A British child was among a number of victims attacked by a knifeman in a playground in the French Alps. An adult and four children, all under the age of five, were critically injured when a 31-year-old Syrian went on the rampage in the town of Annecy on Thursday morning. British Foreign Secretary James Cleverly…

PARIS—A policeman survived a knife attack in the French Riviera city of Cannes on Monday, emerging from the attack unscathed, saved from serious injury or worse by his bulletproof vest, Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said. The assailant suffered life-threatening injuries after he was shot by other officers. The Algerian national held an Italian residency permit,…

FRANKFURT—Several people were injured in a knife attack on an express train between the south German cities of Regensburg and Nuremberg on Saturday and a male suspect has been arrested, police said. “There has been an attack on an ICE (Intercity-Express) train and police shortly afterwards arrested a male person, and several people were injured,”…

FORT SMITH, Ark.—Police in Arkansas said Sunday that three people were dead after an incident in which an officer fired his weapon while defending himself from a knife attack. Police provided little information on what happened, including how the people died and what led up to the Fort Smith police officer firing his gun. Police…

Two days before his crazed knife attack in a busy London shopping street, home-grown jihadi Sudesh Amman had been spotted in Poundland buying small bottles of Irn-Bru, parcel tape, and kitchen foil, which undercover police (correctly) guessed he was going to fashion into a fake suicide belt. Amman was on probation, having been released just 10…

A teenage boy was charged with murder following a fatal knife attack in East London on Monday. He was also charged with possession of a knife in a public place and breach of a Criminal Behaviour Order. The Metropolitan police said the unnamed 14-year-old was charged on Friday morning and is due to appear at Stratford…

ATHENS, Greece—Four people were hurt in a knife attack in Athens on Wednesday and a suspect was arrested after he called the police, Greek authorities said. Police said the attack occurred in a suburb of the capital when a man wounded passersby apparently indiscriminately with a large knife outside a grocery store. The attack in…

The Metropolitan Police has named the victim of a fatal knife attack in Central London on Thursday. Sixty-year-old Stephen Dempsey was named on Monday as the victim of the stabbing incident at Oxford Circus, which had left him with multiple stab wounds. Members of the public, led by two young males carrying skateboards, subdued the suspect before police…

The suspect for the murder of an elderly man at London’s Oxford Circus on Thursday has been named. The Metropolitan police said 25-year-old Tedi Fanta Hagos from Ravenhill, Swansea, SA5, was charged with murder and possession of an offensive weapon on Friday. He is due to appear in custody at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on 3 July 3. The…

WUERZBURG, Germany–Authorities in Germany were investigating on Saturday what prompted a man to go on a rampage with a knife in the town of Wuerzburg on Friday, killing three women and seriously injuring five other women. Officials said the suspect, whose rampage was halted when police arrested him, was a 24-year-old Somali immigrant who had…