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The Trump administration is formally designating eight Latin American crime organizations as “foreign terrorist organizations,” upping its pressure on cartels operating in the U.S. and on anyone aiding them.   The move, carrying out a Jan. 20 executive order by President Donald Trump, names Tren de Aragua in Venezuela, MS-13 in El Salvador and others. The...

The Vietnamese government has branded a US-based refugee aid group as a terrorist organisation.   Vietnam‘s ministry of public security added Boat People SOS to its list of terrorist groups and doxxed the private information of the group’s president.   The ministry said in a press release BPSOS “operates under the guise...

Counter-terror police are set to collect data from food delivery services, taxis and car-sharing platforms as part of a new £900,000 programme to combat terrorism, illegal immigration and organised crime.   The initiative, led by London police chiefs, aims to develop a “communication exploitation data tool” to process various types...

At least 28 people have been left injured in Munich following a suspected attack which saw a man plough a Mini Cooper thorough a crowd of 1,000 strikers.   The driver, a 24-year-old Afghan asylum seeker, according to police, is believed to have accelerated into demonstrators linked with the Verdi...

Minh Quang Pham, also known as “Amim”, 41, was sentenced today to 44 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for attempted suicide bombing in alliance with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), a designated foreign terrorist organization.   “The defendant was sentenced for an attempt to commit...

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