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Hezbollah official says group does not know anything about attack on Rushdie

An official from Iran-backed Lebanese armed group Hezbollah said on Saturday the group had no additional information on the stabbing attack on Salman Rushdie.

Reuters

Salman Rushdie said he had ‘normal’ life just weeks before stabbing attack on stage

Sir Salman Rushdie was stabbed multiple times as he was about to deliver a lecture at the Chautauqua Institution in New York state - he is expected to lose his eye after the attack

Daily Mirror

Rajiv Gandhi govt. decision to ban Rushdie's book was justified, taken for law & order reasons: Natwar Singh

Former Minister of State for External Affairs K. Natwar Singh said he was "very distressed" over the attack.

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Activists Accuse Iran of Responsibility for Rushdie Attack

Iran's rulers bear responsibility for the attack against the British writer Salman Rushdie as the Islamic republic never repudiated a 1989 order issued by its founder calling for the novelist to be killed, activists and opponents charged Saturday. While the fatwa issued by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini over Rushdie's novel "The…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Rushdie told German magazine his life is now 'relatively normal'

In an interview conducted just weeks before he was stabbed and seriously wounded by an attacker in New York state, author Salman Rushdie said his life was now "relatively normal", after having lived in hiding for years because of death threats.

Reuters

Salman Rushdie attack: Iranians react with mixture of praise and concern

Praise for attack on writer targeted by decades-old fatwa comes as some fear incident will leave Iran more isolated

The Guardian - UK

'I am happy to hear he was attacked' - Iranians react to Salman Rushdie stabbing

Sir Salman has been the subject of a 'fatwa' since the 1980s

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Salman Rushdie once complained about ‘too much security’ around him: Report

Following the attack on Friday, questions were raised about the security precautions — or lack thereof — at the host institution

The Hindu

Iran's hardline newspapers praise Salman Rushdie's attacker

Several hardline Iranian newspapers poured praise on Saturday on the person who attacked and seriously wounded author Salman Rushdie, whose novel “The Satanic Verses” had drawn death threats from Iran since 1989.

Reuters

Iran CELEBRATES Salman Rushdie's stabbing attack as he fights for his life in hospital

Indian-born British author Sir Salman Rushdie's 1980s novel The Satanic Verses led to a fatwa in Iran calling for his death sanctioned by the government in the country

Daily Mirror

'Utterly horrified and shocked': Tharoor on Rushdie attack

The writer was stabbed by a New Jersey resident identified as Hadi Matar on stage in Western New York.

The Hindu

Author Salman Rushdie on ventilator after New York stabbing

Salman Rushdie's agent says the writer is on a ventilator after being stabbed in the neck and abdomen on a western New York stage where he was about to give a lecture

The Independent UK

Salman Rushdie attack: What we know so far

Author Rushdie is on ventilator and could lose an eye following a stabbing attack at a literary event in New York state.

Al Jazeera

Novelist Salman Rushdie on ventilator after New York stabbing

Salman Rushdie, who spent years in hiding after an Iranian fatwa ordered his killing, was on a ventilator and could lose an eye following a stabbing attack at a literary event in New York state Friday.

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The Independent UK

Praise, worry in Iran after Rushdie attack; government quiet

Iranians are reacting with praise and worry over the attack on novelist Salman Rushdie — the target of a decades-old fatwa by the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini calling for his death

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Salman Rushdie, the Booker Prize-winning author and fierce critic of religion with a bounty on his head

Salman Rushdie has lived under threat of death for decades after a fatwa was issued in response to the content of his fourth novel, The Satanic Verses.

The Independent UK

What the papers say – August 13

The stabbing of Sir Salman Rushdie leads most of the national papers as the weekend begins.

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The Times of India

UN secretary general Antonio Guterres appalled to learn of attack on Salman Rushdie

NEW YORK: UN secretary general Antonio Guterres is "appalled" to learn about the attack on author Salman Rushdie, saying that in no case is violence a response to words spoken or written by others in their exercise of the freedoms of opinion and expression.

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Salman Rushdie on ventilator; may lose an eye, says his agent after stabbing in New York

Rushdie, who received death threats from Iran due to his book 'The Satanic Verses', was "stabbed" at least once in the neck and once in the abdomen onstage at a lecture in western New York state on Friday morning. Read further on Dynamite News:

The Hindu

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The Times of India

Salman Rushdie stabbing: Assailant identified as Hadi Matar, an Islamist with pro-Iran views

WASHINGTON: Law enforcement authorities in New York on Friday identified author Salman Rushdie's assailant as 24-year-old Hadi Matar from New Jersey, believed, on the basis of his social media posts, to be a supporter of fundamentalist forces in Iran which initiated a fatwa on the writer in 1988.

The Times of India

Salman Rushdie stabbing: Assailant identified as Hadi Mattar, an Islamist with pro-Iran views

Reuters

Stabbing of Rushdie thrusts a tranquil literary retreat into mayhem

Before Salman Rushdie arrived on Friday, the bucolic New York retreat where the author was due to speak had arranged for a law enforcement presence at his lecture, mindful that the security might be needed for a man who faced death threats.

The Guardian - UK

Who is Salman Rushdie? Author whose book The Satanic Verses made him a target

The Indian-born writer has been stabbed in New York, and it’s not his first brush with violence

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