22 h. ago ‘For the authoritarian, culture is the enemy’: Salman Rushdie talks recovery and resilience at Sundance

Sundance film festival: a new documentary explores the author’s physical and spiritual healing from the 2022 knife attack that almost killed himOn 12 August 2022, as Salman Rushdie was about to launch into a lecture on the importance of protecting writers from harm at New York’s Chautauqua Institution, a man in a black mask rushed the stage with a knife. To the horror of the packed amphitheater, the man stabbed the Indian-born British-American author – once the subject of an infamous fatwa from the leader of Iran in the 1980s – 15 times in the face, neck and torso, before members of the audience rushed the stage and disarmed him. Rushdie survived, narrowly; the stabbing left him on a ventilator, severed tendons in his left hand, and cost him his right eye.A full recreation of that attack from Rushdie’s perspective — 27 seconds of struggle, the mysterious man’s face, several sickening punches of blade — opens a new documentary on Rushdie’s recovery and resilience, which drew a standi...

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58 h. ago Rapist's family shout 'horrible b******' as he is jailed for sickening knife attack

Shane Liptrot, 26, raped a woman in the middle of the night after breaking into her home with a knife in his hand.

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4 d. ago Mass stabbing in European city as victims fighting for their lives

Two suspects have been arrested following the brutal knife attack in Antwerp, Belgium

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1 week ago Man charged with possession of firearm and knife after 'attack' on hotel staff in Manchester

The man is due to appear in court next month

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1 week ago Teen boy stabbed and young man slashed in Derbyshire knife attack

Police have issued a statement after a teenager was stabbed and a young man suffered a slash wound following an incident in a quiet cul-de-sac

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1 week ago Man stabs office worker then holds imitation firearm to receptionist's head

Footage has emerged of 35-year-old Ryan Gee's knife attack on a probation officer

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2 w. ago Man set fire to Conor McGregor's pub and committed knife attack on police officers

Abdullah Khan set fire to the pub before going on to attack gardai with a knife just days later

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2 w. ago Knife attack horror: Man arrested after woman stabbed multiple times in south London

Officers were called to the scene on Brighton Road in South Croydon just after 8.30am on Sunday

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2 w. ago Knife attack horror: Woman stabbed multiple times in south London as police hunt suspect

Officers were called to the scene on Brighton Road in South Croydon just after 8.30am on Sunday

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2 w. ago Thug who tried to murder dad in meeting behind bars caged for eight years

Lee Spence was jailed for more than eight years after launching a savage, premeditated knife attack on his father during their first-ever meeting in HMP Perth, leaving the victim needing more than 40 stitches.

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2 w. ago Sick killer who murdered 10 pensioners by pretending to be deaf says 'I hate old people'

Juan Carlos Villa Cardona used his pint-sized physique to gain the trust of his elderly victims – before launching into a frenzied knife attack as soon as he got inside their homes

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3 w. ago London triple stabbing horror as man fights for life and police swarm street

There men have been rushed to hospital after a knife attack in Edgware Road, West London

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3 w. ago FBI says it thwarted planned New Year’s Eve terrorist attack in North Carolina

FBI says teen was planning Islamic State-inspired hammer and knife attack on Jews, Christians and LGBTQ+ peopleThe FBI said on Friday that it thwarted an alleged plot to carry out a New Year’s Eve terrorist attack on a grocery store and restaurant in North Carolina in support of the Islamic State (IS).Christian Sturdivant, 18, of Mint Hill – a town outside Charlotte – was arrested on 31 December as he was being released from a special medical facility. He was charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization, the US attorney for the western district of North Carolina, Russ Ferguson, said at a press conference on Friday morning. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Northwick Park knife attack: Five sought over Tube train incident

Northwick Park knife attack: Five sought over Tube train incident  bbc.com

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