Paris is on edge ahead of France’s Nations League clash with Israel tonight after protests in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon engulfed parts of the French capital in the last 24 hours. A ring of steel is being erected around State de France in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis where the UEFA Nations League match will unfold in front of a...
Monthly Archives: January 2025
A teenager accused of killing three young girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, will stand trial on 20 January. Axel Rudakubana, 18, is charged with the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven. He also faces a...
Pro-Palestine protesters clashed with police in Paris last night ahead of a football match between France and Israel later today. A large group engaged in an altercation with police in the French capital in which batons were drawn and tear gas used. It comes as an “Israel is forever” event was being...
A jury returned a guilty verdict today against Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 34, on all six counts in the indictment, which included conspiring to provide, and providing, material support to a foreign terrorist organization; and conspiring to murder U.S. nationals, commit aircraft piracy, destroy aircraft, and commit transnational acts of terrorism....
A criminal complaint was filed last Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn charging Syed Aman, a U.S. citizen and resident of Nassau County, New York, with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Aman was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK...
Metropolitan Police are responding to fears of an ‘Amsterdam-style attack’ on a now-cancelled protest against a United Nations official speaking in East London. Scotland Yard last night said that ‘officers are actively investigating the threats posted online in relation to [Tuesday’s] planned protest’ after a screenshot referencing recent violence in...
A 19-year-old man from Birmingham has today been found guilty of terrorism offences following a trial at Birmingham Crown Court. Shaan Farooq, from Saltley, was convicted for three counts of intentionally distributing terrorism material after he had previously pleaded guilty to possessing terrorism material from May to July 2022. When...
An anti-vaccination conspiracy theorist who encouraged violence against Prof Sir Chris Whitty on social media has been sentenced to five years in prison. Patrick Ruane, 55, from Paddington, west London, was convicted of two charges of encouraging terrorism on social media in 2021, following a trial at the Old Bailey....
Israeli football fans have faced a series of attacks in the centre of Amsterdam, officials say, with riot police having to intervene several times to protect them. Prime Minister Dick Schoof condemned “antisemitic attacks” and Israel’s military spoke of “severe and violent incidents against Israelis”. Earlier plans to send “rescue...
A New Braunfels man pleaded guilty in a federal court in San Antonio to one count of attempt to receive firearm to use to commit a felony according to a press release on October 31. According to court documents, Cameron Darrick Peterson, 20, began planning mass shootings since November 2022. On Jan....
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