An alleged Palestinian shooting attack in the northern occupied West Bank killed two women and seriously wounded another, Israeli medics said. The latest violence came after Israeli warplanes struck southern Lebanon in a significant escalation.

A man has appeared in court in Belfast charged with the attempted murder of two police officers. Leon Maginn, 22, of Ormeau Road, in the south of the city, is facing two charges of attempted murder.

A man has been arrested after the attempted murder of two police officers in Belfast. Police accused the 22-year-old of attacking the officers with a knife at an address in the south of the city in the early hours of Wednesday.

A knife-wielding man who wounded three people at a major underground railway station in the Belgian capital Brussels has been charged with attempted murder in an attack that wasn’t considered to be terrorism, prosecutors said.

Spanish police have raided the home of a man suspected of carrying out machete attacks at two churches that left one person dead and a priest seriously hurt.

A hotel catering for foreign visitors in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, was attacked on Monday and three of the assailants were killed, a Taliban official said.

The leader of the Albanian opposition centre-right Democratic Party has been attacked during an anti-government protest held near a summit of European Union leaders and their counterparts from the Western Balkans in the Albanian capital.

Myanmar’s military-ruled government has denied reports that it carried out an air attack on a school in the country’s turbulent north-central region that killed at least seven children, accusing the media of distorting the truth.

Government helicopters have attacked a school and village in north-central Myanmar, killing at least 13 people including seven children, a school administrator and an aid worker said.

An attack on two teenagers in Co Down is being treated as racially-motivated, police have said. The incident happened in the Castle Park area of Bangor on Friday at about 5. 30pm.

A police car has been damaged after coming under attack by up to 10 people throwing stones and bricks. The incident happened in the Cromore Gardens area of Londonderry on Monday evening.

Following a previous petrol bomb attack in Coleraine earlier this month, local MLA Claire Sugden said there had been nine such incidents in the area since April

A man hurt four people in a stabbing rampage stopped by bystanders who brought him to the ground in a New Zealand city neighbourhood, police said.

Three passengers on a regional train in Germany have overpowered an Iraq-born man who hurt five people with a knife, authorities said.

At least 19 militants were killed while four Turkish troops were wounded during the offensive, the ministry said

Turkey has launched a ground and air cross-border offensive against Kurdish militants in northern Iraq, the country’s defence minister announced.

An Israeli police officer has shot and killed a Palestinian man who stabbed him in southern Israel early on Tuesday, police said. It is the latest in a series of deadly incidents during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

No injuries were reported in the attack

This morning, there was a big garda presence in the village in north Kilkenny and locals said that there is horror and concern in the area, particularly as the attacker remains at large

Kuwait has suspended flights to Iraq for a week from Sunday, citing security fears after a rocket attack targeted Baghdad international airport. Iraqi authorities, meanwhile, announced that an attacker has been apprehended.

Ballyfermot-born and bred, Sean Murray was heartened to see community spirit shine through as hundreds of his neighbours turned out in solidarity for the families of Alanna Quinn Idris and her injured friend

A man has been charged in connection with the fatal assault of a woman in Co Wicklow on Christmas Eve. A woman, who was aged in her 40s, died following an incident in a house in Enniskerry on Friday afternoon.

The teenager's counsel said: “He now continues to work and has made himself a useful member of society."

The victim said: “I have tried to manage the emotional side of things but I still succumb to recurring bouts of anger, frustration and depression.” 

Police in Belfast are appealing for information after a suspected sectarian attack last month.

The mother of an extremist inspired by so-called Islamic State who stabbed shoppers in a New Zealand supermarket said her son was radicalised by neighbours from Syria and Iraq who helped him recover from an injury.

The Islamic State-inspired extremist who was shot dead by police after stabbing seven people in a New Zealand supermarket had been fighting deportation for immigration fraud, officials have said.

The New Zealand government has named 32-year-old Ahamed Samsudeen as the extremist who was shot and killed by police after he left seven people injured in a knife attack inside an Auckland supermarket.

A court report about a man in New Zealand who was inspired by the so-called Islamic State group warned he had the motivation and means to commit violent acts in the community and posed a high risk.

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern described the incident as a terror attack

The officers would likely have been seriously injured or killed if they had not been travelling in an armoured vehicle

At least three rockets hit near the presidential palace shortly before Afghan President Ashraf Ghani was to give an address to mark the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Adha.

The attack took place in the Ardoyne Road area last night

The victim was taken to hospital for treatment to his injuries, which will require surgery

The suspect, a 24-year-old Somali man, was shot in the leg by police and arrested after people surrounded him and tried to hold him at bay with chairs and sticks.

A memorial service has been held in the German city of Wuerzburg for the victims of a knife attack that left three women dead.

Investigators are looking for a motive behind an attack in the German city of Wuerzburg in which a man armed with a knife killed three people and wounded at least five others.

A man armed with a large knife has killed three people and injured several others in the city of Wurzburg before being shot by police and arrested, German authorities said. Police identified the suspect as a 24-year-old Somali man living in Wurzburg.

It was unclear how many people were killed or injured.

A man with severe schizophrenia who had been on a watch list for Islamic radicalism has stabbed a police officer at her station in western France and shot two other officers before police killed him, authorities said.

The PSNI said three of the boys were punched in the face with one sustaining a cut above his eye, while the fourth boy was hit by a bottle on the shoulder.

A 57-year old man has been arrested.

Police said they found about 150 people present and saw breaches of Covid-19 regulations

Police were still investigating the exact circumstances but said the detained woman was “urgently suspected” of the killings.