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French police shot and killed a Sudanese national who had attempted to attack passengers on a Paris tram with a butcher knife.

A Malian national has been detained after three people were injured Saturday in a knife attack at Paris’s Gare de Lyon railway station.

Two teenage boys were killed after suffering stab wounds in Britsol, England after being descended upon by a group of attackers.

Calocane, who was wanted by police at the time of the attack, had “deliberately and mercilessly” stabbed three to death last year.

A San Antonio, Texas, man is accused of slashing a woman’s throat and leaving her for dead, rolled up in plastic in a field.

Paris police arrested a man on Saturday evening after he allegedly killed one man and injured another two while shouting ‘Allahu Akbar’.

Varadkar addressed Ireland after a night of riots but seemed to have more to say about violence against the state than against children. 

The British Museum has been evacuated and and a man was arrested following a stabbing outside the museum on Tuesday morning.

A 31-year-old man appeared in a court accused of murdering two college students and a school caretaker in a van attack in Nottingham.

A woman carrying a knife is accused of targeting a mother who was with her child on Monday afternoon in Brooklyn, the incident happening as New Yorkers suffer under rampant crime.

Police say they believe a man used a knife to kill the driver of a van in order to steal his vehicle to drive into members of the public.

Salman Rushdie attended a New York gala in his first public appearance since a knife attack that nearly took his life last year.

Police added that witnesses said he had “southern” appearance – a term sometimes used in Germany to describe people of migrant origin.

The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) on Monday took over the investigation of a weekend knife attack on a bus in British Columbia because it was deemed an act of terrorism, perpetrated by a supporter of the Islamic State.

A North Carolina man is behind bars after allegedly bringing a woman home and attacking her with a knife, according to law enforcement.

A woman obsessed with serial killers and true crime documentaries has been found guilty of murdering her boyfriend with a Celtic dagger.

A man was arrested at Schuman station, a subway stop beneath the European Commission headquarters, after a stabbing rampage on a train.

Several deaths and further injuries were reported on a German train service, allegedly at the hand of a Syrian migrant, local media claimed. 

A teen accused of stabbing a 39-year-old man to death had already been arrested for another stabbing in May but was released pending trial. 

Two people were killed and another seriously wounded in a stabbing Tuesday in southwestern Germany, police said.

Two police officers have been hospitalised after being “seriously injured” in a stabbing attack in central London in the early hours of Friday morning.

Police in New York City released footage of a brawl at the West Indian Day Parade on Labor Day that resulted in one man being mugged at knifepoint.

An elderly man was stabbed to death while riding on his mobility scooter in west London on Tuesday afternoon

A Moroccan man was arrested by French police while carrying the head of his father, who he is believed to have decapitated with a knife. 

Despite initially ruling out terrorism, German officials have now admitted that radical Islam, not mental health issues, was the likely motivation for a Syrian knifeman’s stabbing spree on a German train last November.

The man accused of attacking workers at New York’s MoMa museum is reportedly being vocal on social media as authorities search for him.

A knifeman weilding a blade engraved with the anti-police slogan ‘ACAB’ was shot dead by railway officers in Paris on Monday.

A knifeman who stabbed a woman to death in London was knocked down & killed by a passing motorist in an alleged effort to disarm the killer.

Police officers in the Italian city of Turin arrested a Moroccan migrant on Sunday after he brandished a knife while being completely naked.

San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) officers shot dead an Afghan national in a hotel after he charged them while wielding a knife, shouting “Allahu Akbar,” surveillance footage reveals.

A 33-year-old Russian national who was shot in Oslo on Tuesday after attempting to carry out a knife attack on random bystanders was also behind a similar attack that took place in 2019.

Italy, France and Germany have all seen violence and in some cases attackers professing “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is Great” as they struck.

German Federal Police confirmed that several people have been injured during a knife attack on a train on Saturday morning. A number of local media outlets are reporting the arrested suspect is a 27-year-old Syrian man.

German investigators said Tuesday that an Islamic extremist motivation for last week’s fatal knife attack in Wuerzburg appears likely.

German authorities have not ruled out an Islamist motive, as one witness had reported hearing the suspect shout “Allahu akbar”.

At least three people have died with several more injured after a knife-armed man rampaged through the German city of Würzburg, Bavaria.