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Legal
Bike-path terror defendant is too dangerous for prison, prosecutors say Sayfullo Saipov must die by lethal injection, they argue on the first day of his trial’s punishment phase.
(NY Times) A federal prosecutor told a Manhattan jury on Monday that Sayfullo Saipov, who drove a truck down a crowded West Side bike path in 2017, mowing down eight people without mercy in a terrorist attack, had “not abandoned his jihad, […]
Crime
Fifteen arrested in Leicester disorder operation
(BBC) Fifteen people have been arrested in an operation to “deter further disorder” in Leicester. There was large-scale unrest on Saturday amid tensions involving mainly young men from sections of the Muslim and Hindu communities. Police said it had been sparked by […]
Government & Politics
Raids in French probe on alleged misuse of murdered teacher’s fund
(AFP) French investigators on Tuesday searched the homes of a journalist and a former senior official over allegations of embezzlement from a fund set up in memory of a teacher beheaded by an Islamist radical. The controversy is casting a shadow over […]