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Riot police officers push back anti-migration protesters outside the Holiday Inn Express Hotel which is housing asylum seekers, on August 4, 2024, in Rotherham, U.K. (Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) (NEW YORK) — Violence has shaken the U.K. as riots led by far-right groups have gripped multiple cities across the country, leading to nearly 150 arrests, according […]

Marilyn Nieves/Getty Images (LONDON) — A 17-year-old male has been charged with the murders of three young girls in a knife attack in Southport, England, and 10 counts of attempted murder, officials said Wednesday night. Police said the accused, who cannot be named for legal reasons, would face Liverpool Magistrate’s Court on Thursday, Aug. 1. […]

Police officers and forensic personnel put up a fence on Hart Street in Southport, northwest England, on July 29, 2024, following a knife attack. (Darren Staples/AFP via Getty Images) (LONDON) — Police investigating the deadly attack on a children’s music event in a seaside town of Southport, United Kingdom, said they would interview the 17-year-old […]

Philip Waller/Getty Images (NEW YORK) — A 10-year-old boy from the United States was reportedly attacked by a shark at a resort in the Bahamas, police said. The incident occurred shortly before 4 p.m. local time Monday on Paradise Island, the Royal Bahamas Police Force said in a news release. “Preliminary reports indicate that the […]

Oliver Helbig/Getty Images (WATERLOO, Ontario) — A former student has been charged in a hate-motivated stabbing of two other students and a university professor during a class on gender issues at the University of Waterloo in Canada, according to local police. Geovanny Villalba-Aleman, a 24-year-old international student who recently graduated from the university, faces three counts […]

Queensland Police (LONDON) — Police in Australia have urgently appealed to the public to help find a man who allegedly took a platypus from its natural environment and onto a train where he showed it off to fellow commuters. The incident occurred on Tuesday morning at approximately 11 a.m. local time when surveillance cameras caught […]