U.S. women’s curling team slides to victory over Canada in an Olympic first

February 13, 2026 / 9:06 PM EST / CBS/AP

The U.S. women’s curling team was surprised to learn that their defeat of Canada on Friday marked an Olympic first.

“If that’s true,” Minneapolis native Taylor Anderson-Heide said after the 9-8 nailbiter, “I think we just played a really good game. They’re No. 1 in the world.”

Tara Peterson of Shoreview, Minnesota, chimed in: “It just always feels really good to beat (Canada skip) Rachel Homan. So any team to beat them, that’s pretty impressive.”

Until Friday, the American women had never beaten Canada — a perennial favorite that has medaled in every Winter Games since curling was added to the Olympics in 1998. The U.S. men beat the Canadians for the first time in the 2018 round-robin and again in the semifinals en route to their gold medal victory in Pyeongchang.

Canada’s Team Homan has for years been considered the best in the world.

United States’ Tabitha Peterson, Taylor Anderson-Heide, and Cory Thiesse react after the women’s curling round robin session against Canada. Misper Apawu / AP

In Friday’s match, the U.S. managed to capitalize on a few weak shots by Canada. After the win, the Americans walked together down the ice and back to their coaches, raising fists in triumph.

Peterson, like Anderson-Heide, couldn’t help but add a qualifier to her response to questions from The Associated Press: “Apparently, we’ve never beat them in the Olympics before. That makes it just extra special.”

This year’s American women’s curling team — like their Gen-Z men’s counterparts — meld approachability with ambition. Alongside Anderson-Heide and Peterson, the team includes skip Tabitha Peterson, who’s Tara’s older sister, as well as cool-as-a-cucumber Cory Thiesse, who has already won a silver medal in the mixed doubles event. Aileen Geving, from Minnesota, is an alternate.

Three of them have jobs other than curling, and three are mothers to young children. Tara is a dentist, Tabitha a pharmacist and Thiesse a lab technician.

Tara gave birth to her son, Eddie, in September 2024 and a few months later, Tabitha had a daughter, Noelle. Geving had daughter Sienna following the 2018 Games.

“That’s the cool thing about the sport of curling. Your average Joe is playing against Olympians and we’re friends,” Tara Peterson told CBS News Minnesota ahead of the Olympics. “And after the game we’ll sit down, we have dinner. We have a beer. It’s just a normal life.”

Tabitha Peterson told CBS News Minnesota she thinks of the Olympics “as just another tournament.”

“It’s another competition. And try not to focus like, oh my God, we’re at the Olympics,” she said.

They have several matches left in the round-robin before the semifinals next Friday. The are 2-1 after Friday’s match, with a win against Korea and loss to Sweden alongside the milestone.

Rubio steps into Munich spotlight as Trump leans on him to carry Vance’s populist message abroad

Secretary of state’s attendance follows JD Vance’s widely publicized speech that drew backlash from European officials

By Emma Colton
Fox News

Published February 13, 2026 6:26pm EST

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading the U.S. delegation to the high-profile Munich Security Conference — one year after Vice President JD Vance took the German stage in a speech that stunned many in Europe and became one of the defining moments of Trump’s early second term abroad.

“President Trump has assembled the most talented team in history, including Vice President Vance and Secretary Rubio, who are working in lockstep to notch wins for the American people,” White House spokeswoman Olivia Wales told Fox News Digital ahead of Rubio’s speech.

“The President and his team have flexed their foreign policy prowess to end decades-long wars, secure peace in the Middle East, and restore American dominance in the Western Hemisphere. The entire administration is working together to restore peace through strength and put America First.”

The Munich Security Conference is an annual high-level forum in Germany that draws hundreds of senior decision-makers — including heads of state, top ministers, military leaders and policy influencers — for closed-door and public talks on global security crises.

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Vice President JD Vance took the German stage one year ago in a speech that stunned many in Europe and became one of the defining moments of Trump’s early second term abroad.(Matthias Schrader/The Associated Press)

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California are among notable Democrats attending the conference, in addition to Rubio.

Vance became one of the central figures at the 2025 Munich gathering after a widely publicized speech that drew heavy attention and applause from conservatives following the Biden administration. It also sparked backlash among some European officials who viewed his remarks as confrontational.

Rubio’s attendance at the 2026 meeting follows a lengthy history of the State Department chief earning a series of different roles under the second administration, including acting national security advisor, secretary of state, acting archivist of the United States and acting administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Amid rising trans-Atlantic tension, the secretary of state issued a warning to Europe as he departed for his trip to Germany Thursday.

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“The Old World is gone,” Rubio told reporters as he departed for Europe Thursday. “Frankly, the world I grew up in, and we live in a new era in geopolitics, and it’s going to require all of us to re-examine what that looks like and what our role is going to be.”

President Donald Trump and his administration repeatedly have put Europe on notice for allegedly devolving into a culture of political correctness, speech policing, and a security system that heavily relies on U.S. funding and military might. Amid the rhetoric on Europe, the administration has continued to underscore the importance of U.S.-Europe relations, including Rubio on Thursday.

“We’re very tightly linked together with Europe,” he told reporters. “Most people in this country can trace both, either their cultural or their personal heritage, back to Europe. So, we just have to talk about that.”

Secretary of State Marco Rubio is leading the U.S. delegation to the high-profile Munich Security Conference.(J. Scott Applewhite/AP Photo)

Vance used his Munich Security Conference speech to deliver a blunt warning to Europe’s political class 2025, arguing the continent’s biggest danger is not Moscow or Beijing, but what he described as internal democratic decay that has festered due to political correctness and censorship.

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He accused European governments and institutions of drifting toward censorship, citing policies he said police speech, curb religious expression and pressure online platforms. He also argued elites allegedly were trying to manage elections and debate by dismissing unwelcome outcomes and branding dissent as “misinformation” to sideline populists and blunt voter backlash.

“What I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values — values shared with the United States of America,” Vance said in 2025 in the speech that left many European leaders stunned, according to reports at the time.

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Vance was also overseas this week, holding meetings with Armenia and Azerbaijan, including signing a peaceful nuclear cooperation with Armenia and a strategic partnership with Azerbaijan.

That trip followed both Vance and Rubio joining a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni earlier in February in Italy, and Vance leading a delegation that included Rubio during the Olympics’ opening ceremony in Milan.

A source familiar told Fox News Digital that there were never plans for the vice president to attend the 2026 conference in Munich.

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Vance’s foreign policy footprint became subject of political media scrutiny earlier in 2026 when the U.S. military successfully captured Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro. Vance was not among high-profile U.S. leaders who joined Trump at his Mar-a-Lago, Florida, resort to monitor the operation, unlike Rubio who was with the president.

The VP’s office brushed off media alarm over his absence, citing that Trump and Vance limit the “frequency and duration” of time they spend together outside the White House due to “increased security concerns.”

The vice president is by no means is expected to attend the Munich Security Conference each year, with former Vice President Mike Pence, for example, attending the conference twice under the first Trump administration, and former Vice President Kamala Harris attending three times under the Biden administration. Previous secretaries of state such as John Kerry, Antony Blinken and Clinton have attended and addressed the body in previous years.

Vance additionally attended a separate Munich Security Conference event, the Leaders Conference, in Washington, D.C., in May 2025.

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Trump praised Vance’s 2025 speech as “brilliant” in a statement to reporters at the time, remarking that “they’re losing their wonderful right of freedom of speech” in Europe and that Vance made a strong case against much of Europe’s lax immigration polices.

Since then, Trump’s team repeatedly has echoed the same critique in official channels, including a State Department push that has blasted European speech restrictions and targeted the European Union’s Digital Services Act as “Orwellian” censorship, alongside new visa restrictions aimed at foreign officials accused of censoring Americans online.

Just in December 2025, President Donald Trump blasted European nations for not being “recognizable” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.(Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Just in December 2025, Trump blasted European nations for not being “recognizable” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, teeing up what could be another fiery speech from Americans on European soil Saturday.

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“I don’t want to insult anybody and say I don’t recognize it,” Trump said during his special address in Davos, Switzerland. “And that’s not in a positive way. That’s in a very negative way. And I love Europe and I want to see Europe do good, but it’s not heading in the right direction.”

Fox News Digital reached out to the State Department for comment on the address Friday.

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美驻北约大使：中国一通电话可终止俄乌战争 | 联合早报

发布/2026年2月14日 09:57

美国驻北约大使惠特克星期五（2月13日）在德国慕尼黑安全会议的一场对话会上发言。 （彭博社）

美国驻北约大使惠特克说，中国一通电话可终止俄乌战争。

据彭博社报道，惠特克星期五（2月13日）在德国慕尼黑安全会议的一场关于美国外交政策的对话会上说，中国为俄罗斯入侵乌克兰提供关键支持，因此中方一通电话可终止这场战争。

惠特克说：“中国可致电俄罗斯总统普京，然后在明天终结这场战争，并切断中方卖给俄方的军民两用科技商品。中国可停止购买俄罗斯石油和天然气。你知道，这场战争完全由中国操控。”

从俄乌战争开打以来，中俄建立起更为紧密的伙伴关系，俄罗斯依赖中国提供无人机和其他战争物品的关键零部件。在国际社会对俄罗斯石油出口施压加剧的背景下，中国再次成为俄罗斯石油的最大买家。

追踪数据显示，今年1月，日均有165万桶俄罗斯石油在中国港口卸载，为2024年3月以来的最高水平，也是俄罗斯2022年入侵乌克兰以来，单月总额第二多。

不过，北京一再重申，要为解决乌克兰危机发挥建设性作用。

中国外交部长王毅星期五在慕尼黑会见乌克兰外长瑟比加时指出，中乌关系要锚定正确方向，保持稳定健康发展。中方愿为乌提供新的人道主义援助。

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Trump tells soldiers to vote GOP in campaign-style rally at Fort Bragg

February 13, 2026 at 6:39 p.m. EST / The Washington Post

Army policy prohibits partisan displays, and most service members refrained from cheering.

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President Donald Trump greets troops in Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on Friday. (Matt Ramey/AP)

By Isaac Arnsdorf

FORT BRAGG, N.C. — President Donald Trump’s rally on Friday followed a familiar plan: He entered to Lee Greenwood’s “God Bless the USA,” promoted GOP candidates, bashed his predecessor and implored the audience to vote Republican in the midterm elections. The speech ended to the thump of the Village People’s “Y.M.C.A.”

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默茨：在特朗普领导下美国全球领导地位可能“丧失殆尽”

发布时间 / 来源：2026年2月14日 07:45 | 联合早报

德国总理默茨罕见批评美国总统特朗普，他说在特朗普的领导下，美国的全球领导地位“受到了挑战，甚至可能已经丧失殆尽”，并警告，基于规则的世界秩序“已经不复存在”。

综合《纽约时报》和英国广播公司（BBC）报道，默茨星期五（2月13日）在年度慕尼黑安全会议致开幕辞时，多次称美国人为“朋友”，并阐述美国和欧洲为何仍须作为彼此的伙伴。

但他同时也列举了特朗普的政策如何背离德国和其他欧洲国家曾经认为与美国共同拥有的价值观，包括反对仇恨言论、应对气候变化、支持自由贸易。

默茨告诉与会领导人，在大国政治时代，“我们的自由无法得到保障”，欧洲人必须做好“牺牲”的准备。

他说：“欧洲和美国之间已经出现一道鸿沟。在一年前的慕尼黑安全会议上，美国副总统万斯就非常公开地表明这一点。他说得没错。‘让美国再次伟大’运动的文化战争不属于我们。”

在结束演讲之前，默茨突然改用英语，直接向特朗普政府喊话。

他说：“在大国竞争时代，即使大如美国也无法独断专行。亲爱的朋友，作为北约的一员不仅是欧洲的竞争优势，也是美国的竞争优势。”

在默茨发表演说前，德国官员就暗示默茨的演说措辞谨慎，他将阐述在世界秩序发生根本性改变的背景下，德国将采取的新欧洲战略。但默茨在演说中并没有淡化他对美国的严厉批评，他还将这些话刊登在《外交事务》杂志的一篇文章中。这篇文章在他演讲时同时发表。

Texas Dem Senate primary fractures over race rhetoric as ‘mediocre’ jab, ‘oppressor’ remarks ignite backlash

Rep. Jasmine Crockett claims racism will be to blame if she loses while rival James Talarico faces accusations of calling Colin Allred ‘mediocre Black man’

By Charles Creitz, Emma Colton
Fox News

Published February 13, 2026 6:00pm EST

Heated racial rhetoric in Texas is flaring this primary season, as Democratic contenders lean into identity-focused messaging that Republicans say is divisive and a clinic in “wokeness at its worst.”

Texas Democrats are heading into primary season with an intraparty fight that is increasingly spilling into race and identity. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who is running for the Senate, has suggested racism would be to blame if she loses, while former Rep. Colin Allred accused Crockett rival and Austin state Rep. James Talarico of calling him “a mediocre Black man” in a political spat affecting races in the Senate and House.

“These disgusting comments are wokeness at its worst and the silence is deafening from Democrats,” RNC spokesman Zach Kraft said of the recent rhetoric out of Texas in recent months.

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Texas State Rep. James Talarico, D-Travis, and Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, shake hands.(Bob Daemmrich/Getty Images)

Crockett, who is running for the Senate to replace Republican Sen. John Cornyn, offered a fiery response.

“You think I didn’t know I was a black woman when I woke up and decided that I was going to run for the U.S. Senate? You think I didn’t factor in and make sure we had enough room to account for that?”

Racially focused flare-ups have broken out in recent weeks as Democrats eye high-profile races and try to energize blue voters in the red state.

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“Look no further than the Senate primary to see how the woke mind virus has spread like wildfire among the ranks of Texas Democrats. James Talarico spent last week apologizing for his ‘white privilege,’ and Jasmine Crockett is taking a page out of Kamala Harris’ playbook by preemptively blaming racism and sexism for why she will lose,” Kraft told Fox News Digital.

Just this month, Texas Democratic state Rep. Gene Wu, the minority leader of the Texas House, drew backlash over a resurfaced clip from a 2024 interview in which he described white Americans as “oppressors” of “non-whites.”

“That there is a sense of, ‘America really just belongs to White people,’ that this was that a lot of people believe that God gave America to White people to rule, and that any time that immigrants, minorities make progress in this country, that that is seen as a slight against them,” Wu, of Houston, said in 2024 on “Define American” podcast with Antonio Vargas.

Wu, who was born in Guangzhou, China, added that Latinos, Asians and Black Americans — “everybody” — are kept divided because powerful forces have spent time and money ensuring they do not unite. Instead, he argued, those groups are pushed to see each other as rivals even though they share the same oppressor, and he claimed the oppression “comes from one place.”

“I always tell people the day the Latino, African-American, Asian and other communities realize that they are — that they share the same oppressor is the day we start winning, because we are the majority in this country now,” he continued. “We have the ability to take over this country and to do what is needed for everyone and to make things fair.”

The clip set off swift condemnation from Texans as it circulated online, including Republican Sen. Ted Cruz saying, “The Democrat party is built on bigotry.”

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Texas House Democratic Caucus Chair Gene Wu attends a news conference at the conclusion of a House meeting on August 18, 2025, in Austin, Texas.(Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

Allred recently told former DNC chairman Jaime Harrison of South Carolina on his podcast that Talarico made another disparaging comment about him in private while the former Tennessee Titans linebacker was still a candidate in the Senate race.

Allred has since dropped out and is seeking a newly drawn 33rd Congressional District near Dallas. The current 33rd District in the Metroplex is represented by Democratic Rep. Marc Veasey.

“He’s said some things to me that I don’t like. He said to me before he got into the race that he thought that he would be a better candidate because he doesn’t have a family, and that… he could spend more time campaigning,” Allred said.

“As you know, Jaime, like I didn’t know my dad, so I’m like all about being a father to my two boys, right? I was like, no, no, no, I run because of my family.”

A TikTok influencer named Morgan Thompson originally claimed Allred made the “mediocre Black man” comments, recounting the conversation from a Talarico rally in Plano.

“James Talarico told me that he signed up to run against a mediocre Black man, not a formidable and intelligent Black woman,” Thompson said, adding she now supports Crockett.

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Allred claimed that Talarico said he’d “be a better candidate because he doesn’t have a family.”(MIGUEL J. RODRIGUEZ CARRILLO/AFP; Bob Daemmrich/The Texas Tribune/Bloomberg)

Talarico released a statement soon after calling the situation a “mischaracterization of a private conversation” and said he was talking about Allred’s “method of campaigning,” not his life.

“I would never attack him on the basis of race,” Talarico said. “As a Black man in America, Congressman Allred has had to work twice as hard to get where he is. I understand how my critique of the Congressman’s campaign could be interpreted given this country’s painful legacy of racism, and I care deeply about the impact my words have on others,” Talarico said, according to the Texas Tribune.

Talarico recently announced that he raised $7.4 million in the first six weeks of the quarter in his contest against Crockett.

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He did not respond to a request for comment. Crockett’s campaign also did not respond to an inquiry left in its campaign inbox, which is separate from her official congressional office due to the Hatch Act.

Fox News Digital’s Marc Tamasco contributed to this report.

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Charles is a Pennsylvania native and graduated from Temple University with a B.A. in Broadcast Journalism. Story tips can be sent to charles.creitz@fox.com.

美军完成从叙利亚转移在押伊斯兰国成员至伊拉克

发布时间：2026年2月14日 08:19 / 来源：联合早报

负责中东地区美军行动的美军中央司令部说，美军已完成将关押在叙利亚的极端组织“伊斯兰国”成员转移至伊拉克的任务。

新华社报道，美军中央司令部星期五（2月13日）发布消息说，已在星期四（12日）夜间完成一次从叙利亚东北部到伊拉克的空中转移任务。至此，为期23天的转移任务中，美军成功将5700多名伊斯兰国组织成年男性成员从叙利亚运送到伊拉克的拘押设施。

今年1月18日，叙利亚过渡政府同叙库尔德武装主导的“叙利亚民主力量”达成协议，后者将负责关押伊斯兰国成员的营地和行政机构移交给过渡政府。19日，由“叙利亚民主力量”管理的哈塞克省舍达迪监狱发生越狱事件。

美军中央司令部1月21日说，美军当天开始将关押在叙利亚东北部的伊斯兰国成员转移到伊拉克，以确保“恐怖分子继续关在安全的拘押设施里”，计划最终转移不超过7000人。伊拉克军方2月7日说，伊拉克已接收转移自叙利亚的2250名伊斯兰国成员，并启动司法程序开展调查工作。

另据设在英国伦敦的“叙利亚人权观察组织”消息，美军转移的在押伊斯兰国成员来自那些美方认为安保薄弱的监狱。仍有一些伊斯兰国成员关押在叙库尔德武装控制区。

Senate Democrats seek CFIUS probe of reported UAE stake in Trump family’s crypto company

February 13, 2026 11:05 PM UTC / Reuters / By Andrea Shalal

WASHINGTON, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Two Democratic members of the U.S. Senate Banking Committee on Friday asked Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent to examine the potential national security implications of a reported purchase of a $500 million stake in the Trump family’s cryptocurrency venture by the United Arab Emirates’ national security adviser.

Senators Elizabeth Warren and Andy Kim asked Bessent, who heads the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, to determine whether a CFIUS review is required of the 49% UAE stake in World Liberty Financial and, if so, to conduct a comprehensive, thorough and unbiased investigation.

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In a letter viewed by Reuters, they asked Bessent to respond to several questions about the transaction by March 5, including whether CFIUS had reviewed the deal in any form, or submitted any recommendations to Republican President Donald Trump about it.

The Treasury had no immediate comment on the letter.

“The transaction raises significant national security concerns,” the senators said in the letter.

Warren and other Democratic senators have repeatedly raised questions about World Liberty Financial, which was founded two months before Trump’s November 2024 victory in the U.S. presidential election, and potential conflicts of interest. The firm was announced by businessman Steve Witkoff, who is now a key Trump envoy.

Trump’s aides have said he has handed over control of his business ventures, which are being reviewed by outside ethics lawyers.

CFIUS is a Treasury-led interagency committee that vets foreign investments for national security risks, including top officials from the Defense, State, Commerce, Homeland Security and Justice departments.

Warren and Kim said CFIUS had a “clear mandate to address potential national security risks from foreign investments, including transactions that could allow foreign governments like China or the UAE to access critical technology or the sensitive personal data of U.S. citizens.”

They said the reported deal raised questions about whether the UAE or China might be able to access any of the “sensitive personal information” that World Liberty Financial says it collects, they wrote.

The Wall Street Journal last month reported that G42, a company backed by Sheikh Tahnoon bin Zayed Al Nahyan, who manages the UAE’s largest wealth fund and is a member of the Gulf nation’s royal family, bought the stake in World Liberty Financial days before Trump began his second term in January 2025. Months later, the Trump administration approved the sale of advanced AI chips to the UAE.

World Liberty is behind the stablecoin USD1, which is pegged to the U.S. dollar and backed by short-term U.S. government Treasuries, U.S. dollar deposits, and other cash equivalents.

The company counts President Trump and Witkoff as co-founders emeritus, and is run by members of the Trump and Witkoff families.

Warren and Kim noted that U.S. intelligence had long warned that G42 may have provided technology to assist China’s military.

Reporting by Andrea Shalal

Our Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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持刀男子威胁巴黎凯旋门宪兵 被警方击毙

发布时间 / 来源：2026年2月14日 08:44 | 联合早报

巴黎凯旋门发生持刀威胁宪兵事件，法国反恐检察官办公室说，持刀男子2012年在比利时袭击三名警察被判监禁，去年12月出狱。 （法新社）

一名法国男子涉嫌持刀威胁在巴黎凯旋门执勤的一名宪兵，被警察开枪击毙。

事发于星期五（2月13日），法国警方消息人士告诉法新社，当时凯旋门正下方正在举行无名战士墓圣火仪式，持刀男子挥刀威胁宪兵队员，警方向他连开数枪。

在警方开枪前，一名宪兵被刺伤，但伤势较轻。持刀男子还携带一把剪刀。

法国国家反恐检察官办公室说，嫌疑人是1978年出生的法国公民，中枪后送院，因伤势过重不治。

一匿名知情者透露，嫌疑人名叫布拉希姆·巴赫里尔（Brahim Bahrir），当局知道他是一名思想激进者，已将他列入监视名单。

知情者说，巴赫里尔曾致电他居住地附近的警察局，声称他将“进行一场大屠杀”，警方随后展开搜捕行动。

反恐检察官办公室说，这名男子2012年在比利时袭击三名警察，被判处17年监禁，罪名包括谋杀未遂、恐怖主义和其他罪行，去年12月出狱。