One killed, 10 injured as van strikes crowd near mosques in London

LONDON — A van plowed into a group of Muslim worshipers as they were leaving prayers at a pair of north London mosques early Monday, witnesses said, in an incident police said had caused “a number of casualties.” The incident occurred when the van sped off the roadway and swerved onto a sidewalk, which was crowded with hundreds of people who had just finished the day’s final prayers for the holy month of Ramadan, witnesses reported. In a statement, police said that one person had been killed and that 10 were…

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Google plans to scrub ‘inflammatory’ and terror vids from youTube

Google’s revealed its plans to remove terror-related content from YouTube and decided the investment community should hear about it before the rest of us. The plan emerged in a post first published in the Financial Times and later popped online, the company’s revealed a four-point plan. As was the case in Facebook’s anti-terror plan, AI isn’t front and centre because Google says “a video of a terrorist attack may be informative news reporting if broadcast by the BBC, or glorification of violence if uploaded in a different context by a different user.” The…

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