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A 14-year-old boy has died after several people were stabbed - including two police officers - in a car and sword attack in north-east London. The boy was among five people treated at the scene in Hainault who were taken to hospital, where he died. A 36-year-old man was arrested after being Tasered by police 22 minutes after they were called to the scene. Eyewitnesses described seeing the suspect run through the area with a sword before he was Tasered. At a press conference, the Metropolitan Police said the suspect was in hospital being treated for injuries sustained when a...

WAGNER Group warlord Yevgeny Prigozhin fears Ukraine has built up a 200,000-strong reserve of troops ready to launch a huge counter-blitz. The Russian billionaire has warned his feared mercenary army to "prepare for the worst". -snip- Prigozhin, who heads the group, said they have used reconnaissance satellites to spot the reserves. In a post published by Concord group on Telegram, he said: "There is a joke that ends with the phrase: 'So big, but you believe in fairy tales'. "Therefore, the political scientist Ishchenko and other very positive kind guys may turn out to be the best military analysts in...

The beheaded body of a Minnesota woman was found on a sidewalk in Shakopee, a suburb of Minneapolis, on Wednesday.On Thursday, the Shakopee Police Department identified the victim as 55-year-old America Mafalda Thayer of Shakopee. The police department said they responded to a report of an attack at the intersection of Fourth Avenue and Spencer Street at around 2:31 p.m. on Wednesday.Shakopee Police announced they have arrested a suspect, 42-year-old Alexis Saborit, also of Shakopee, on suspicion of second-degree murder.Saborit is being held in the Scott County Jail, pending murder charges.Shakopee Police Chief Jeff Tate told Bring Me The News...

US Capitol Police officers arrested a 40-year-old Florida man who was carrying a sword — and six daggers — near Senate office buildings. ... Capitol Police said the sword-toting suspect in the latest incident, Sherman Michael Newman, was spotted north of the Capitol complex shortly after 4 pm. “[The responding officer] observed the Suspect walking and carrying a sword in the 100 block of Massachusetts Avenue, NE,” according to a public weekly police arrest log. “A stop was conducted in the 100 block of Maryland Avenue, NE, and during a search of the Suspect, six dirk knives were discovered. The...

HARTFORD — A city man beheaded his landlord with a samurai sword and is now facing a murder charge, police said. Jerry David Thompson, 42, was arrested Monday — a day after police found his landlord, Victor King, decapitated in his home on Asylum Avenue, police said. Thompson had been renting a room from King. Police said the killing stemmed from an argument when Thompson allegedly threatened King with the sword. King reported the incident to police on Saturday.

The new James Bond movie will reportedly shoot its finale at Scotland's Duntrune Castle. The building, situated 95 miles from Glasgow near Lochgilphead in Argyll, will double as 007's ancestral home and be the location for his final showdown with the movie's villains

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (WTHI) - Police say the man who used a sword in a fight was acting in self-defense. No names have been released in this bizarre story. It happened at 4th and Lincoln in Terre Haute over the weekend. Police say a man in a car went inside his home to grab a wooden club and tried to hit another man in the leg who was parked nearby. That man used a sword to block the club from hitting him again and that's how he sliced off three of the man's fingers with his sword. Police say the...

INDIANAPOLIS -- A woman died after a swordfight involving two men at a home on Indianapolis' far-northwest side early Thursday morning. Indianapolis police Sgt. Matt Mount said an older man and younger man were involved in an argument at a home in the 5200 block of Raceway Road at about 1 a.m. One of the men grabbed a sword during the dispute, prompting the other man to also brandish a sword. The woman stepped between the men and was stabbed. She later died. All three people were taken to a hospital with injuries. It was not immediately known if the...

EATON RAPIDS TOWNSHIP - Law enforcement officials in two counties are investigating whether a human skull found in the Grand River is that of Leon Ward Lockwood or Phuong Thanh Tran. The remains of Lockwood, the stepson of Jim Cash, a well-known East Lansing screenwriter and Michigan State University professor, were found last June in the Red Cedar River near Webberville in Ingham County - about 30 miles from where the skull was found. Tran’s decapitated body was found in a sport utility vehicle parked in the driveway of his parents’ Delhi Township home in Ingham County in December. Two...

DELHI TWP. — The homicide victim found in Delhi Township has been identified as Phuong Thanh Tran, Ingham County Sheriff Gene Wriggelsworth said at a press conference Dec. 13. The cause of death is still undetermined. Detective Lieutenant Jeff Joy said the Ingham County Medical Examiner’s office and the Michigan State Police Crime lab are collaborating on forensic testing that may help to answer that question. “In any autopsy they do, they do other forensic testing, such as to see if there might be any alcohol in their system, any drugs in their system, anything that might suggest how they...

DELHI TWP. - Police were relying on fingerprint records Thursday to identify the man whose body was found decapitated in a Lexus SUV parked in the driveway of a Delhi Township home. Ingham County Sheriff's deputies on Wednesday responded to the home at 2485 Houghton Hollow Drive, after getting a call that a man who lived there had not shown up for work since Monday. Ingham County sheriff's Lt. Jeff Joy described the homicide scene as bizarre. "It's something in my 24-year career in law enforcement I've seen only one other time," he said. On Thursday, police would identify the...

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 31 — State Assemblyman Ray Haynes is one of the most conservative members of the California legislature, but when he looks at the stakes involved in next month’s recall election here, the choice is clear. He’s for a Republican who can win. “I’ll be real blunt,” Haynes said in an interview. “I was involved in the recall with Tom McClintock from the beginning, but I didn’t get involved in this to hand the governorship over to [Democratic Lt. Gov.] Cruz Bustamante. That’s something I need to be cognizant of and other conservatives need to be cognizant of.”...

An elderly Vietnamese man thought to have died in a hospital revived after spending the night in the morgue, state media and a doctor said on Friday. Nguyen Van Quan, 73, was declared dead and taken to a Ho Chi Minh City hospital morgue on the night of August 15 but was found alive by his daughter the next morning as she was retrieving the body for the funeral, the Vietnam News daily said. "I was shocked and frightened when I saw the blanket that covered my father moving," Quan's daughter was quoted as saying. "When the morgue's officials pulled...