36-year-old man was arrested in a residential area near Hainault subway station, police said. The incident is not being treated as terror-related or a “targeted attack.”
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Police said the 14-year-old died in the hospital from his injuries.
King Charles III officially returned to public duties on Tuesday, following a months-long period of recuperation since being diagnosed with an undisclosed type of cancer in February.
The 75-year-old monarch opted for a cause close to home to mark his return to work. King Charles and Queen Camilla visited a cancer treatment center in London, where he greeted doctors, held hands with patients, and gave out gifts to children.
Sophie, the Duchess of Edinburgh, became the first member of the British royal family to visit Ukraine since Russia launched its full scale invasion of the country in February 2022. Sophie is the wife of Prince Edward, the youngest child of Queen Elizabeth II, and brother of King Charles III.
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The Duchess met Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska during the Monday visit.