Tight security will be in place at Ariana Grande's concerts in Rome and Turin this week after a nail bomb killed 22 people and injured 119 at the end of the US singer's packed gig in Manchester last month. Backpacks, bags, cans, bottles, umbrellas and all "offensive objects" will be banned from Grande's sell-out concerts …
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June 14, 2017Britain is reeling as it goes to polls this morning (8 June). It is testament to the resilence of democracy in its fountainhead that Saturday night’s outrage in London ~ the second after the Manchester butchery a fortnight back ~ did not lead to a cancellation of the polls, though the parties had once again …
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June 8, 2017Singer Ariana Grande cried as she sang a heartbreaking version of Somewhere over the Rainbow to close her One Love Manchester benefit concert. She put together the charity event on June 4 after 22 people were killed following a terrorist attack at her May 22 concert here. The 23-year-old took the stage several times throughout the …
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June 5, 2017A seventh-grader in a US school was bestowed a "most likely to become a terrorist" award from her teacher, prompting angry reaction from parents forcing the school to apologise for the event. The event was supposed to be a joke, part of a mock end-of-the-year awards ceremony at Anthony Aguirre Junior High in Channelview, Texas, …
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May 28, 2017Mac Miller has cancelled his two shows five days after the deadly attack at his girlfriend Ariana Grande's concert in Manchester that claimed the lives of 22 people, including children. The 25-year-old rapper announced on Twitter that he would not perform at Sasquatch and Soundset festivals this weekend. "Soundset and Sasquatch, I will not be …
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May 27, 2017A new suspect has been arrested in Manchester during a large-scale counter-terror operation launched in the wake of a suicide attack that struck a pop concert in the city earlier this week, UK police said on Friday. Greater Manchester Police said the latest arrest took place in the inner city Moss Side neighbourhood and was …
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May 26, 2017Universal has decided to cancel the London premiere of Tom Cruise-starrer The Mummy, in the wake of Monday's terrorist attack in Manchester. The studio released a statement ahead of the premiere which had been scheduled to take place on June 1, reported Variety. "All of us at Universal have been devastated by the terror attack in Manchester and continue …
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May 26, 2017Several Hollywood celebrities have paid tribute to victims of the terror attack at the Ariana Grande concert in Manchester that killed innocent lives. Some took to to Twitter to express grief and condoled the victims' families.. The attack that took place on Monday evening over 22 people dead and several others critically injured. Soon after …
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May 26, 2017Pop diva Mariah Carey paid tribute to Martyn Hett, a popular online personality who died in the Manchester attacks earlier this week. The 47-year-old singer shared an emotional Instagram post along with a picture of Hett. "Devastated to learn that one of the victims in Manchester was part of the #Lambily, Carey wrote. "RIP Martyn …
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May 26, 2017US President Donald Trump said that alleged intelligence leaks, in reference to the Manchester attack, were a grave threat to security and described them leaks as "deeply troubling". As he prepared for his first NATO summit in Brussels, Trump said this in reference to the confidential information on the terror attack in Manchester that was …
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May 26, 2017“Our doors and our hearts are open” was the message of the Sikh community to the residents of Manchester, England, after a deadly suicide bombing claimed 22 lives. The suicide attack occurred on Monday during a concert in Manchester Arena. As many as 64 people were injured in the blast, several of them children. Many Sikhs in the …
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May 25, 2017President Trump has left the Middle East, having done his bit to make the region even more divided and mired in conflict than it was before. At the same moment that Donald Trump was condemning the suicide bomber in Manchester as “an evil loser in life”, he was adding to the chaos in which al-Qaeda …
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May 25, 2017The former England captain is among 12 first-time candidates on the 33-player ballot.
May 25, 2017Manchester suffered a bonfire of sanity on Monday evening, recalling the bedlam and butchery in the London Underground more than a decade ago, and more recently the outrage near Westminster. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has conveyed a horrendous message barely 24 hours after Donald Trump’s starry-eyed appeal to “Muslims” to fight “Islamic” …
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May 25, 2017