Briefly

UNITED KINGDOM

Man stabs 2 before being shot dead

A man recently released from prison after serving time for terrorism-related offenses strapped on a fake bomb and stabbed two people on a busy London street on Sunday before being shot to death by police, officials said. London police identified the attacker as 20-year-old Sudesh Amman. He had been convicted for publishing graphic terrorist videos online and had stockpiled instructions on bomb making and knife attacks. Officers had been trailing Amman at the time of Sunday's attack, but were unable to head off the bloodshed in the commercial and residential south London neighborhood of Streatham, where Amman struck outside a major pharmacy on a busy shopping afternoon.

UKRAINE

Iran pressed to give more to crash families

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Sunday that Kiev was not satisfied with the compensation Iran had offered to families of Ukrainians killed in the downing of an aircraft near Teheran last month and would seek larger payments. "As for the Iranian side, they immediately offered us $80,000 for each family… It is too small. We will press for a larger amount," Zelensky said. He also said that Ukraine still was waiting for Iran to hand over the black boxes of the plane. The airliner was struck by a missile on Jan 8 shortly after it left Teheran en route to Kiev. All 176 people aboard, including 11 Ukrainians, were killed.

CANADA

Mudslide traps 500 tourists in ski resort

Some 500 tourists were trapped inside a ski resort in western Canada on Sunday after a mudslide destroyed the access road, local media reported. Heavy rains knocked loose mud and debris, and the ensuing mudslide washed out about 1 kilometer of the only access road to the Sasquatch Mountain Resort, the British Columbia transport ministry said in a statement. It said that clearing the road could take five to six days and urged residents to stay at home while they waited for the work to be completed. Shelby Lim, a resort manager, said the resort had lost power due to poor weather but had backup generators. Lim also noted that the vacationers could leave the resort via a helicopter service.