(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 […]
(BBC) A doctor who poisoned his partner in a series of bogus exorcism ceremonies has been jailed for 14 and a half years. Hossam Metwally, 61, brought Kelly Wilson to the brink of death by injecting her with drugs during the sessions […]
(Detroit Free Press) Northville Dr. Jumana Nagarwala may be the only physician on trial on charges of performing female genital mutilation on minor girls in the U.S., but she wasn’t the only doctor who was cutting children, federal prosecutors disclosed Thursday. Rather, they said, […]
(Detroit Free Press) Nearly five years after it emerged, the nation’s first female genital mutilation case has taken yet another turn in a heated feud between a government that says children were unlawfully cut and a doctor who says she only “scraped” young […]
(BBC) Medical equipment could have been distributed “more effectively” to help those injured in the Manchester Arena bombing, a public inquiry has heard. An ambulance expert said items including triage packs and stretchers were “dumped” outside Victoria Station during the emergency response. […]
(Canadian Press) Candidate controversies over vaccines and Islamophobia dogged Erin O’Toole’s campaign Saturday as the Conservative leader made his pitch to residents in the Greater Toronto Area, a vote-rich region crucial to the outcome of the federal election on Sept. 20. The […]
(BBC) Critically injured casualties of the Manchester bombing would have been treated and moved more quickly if more specialist paramedics were sent to the scene, an expert has said. Only three paramedics were sent into the venue’s foyer area where the bomb […]
(BBC) The decision not to send more specialist paramedics into the Manchester Arena bomb scene has been defended by an ambulance service boss. The public inquiry has heard only three paramedics treated casualties in the City Room where the bomb was detonated. […]
(Free Beacon) Afghan refugees coming to the United States did not receive COVID-19 tests before departing Kabul, the State Department told the Washington Free Beacon. The State Department’s disclosure comes amid increased scrutiny of the Biden administration’s handling of more than 100,000 […]
(Arizona Republic) A doctor fired from Phoenix Children’s Hospital for social media posts in which she condemned Israel and accused Zionists of having a “thirst to kill our Palestinian children” has filed a job discrimination complaint with the Arizona Attorney General’s Office, […]
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(BBC) An anaesthetist who poisoned his partner in a series of botched exorcism ceremonies is facing jail. Hossam Metwally, 61, performed a “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic Ruqya ritual on Kelly Wilson at the couple’s home in Grimsby. Sheffield Crown Court heard […]
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(AP) A Syrian doctor has been charged in Germany with crimes against humanity for allegedly torturing people in military hospitals in his homeland and killing one of them, German federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office in Karlsruhe said in a […]
(BBC) A security expert has been appointed to assess whether coronavirus has had any impact on how well the capital would cope with another major terror attack. London Mayor Sadiq Khan said extremists had used the lockdowns to “spread disinformation” and “radicalise […]
(BBC) A survivor of the Manchester attack who was standing just metres away from the bomber has described the blast as like “being hit by a 10 tonne truck.” Martin Hibbert was left paralysed from the waist down after the 2017 atrocity […]
(BBC) A woman whose sister was killed and daughter was critically injured in the Manchester Arena bomb said the “chaotic” medical response that night had left victims feeling “abandoned.” Claire Booth’s sister Kelly Brewster, 32, died in the 2017 explosion. She told […]
(AP) The suspect in a fatal knife attack in the German city of Wuerzburg last month has been sent to a psychiatric hospital after experts determined that it may not be possible to hold him criminally responsible for his actions, investigators said […]
(BBC) Two armed police officers have denied stopping a doctor from going into the Manchester Arena bomb scene. PC Troy Tyldesley and PC James Dalton were guarding one of the entrances to the arena foyer in the immediate aftermath of the 2017 […]
(National-UAE) The head of London’s Metropolitan Police has warned of the risk of a terrorist attack as lockdown restrictions eased in England on Monday. Cressida Dick said her officers are dealing with more than 800 live cases and that they have seen […]
(National-UAE) Police in Italy have arrested a suspected terrorist who has been on the run since escaping from a psychiatric facility in France. He has been under investigation in France for allegedly condoning the actions of ISIS fanatic Mohamed Merah, who killed […]
(AAP) A convicted foreign fighter has agreed to be monitored 24 hours a day with a tracking device while he reintegrates into the Australian community. Adam Brookman was jailed for more than six-and-a-half years after admitting he supported Chechen fighters on the […]
(AP) German investigators said Tuesday that an Islamic extremist motivation for last week’s fatal knife attack in Wuerzburg appears likely, but they haven’t so far found any propaganda or other extremist material. They also plan more checks on the suspect’s mental health. […]
(Arizona Republic) The Arizona chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, along with several law firms, is representing a doctor after she was fired from Phoenix Children’s Hospital following a Facebook post condemning Israel and accusing Zionists of having a “thirst to kill our Palestinian […]
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