British police are deploying more than 700 officers in Birmingham, where local football club Aston Villa will host Israeli side Maccabi Tel Aviv in the UEFA Europa League three weeks after the home team’s decision to bar travelling supporters from attending the match due to threats of violence. The group-stage match between...
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Two men were arrested in Co Laois on Wednesday as part of a terrorism-related investigation, gardai have said. The pair in their 30s and 40s were detained after gardai stopped a vehicle and seized a number of items. Local residents were evacuated and ammunition technical officers (ATO) were called to...
DETROIT (AP) — Two men who had acquired high-powered weapons and practiced at gun ranges were scouting LGBTQ+ bars in suburban Detroit for a possible attack, authorities said Monday in filing terrorism-related charges against the pair. Momed Ali, Majed Mahmoud and co-conspirators were inspired by the Islamic State group’s...
There were a record 8,778 referrals to the Government’s anti-extremism programme Prevent over the last year, a rise of 27 per cent. The total for 2024/25 is up 27 per cent from 6,922 referrals the year before – pushing it to the highest figure since data began in 2015....
A security alert in west Belfast has now ended after police removed what they described as a viable device from a property. Officers attended the scene in Suffolk Road on Tuesday evening following a report of a suspicious object. Ammunition Technical Officers (ATO) examined the object and confirmed it was...
A British man has been arrested and faces extradition to Germany, where he is accused of playing a key role in a Hamas-linked terror cell plotting attacks on Jewish targets. The 39-year-old, who cannot be named for legal reasons, was arrested on Monday and appeared later the same day...
A Slovak court ruled on Tuesday that a man who shot and wounded Prime Minister Robert Fico last year was guilty of terrorism charges and gave him a 21-year jail sentence. Juraj Cintula, 72, shot at Fico five times from just over a 1-meter distance as the prime minister greeted...
Three men have been sentenced for planning a terrorist attack in West Yorkshire. In May, Brogan Stewart, 25, of Tingley, Marco Pitzettu, 26, of Derby, and Christopher Ringrose, 35, from Cannock were found guilty of planning an act of terrorism, along with multiple terrorism and firearms offences. The trio, who...
A neo-Nazi paedophile who was jailed 17 years ago for a nail bomb plot has received another prison sentence after admitting owning a gunpowder manual. Martyn Gilleard, 49, of Town Street in Armley, Leeds, pleaded guilty in June to a single count of having material likely to be of use...
The MI5 director general, Ken McCallum, has acknowledged his frustration at the failure to put on trial two Britons who had been accused of spying for China, in an apparent rebuke to prosecutors who dropped the high-profile case last month. The domestic spy chief insisted he would “never back off”...
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