Rushdie was stabbed by a 24-year-old New Jersey resident identified as Hadi Matar on stage on Friday while he was being introduced at the event in New York

The government in Kyiv, on the other hand, declined to say whether it had been behind the explosions

The EU agency will likely meet again on Sept. 27 to review a combined vaccine against the original virus and the BA.5 variant that is responsible for the latest global surge in COVID-19 cases, Lauterbach said

The Washington Post which reported this, however, also said it was not clear if such documents were recovered

Rushdie`s agent, Andrew Wylie, sent an update on his condition shortly before 7 pm on Friday, saying the author was on a ventilator and cannot speak

Rushdie`s book `The Satanic Verses` has been banned in Iran since 1988, as many Muslims consider it to be blasphemous. A year later, Iran`s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini issued a fatwa, or edict, calling for Rushdie`s death

Abdul Rauf Azhar, born in 1974 in Pakistan, was sanctioned by the US in December 2010

The attack damaged a hostel, two schools, a concert hall, the main council building and other administrative bases, he added

That line, meant to assure Taiwan it would enjoy autonomy after becoming a special administrative region of China, did not appear in the latest white paper