Police say incident in Dunmurry in which no one was hurt shows ‘murderous intent still exists’ in paramilitaries. “Murderous intent and capability” still exists within paramilitaries in Northern Ireland, officers have said after a car exploded outside a police station on the outskirts of Belfast. Detectives said they...
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A man has been arrested on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts by detectives investigating a string of attacks on Jewish sites in London. The 37-year-old was arrested at an address near Barnstaple, Devon, on Sunday, the Metropolitan Police said. The Met Police added that 26 people have now been arrested...
Police have closed a London park after an Islamist ‘terror cell’ claimed drones carrying ‘radioactive and cancer-causing materials’ had been launched towards the Israeli embassy. The Met Police confirmed there is an ‘increased police presence’ at Kensington Gardens as officers assess ‘a number of discarded items’. Officers wearing protective suits...
France is preparing for a terror strike targeting London. French diplomats in the capital have carried out a “crisis management” exercise on responding to a major incident in the city. They have sought to strengthen their emergency response plans as tensions run high over Donald Trump’s Iran war....
Russian figures are calling for Vladimir Putin to blow up Westminster Bridge in revenge for British drones “destroying a Russian-held crossing in a Ukrainian operation”. Spectacular footage showed the moment of the explosion on the Konka, a tributary of the River Dnipro. The strike was in March last year...
Residents have been evacuated with a town in lockdown after an “extremely serious” security alert. Police have closed roads in in Lurgan, County Armagh, this morning following an alert on Church Place. Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) MP Carla Lockhart said a pizza delivery van was reportedly hijacked in...
A man and a woman have been arrested in connection with an investigation into terrorist financing. Counter Terrorism Policing South East said it had arrested a 50-year-old man and a 35-year-old woman from Oxford. The force said the pair had been held on suspicion of arranging funds for the purpose...
A 33-year-old American man from Leeds has been charged with eleven terrorism offences following an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing North East. Jason Symons is charged with: Nine counts of collect a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, contrary...
A Leeds man who prevented a potential terrorist attack outside St James’ Hospital in Leeds was today (Wednesday, March 25) presented with the George Medal for bravery by His Majesty King Charles III. Nathan Newby G.M., age 35, intervened to prevent clinical support worker Mohammed Farooq from bombing the hospital...
An attack on four Jewish community ambulances in Golders Green has shocked the nation as counterterrorism police are investigating the incident in northwest London. The incident is being treated as an antisemitic hate crime by the Metropolitan Police, but not as terrorism at this stage, although counterterrorism police are...
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