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Two men have been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man in a wheelchair was stabbed to death with a machete Wednesday in east London.

English activist Tommy Robinson has been served another contempt of court notice over allegedly making false statements about a Syrian refugee.

The South Korean Defense Intelligence Agency has documented over 13,000 shipping containers, believed to contain weapons, traveling from North Korea to Russia throughout the course of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, a South Korean lawmaker revealed Tuesday.

“Alien” star Sigourney Weaver started crying during a press conference at the Venice Film Festival in Italy on Wednesday when a reporter asked about her character Ripley being a possible inspiration for Kamala Harris — who has yet to hold a press conference since being installed as the Democratic presidential nominee.

Pavel Durov, the founder of the popular messaging app Telegram, has found himself in the crosshairs of multiple governments, even as some have attempted to court him.

The man who attacked Nigel Farage during his election campaign in June has been spared jail time, sparking accusations of “two-tier justice” in Britain.

Smugglers ferrying migrants from Turkey to Greece’s eastern islands have in two cases adopted the new and dangerous tactic of knocking some passengers off their speedboats into the sea to avoid capture by pursuing coast guards, Greek authorities say.

Flights were grounded, civil servants were locked out of their computers and police officers resorted to texting one another in the Netherlands on Wednesday as a network outage at the Ministry of Defense.

ROME — Immigration laws should not be made stricter but rather looser, to allow more immigrants to cross international borders, Pope Francis said Wednesday.

Violent knife and sex offenders can increasingly escape prosecution if they show contrition and say sorry, a report Wednesday claims.

The Paris criminal court has released details on the arrest of Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov, who was taken into custody on August 24 in connection with a cybercrime investigation.

United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned Tuesday that the “climate crisis” threatens the lives of humans all over the world.

Prosecutors in Italy are investigating the captain of a superyacht that sank during a storm off Sicily last week, killing seven people, on possible charges including manslaughter, his lawyer said Monday.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer blamed the previous Tory government and the “snake oil of populism” for the unrest in the wake of a mass stabbing

The governor of the Russian region of Belgorod claimed on Tuesday that Ukrainian troops had launched an attempt to “break through the border,” potentially expanding the surprise ground campaign targeting neighboring Kursk that began on August 6.

French President Emmanuel Macron has ruled out selecting a member of the far-left New Popular Front as his next prime minister, despite having partnered with the leftist bloc in the recent elections.

Police in Birmingham have launched an investigation after three instances of apparently anti-white graffiti appeared in the multicultural British city.

Marseille -– A museum in southern French city Marseille is inviting visitors to discover Europe’s relationship to the naturist lifestyle by wandering its halls in the nude.

Nobody panic (yet) but U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres sent out another global climate “SOS” at a Pacific islands summit on Tuesday, delivering his second warning in under a week that rising seas are set to deliver humanity a fatal blow in the region.

British singer Charli XCX accidentally inserted herself into Vice President Kamala Harris’ presidential campaign with an offhanded X post, as the Democrats try to co-opt pop culture and Gen Z parlance.

Comedian and Hollywood actor Russell Brand said Monday that coincidences are “created by prayer” as a kind of “sacred synergy.”

Telegram, the popular messaging app known for its largely hands-off approach to moderation, has responded to the arrest of its CEO and founder, Pavel Durov, by French authorities outside of Paris.

Icelandic rescuers worked by hand Monday to cut through the remnants of a collapsed ice cave as they searched for two tourists missing for more than 24 hours since a glacier in the southeastern part of the island caved in, killing one person and severely injuring another.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky offered an alarming update on nationwide Russian bombings of his country on Monday, describing blackouts “everywhere” and significant harm to Ukraine’s power grid.

London’s Metropolitan Police have described the Notting Hill Carnival as a “fantastic event” and a “family day” as a mother was stabbed in front of her child.

Stricter knife laws and increased deportations of rejected asylum-seekers. Those are two much-repeated promises made again Monday by German Chancellor Olaf Scholz as he talked tough on a visit to the scene of the knife attack in which a suspected Islamic terrorist from Syria is accused of killing three people.

A Pakistani judge on Monday acquitted a man who was charged with spreading misinformation about the Southport stabbing in England.

Russia unleashed a massive drone and missile barrage throughout Ukraine, targeting energy infrastructure, killing at least three people.

French populist Marine Le Pen vowed that her party will bring a vote of no confidence if President Macron attempts to install a leftist government.

The first day of London’s annual Notting Hill Carnival saw at least 38 arrests, multiple knives seized, and a man stabbed, prompting police to enact stop and search powers.

The Syrian asylum seeker accused of killing three and injuring several others in Germany reportedly had a deportation order for his removal last year, but authorities failed to remove him from the country.

Five people died in Ukrainian shelling in Russia’s border region of Belgorod, officials said Sunday, while Russian forces struck a hotel in eastern Ukraine, leaving one journalist missing and two others injured.

Police arrested four people following a stabbing in front of a row of shops in the multicultural British city of Birmingham.

Europe is experiencing a crisis evidenced by a “wave of populism” that threatens European universality, Pope Francis warned Saturday.

A man suspected of trying to set a synagogue ablaze in the southern French city of la Grande-Motte was arrested late Saturday after a shoot out with police, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said.

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov was arrested in France on Saturday after his private jet landed at Le Bourget Airport, French media reported.