The Crime and Policing Bill is to be introduced in parliament today in the first step to becoming law, and includes measures that address the most harmful crimes impacting society today, like terrorism, cybercrime, knife crime, and violence against women and girls. Among many new rules, the Bill will...
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A homegrown terrorist who planned to shoot a Christian preacher in London’s Hyde Park has had an appeal against his sentence dismissed at the Court of Appeal. Edward Little was jailed for planning to attack preacher Hatun Tash, who regularly appeared at Speaker’s Corner, but was arrested on his way to...
Authorities in Texas said on Monday that they have thwarted a “mass casualty attack” after arresting a suspect who allegedly made terroristic threats against police officers. Seth “Andrea” Gregori was arrested on a terroristic threats warrant Monday morning, the Corpus Christi Police Department said. “The Federal Bureau of...
A teenager’s plan to carry out a school shooting after killing three members of his family was “extremely shocking, distressing and upsetting”, a council leader said. Nicholas Prosper shot dead his mother Juliana Falcon, 48, his brother Kyle, 16, and 13-year-old sister Giselle at their home in Luton in...
A suspected terrorist wanted by the FBI for more than 20 years who was found in north Wales is to fight extradition to the United States later this year. Daniel Andreas San Diego was one of the agency’s “most wanted fugitives” after bombings in San Francisco, California, in 2003. ...
The Trump administration is formally designating eight Latin American crime organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations,” upping its pressure on cartels operating in the U.S. and on anyone aiding them. The move, carrying out a Jan. 20 executive order by President Donald Trump, names Tren de Aragua in Venezuela, MS-13 in El Salvador and others. The...
The Vietnamese government has branded a US-based refugee aid group as a terrorist organisation. Vietnam‘s ministry of public security added Boat People SOS to its list of terrorist groups and doxxed the private information of the group’s president. The ministry said in a press release BPSOS “operates under the guise...
The FBI are providing support as British police try to recover deleted searches from the Southport killer’s online accounts. Axel Rudakubana cleared his internet history just before he travelled to the dance class where he stabbed three girls to death and injured many more in the Merseyside town on...
Counter-terror police are set to collect data from food delivery services, taxis and car-sharing platforms as part of a new £900,000 programme to combat terrorism, illegal immigration and organised crime. The initiative, led by London police chiefs, aims to develop a “communication exploitation data tool” to process various types...
A stabbing in Austria that killed a 14-year-old boy and wounded five others was an Islamist attack, Austrian officials have said. The attack took place on Saturday at Villach, a town near the border with Italy and Slovenia, and three of those who were injured remain in intensive care,...
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