Matthew King, 19, is being sentenced at the Old Bailey for planning terror attacks on British police and soldiers The Islamic State convert was caught carrying out reconnaissance of police stations, railway stations and an army barracks in 2021 and 2022 King, from Wickford in Essex, was put under police...
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A suspicious object discovered in the front garden of a house in Newry has been declared as a “viable pipe bomb device”. Police were called to Barcroft Park in the city before 17:30 GMT on Wednesday. A number of homes were evacuated in the housing estate during the security alert. Residents...
At least 47 people have been killed by a bomb that apparently targeted policemen praying in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. The mosque is within the tightly-guarded police headquarters area. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said “terrorists want to create fear by targeting those who perform the duty of defending Pakistan”....
A serving member of the British Army has been charged with a terror offence, the Metropolitan Police has said. Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was charged over two incidents including attempting to “elicit information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism”...
The Israel-Gaza war has created a new “radicalisation moment” in the UK with the potential to push more people towards terrorism, the head of counter-terrorism policing has said. Matt Jukes said “extraordinary amounts” of online comment, amplified by misinformation and AI-generated false images, had fuelled the “intense risk”. He compared...
One person has died and at least one other injured after a man wielding a machete carried out attacks at two churches in southern Spain. According to the interior ministry the suspect first entered the church of San Isidro in Algeciras where the priest was attacked and seriously injured. The...
Ten people have died following a shooting at a ballroom dance studio in the Californian city of Monterey Park, police said. Police say another 10 people are injured and the suspect remains at large. The shooting happened at about 22:20 local time on Saturday (06:20 GMT on Sunday). Thousands of...
A man has been arrested by counter-terrorism police after a potentially suspicious package was found outside a hospital maternity unit in Leeds. St James’s university hospital declared a critical incident and evacuated patients from the Gledhow wing after the alert on Friday morning. Counter-terrorism police said they had launched an...
A man has pleaded guilty to plotting a terror attack allegedly targeting the police or military. Matthew King, 19, was accused of carrying out surveillance at police stations, railway stations and an British Army barracks in London. At a hearing at the Old Bailey, King, from Wickford in Essex, admitted...
Six people have been injured with one in a critical condition after a knife attack at Paris’s international Gare du Nord station early on Wednesday. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the man was stopped by two off-duty police officers who were returning home from a shift. He said the suspected...
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