A man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing explosives under suspicious circumstance following a security alert in County Londonderry. The alert, which has now ended, caused a number of houses to be evacuated near Maghera. The man in his 50s, who is in police custody, has also been arrested...

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been targeted in an assassination plot by a neo-Nazi group who branded her a “fascist who persecutes fascists”. Twelve people – part of the far-right supremacist group known as Werwolf Division – were detained in country-wide raids by anti-terrorism police last week. Police recorded...

Counter-terror police are investigating reports that an Oxford Union speaker broke the law by “expressing support” for Hamas during a debate on Israel. During the debate, which took place last week, one of the speakers argued that the events of Oct 7 2023 were “not terrorism” but were instead “acts of heroism”....

A woman has been charged with a terrorism offence as part of an inquiry into material taken into a prison. Counter Terrorism Policing North East also charged three other individuals following an investigation at HMP Lindholme, near Doncaster. Rhea Wood, 35, of Shoreham Street, Sheffield was charged with dissemination of...

Police in India’s capital Delhi have searched around 40 schools after they received anonymous bomb threats, a police spokesperson has told the BBC. The schools received emails threatening that bombs would be detonated unless $30,000 (£23,582) was paid to the sender, news agency ANI reported. No bombs have been found...

A fire which ripped through Melbourne’s Adass Israel synagogue is being treated as a likely terror attack, Australian police say. Three suspects are being hunted over Friday’s early-morning blaze, which left one man with a minor burn to his hand and caused extensive damage. Witnesses say they saw masked figures...

Australia’s prime minister has blamed antisemitism for an arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne. Cars and buildings across the country have been vandalised and torched in protests against the war between Israel and Hamas, which began in October last year. Police said they were searching for two people suspected of...