As New York braced for a week in the global spotlight, violence erupted at the heart of the city’s transit network: six people were wounded in a stabbing at Penn Station, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said, just as the metropolitan area prepared to host the NBA Finals and football’s World Cup. Authorities detained a suspect after the attack, and all six victims were taken to a hospital, according to the New York Fire Department. One person suffered serious injuries. Fire officials had first said five people were hurt, but Mamdani…

Saturday May 2, 2026 Britain’s Metropolitan Police have charged a man with attempted murder after two Jewish men were stabbed in Golders Green, in north London, an attack that has intensified concern over rising threats to the Jewish community. The stabbings in a residential part of the capital on Wednesday prompted officials to raise the national terrorism threat level to its second-highest setting, a move that signals an attack within the next six months is considered “highly likely”. This week, Prime Minister Keir…

A man accused of carrying out a knife attack that left two Jewish men wounded in Golders Green has been remanded in custody after appearing in court on attempted murder charges linked to Wednesday’s stabbings in north-west London. Essa Suleiman, 45, is alleged to have tried to kill the two victims, aged 34 and 76. Prosecutors say he was armed with a black-handled knife during the assaults in Highfield Avenue, Golders Green. He is also charged with the attempted murder of a third man in a separate incident earlier that day at…

LONDON — Police in north London say a 45-year-old British man of Somali origin attacked two Jewish men with a knife on Thursday in what investigators are treating as a suspected terrorist assault aimed at the Jewish community. The violence unfolded in Golders Green, an area known for its large Jewish population. The victims, ages 76 and 34, were hospitalized and officials said both remained in stable condition. London’s Metropolitan Police said officers deployed a Taser to restrain and arrest the suspect after he allegedly…

Thursday April 2, 2026A quiet morning at a Kampala preschool turned tragic on Thursday after a stabbing attack left four toddlers dead at Ggaba Early Childhood Development Program School in Uganda’s capital, police said. Ugandan authorities said a suspect, identified as Okello Christopher Onyu, was arrested after allegedly entering the school and killing four children. Rachael Kawala, the spokesperson for Kampala Metropolitan Police, told reporters at the scene that the suspect had come to the school two days earlier to seek…

PARIS — French police arrested a man suspected of stabbing three women at separate stations along Paris Metro Line 3 on Thursday afternoon, prosecutors said, in a spate of attacks that briefly rattled one of the capital’s busiest commuter corridors. The incidents unfolded between 4:15 p.m. and 4:45 p.m. local time (3:15-3:45 p.m. GMT), with the victims attacked at République and Arts et Métiers — both near the Marais district — and at Opéra, according to RATP, the Paris transit authority. Emergency responders treated the…

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Police in the Somali capital arrested a woman Thursday on suspicion of fatally stabbing her husband in the city’s Dayniile district, according to the Banadir Regional Police Command. The suspect, identified as Fadumo Mohamed Osman, was taken into custody shortly after the killing of her husband, Hassan Mohamed Nur. Authorities said Nur died of severe injuries sustained in a knife attack allegedly carried out by his wife. The police command said investigators are working to determine the motive and…