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Several Injuries After Man Stabs Shoppers In Australia
Police in Western Australia have shot dead a man after several people were stabbed at a shopping centre in the Pilbara region.
Five people were injured in the attack at the South Hedland Square centre - two of them are in a serious condition.
Witnesses told local media they saw a man waving "a great big knife" at shoppers and police officers, before hearing screaming and bangs.
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Mayor Of Prague Under Police Protection
The mayor of Prague has confirmed he is under police protection, days after a news report suggested he was the target of an assassination plot.
Czech newspaper Respekt alleges a Russian agent carrying the poison ricin arrived in the country three weeks ago.
Mayor Zdenek Hrib refused to say why he was under protection but said he had told police he was being followed.
The Russian embassy said the report had "absolutely no basis" and that it "categorically rejects" the allegation. And Dmitry Peskov, a spokesman for Russian President Vladimir Putin, dismissed the news report as fake.
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Deadly Bomb Attack At Market In Syria Kills Dozens
At least 40 people have been killed in a bomb attack in the north-western Syrian city of Afrin, Turkey says.
The governor of the neighbouring Turkish border province of Hatay said a fuel tanker rigged with a hand grenade exploded at a crowded market place. He and Turkey's defence ministry blamed a Kurdish militia group, the YPG, which they see as linked to Kurdish militant groups inside Turkey.
Afrin is controlled by Turkish forces and allied Syrian opposition factions.
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Man Sentenced To Three Years For Planting Fake Bomb At Blackburn Town Hall
A man who planted a fake bomb outside the town hall in Blackburn, Lancashire, has been jailed for three years.
Craig Slee, 50, of Logwood Street, Blackburn, left an open laptop with a mobile phone taped to its screen and a record box with "ISIS" written on its front outside the building in May 2019.
A detonation team were called and the area was evacuated for three hours.
On Friday at Preston Crown Court he was convicted of placing an article with intent. He was given a restraining order banning him from entering a designated area of Blackburn town centre for five years.
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GCHQ Report Shows AI Will Need To Be Used To Counter Threats
UK spies will need to use artificial intelligence (AI) to counter a range of threats, an intelligence report says.
Adversaries are likely to use the technology for attacks in cyberspace and on the political system, and AI will be needed to detect and stop them. But AI is unlikely to predict who might be about to be involved in serious crimes, such as terrorism - and will not replace human judgement, it says.
The report is based on unprecedented access to British intelligence.
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Office For National Statistics Report All Time High In Knife Crime
Knife crime in England and Wales increased last year to a new record high, figures released by the Office for National Statistics have shown.
The ONS said police recorded 45,627 offences in the year to December 2019. That is 7% more than in 2018, and the highest since knife crime statistics were first collected in 2010-11.
The figures - which do not include Greater Manchester Police because of IT issues - showed a 13% rise in the West Midlands.
Downing Street acknowledged there was "more to be done to crack down on thugs carrying knives and ensuring they are properly punished".
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Cameroon Government Admits Soldiers Involvement In Civilian Deaths
Cameroon has admitted that soldiers acting alongside a militia shot dead 13 civilians, including 10 children, in the restive north-west of the country.
Officials had initially denied the army was involved in the killings in Ntumbo in February.
In a statement, Cameroon's presidency said three soldiers along with members of a vigilante group had stormed a separatist rebel base. It suggested the deaths were accidental but soldiers tried to cover them up.
Cameroon's government has been fighting separatists in the region for three years.
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IS Terrorist Arrested In Spain
A rapper from London who travelled to Syria to join the Islamic State group has been arrested in Spain.
Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary, 28, who performed as Lyricist Jinn, travelled to the Middle East in 2013.
Spanish National Police posted a video of the arrest operation, branding Abdel Bary "one of Europe's most wanted Daesh foreign terrorist fighters."
He was detained alongside two other men found in a rented apartment in Almeria, police said. All three men had adapted themselves to the COVID-19 emergency in Spain, after entering the country illegally, according to police there.
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Met Police To Face Legal Action Over Death Of PC
The Met Police is facing legal action over the death of PC Keith Palmer during the Westminster terror attack.
Khalid Masood killed the unarmed officer after driving into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge on 22 March 2017.
In a statement the Met said it had received "a letter of claim in relation to the death of PC Palmer". PC Palmer's widow Michelle confirmed that she was bringing the claim but said she felt "let down" by Scotland Yard for making it public. She said: "It was always of paramount importance that this matter remained private, out of respect for me, my daughter and Keith.
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Mass Shooting In Canada Leaves 16 Dead
A gunman disguised as a policeman killed at least 16 people, including a female police officer, in the worst mass shooting in Canada's modern history.
The 12-hour rampage started late on Saturday and ended with a car chase.
Police said the suspect shot people at different locations in Nova Scotia, many of them randomly. He was killed in a confrontation with police. He was reported to have been driving what looked like a police car.
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