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Four men in their in their 20s were found with stab wounds following calls to police about a fight in north London on Sunday evening.

Three of the men remain in hospital, although the Metropolitan Police has not yet disclosed their condition.

The fight on Fraser Road, Edmonton, followed a shooting in Edmonton on Saturday in which two men and a teenage boy were wounded.

Police believe the two incidents are linked. One person has been arrested.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “At this early stage, officers believe the incident is linked to the shooting in Gordon Road, Enfield on Saturday, 17 November.” During Saturday’s shooting, a shotgun was fired twice into a minicab in which the men were sitting on Gordon Road. One passenger’s injuries were described as “potentially life-changing”.

Police have appealed for witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.

A pioneering Welsh scheme will be used to help unearth trouble “hotspots” and cut violent crime in the United States.

The Cardiff Model for Violence Prevention anonymously gathers details at A&Es about incidents, revealing problem areas unknown to police.

The US Department of Justice said more than half of violence is unreported which has made prevention difficult. But now the Cardiff model is set to be rolled out by the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDCP).

The CDCP, which works to protect US residents from health, safety and security threats, has produced a website and toolkit to help agencies implement the model across the country.

Prof Jonathan Shepherd devised the model and said it had reached a “major milestone” after securing the endorsement in the US. Developed in Cardiff, and launched in 1997 to fill gaps in police knowledge by anonymously gathering information at hospitals from victims of violence.

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Saudi Arabia’s public prosecutor has concluded that an intelligence officer ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s murder, and not Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The officer was tasked with persuading the dissident journalist to return to the Gulf kingdom, a spokesman said. Khashoggi was given a lethal injection after a struggle in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on 2 October, he added.

The public prosecutor has charged 11 people over the murder and is seeking the death penalty for five of them. Their cases have been referred to a court while investigations into another 10 people suspected of involvement continue.

The US treasury department later imposed economic sanctions on 17 Saudi officials who it said had “targeted and brutally killed” Khashoggi, who lived and worked in the US, and had to “face consequences for their actions”.

They included Saud al-Qahtani, a former adviser to the crown prince who the treasury department alleged was “part of the planning and execution of the operation” that led to Khashoggi’s murder; Maher Mutreb, who it said had “co-ordinated and executed” the operation; and Mohammed Alotaibi, the Istanbul consul-general.

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The death of a pregnant woman who was killed in a crossbow attack in her own home has “shocked people to the core”, an MP has said.

Sana Muhammad, 35, died on Monday after the attack in Ilford, east London, but her unborn son was delivered safely.

Ilford North MP Wes Streeting said in Parliament her death had left people in shock “up and down the country”. Prime Minister Theresa May said laws around crossbows would be reviewed after Mrs Muhammad’s death.

Ramanodge Unmathallegadoo, 50, of no fixed address, has been charged with Mrs Muhammad’s murder and is due to appear at the Old Bailey on Thursday.

Speaking at Prime Minister’s Questions, Mr Streeting said: “I know I will speak for every member of this House in expressing our deepest condolences to the family and our best wishes to the baby for a speedy recovery. “Given these weapons, like the crossbow, used to kill my constituent are readily for sale online, can I urge the Prime Minister to urgently and seriously look at expanding the Offensive Weapons Bill so that we can toughen the scope of the laws governing the sale, the possession and the use of these deadly weapons.”

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Finnish Prime Minister Juha Sipila has said the GPS signal in his country’s northern airspace was disrupted during recent Nato war games in Scandinavia.

He said he believed the signal had been jammed deliberately and that it was possible Russia was to blame because it had the means to do so.

Finland is not a Nato member but joined the war games which began last month. Norway also reported GPS problems during the exercises near Russia’s north-western borders.

“It is difficult to say what the reasons could be but there are reasons to believe it could be related to military exercise activities outside Norway’s borders,” Wenche Olsen, director of the Civil Aviation Authority of Norway, told the Barents Observer earlier this month.

Russia is also suspected of jamming the GPS signal in Norway’s border area last year when it held its own war games. Relations between Nato and Russia have been strained since Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014.

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