The sentencing of Cholo Abdi Abdullah, a Kenyan national who was convicted of plotting a 9/11-style attack on the United States, was adjourned Monday after he asked for new lawyers. “I was thinking of having new lawyers who will represent me,” said Abdullah, who represented himself during the trial last year...
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A French citizen imprisoned in Iran for more than 880 days has been freed, President Emmanuel Macron has announced. The release of Olivier Grondeau comes as France and the rest of Europe attempt to pursue negotiations with Iran over its rapidly advancing nuclear programme. US President Donald Trump...
A person dressed in black shot and set fire to several Tesla vehicles at a repair facility in Las Vegas early Tuesday, police said, in what the FBI is investigating as a possible act of domestic terrorism. “This was a targeted attack against a Tesla facility,” Assistant Sheriff Dori Koren...
The latest data released by the Home Office shows that more people have been arrested for terrorism related offences in 2024 than in the four years previously. Last year, the police made 248 arrests which is the highest number of arrests in a single year since 2019. Commenting...
People protesting against Tesla should be labelled domestic terrorists, President Donald Trump said on Tuesday at a White House media event designed to bolster Elon Musk’s electric car company. Trump sat in the driver’s seat of a brand new red Tesla that he said he planned to buy, with...
Armed militants took more than 450 train passengers hostage and wounded the train driver in an attack on Tuesday in Pakistan‘s volatile southwestern Balochistan province, officials said. ‘Over 450 passengers onboard are being held hostage by gunmen,’ Muhammad Kashif, a senior railway government official in Quetta, the capital of the...
Russia has been bombarded in the biggest Ukrainian drone attack of the war, Moscow officials have said, on the same day as crunch talks are set to be held between Kyiv and the United States. The Russian Defence Ministry said air defences shot down 337 Ukrainian drones over 10 Russian...
The home secretary has rejected calls from the family of MP Sir David Amess for a public inquiry into his murder. In a letter addressed to Lady Julia Amess and Katie Amess, Yvette Cooper said it was “hard to see how an inquiry would be able to go beyond”...
A caravan found packed with explosives in outer Sydney earlier this year was part of a “fabricated terrorism plot” concocted by criminals, Australian police have said. The caravan, which was found in northwestern Sydney on 19 January, contained enough explosives to produce a 40m-wide blast, along with a note...
An alleged key figure in the deadly August 2021 suicide bombing targeting U.S. soldiers at Abbey Gate during the withdrawal from Afghanistan appeared in federal court in Virginia following his extradition to the U.S. Mohammad Sharifullah, described by the Department of Justice as an ISIS-K operative, made a brief first appearance...
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