Khuram Butt

LONDON: Youssef Zaghba, the third man identified as one of the authors of Saturday's deadly attack in London, was intercepted last year en route to Syria and signalled to Britain as a possible militant, Italian authorities said Tuesday. Zaghba, a 22-year-old with dual Moroccan-Italian nationality, was briefly detained after being stopped at the airport in Bologna, central Italy in March 2016. Italian prosecutors were unable to bring charges against him for links to international terrorism and he was set free, a police…

LONDON: Police on Tuesday identified the third attacker in the weekend terror assault in London amid mounting anger, two days before an election, over how the jihadist killers had apparently escaped surveillance. With flags at half-mast, the nation fell silent at 11:00am (1000 GMT) to remember the seven killed and dozens injured on Saturday night -- a mourning ritual now grimly familiar after two previous terror attacks in less than three months. Police identified the third attacker as Youssef Zaghba, a 22-year-old…