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Shinkansen operator JR Tokai holds drill involving knife attacker
Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) on Wednesday conducted its first drill involving a knife-wielding attacker on a bullet train following a deadly rampage on a shinkansen train in June. Based on the scenario that a knife-wielding man is in a train car, members of ...
Kenya's wildlife authority says a Chinese tourist died after he was attacked by a hippo while taking pictures on the shores of Lake Naivasha in the Rift Valley. The Kenya Wildlife Service said in a statement Sunday that another Chinese tourist was injured in the ...
Woman shouting 'Allahu akbar' wounds pair with box-cutter in French supermarket
Two people were hurt in a town in southern France on Sunday when a woman shouting "Allahu akbar" (God is greatest) attacked them in a supermarket with a box-cutter knife, prosecutors said. A customer was struck in the chest during the late-morning assault in La ...
Asahi Shimbun remembers 29-year-old reporter killed in 1987 ultra-rightist attack
The Asahi Shimbun daily and local residents on Thursday paid tribute to a 29-year-old reporter killed in a 1987 shooting at its western Japan bureau, in an attack claimed by ultra-rightists angered by the newspaper's "anti-national" reporting. Company officials also renewed their pledge to defend ...
Knife-wielding attacker kills seven children, wounds 19 in China's Shaanxi province
A knife-wielding man killed seven middle school children and injured 19 others as they returned home in northern China on Friday, authorities said, in one of the deadliest such rampages in the country in recent years. The suspect was detained and the injured children were ...
German investigators were puzzled Sunday morning by the motives of a man who drove a van into a crowd at an open-air restaurant the day before, killing two people before shooting himself. "So far there are no clues to a possible motive for the act," ...
Man fatally stabs one, wounds three during Texas home church service
One man has died after he and three others were stabbed during a church service at a private home in Texas, police said Thursday. As many as 20 people were in the home Wednesday night when an apparent member of the congregation pulled a knife ...
Berlin police probe 'deranged' Syria knife attacker for possible Islamist motive
Berlin police said Tuesday they were unable to rule out an Islamist background after a "deranged" Syrian knife-wielding man was arrested over an attack in one of the German capital's underground stations. Witnesses said the 23-year-old, identified as Ahmad Al-H., attacked several people with a ...
Italy reeled Thursday from images of an attack on a journalist by a mobster in a Rome suburb, as local prosecutors opened an investigation. Daniele Piervincenzi, who works for the Rai national television broadcaster, was asking the brother of a famous mafia boss about his ...
Computer ransomware that locks out users flourishes in pay-to-make-it-go-away Japan
Companies and individuals in Japan are finding their computers are increasingly targeted by ransomware — programs that bar victims from accessing important files unless they pay money. "Attacks on Japanese businesses have been particularly large in number," said Masakatsu Morii, a professor of information and ...
Man arrested after ax attack at Duesseldorf station leaves seven wounded
A man was arrested after injuring seven people with an ax at the main train station in Duesseldorf, Germany in what appeared to be a random attack, police said Thursday. Officers were alerted about an attack shortly before 9 p.m. (2000 GMT), prompting a large-scale ...
Indonesian police say IS-backed militants planned to carry out New Year's Eve attack
Indonesian militants supporting the Islamic State militant group planned to attack a police post on New Year's Eve with machetes and knives, a police spokesman said Monday. The plot was broken up after police arrested two of the would-be attackers who led them to their ...
