(Xinhua) A group of UN human rights experts on Thursday called on Canada to urgently repatriate from Syria a woman who has life-threatening illnesses. The woman, named Kimberly Polman and a Canadian national, has been detained at various camps since March 2019 […]
(AP) A Berlin court has ordered a man who deliberately drove a car into other vehicles on a highway in the German capital in 2020 held at a psychiatric hospital, ruling that he can’t be held criminally responsible for his actions. The […]
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(Canadian Press) Public Safety Minister Marco Mendicino is calling on Twitter to remove a tweet from an Ontario politician who labelled federal Transport Minister Omar Alghabra a “terrorist.” Mendicino said Tuesday the tweet from Independent MPP Randy Hillier is “Islamophobic” and amounts […]
(AFP) German prosecutors accused a Syrian doctor Wednesday of torturing detainees and killing one of them while working in military hospitals in his war-torn homeland, on the first day of a landmark crimes against humanity trial in Frankfurt. The accused, 36-year-old Alaa […]
(BBC) A police force which responded to the Manchester Arena bombing was not providing the recommended hours of first aid training at the time, the inquiry into the attack has heard. The Manchester Arena inquiry was told Greater Manchester Police (GMP) was […]
(AFP) The trial over the deadly November 2015 terror attacks in Paris has been suspended after a second suspect tested positive for Covid-19, sources close to the case told AFP on Monday. Ali El Haddad Asufi, accused of helping prepare the massacres […]
(BBC) A doctor has told the Manchester Arena inquiry how he treated casualties at the 2015 Bataclan theatre massacre despite the on-going threat around him. The inquiry into the 2017 bombing is looking into whether embedding doctors with armed police could speed […]
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(BBC) There remain “unacceptable delays” in getting specialist paramedics to treat casualties in some major incidents, the Manchester Arena inquiry has heard. The inquiry has heard only three medics went into the scene of the 2017 bombing amid concerns about further attacks. […]
(BBC) Policy changes mean the delay in medics getting to the Manchester Arena attack casualties “would not happen now,” the inquiry into the bombing has been told. The Manchester Arena inquiry has heard help was held up after the 2017 bombing because […]
(BBC) The inquiry into the Manchester Arena terror attack is looking into whether embedding doctors with armed police could speed up future response times. The inquiry has heard many casualties waited more than an hour for treatment after the 22 May 2017 […]
(Reuters) The main suspect in the November 2015 Islamist attack that killed 130 people in Paris has recovered from his COVID-19 infection, allowing the trial into the attacks to resume soon, French media reported on Monday. Salah Abdeslam “is in a position […]
(Radio France) A second attempt was made to re-open the Paris November 2015 terror trial on Thursday. The Tuesday session had to be abandoned because one of the accused, Salah Abdeslam, had tested positive for Covid. Two days later it took six […]
(Breitbart) A 25-year-old Tunisian migrant was arrested by police in Paris after allegedly shoving a man onto the tracks of the city’s metro before smashing various items while yelling “Allahu Akbar.” The incident took place on Monday night at around midnight at […]
(Reuters) The trial of Salah Abdeslam, the main suspect in the November 2015 Islamist attack that killed 130 people in Paris, and others will be paused briefly in January as Abdeslam has caught the coronavirus, a judicial source told Reuters on Friday. […]
(BBC) Over the past year, the public inquiry into the Manchester Arena bombing has heard heart-breaking accounts from the victims’ families and those who survived, while uncovering security failings and missed opportunities. It has also highlighted the heroic efforts of the people […]
(Tampa Bay Times) A year ago, federal prosecutors accused a Tampa man of plotting a mass shooting in support of the ISIS terrorist group. FBI agents in a criminal complaint described Muhammed Momtaz Al-Azhari’s collection of a bulletproof vest, an Uzi submachine […]
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(NL Times) The suspect arrested on suspicion of firing gunshots at the Saudi Arabian embassy in The Hague was convicted on Friday. Mohamed A., 41, was sentenced to four years in prison, six years less than what prosecutors wanted. The prison term […]
(CBC) The interim editor-in-chief of the Canadian Medical Association Journal on Thursday said the publication is formally retracting a letter it ran about hijabs that many have slammed as Islamophobic. Kirsten Patrick’s announcement comes days after she posted on Twitter, apologizing for the letter, which called the religious […]
(CTV) A recent letter published in a leading Canadian medical journal has stirred up debate — and controversy — around the hijab and prompted calls for a full retraction. On Dec. 20, the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) published a letter, with […]
(Age) A Melbourne nurse, who was sent to prison after he helped Syrian rebels, faces a string of new federal charges, including allegations he accessed social media sites TikTok and Facebook and viewed images of guns and extreme sexual violence in breach […]
(BBC) North West Ambulance Service’s response to the Manchester Arena attack was “inadequate,” an inquiry has been told. Only one paramedic was at the bomb scene for the first 45 minutes and many victims were helped by police officers, first aiders and […]
(BBC) A defendant in a terrorism trial has been taken to hospital and placed in an induced coma with Covid-19, a court has heard. The trial of Asad Bhatti started at the Old Bailey last week. The 48-year-old financial analyst from Redhill, […]
(AP) A judge ruled Friday that a man charged with killing 10 people at a Colorado supermarket earlier this year is mentally incompetent to stand trial and ordered him to be treated at the state mental hospital to see if he can […]
(Religion News) Dr. Mehmet Oz, the celebrity surgeon and host of “The Dr. Oz Show,” has launched a campaign for Pennsylvania’s U.S. Senate seat now held by Pat Toomey, who is retiring. If Oz wins the Republican nomination, he will be the […]
(BBC) The father of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena attack has said that the response to the bombing was “shameful” and “inadequate.” Saffie-Rose Roussos, eight, was among 22 people killed in the 2017 bombing. Her dad Andrew Roussos told the […]
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(AP) Some 32 migrants who were held for weeks at sea on tourism boats chartered by the Maltese government during the early phase of the coronavirus pandemic have filed a constitutional complaint in a Maltese court claiming their human rights were violated. […]
(AP) German prosecutors say they are no longer ruling out an Islamic extremist motive in a knife attack on a train earlier this month that left four people wounded. Prosecutors in Munich said Tuesday that Islamic State group propaganda videos had been […]
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(Deutsche Welle) The man who stabbed four people on a train in the southern state of Bavaria on Saturday did so “indiscriminately,” police said during a press conference Sunday presenting the first results of their investigation into the attack. Prosecutor Gerhard Neuhof said […]
(Deutsche Welle) German Federal Police on Saturday said there was a knife attack on a train in the southern German state of Bavaria, resulting in several injuries. The train was traveling near Neumarkt between the cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg at the […]
(Radio France) The work of the special police units sent to face armed killers is so dangerous that they have their own medical specialists with them during every operation. At Thursday’s session of the Paris attacks trial, two of the doctors who […]
(Radio France) One hundred and thirty people were killed on the night of 13 November 2015, or died shortly afterwards from their injuries. But there was one other victim, who escaped physically unhurt, only to take his own life two years after […]
(Radio France) The psychological damage does not affect only those who were witnesses or victims of the terrorist attacks on the night of 13 November 2015. Practically all the civil witness testimonies point to the impact of the victims’ damaged lives on […]
(Radio France) The second week of witness evidence from those who survived the attack on the Bataclan music venue has been full of grief, guilt and the seemingly endless struggle to turn the page emotionally. One young woman told two anecdotes, one […]
(AFP) A bow-and-arrow attack in Norway that left five people dead this week appears to have been motivated by mental illness, authorities indicated Friday, as the perpetrator was ordered to be kept in a medical facility. Espen Andersen Brathen, a 37-year-old Danish […]
(BBC) A Manchester Arena victim would have had “quite a high” survival chance had he been treated sooner, a court heard. It took paramedics nearly an hour to treat John Atkinson, 28, the public inquiry into the 2017 bombing was told. Former […]
(BBC) The family of a man killed in the Manchester Arena attack say he was “badly let down” by some members of the emergency services. John Atkinson, 28, was one of 22 people who died in the bombing on 22 May 2017. […]
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(AP) The Biden administration said Tuesday that the coronavirus pandemic and the difficulty of reversing Trump administration policies were responsible for the record-low number of refugees admitted to the United States during the 2021 budget year. The State Department, in an email […]
(AP) Afghan refugees will soon be arriving again in the U.S. after a massive campaign to vaccinate them against measles following a small outbreak that caused a three-week pause in evacuations, officials said Monday. Authorities have administered the vaccination to about 49,000 […]
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(Global News) A Toronto woman who carried [out an] ISIS-inspired attack at a Canadian Tire store in 2017 has been denied parole and ordered to serve out the remainder of her sentence in prison. A decision released Wednesday by the Parole Board […]
(Detroit News) A judge Tuesday dismissed what remained of a landmark criminal case that started with allegations members of a Muslim sect abused young girls, saying prosecutors vindictively pursued new charges after a federal female genital mutilation law was declared unconstitutional. In a […]
(Radio France) The eleventh day of the Paris court hearing into the terrorist attacks which killed 130 people in the French capital in November 2015 was devoted to the medical machinery which handled the bodies of the victims, and the frequently inadequate […]
(BBC) Hossam Metwally has been sentenced for poisoning his partner during a series of exorcism ceremonies which left her on the brink of death. The doctor’s trial, which could not be reported until its conclusion, over his “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic […]
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