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An assailant stabbed a policeman and was shot by police just outside Britain's parliament building in London on Wednesday in what police described as a "terrorist incident." Amid confusing scenes, it appeared the incident may have unfolded in several locations, including on the nearby Westminster bridge where eyewitnesses said a car had crashed into pedestrians. Two people died in the incident, according to Sky News, but the total number of casualties was unclear. "Officers - including firearms officers - remain on the scene and we are treating this as a terrorist incident until we know otherwise," London's Metropolitan Police said in a statement. The incident took place on the first anniversary of attacks by militants that killed 32 people in Brussels. Reuters reporters inside the parliament building heard loud bangs and shortly afterwards saw two people lying on the ground in a courtyard just outside, within the perimeter of the parliamentary estate. ...

A San Diego police officer was fatally shot and another was injured at a traffic stop late on Thursday, police said on Friday, and a wounded suspect was taken into custody. The officers, members of the department's gang suppression unit, were shot shortly after making a traffic stop at about 11 p.m. PDT (0600 GMT) in Southcrest, a neighborhood in southeast San Diego, Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman said at a news conference. "I'm extremely heartbroken to report that we had an officer shot and killed," Zimmerman said. The second officer underwent surgery and is expected to survive, police said. Both were shot in the upper torso, Zimmerman said. She said one suspect, who also was shot, had been taken into custody after he was found in a nearby ravine and was being treated at a hospital. Officers searched the area for additional suspects. Further details on the shooting were not immediately provided. Zimmerman said another news conference would be held late...