A licensed gunman drove onto one of Europe’s most visited squares and opened fire. It happened in a country with strict gun laws and no history of mass shootings, three weeks before the Christmas market season opens.
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Amy Walker, BBC News 10 November 2026 A soldier in the US Army has been arrested on suspicion of offences under the National Security Act which relate to Russia, British counter-terror police have said. The 41-year-old senior serviceman was arrested near Gloucester on Tuesday. In a statement,...
Henry Moore and Alba Morgade, BBC News 10 November 2026 A police officer has died and another has been injured in the northern Spanish city of Oviedo after an explosive device went off at the scene of a shooting. The blast happened when officers from Spain’s canine unit and explosives...
Sunday 8 November 2026 10:58, UK A 32-year-old British man is among the six people killed in a mass shooting in Krakow, Polish officials have said. Krzysztof Jan Klęczar, regional governor of Lesser Poland, said the dead included three Polish women aged 47, 53 and 61, a 32-year-old British man,...
Summary Police are continuing to investigate after six people were killed in a shooting in Krakow’s market square. The head of Poland’s police force, Marek Boroń, says 16 more people were injured, including two police officers, five foreign nationals and the suspect. Three other bodies were found...
The regime is expected to commence in spring 2027. Organisations that wait for commencement to begin will be building their evidence in a hurry, and the SIA will be able to tell.
On 5 August 2026 an explosive-laden drone struck an aircraft at a German airport. Most private sites still have no means to detect a drone, and no legal right to stop one.
Russia's campaign against Europe is run through disposable proxies recruited online. The targets are increasingly private companies, and the people who run them.
Prevent referrals hit a record in the year to September 2025, and more than a third were aged 11 to 15. The threat model built around ideology and adulthood is out of date.
AI is not yet a game-changer for terrorism. It is an accelerant, and it is quietly removing one of the most reliable early warnings security teams have had.
The Conversation
No. 1Martyn’s Law: the last six months before the clock starts
No. 2After Leipzig: the drone threat is no longer theoretical
No. 3Sabotage-for-hire: why your company is now on a hostile state’s target list
No. 4Younger, faster, less ideological: the new radicalisation curve
No. 5The chatbot in the attack cycle: what the evidence on AI and terrorism actually shows
No. 6From Heaton Park to HAYI: the state-terror hybrid
No. 7Cars and blades: why low-tech attacks remain the hardest to stop
No. 8The executive as target: protective intelligence after Thompson
No. 9Islamic State’s southern pipeline: why the Sahel is now Europe’s problem
No. 10The hoax as a weapon: this week’s aviation bomb threats
No. 11When the freezer is the target: cyber-physical convergence
No. 12The insider for hire: how criminals and states now buy their way in
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