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Knife Attacks
A MAN ATTACKED PEOPLE IN LONDON SHOUTING 'THIS IS FOR SYRIA'
The Metropolitan police said that they were treating it as a terrorist incident

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This weekend, a man with a knife attacked people at Leytonstone tube station, east London, shouting, "This is for Syria."

Police arrived at the scene just after 7PM on Saturday and tasered and arrested the knifeman, who had inflicted serious injuries on one man and minor injuries on two others.

People in the station reportedly shouted at the man to drop his knife; one man was filmed saying, "You ain't no Muslim, bruv."

The Metropolitan police said they're treating the attack as a "terrorist incident".

ISIS
THE RAF BOMBED ISLAMIC STATE IN SYRIA FOR A SECOND TIME
Four British jets hit wellheads in the ISIS-controlled Omar oilfields in eastern Syria

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RAF jets carried out their second round of airstrikes on Islamic State in Syria, with four jets bombing the Omar oilfields in eastern Syria on Friday night.

Speaking on a trip to an RAF base in Cyprus, the defence secretary Michael Fallon refused to offer a timetable for the bombing raids, saying the operation was "not going to be short or simple".

The RAF flew six Typhoons and two Tornados to its base on Cyprus last week, doubling the number of British attack jets available in the region for operations against Islamic State.

Border Trouble
IRAQ ORDERED TURKEY TO WITHDRAW ITS TROOPS
Turkey sent two dozen tanks and 150 soldiers across the border in recent days

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The Iraqi government summoned Turkey's ambassador on Saturday, demanding Turkey immediately withdraw troops it sent across the border without the Iraqi government's consent.

Turkey sent around 25 tanks and 150 soldiers over its border with Iraq to the Bashiqa area, about 20 miles north east of the ISIS stronghold of Mosul.

Turkey says the troops have been deployed to help train Peshmerga fighters, who are fighting against ISIS in the region.

The Iraqi prime minister Haider al-Abadi said the deployment was a "serious violation of Iraqi sovereignty".

Stormy Weather
TENS OF THOUSANDS IN THE UK WERE AFFECTED BY STORM 'DESMOND'
Around 60,000 properties were left without power

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This weekend, tens of thousands of people were affected by flooding as storm "Desmond" hit northern England and some parts of Scotland.

Around 60,000 properties were left without power in Lancashire and the army has was deployed to evacuate people in flood-hit areas in Cumbria and the Scottish borders.

Figures show that 34cm of rain fell in the Lake District in 24 hours, which will be a new record if the figures are verified.

Mass Shootings
IS CLAIMED THE PAIR WHO KILLED 14 IN US SHOOTING WERE FOLLOWERS
A married couple killed 14 in a mass shooting in San Bernardino on Wednesday

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Islamic State said this weekend that the married couple who carried out the mass shooting in California on Wednesday were its followers, but did not claim responsibility for the attack.

The Islamist group made the claim in an online clip released on Saturday, three days after Syed Rizwan Farook and his wife Tashfeen Malik opened fire at a party in San Bernadino, 60 miles east of Los Angeles, killing 14.

According to FBI Director James Comey, Malik posted a message on Facebook pledging allegiance to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. He also said the couple had exhibited signs of developing radical ideas and potentially been inspired by "foreign terrorist organisations".

If the attack proves to have been an act of terrorism, it will be the deadliest such attack the Unites States has seen since September the 11th, 2001.