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...
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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...
The latest data released by the Home Office shows that more people have been arrested for terrorism related offences in 2024 than in the four years previously. Last year, the police made 248 arrests which is the highest number of arrests in a single year since 2019. Commenting...
People protesting against Tesla should be labelled domestic terrorists, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday at a White House media event designed to bolster Elon Musk’s electric car company. Trump sat in the driver’s seat of a brand new red Tesla that he said he planned to buy, with...
Armed militants took more than 450 train passengers hostage and wounded the train driver in an attack on Tuesday in Pakistan‘s volatile southwestern Balochistan province, officials said. ‘Over 450 passengers onboard are being held hostage by gunmen,’ Muhammad Kashif, a senior railway government official in Quetta, the capital of the...
Russia has been bombarded in the biggest Ukrainian drone attack of the war, Moscow officials have said, on the same day as crunch talks are set to be held between Kyiv and the United States. The Russian Defence Ministry said air defences shot down 337 Ukrainian drones over 10 Russian...
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