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Knife attack in Southport, England: three children killed, eleven injured

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Steph Deschamps / Julysse 31, 2024

 

Police arrested a 17-year-old man. They said they did not consider the attack to be “terrorism-related”. The attack took place during a dance and yoga event for children, based around the world of Taylor Swift.

 
Three little girls were killed and eleven people injured in a knife attack in the northern English town of Southport on Monday July 29, local police chief Serena Kennedy said, describing it as a “ferocious attack”.
 
Nine children were also injured, six of them in “critical” condition, as were two adults. The latter were “bravely trying to protect the children who were attacked”, according to Mrs. Kennedy, speaking at a press conference. The attack took place at around midday local time, during a children’s dance and yoga event based around the world of Taylor Swift. “The assailant, armed with a knife, entered the building and began attacking the children inside” the dance school, the Merseyside police officer detailed. “All the injured suffered stab wounds,” she added.
 
Dave Kitchin, head of local emergency services, described at a press conference the “devastating scene” witnessed by emergency services arriving on the scene. This attack “will leave a lasting mark on our entire community”, he added.
 
Local Merseyside police said they had arrested a 17-year-old man, who was taken into custody. It said it did not consider the attack to be “terrorism-related”. “Enquiries are ongoing to establish the motive for this tragic incident and we urge people not to speculate while the investigation is ongoing,” it added.
 
Emergency services reported having treated and transported several injured to hospitals, including one for children. A large police force was deployed at the scene, according to a journalist from Agence France-Presse (AFP).
 
Colin Parry, who runs a business on the street where the attack took place, told PA he witnessed a scene “worthy of a horror movie”, with “mothers screaming”. “Something like this happens in America, not in our sunny Southport,” he added. Another shopkeeper, Bare Varathan, reported seeing between seven and ten bleeding children running away. 
 
The Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, said that “the whole country [was] deeply shocked”. He had previously described the event as “horrific and deeply shocking” and said he would keep abreast of developments. Home Secretary Yvette Cooper praised the “swift and courageous response” of the police and emergency services to the “terrible incident”. “Our thoughts are with the families and loved ones of those affected,” she said, speaking in the House of Commons.
 
In a statement, the King, Charles III, offered his “heartfelt condolences, prayers and deepest sympathy”, describing the incident as “utterly horrific”. Prince William and his wife, Kate, wrote on X that “as parents we cannot imagine what the families, friends and loved ones of those killed and injured at Southport are going through”.
 
The UK, where the carrying of firearms is strictly restricted, is experiencing an upsurge in stabbings (attacks on people, burglaries, etc.), often involving young people. According to the Office for National Statistics, the number of stabbings has risen by 7%, to almost 50,000 last year, compared with 2022, and has almost doubled in ten years.

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Your True Self: When No One’s Watching

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It was a simple yet profound question posed by my Arabic teacher: That is exactly what I did on one particular day: I sat there, heaving my chin on the palm of my right hand and wondering, “Who am I?” It was not that I did not understand myself; here was the problem, side of “me” to show. I now understand that I am inconsistent in how I am, with different people. It took me a long time to realize that the best version of ‘me’ is the one that comes out when nobody is watching, or when they are, and can see what I’m doing.

Aren’t all of us different when no one is around to perceive it? Remove the eyes of society from one’s back, from following the role one portrays, how he or she speaks, the facial or bodily language, or the clothes worn and the world instantly transforms in a moment. This is our life, we stand and we joke heartlessly, wake up in the shower and belt up a song, dance like no one’s watching. These wonderful, but rather peculiar aspects of our characters come out only when we are alone.

However, maybe there is more to this loneliness, there is something greater than that which is difficult to put into words.

  • The theme of the conflict of the dual nature of humans is one of the most prominent themes found in literature.

Thus, when it comes to the concept of personalities then it would not be wrong to relate it to the fact that every human personality has a dark side that consists of a set of feelings. But when there is no audience it is like meaning that all the other latent characteristics that may not be so noble may be displayed. We can have selfish attitude of even hatred towards the opponent. In them such feelings are discussed as the ban and the unspeakable.

But there is also source of gentleness in us as well if one is to consider the notable lessons of Partridge in Perfection. Unconsciously we may avoid a beggar, assist a stranger to pick up money — his wallet or purse, or attempt to be the best people we can. The findings are that compassionate and integrity are the acts that are as inherent in people as much as the vices are in people.

  • A Camera to Our Real Selves

Thus, we are both the sins that we carry in the dark and mistakes that we commit. We are the hugs and kisses that never happened and the cup of coffee never shared with those we care. The question remains: the working title of the movie that is ended with the quote from the Oprah Winfrey’s’ character: who are you when nobody is watching you? What do you do when the eyes of judgment are blind, and your misdeeds are left unknown to anyone?

Do you still remain your own person or do assume a persona that is not your own?

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• It was in a Search of Authenticity

They make us look at ourselves in a way that provokes the understanding of one’s identity. On one hand it dares that one should be a ‘good’ person all the time, smiling and carrying on as if there were nobody around to watch, yet on the other hand it also reminds that one must also strive to be the ‘bad’ person as well, doing wrong deeds as if there were people to see. Indeed, it’s often said the true nature of a man comes out when he thinks no one is watching.

Fuad Al-Qrize ( AR: فؤاد الكريزي )

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“Out of the rubble”: a 3-month-old baby survives an Israeli strike in Gaza that killed 10 family members

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Sylvie Claire / August 14, 2024

 

“There is only one survivor from the family, a baby. The little girl, named Rim, is three months old,” he added, giving the names of the two parents killed as well as their five sons and three daughters killed.
 
Swaddled in a black bodysuit, his face streaked with splinters, the infant caused quite a stir in the courtyard of Nasser Hospital, now a meeting place for grieving families searching for the missing, or dropping off the injured or remains.
 
“This little girl was pulled out of the rubble, her whole family is dead, even her mother, who’s going to breastfeed her?” asks Ibrahim Barbakh, a Khan Younès resident, who is holding the little girl in his arms.
 
Rescue services, witnesses and medical sources are again reporting Israeli air strikes and artillery fire in various parts of the Gaza Strip on Tuesday, several of them deadly. 
 
Contacted by AFP, the Israeli army did not comment on the strike.  
 
The conflict in the Gaza Strip was reignited by an unprecedented attack by the Palestinian Hamas movement on Israeli soil on October 7, which resulted in the deaths of 1,198 people, mostly civilians, according to an AFP count based on official Israeli data.
 
After the attack, Israel vowed to destroy Hamas, which has been in power in Gaza since 2007, and its offensive has claimed at least 39,929 lives, according to data from the Gaza government’s Ministry of Health.
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Australia: helicopter crashes onto hotel roof, pilot killed

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Steph Deschamps / August 14, 2024

 

A helicopter crashed into the roof of a Hilton hotel in Cairns, northern Australia on Monday, killing its pilot and causing a fire that prompted a mass evacuation, police said.
 
“The pilot and sole occupant of the aircraft has been located and pronounced dead, forensic examinations are underway to formally identify him,” police said in a statement.
 
One of the helicopter’s blades fell into the hotel’s swimming pool, said the emergency services, who reported that two people had been transferred to hospital in stable condition.
 
Another propeller fell onto the esplanade in front of the building, Caitlin Denning, a local rescue official, told reporters.
 
Police said no one on the ground was injured.
 
Hundreds of guests were evacuated from the DoubleTree by Hilton hotel in Cairns after the crash, which occurred in the middle of the night at around 01:50 local time on Sunday.
 
Investigators from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau were dispatched to the scene.
 
On social networks, video clips show flames rising from the roof of the hotel, while sirens wail.
 
The city of Cairns, in the tropical north of the state of Queensland, is a popular tourist destination and the gateway to the Great Barrier Reef.
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