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Germany’s fractious coalition government has announced a hard-fought compromise on changes to weapons laws and asylum rules designed to prevent Islamist attacks such as last Friday’s mass stabbing that left three people dead. Three days before key state elections in which each of the ruling parties risk heavy losses to the far right, government ministers said the knife rampage allegedly by a Syrian asylum seeker at a street festival in the western city of Solingen had exposed critical weaknesses in the country’s immigration and security policy. “The Solingen attack shook us to our core and we said that we as...

Wondering why the country’s spiraling out of control under Keir Starmer’s watch? He’s quick to point fingers at the so-called “far-right,” but what’s really behind the chaos on our streets? Today, we’re diving into the wave of protests and riots shaking the UK — and how Starmer’s failure to get a grip on the situation is only making things a lot worse. Dissenting voices are getting louder, with folks like Nigel Farage leading the charge, saying Starmer’s completely lost touch with what’s actually going on in the country. Transcript linked below video.

Blades are carving up the Big Apple. Stabbings and slashings across the city this year spiked 6% to 3,582 incidents through Aug. 11, up from 3,370 during the same period time last year, according to NYPD data requested by The Post. So far this year, 60 people have died by the blade — an 11% surge from the 54 in 2023. “There’s no reason for so much crime to go on,” Alton Scott, a veteran MTA conductor who needed 34 stitches to close a gruesome neck wound after being slashed in March, told The Post. In May, 17-year-old Sarah Rivera...

~LITERAL DIVERSITY STABBING OF THE DAY: On Friday a "knifeman", as they now say, fatally stabbed three people and badly wounded eight others in the German town of Solingen. The police have arrested a - go on, take a wild guess - yes, a 26-year-old Muslim from Syria who is reported to have yelled - time for another wild guess - bingo, "Allahu Akbar!" Just to add to the black comedy of civilisational implosion, he killed his victims at a "Festival of Diversity" - a Festival der Vielfalt - yeah, that's the actual stupid name they gave it, as if...

~The latest stabbing of an English girl - eleven years old - is being reported mostly because the heroic figure on hand who stepped in to disarm the "knifeman" (a recent coinage but now routine in Fleet Street) was a plucky Muslim fellow called Abdullah. Good for him - even if the not-so-subtle sub-text of the reports was: You get it yet, you lousy Islamophobes? We need immigrants to come here to do the jobs Britons won't do - like saving the little girl from being stabbed by some of the other immigrants we let in. You'd better hope there's...

The UK teen accused of fatally stabbing three little girls and wounding 10 others at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class was identified for the first time Thursday as Axel Rudakubana. Rudakubana, 17, was born in Cardiff, Wales, to Rwandan parents, according to the BBC. He is charged with the murders of Bebe King, 6, Elsie Dot Stancombe, 7, and Alice Dasilva Aguiar, 9, as well as the attempted murder of eight other children, a yoga teacher and a businessman at the kids’ event Monday in Southport. Liverpool Judge Andrew Menary said that despite not being an adult, the boy can...

Four people were stabbed on board a party boat during a dinner cruise off of Brooklyn on Saturday afternoon, police reported. The incident happened on board the Cornucopia Majesty at the Brooklyn Army Terminal, in the vicinity of 1st Street and 58th Avenue in Sunset Park. Two of the four victims were listed in serious condition, while two others were stable at local hospitals, according to law enforcement sources.

PARIS -- A man injured three people Saturday in a stabbing attack at the major Gare de Lyon train station in Paris, another nerve-rattling security incident in the Olympic host city before the Summer Games open in six months. Paris police said officers quickly detained the attacker who used a sharp weapon in the assault at around 8 a.m. One of the people injured was in a serious condition; the other two were more lightly hurt. Police had no other immediate details.

The number of stabbings and slashings in the Big Apple is rising — driven by violent incidents in homes, subways and schools, according to NYPD data. There have been 4,493 knifings so far in 2023 as of Sunday, a 6% increase over the 4,237 in the same period of 2022, the data show. At the same time, arrests for cutting crimes have increased nearly 30%, from 2,073 to 2,677, according to cops.

This story isn’t making national headlines. Four women were injured in a stabbing spree at Louisiana Tech University on Monday morning.

LISBON, Portugal (AP) — A man wielding a large knife killed two Portuguese women and wounded several other people at an Ismaili Muslim center in Lisbon on Tuesday, authorities said. Police said they were investigating the stabbings as a possible terror act. Portuguese authorities described the man as a refugee from Afghanistan who was receiving help from the Ismaili Community. Local Afghan community representatives said the suspect was known to have psychological problems after his wife died while their family was at a refugee camp in Greece.

Did the Idaho quadruple murder suspect discuss the gruesome stabbings in a Facebook chat group before his arrest? Bryan Kohberger, 28, is accused of fatally stabbing 20-year-old Ethan Chapin of Conway, Washington; 21-year-old Madison Mogen of Coeur d’Alene, Idaho; 20-year-old Xana Kernodle of Avondale, Arizona; and 21-year-old Kaylee Goncalves of Rathdrum, Idaho on November 13. A motive for the murders is still not known. Former FBI agent Jennifer Coffindaffer weighed in on a suspicious Facebook page named “Pappa Rodger” that many believe could belong to Bryan Kohberger. “Pappa Rodger” was a member of a University of Idaho Murders-Case Discussion chat...

Fatal stabbings and slashings are up an alarming 37% in the Big Apple this year. The NYPD has logged 96 blade-involved killings so far in 2022, compared with 70 for the same period in 2021, according to department stats obtained by The Post. Stabbings and slashings overall are up 10% in 2022, with 4,344 compared to 3,954 last year, the stats show.

BOISE, Idaho — Four University of Idaho students found dead in an off-campus home were targeted, and the killer or killers used a knife or other “edged weapon” in the attack, police said Tuesday. The Moscow Police Department made the announcement in a news release, adding that investigators were working to establish a timeline to recreate the victims' activities before they were found dead Sunday. Police said the killings likely occurred in the early morning hours, and the bodies were found around noon. The students' deaths were considered to be “an isolated, targeted attack and there is no imminent threat...

RCMP are still looking for the suspects, with alerts now covering three provinces Melfort RCMP are searching for two men after for multiple stabbings on James Smith Cree Nation on Sunday morning, and a shelter in place order has been issued for the community. Saskatchewan RCMP say 10 people are dead and at least 15 injured after multiple stabbings in the province on Sunday morning, and two suspects are still on the loose. At a press conference on Sunday afternoon in Regina, the Assistant Commissioner Rhonda Blackmore, Commanding Officer of Saskatchewan RCMP,said police were working with 13 crime scenes and...

OTTAWA, Sept 4 (Reuters) - Canadian police on Sunday said they were on the hunt for two suspects believed to have killed 10 people and injured at least 15 others in stabbings in the Saskatchewan province. Police named Damien Sanderson and Myles Sanderson as the two suspects and said they were traveling in a black, Nissan Rogue. The attacks happened at multiple locations, including James Smith Cree Nation and Weldon in Saskatchewan, and there were 13 crime scenes that police were investigating, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Saskatchewan said. Police said that some of the victims appeared to have...

Four MS-13 Gang members have been sentenced for the murder of a teenage boy in Lynn, Massachusetts. Illegal aliens Jonathan Tercero Yanes and Henri Salvador Gutierrez, both from El Salvador, were sentenced this week with their fellow MS-13 Gang members Erick Lopez Flores and Djavier Duggins for murdering a teenage boy. On July 30, 2018, the gang members lured the boy into a Lynn playground where they pretended to be friends with him. In a wooded area in the park, the gang members surrounded the boy and stabbed him to death with knives. They then left the boy’s body in...

Rapper Drakeo the Ruler has died after being stabbed during a concert in Los Angeles Saturday night, according to a report. Drakeo, whose legal name is Darrell Caldwell, succumbed to his wounds sustained at the Snoop Dogg-headlined Once Upon A Time In LA music festival, TMZ reported early Sunday morning. [cut] Drakeo, 28, was stabbed behind the stage at L.A. Exposition Park about 8:30 p.m. local time and was transported to a local hospital in critical condition, People reporter Tomas Mier said on Twitter. The rapper, was attacked by a group of men backstage, a source “with direct knowledge of...

A man with a knife stabbed at least 10 passengers on a commuter train in Tokyo on Friday and was captured by police after fleeing, fire department officials and news reports said. NHK public television said one passenger was seriously injured. It said the suspect left his knife behind as he fled and later gave himself up at a convenience store A witness at a nearby station where the train stopped said passengers were rushing out of the carriages and shouting that there was a stabbing and asking for first aid. Another witness told NHK that he saw passengers smeared...

The FBI’s Uniform Crime Report (UCR) for 2019 shows nearly twice as many people were killed with “personal weapons” like hands and fists than were killed with rifles of any kind. The UCR shows 364 were killed with rifles in 2019, while another 600 were beaten to death with hands, fists, feet, etc. Moreover, the UCR shows more people were killed with hammers and clubs than were killed with rifles of any kind. On October 8, 2020, Breitbart News reported UCR figures showed over four times as many people were stabbed to death in 2019 than were killed with rifles...