Buses and police vehicles were torched and shops looted as anti-immigrant protesters took to the streets in Dublin after three young children were injured in a knife attack.
"They are disgraceful scenes. We have a complete lunatic, hooligan faction driven by far-right ideology engaged in serious violence," Police Commissioner Drew Harris told reporters after deploying 400 officers to restore public order.
He added that all lines of inquiry related to the attack remained open, contradicting a senior officer who had earlier told reporters that police were satisfied the incident was not terror-related.
"I'm not going to speculate any further in respect of a terrorist motive. Until we're sure what the motive is, we have to keep an open mind as to why this happened."
The unreset came after a five-year-old girl sustained serious injuries in the knife attack at the City Centre, with two more children and two adults taken to hospital with injuries.
Police said it appeared the man, whose nationality they did not reveal, attacked a number of people on Dublin's Parnell Square.
A man missing for more than 26 years has been found alive in his neighbour's cellar, just a few hundred metres from his family home. Omar bin Omran was reportedly kidnapped as a teenager and was discovered on Sunday.
China will always be a good neighbor, friend and partner of mutual trust with Russia, the state television quoted China president Xi Jinping as saying, as he mets Russian president Vladimir Putin.
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is no longer in a life-threatening condition after he was shot in an assassination attempt when leaving a government meeting on Wednesday, a government minister said.
US President Joe Biden and Republican rival Donald Trump on Wednesday agreed to face off in two debates on June 27 and Sept. 10, setting up the highest stakes moments yet of the race for the White House.
The number of people killed by weekend flash floods and mud slides in Indonesia's West Sumatra province has risen to 67 and 20 are still missing, authorities said on Thursday, as the government plans to relocate survivors to safer areas.
As part of one of the largest large mammal reintroduction programmes in the world, the Environment Agency Abu Dhabi (EAD) released six dama gazelles into the Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Wildlife Reserve (OROAWF) in Chad, Africa.
The National Centre of Meteorology (NCM) held a workshop on flood forecasting, to discuss various initiatives and global best practices in advancing flood preparedness and mitigation efforts.