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A Slovak court ruled on Tuesday that a man who shot and wounded Prime Minister Robert Fico last year was guilty of terrorism charges and gave him a 21-year jail sentence. Juraj Cintula, 72, shot at Fico five times from just over a 1-meter distance as the prime minister greeted...

The MI5 director general, Ken McCallum, has acknowledged his frustration at the failure to put on trial two Britons who had been accused of spying for China, in an apparent rebuke to prosecutors who dropped the high-profile case last month. The domestic spy chief insisted he would “never back off”...

A former student at a school in California allegedly stabbed three staff members and planted two pipe bombs before being arrested, police said. The Torrance Police Department is investigating the incident that occurred on Monday at approximately 8:15 a.m., when, they said, a former student from the Switzer Learning Center...

The UK cyberattacks increase continues to alarm security experts, with the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealing that it handled a record 204 nationally significant cyber incidents in the past year — more than double the 89 incidents recorded the previous year. The surge highlights the growing scale of UK cybersecurity threats, as...

Hamas has released the first group of Israeli hostages after they spent more than two years in hellish captivity.   Seven captives were handed over to the Red Cross this morning, 737 days after they were taken into Gaza on October 7, 2023.   Families and friends of the hostages...

A non-binary, pro-Palestine, self-professed pacifist activist has been jailed for almost 20 years for domestic terrorism.   Casey Robert Goonan was sentenced to 19 years and seven months in federal prison after committing a series of firebombings at UC Berkeley in June 2024 in an anti-Israel rampage.   The 35-year-old...

A teacher who was stabbed by a student fascinated by “Nazi ideologies” in a middle school in northeastern France is in stable condition, the French education minister told reporters on Wednesday.   “She is still being treated at the hospital. She had an initial operation and is under observation at...

The Trump administration designated the Barrio 18 gang as a foreign terrorist organization on Tuesday, joining other Latin American criminal groups receiving the designation in recent months.   Barrio 18, largely based in El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, originated in the United States as a street gang in Los Angeles created by...

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