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Suspect in knife and van attack appears in court
A 31-year-old man appeared in a court on Saturday accused of murdering two college students and a school caretaker in a knife and van attack earlier this week in the English city of Nottingham.
Valdo Calocane was flanked by three…
Parents of Syrians missing in boat tragedy ‘pray day and night’
In war-torn Syria, parents of teenagers missing in a shipwreck off the Greek coast are clinging onto hope their children might be alive, days after the tragedy.
A fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank off Greece’s…
British man says his relatives are among missing after migrant boat sank off Greek coast
Aftab Khan, a British man from Wolverhampton, fears members of his family are among the hundreds of people missing after a fishing boat overloaded with migrants capsized and sank off the coast of Greece in the early hours of Wednesday.…
American arrested for assault on 2 US tourists in Germany that left one woman dead
An American man has been arrested after allegedly assaulting two US tourists near Neuschwanstein castle in southern Germany and then pushing them down a steep slope, an attack that left one of the women dead, authorities said Thursday.…
2 remaining Britons killed in Egypt boat blaze are named
The two remaining Britons who died in a boat fire in Egypt have been named, Sky News reported.
Stephen Hill and Paul Darling were killed along with fellow Briton Christina Quinn when their vessel, the Hurricane, burst into flames…
Germany approves funds to buy Israeli air defense system
German lawmakers on Wednesday approved an advance payment for the purchase of the sophisticated Arrow 3 air defense system from Israel for nearly four billion euros ($4.3 billion).
The budget committee in the lower house of parliament…
UK police seek motive for Nottingham murders
British police were questioning a man on suspicion of murder on Wednesday as they sought the motive for a stabbing and van attack in the central English city of Nottingham which left three people dead and another in critical condition.…
US considering granting asylum to Afghan war hero threatened with deportation by UK
The US is formally reviewing whether to grant asylum to an Afghan pilot whom the UK is threatening to deport to Rwanda, The Independent reported.
The former air force lieutenant, whose identity has been withheld because of security…
Brits killed in Egypt boat blaze were below deck: tour company
Three holidaymakers from the UK killed during a fire onboard an Egyptian diving boat in the Red Sea on Sunday morning died below deck, the tour operator in charge of the vessel has said.
The three British divers, who were on a week-long…
London court orders UK-registered firm to pay nearly $1m to Beirut blast victims
A London court has ordered a British-registered company to pay more than 800,000 pounds ($1 million) in damages to victims of the 2020 blast at Beirut’s port, a lawyers group in Lebanon said on Monday, in the first such verdict over the…