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By Lauren Hirst, North West and Lucy Manning, Special correspondent Published 22 September 2026, 16:58 BST Updated 11 minutes ago Two men have been arrested over a suspected terrorist plot to target the Jewish community in Manchester ahead of Yom Kippur.   The men, both in their 30s, were arrested on Sunday on the...

Exclusive: Intelligence officers say Russian campaign could intensify ‘in months, not years’ – but that panic risks playing into Kremlin psy-ops. Shaun Walker in Prague and Riga Sun 20 Sep 2026 17.47 BST Last modified on Mon 21 Sep 2026 02.30 BST European intelligence officials have raised the possibility of...

Friday 18 September 2026 at 5:11pm Vladimir Putin’s government has warned that British facilities in Ukraine will be considered “legitimate targets” if they are used to support long-range strikes against Russia. The Russian foreign ministry summoned the UK’s deputy head of mission in Moscow, Danae Dholakia, to complain about British...

BBC News 18 September 2026: 11:13 . Updated 1 hour ago Usman Zaid, Islamabad and André Roden-Paul At least 16 people, including five police officers, have been killed after a vehicle loaded with explosives rammed into a mosque in north-western Pakistan, according to a senior police official in Peshawar. A...

Ukrainian Illia Bilyk, 21, pleaded guilty to carrying out a string of vandalism attacks in London. A Ukrainian man has pleaded guilty to spraying abusive graffiti on mosques in east London, in a case linked to the Russian state network behind arson attacks against the former prime minister Sir Keir...

Police have closed a London park after an Islamist ‘terror cell’ claimed drones carrying ‘radioactive and cancer-causing materials’ had been launched towards the Israeli embassy. The Met Police confirmed there is an ‘increased police presence’ at Kensington Gardens as officers assess ‘a number of discarded items’. Officers wearing protective suits...

France is preparing for a terror strike targeting London.   French diplomats in the capital have carried out a “crisis management” exercise on responding to a major incident in the city.   They have sought to strengthen their emergency response plans as tensions run high over Donald Trump’s Iran war....

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