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Slovakia's leader wanted to declare a state of emergency - stopped by his coalition

EU country Slovakia's Prime Minister Robert Fico wants to declare a state of emergency and ban the large demonstrations planned for Friday, Reuters reports. However, his coalition partners say no, so tens of thousands are expected to take to the streets in more than 20 cities around the country, writes Slovakia's Dennik.

- This is an attempt to organize a coup in Slovakia, says Robert Fico according to Reuters.

The demonstrations are aimed at Fico's rapprochement with Putin's Russia. The prime minister claims that foreigners are organizing the protests to destabilize the country, citing intelligence information. 

Identical bomb threat sent to 240 schools in Hungary

Police in Hungary are investigating bomb threats sent to more than 240 schools in the country on Thursday, writes AP. The threats, which came by email, were identical and probably sent by the same perpetrator, according to the police.

Several schools canceled their classes during the day, but nothing explosive has been found in connection with the investigation. The Hungarian newspaper Népszava was on site outside a primary school in Budapest where crying children were comforted by their teachers.

“Some didn’t even have time to put on their shoes, they were standing in the cold in sandals,” says a teacher.

The emails were sent from a number of different addresses, including “foreign addresses,” according to a spokesman for Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

The knife attack in Paris 2020
New terror sentence for axe attack at the Charlie Hebdo newspaper

A man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for a terror-motivated murder attempt on two people outside the former premises of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in 2020, reports AFP.

The man did not know that the newspaper had moved after the attack five years earlier when two perpetrators linked to the Islamist terror group al-Qaeda shot dead twelve employees at the newspaper.

Both the previous convicts and the man sentenced today were motivated by ideas of “revenge” for the newspaper’s publication of caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad.

The man, who is a Pakistani citizen, went on the attack with a meat axe and seriously injured his victims. He will be sentenced to life in prison after serving his sentence.
The stabbing in Southport
Rudakubana sentenced to 52 years for the Southport murders

Axel Rudakubana, 18, has been sentenced to at least 52 years in prison for the stabbing murders of three girls at a dance event in Southport, UK, British media report.

Because he was a minor when he committed the crimes, he cannot be sentenced to life, but Judge Julian Goose says it is “unlikely he will ever be released,” according to The Guardian.

Rudakubana is also convicted of possessing a manual from the terrorist group al-Qaeda, but the court does not believe he can be convicted of terrorism offences because it cannot be proven that his crimes were ideologically motivated, writes Sky News. He is said to have been driven by an "obsession with violence", according to police chief Jason Pye.