French counter-terrorism police have shot and wounded an unarmed woman in a full veil after she threatened train passengers, Paris authorities say. Officers opened fire eight times when the woman refused to comply with police orders, a source told the BBC. The alarm was raised by passengers on an RER...
Monthly Archives: October 2023
Two women have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences following a Met Police appeal. The suspects, aged 29 and 44, came forward to a police station in south London on Monday after they recognised themselves in the appeal pictures. They are currently being held in custody at a police...
PARIS (AP) — Three French airports in the cities of Lyon, Toulouse and Lille were evacuated on Wednesday following security alerts, police said. They were the latest in a series of evacuations around France this week that included popular tourist attractions the Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace following the killing...
The Manchester Arena bomber died in a suicide attack that “murdered 22 innocent victims”, a coroner has ruled. Salman Abedi, 22, died when he detonated a home-made device in the arena foyer at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017. Coroner Sir John Saunders, who also chaired...
Police in Brussels have shot dead the man who killed two Swedish nationals on Monday evening. The 45-year-old man named as Abdesalem was shot in a café in the Schaerbeek neighbourhood. Two Swedes were killed and a third seriously injured in the automatic rifle attack on Monday. It took place...
New York Comic Con came to a dramatic early close today (Sunday) as police dealt with a suspicious package near the main entrance to the Javits Center at W35th Street and 11th Avenue. Police on the scene just before 4:15pm this afternoon ordered a “Full freeze on 11th Avenue from...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder and attempted murder after the death of a man and the assault of another in Hartlepool. It comes after an incident in the early hours of Sunday, October 15, which saw multiple sites in the Raby Road area taped off throughout...
The French prime minister has put the country on its highest state of counter-terrorism alert after an assailant fatally stabbed a teacher and seriously wounded two others. Witnesses say the knifeman shouted “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is greatest”, during the attack at a school in Arras, northern France. He is...
A teacher has been killed and two people have been seriously injured in a knife attack at a school in France, officials say. Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said the attack happened at the Gambetta high school in the northern city of Arras at about 11:00 local time. The attacker has...
ISLAMABAD: The Military Intelligence of Armies of Pakistan and China are to establish hotline on counter terrorism through inking a formal pact, well informed sources told Business Recorder. Sharing the details, sources said, Defense Division on October 2, 2023 informed the Federal Cabinet presided caretaker Prime Minister Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar that General...
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