A protest group has vowed to “shut down” London by swarming the capital’s roads and holding demonstrations during a month-long period of action. Youth Demand said it will begin its “national month of action” on Tuesday, carrying out its “biggest civil disobedience campaign yet,” according to the campaigners’ website....
Monthly Archives: March 2025
A convicted terrorist who glorified the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby on YouTube has been sent back to prison for four-and-a-half years. Royal Barnes, 34, was convicted in March 2014 of inciting terrorism overseas and three counts of transmitting a terrorist publication following the murder of the British soldier in Woolwich, south London the year before....
Germany’s acting Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and her Austrian counterpart, Gerhard Karner, have called off a planned trip to Syria following security warnings of a potential terrorist attack. The trip was set for Thursday, with an air force plane scheduled to fly Faeser and her delegation from Jordan to...
Boko Haram fighters disguised as herders killed at least 20 Cameroonian troops in a Tuesday morning raid on the Nigerian border town of Wulgo, local security sources and residents told AFP. Cameroonian troops are commonly stationed across the border in Nigeria as part of anti-jihadist operations around Wulgo, which is...
The sentencing of Cholo Abdi Abdullah, a Kenyan national who was convicted of plotting a 9/11-style attack on the United States, was adjourned Monday after he asked for new lawyers. “I was thinking of having new lawyers who will represent me,” said Abdullah, who represented himself during the trial last year...
Mohammad Sohail Farooq (18.10.1995) has been sentenced to life imprisonment, with a minimum term of 37 years, for plotting to attack RAF Menwith Hill and St James’s Hospital. Farooq was convicted of preparing for an act of terrorism last July. During a three-week trial at Sheffield Crown Court the...
Authorities in London have roped in the counterterrorism police to lead the investigation into a fire at Heathrow Airport that forced its closure and disrupted flight operations worldwide. While the Metropolitan Police Force said on Friday that there are “no indications of foul play” at the moment, the Counter...
A French citizen imprisoned in Iran for more than 880 days has been freed, President Emmanuel Macron has announced. The release of Olivier Grondeau comes as France and the rest of Europe attempt to pursue negotiations with Iran over its rapidly advancing nuclear programme. US President Donald Trump...
A person dressed in black shot and set fire to several Tesla vehicles at a repair facility in Las Vegas early Tuesday, police said, in what the FBI is investigating as a possible act of domestic terrorism. “This was a targeted attack against a Tesla facility,” Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren...
Almost exactly 30 years after a failed bomb attack on a prison building in Berlin, two suspected members of the left-wing extremist group “Das Komitee” have gone on trial in the German capital. The defendants in their 60s, identified only as Peter K and Thomas W according to German...
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