Norway: incarceration in sight for the author of the arc attack

A judge is due to rule on Friday on the remand of Espen Andersen Bråthen, the 37-year-old man who confessed to being the perpetrator of a deadly bow attack in Norway bearing, according to authorities, the marks of a terrorist act. The emotion remained strong in Kongsberg, a peaceful city in the south-east of the Scandinavian country, where residents gathered Thursday evening to meditate with candles, 24 hours after the attack which left five dead and three injured. "We are a small community and we need to be there for each other," Kristine Johansen, a 29-year-old teacher, told AFP. Described by police as a 37-year-old Danish citizen converted to Islam and reported for radicalization, Bråthen admitted during interrogation to having carried out the attack, armed in particular with a bow and arrow, before being arrested.

Lebanon: bloody street fights in Beirut, calls for de-escalation

Street fighting pitted gunmen in Beirut after gunfire during a protest organized by the Shiite movements Hezbollah and Amal. Violence that left six dead and revived the specter of civil war. The clashes took place near the Palace of Justice, where supporters of both movements gathered to demand the replacement of judge Tareq Bitar, in charge of the investigation into the explosion at the port of Beirut last year, who wants to question senior officials including two former Amal ministers. Abroad, France called for "appeasement" and the United States for "de-escalation", the two countries insisting on "the independence of justice". UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric called for 'stopping provocative acts' and pleaded for 'impartial investigation' into port blast

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A 51-year-old man was arrested and taken into police custody after the discovery on Wednesday evening of the body of a 77-year-old woman beheaded in his house in the seaside resort of Agde (Hérault).

US justice on Thursday indicted a former Boeing test pilot, accused of having misled the agency overseeing aviation during the certification process for the 737 MAX, two of which crashed in 2018 and 2019 causing 346 dead.

Former Brazilian football legend Pelé, 80, said on social media on Thursday that he is "better", two weeks after being released from hospital where he underwent surgery for a colon tumour.

After four years of absence, Alpe d'Huez will return on July 14 on the 2022 edition of the Tour de France, the day after another hellish stage at the Col du Granon, according to the route presented in Paris. , almost nine months before the start on July 1 in Copenhagen.