London mayor urges calm and vigilance after knife attack
Mayor of London Sadiq Khan on Thursday urged Londoners to remain “calm and vigilant” after a woman was killed and five people injured in a city centre knife attack, AFP reported. “I urge all Londoners to remain calm and vigilant,” Khan said in a statement, as police investigated possible terrorist links following the arrest of a 19-year-old man at the scene of the incident which took place late on Wednesday in...
Man arrested on suspicion of murder in London stabbings
A 19-year-old man detained by police at the scene of a stabbing spree in London has been arrested on suspicion of murder, police said today. One woman died, and two women and three men were injured in the attack late Wednesday in central London’s Russell Square, a tourist hotel heartland close to the British Museum. Three of the five wounded have been discharged from hospital. “We continue to focus our lines of inquiry...
Heavy police presence on London streets after deadly knife attack
One woman was killed and five others injured by a man with suspected mental health issues who went on the rampage with a knife in central London, an attack police said could be linked to terrorism. Armed police were called at 10:33 p.m. (2133 GMT) Wednesday (Aug 3) after a man armed with a knife started to attack people in London’s Russell Square, a park near the site of a 2005 suicide bombing. “Early indications suggest that mental...
Bolshoi Ballet marks 60th anniversary of landmark London visit
At the height of the Cold War, dancers from Russia’s Bolshoi Ballet did their bit to thaw East-West relations, flying to London in 1956 to make their first performances for British audiences who had never seen anything quite like it. This week, they return to mark the 60th anniversary of an event that was a triumph of art over geopolitics in a year when Britain was rocked by the Suez crisis and the Soviet Union invaded Hungary....
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