World Watch | The Shillong Times

NEW YORK, July 22: The man convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie is going on trial again, this time in a federal terrorism case that is probing deeper into what allegedly motivated the stabbing on a lecture stage in 2022. Opening statements are set for Wednesday in Hadi Matar’s trial in the federal courthouse in Buffalo, New York. The Booker Prize-winning Rushdie, now 79, is expected to be among the first witnesses, again describing the stabbing that nearly killed him and left him blind in one eye. He has recounted the moment and his recovery in testimony at Matar’s state-court attempted murder trial, in a memoir and in multiple intervi…