A French soldier deployed in the country’s anti-terrorism force was stabbed at a train station in central Paris on Monday evening, French government officials said, a little more than a week before the Paris 2024 Olympics’ opening ceremony is due to take place. “A soldier with Operation Sentinelle was stabbed while on...
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A suspicious object found outside a property in west Belfast which sparked a security alert has been declared a hoax by police. The operation at Springfield Road began on Sunday morning, with a number of surrounding roads closed. Ammunition Technical Officers attended the scene and a controlled explosion was carried...
Less than three weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, federal prosecutors in San Diego filed felony immigration fraud charges against Omar Ahmed al-Bayoumi, a Saudi national and alleged intelligence agent who had lived for years in Clairemont and had helped two al-Qaeda hijackers settle in San Diego. But...
The early portrait that has emerged of the 20-year-old Pennsylvania man who authorities say tried to assassinate Donald Trump at a campaign rally in the state on Saturday before secret service agents shot him to death is a complicated and so far sparse one. Thomas Matthew Crooks resided in Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, a...
Anglia Ruskin University’s International Policing and Public Protection Research Institute (IPPPRI) is set to further develop its research in the field of extremism and counter-terrorism through new research themes and an addition to its team. Dr William Allchorn has just joined IPPPRI and will be part of its Global Public...
India and Russia on July 9 called for “zero tolerance” to terrorism and pressed for an “uncompromising fight” against the international menace as they stressed the importance of increasing global cooperation without hidden agendas and double standards, in a veiled jibe at Pakistan and its all-weather ally China. In a joint...
A day of mourning is being observed in Ukraine after one of the worst waves of Russian missile strikes in months, with at least 41 people killed and 166 injured. The main children’s hospital in the capital Kyiv was among buildings hit in cities across the country on Monday. Two...
Violent clashes erupted on the streets of France as a left-wing coalition won the most seats in the parliamentary elections, beating Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally which came third. The results dashed Ms Le Pen’s hopes of forming the country’s first hard-right government since the war as footage showed masked protesters on the...
Detectives from the Police Service’s Terrorism Investigation Unit have made two arrests and carried out searches in the Enniskillen area earlier today, Wednesday 3rd July. The proactive operation was in relation to the discovery of an improvised explosive device in Co Louth on 9th June. Detective Chief Inspector Hamlin said:...
A trainee nurse has been found guilty of attempting to launch an ISIS-inspired suicide attack using a homemade bomb on the hospital where he worked. Mohammad Sohail Farooq, 28, was arrested outside St James’s Hospital in Leeds with a viable bomb, manufactured from a pressure cooker containing 9.9kg of low explosive, in...
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