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Girl injured in wolf attack at wildlife park

An eight-year-old girl has been seriously injured in a wolf attack at a wildlife park in Germany.

mirror.co.uk | 25 min. ago NEW

Man charged with alleged MP Helen Haines car attack claims it was an accident after ‘panicking’

Brendan Nugent, 43, is in custody ahead of his next court appearance in February, but has reportedly denied he intentionally drove a car at Dr Haines, sources said

iol.co.za | 1 hrs. ago

Pinetown father recounts shootout during attempted hijacking outside his home

Sidney Hill, defended his two young children during an attempted hijacking outside his home in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, on 9 October. The confrontation escalated into a shootout, leaving one alleged attacker dead and a second suspect subsequently arrested. The incident gained widespread attention after footage of the attempted hijacking circulated on social media.

His bakkie struck this tree during the shooting incident.

abc.net.au | 1 hrs. 3 min. ago

Delusions and possible psychosis explored in Haines accused's prison assessment

An initial prison assessment of the man who allegedly attacked federal MP Helen Haines finds no indication of ideological extremism.

scmp.com | 1 hrs. 32 min. ago

Hong Kong teen jailed for 8 years for acid attack on Singaporean tourist

A Hong Kong court has sentenced a teenager with triad links to eight years in prison for splashing corrosive liquid on a Singaporean tourist last year in return for a promised payment of HK$10,000 (US$1,280). Mr Justice Andrew Chan Hing-wai of the High Court said on Thursday that defendant Anson Kew, 19, had caused a “lifelong impact” on Jiang Wen, 36, who suffered second-degree burns in the attack on June 9, 2025. Kew, who was aged 17 at the time, threw a corrosive solution on the victim as she...

ft.com | 1 hrs. 40 min. ago

[$] Israel vote leaves door open to Iran attack

Netanyahu could launch fresh bombing campaign with US while he serves as caretaker prime minister during coalition talks, security experts say

scmp.com | 3 hrs. 4 min. ago

Rising oil prices boost appeal of EVs to Hong Kong commercial drivers

Feel strongly about these letters, or any other aspects of the news? Share your views by emailing us your Letter to the Editor at letters@scmp.com or filling in this Google form. Submissions should not exceed 400 words. The price of brent crude oil topped US$116 a barrel this week, its highest level since April, after attacks on tankers threatened Gulf supplies.

In a previous letter published in these pages (“Hong Kong’s high fuel prices warrant scrutiny”, April 18), we reported the results of...

abc.net.au | 3 hrs. 41 min. ago

Police uncover usernames allegedly directing Melbourne arson attacks

Victorian police have identified multiple online usernames suspected of ordering crimes including alleged firebombings and extortions across Melbourne.

dailymail.com | 4 hrs. 12 min. ago

Healey has launched yet another spiteful attack on the prudent - why I fear this is just the calm before the storm, says JEFF PRESTRIDGE

Compared to the two previous (damaging) tax raising Budgets, today's Budget was somewhat gentler on our household finances and our long-term wealth.

theguardian.com | 4 hrs. 35 min. ago

Murder in Belfast: Sisters Seeking Justice review – a family’s astonishing bravery helped make history

When Robert McCartney was killed in a bar brawl involving members of the Provisional IRA in Belfast in 2005, his five sisters refused to be intimidated. They took their story to the White House and it accelerated the peace processThe documentary Murder in Belfast: Sisters Seeking Justice, about the McCartney siblings’ fight to bring their brother’s killers to justice, makes you wonder.

As it outlines the five women’s ceaseless, fearless actions over the last 20 years, you can’t help but ask: when did the IRA and Sinn Féin realise they had picked on the wrong family to cross?Robert McCartney, a Catholic father of two, was 33 when he was killed in 2005. He was trying to extricate his friend Brendan Devine from a brawl involving members of the local Provisional IRA at Magennis’s bar in the nationalist Short Strand area of Belfast, where the McCartney family had lived for five generations.

Devine was seriously injured. Robert was stabbed, brutally beaten and had an eye gouged out. “I’m not going to make it,” he told Devine as they tried to escape the alleyway in which they had been attacked. “Our Gerard needs me. I have to go.”

(Gerard McCartney was Robert’s brother, who had killed himself a few years earlier after struggling with mental illness.) Continue reading...

dailymail.com | 4 hrs. 48 min. ago

Man accused of murdering 26-year-old woman in the street is attacked and robbed behind bars

Lawrence Johnson, 26, was remanded in custody last week after being charged with the murder of 26-year-old Alisha Samuels and the attempted murder of another man.

dailymail.com | 4 hrs. 49 min. ago

Obama mocks Trump for 'mobilizing whole government' to respond to his Cheesecake Factory joke: 'He was very upset'

Former President Barack Obama took the stage in Georgia to campaign for Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff, with a fresh attack against President Donald Trump.

nypost.com | 7 hrs. 9 min. ago

The Islamic Republic only survives on war — don’t give Tehran what it craves

The Islamic Republic is built to fight, not to govern — and another round of US attacks would hand the regime the one thing that keeps it alive: a war.

dailymail.com | 8 hrs. 3 min. ago

Pair murdered man with an iron before calling police and saying 'there is a man lying here and, well, he's dead'

Zbigniew Chlebek, 66, and Beata Walczak, 58, were convicted of murdering their victim in a 'brutal and repeated' attack in Shipley, West Yorkshire.

thebulwark.com | 8 hrs. 27 min. ago

Trump Tried to Crush No Kings. Then Something Changed. (w/ Ezra Levin)

Bill Kristol talks with Ezra Levin, co-director of Indivisible and a leading organizer of No Kings, about why Trump’s attacks on the movement have failed, Meta’s suspicious four-hour shutdown of its Instagram account during a massive early-voting push, and the growing demands for answers from Congress.

abc.net.au | 8 hrs. 35 min. ago

Couple rattled after using car to rescue man being savaged by pit bulls

A Broome resident says she is "still shaking" saving a man from a dog attack on her street. The victim was seriously injured, but the animals remained on the loose for hours afterwards.

bbc.co.uk | 8 hrs. 42 min. ago

Girl seriously injured in wolf attack at German wildlife park

The eight-year-old was in an enclosure with other children and a staff member when she was attacked.

mirror.co.uk | 9 hrs. 1 min. ago

Girl, 8, mauled by wolves during 'zookeeper for a day' experience in Germany

An eight-year-old girl has been left with serious injuries after being attacked by wolves during a 'zookeeper for a day' session at Johannismühle Wildlife Park in Baruth, Brandenburg, Germany

al-monitor.com | 9 hrs. 6 min. ago

Biden-era officials who quit over Gaza urge 2028 candidates to denounce policy architects

By Kanishka SinghWASHINGTON, Oct 28 (Reuters) - US officials who had resigned from former President Joe Biden's administration over his Gaza policy said on Wednesday that Democratic presidential candidates for the 2028 race should denounce that policy and its architects.• Twelve former US officials who quit the Biden administration between late 2023 and mid-2024 over US support for Israeli attacks on Gaza signed a joint statement

scmp.com | 9 hrs. 31 min. ago

92-year-old US judge handling Maduro case dies

Alvin Hellerstein, the US judge overseeing the case against deposed Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro, has died aged 92, an official confirmed on Wednesday. As one of the oldest US federal judges, questions had been raised about whether he was the right justice to preside over what could be a prolonged trial for Maduro on drug trafficking charges.

Hellerstein’s lengthy career included overseeing the civil cases arising from al-Qaeda’s September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on New York and...

dailymail.com | 10 hrs. 9 min. ago

Flydubai hero pilot who saved flight when 'terrorist co-pilot attacked him and tried to crash the plane' shows off sickening head scars as he accepts UAE bravery medal

Captain Smit Machchhar was severely wounded when Hamam al-Hammami, 29, allegedly hit him on the head with a crash axe and tried to take control of a plane flying from Dubai to Tel Aviv.

warontherocks.com | 10 hrs. 45 min. ago

Jihadism’s Global Struggle, and Where It’s Gaining

In 2018, Barak Mendelsohn wrote, “Bound to Fail: Transnational Jihadism and the Aggregation Problem,” where he argued that transnational jihadist groups like al-Qaeda and the Islamic State would continue failing to turn local victories into a lasting caliphate, allowing counterterrorism forces to contain them without costly U.S.-led interventions.

Eight years later, we asked Barak to revisit his arguments.Image: Adam Jones/FlickrYour article opened with al-Baghdadi’s 2018 call for lone-wolf attacks in the West, and you argued that Islamic State-inspired attacks at that time consistently failed to generate the self-sustaining momentum al-Suri envisioned. In the years since, has individual jihad achieved anything substantial for The post Jihadism’s Global Struggle, and Where It’s Gaining appeared first on War on the Rocks.

nypost.com | 10 hrs. 48 min. ago

Girl, 8, airlifted to hospital after being attacked by wolf inside animal enclosure

Paramedics treated the 8-year-old on-site for severe head injuries before she was airlifted to a specialist trauma clinic.

dailymail.com | 11 hrs. 17 min. ago

Terrifying moment Huntington train passengers flee for their lives as 'knifeman rampages through carriages'

Anthony Williams, 33, is said to have 'posed a dangerous threat' as he stalked his victims during a series of violent attacks that culminated in a mass stabbing on an LNER train.

ft.com | 11 hrs. 48 min. ago

‘Is that it?’: Opposition parties attack Healey for lack of ambition

Tories, Greens and Lib Dems dismiss chancellor’s first Budget as ‘nothing-burger’

bbc.co.uk | 11 hrs. 59 min. ago

Huntingdon train attacker asked man 'do you want to die?', trial hears

Anthony Williams denies 14 counts of attempted murder, including 10 on a train in Cambridgeshire.

kyivindependent.com | 12 hrs. 30 min. ago

Europe must finally hold Russia accountable for hybrid attacks

Europe has already learned to better recognize hybrid threats, which is definitely a good thing, but recognition alone is not enough and doesn't serve as sufficient deterrence.European officials have grown accustomed to scenarios where a cyberattack disrupts public services and critical infrastructure, drones appear over sensitive sites,

thehindu.com | 12 hrs. 47 min. ago

Afghan-Pakistan border clash kills one, injures five

The countries went to war earlier this year and, with no permanent resolution reached on security issues, there have been sporadic attacks since a March truce

thehindu.com | 12 hrs. 47 min. ago

Iran warns of 'devastating' economic fallout from any new Israeli attack

Under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has vowed to topple Iran's government, the two countries have directly fought a war for the first time in their history after decades of enmity

mirror.co.uk | 13 hrs. 58 min. ago

Huntingdon train attack passengers 'fought knifeman with frying pan and tried to grab blade'

Anthony Williams, 33, is accused of attempting to murder 14 people, including nine train passengers and one crew member on a London-bound train

iol.co.za | 14 hrs. ago

‘My kids are my whole world’: Father recounts Pinetown hijacking ordeal

South Africa – 28 October 2026 – A father, Sidney Hill, defended his two young children during an attempted hijacking outside his home in Pinetown, KwaZulu-Natal, on 9 October. The confrontation escalated into a shootout, leaving one alleged attacker dead and a second suspect subsequently arrested.

The incident gained widespread attention after footage of the attempted hijacking circulated on social media. Picture: Leon Lestrade / ANA Studio.

newyorker.com | 14 hrs. 31 min. ago

The Founder of Arab Americans for Trump Has Some Regrets

As the President and his party launch a wave of bigoted attacks on Abdul El-Sayed, Bishara Bahbah reflects on what, exactly, Trump has delivered in his second term.

dailymail.com | 14 hrs. 36 min. ago

Judge lets 14-year-old boy who stabbed girl 10 times walk free from court after telling him he's a 'bright lad' and prison is the 'last place he should be'

The teenager attacked the girl with a six-inch kitchen knife at a shop in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, on March 15 after he asked her out on a date and she said no.

iol.co.za | 16 hrs. 38 min. ago

President Cyril Ramaphosa condemns KZN violence targeting foreign nationals

President Cyril Ramaphosa in his element while on the campaign trail in KwaZulu-Natal. He has condemned attacks on foreign nationals, warning that those involved would be arrested as the government works to restore stability.

nypost.com | 16 hrs. 48 min. ago

Netanyahu barely hanging on after Israeli election — what that means for Iran war

“The Iranian regime did not expect that Netanyahu would be the biggest party. They are afraid of him because he talks against Iran about attacking Iran again," Beni Sabti, an Iran expert at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) in Israel, told the Post.

nypost.com | 16 hrs. 48 min. ago

US and UK prepare for nightmare war scenarios

The United States Military is preparing for the possibility of a major war that could cripple power grids, disrupt supply chains and threaten critical infrastructure on American soil. Meanwhile, British families are suddenly being told to stock up on emergency supplies – and to prepare for devastating attacks.

dailymail.com | 17 hrs. 29 min. ago

Police force put domestic abuse victim 'at risk' when it accidentally disclosed their home address to alleged abuser

Staffordshire Police included the sensitive details in a Domestic Violence Protection Notice, an emergency measure intended to protect victims from violent attacks.

thehill.com | 17 hrs. 33 min. ago

Spurned by MAGA attacks, Arab-American voters defect to Democrats

The leftward shift of America’s Arab voters is undeniable, and almost all of it is driven by Republicans’ overt hostility.

nytimes.com | 17 hrs. 33 min. ago

[$] Knife-Wielding Attacker Fatally Shot Outside Israeli Embassy in Serbia

The attacker, a minor, appeared to be a supporter of the Islamic State, the government said. Authorities have described it as a terrorist attack.

bbc.co.uk | 17 hrs. 42 min. ago

Serbian shot dead after attacking officer outside Israeli embassy, minister says

Authorities say the attacker in Belgrade was an underage male who was being monitored by security services.