An American pensioner has been sentenced to nearly seven years in a Russian prison after being convicted of fighting as a mercenary for Ukraine. Stephen Hubbard, 72, was accused of signing a $ 1,000-per-month contract with a Ukrainian territorial defence unit in the city of Izyum in February 2022. He...
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A 15-year-old boy is due to appear in court charged with four terrorism offences following an investigation into alleged suspicious online activity. The boy, from Wakefield, faces three charges of collecting or making a record of information likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of...
The FBI and Department of Homeland Security are concerned that “election-related grievances,” such as a belief in voter fraud, could motivate domestic extremists to engage in violence in the weeks before and after the November election, as it did during the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, according...
Israel has today struck Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in the heart of Beirut, as it ordered civilians in Lebanese villages north of the UN’s buffer zone to evacuate ‘immediately.’ Israeli fighter jets ‘struck targets belonging to Hezbollah’s intelligence headquarters in Beirut, including terror operatives belonging to the unit, intelligence-gathering means, command centres and additional terrorist...
The Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has announced a further £875,000 investment for grassroots community projects to tackle hate, intolerance, extremism, radicalisation and terrorism in the capital. The funding aims to empower grassroot groups across London to bring communities together and counter steep rises in antisemitic and Islamophobic hate crimes1...
The man who allegedly claimed he had C4 explosives in his car and sped through a security checkpoint at Donald Trump’s rally in Michigan over the weekend pleaded not guilty to charges against him on Monday. Steven William Nauta has been charged with four state counts, including making a false threat of terrorism...
Terrorist Abdalraouf Abdallah, the childhood friend of Manchester Arena attacker Salman Abedi, has lost a bid to be freed from jail. The 31-year-old faced a parole review after being recalled to prison for breaching licence conditions in January 2021. But, despite the decision, he is still due to walk free from prison later this year...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of computer misuse offences after railway stations across the UK suffered a cyber attack. Public wi-fi services were suspended at 19 railway stations managed by Network Rail on Wednesday after messages about past terrorism attacks appeared on people’s devices. British Transport Police (BTP)...
The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI)has adopted the national counter-terror approach to tackling violence against women and girls (VAWG). The National Police Chiefs Council published a revised national framework earlier this year, which outlined how police services will work to tackle violence against women and girls. Two years ago,...
Train passengers at some of the country’s biggest rail stations have been hit by a “cyber security incident” which saw them exposed to Islamophobic messages. Manchester Piccadilly, Birmingham New Street and 11 stations in London were affected by the cyber attack on Wednesday. Telent, the company that manages the WiFi...
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