Lauren Freyer

Witnesses say one of the victims was stabbed outside a shop and another near a synagogue.

Police say he tried to stab officers, too.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer interrupted Parliament to say this attack.

On social media, he called it anti-Semitic and utterly appalling.

This incident follows arson attacks in recent weeks on a Jewish ambulance charity and a synagogue.

Counterterrorism officials have said they're investigating whether Iranian proxies could be responsible.

Lauren Fryer, NPR News, London.

Starmer admits he knew Peter Mandelson was friends with Epstein, but made him ambassador anyway and then fired him when he learned the extent of those ties.

The prime minister has apologized repeatedly for his judgment.

Now it's come out that Mandelson failed the government's own vetting process.

And Starmer has had to face lawmakers' anger in parliament yet again.

Starmer says he didn't know Mandelson failed the vetting.

One of his top aides has resigned over this.

But opposition politicians are calling for Starmer to resign too.

This uproar is happening a little over two weeks before municipal elections across the UK.

Lauren Freyer, NPR News, London.

Lebanese President Joseph Aoun says a Lebanese ambassador in Washington had a phone call Friday with the Israeli ambassador there.

It's the first official contact between the two countries since 1983.

They consider each other enemy states.

Anyone who's ever set foot in Israel is technically not allowed to enter Lebanon.