Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Saturday 30 Nov 2019

1. London Bridge attacker had been convicted of terrorism

The man named by police as being the perpetrator of Friday's stabbing attack at London Bridge is a former prisoner convicted of terrorism offences. Usman Khan, 28, was out of prison on licence at the time of the attack, in which a man and a woman were killed and three others were injured. The Guardian says he had previously been jailed for an “al-Qaida inspired bomb plot”.

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