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Reuters reports: A “cold, calculated and dangerous” man inspired by Islamic State was jailed for life on Wednesday for the murder of veteran British lawmaker David Amess after knifing him to death in a frenzied attack in a church where he was meeting voters. Ali Harbi Ali, 26, a British citizen and son of a former media adviser to a …

The New York Times reports: For the second time in little more than five years, a British lawmaker meeting with constituents was killed in full view of the public, this time in a genteel seaside town, where the victim, a Conservative Party member of Parliament, was fatally stabbed on Friday inside a church. The attack, which the authorities declared a …

The Independent reports: A Conservative MP has died after been stabbed in an attack at his constituency surgery. Sir David Amess, the MP for Southend West in Essex, suffered multiple injuries on Friday at Belfairs Methodist Church in Leigh-on-Sea. Essex Police said a man had died, and a suspect has been arrested on suspicion of murder. Counter-terror police are involved …