Gatwick Airport’s south terminal has been plunged into chaos this morning following the discovery of a suspicious package in a passenger’s luggage. Airport bosses began probing a piece of baggage shortly after 8am on Friday before ordering passengers to leave. Eyewitnesses said even passengers who had been through security were being...
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KYIV, Ukraine — The U.S. and some other Western embassies in Kyiv said that they would stay closed Wednesday for security reasons, with the American delegation saying it had received a warning of a potentially significant Russian air attack on the Ukrainian capital. The precautionary step came after Russian officials...
The BBC has applied to close Broadcasting House’s receptions and Media Café to the public over growing terrorism and protest threats. The broadcaster said significant security concerns were behind the bid to restrict access to its London HQ permanently. Broadcasting House “has been a focus for protest and criminal damage most recently in 2022 and 2023”, the BBC said...
Anders Breivik appeared at a prison parole hearing on Tuesday with his hair styled into a pro-Russian symbol. The Norwegian terrorist arrived at a makeshift courtroom in Ringerike jail in Tyristrand, Norway, with a patch of hair above his right ear shaved into the letter Z. “Z” is commonly painted on Russian...
Paris is on edge ahead of France’s Nations League clash with Israel tonight after protests in solidarity with Palestine and Lebanon engulfed parts of the French capital in the last 24 hours. A ring of steel is being erected around State de France in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis where the UEFA Nations League match will unfold in front of a...
A teenager accused of killing three young girls in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class, will stand trial on 20 January. Axel Rudakubana, 18, is charged with the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine, Bebe King, six, and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven. He also faces a...
Pro-Palestine protesters clashed with police in Paris last night ahead of a football match between France and Israel later today. A large group engaged in an altercation with police in the French capital in which batons were drawn and tear gas used. It comes as an “Israel is forever” event was being...
A jury returned a guilty verdict today against Cholo Abdi Abdullah, 34, on all six counts in the indictment, which included conspiring to provide, and providing, material support to a foreign terrorist organization; and conspiring to murder U.S. nationals, commit aircraft piracy, destroy aircraft, and commit transnational acts of terrorism....
A criminal complaint was filed last Wednesday in federal court in Brooklyn charging Syed Aman, a U.S. citizen and resident of Nassau County, New York, with attempting to provide material support to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS). Aman was arrested at John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK...
Metropolitan Police are responding to fears of an ‘Amsterdam-style attack’ on a now-cancelled protest against a United Nations official speaking in East London. Scotland Yard last night said that ‘officers are actively investigating the threats posted online in relation to [Tuesday’s] planned protest’ after a screenshot referencing recent violence in...
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