The Home Office has ordered a review into the treatment of people with autism who are referred to the government’s Prevent deradicalisation programme, in recognition that a high number of minors with neurodiversity diagnoses are appearing in counter-terrorism casework. The announcement follows a Financial Times investigation in October that highlighted...
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A 55-year-old man has been sentenced for terrorism and firearms offences following an investigation by officers from Police Scotland’s Counter Terrorism Unit. Alan Edward, from Falkirk, was sentenced to 10 years in prison, at the High Court in Glasgow on Thursday, 19 December, 2024. Edward promoted a banned far-right Neo-Nazi...
The suspect in the German Christmas market attack “threatened to do something that would attract international attention” in 2013 and was flagged as a potential threat the following year, according to a state interior minister. Christian Pegel told a press conference the 50-year-old suspect had referred to the Boston Marathon...
An EU nation has made it mandatory for schoolchildren to take part in firearms training. Poland has taken the dramatic step in response to fears of a potential attack from Russia. Children aged 13 and above are now taking lessons on how to assemble and operate weapons including assault rifles. The lessons take place...
A top Met officer has warned of children as young as 10 accessing extreme material online amid a rapid increase in “grotesque fascination” with violence. Metropolitan Police Deputy Assistant Commissioner Vicki Evans, who is senior national co-ordingator for counter-terrorism policing, said there had been a rise in suspects having a “pick and mix of...
A teenager accused of killing three children in a knife attack at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class has appeared in court. Axel Rudakubana, of Banks, Lancashire, is charged with the murders of Alice da Silva Aguiar, nine; Bebe King, six; and Elsie Dot Stancombe, seven; who died following the stabbings...
KOPJE, North Macedonia (AP) — Four men suspected of planning terrorist attacks were arrested Sunday in western North Macedonia, authorities said. Interior Minister Panche Toshkovski said the arrests were made during raids on several locations in the western towns of Struga and Gostivar. The four men are suspected of being...
A senior Russian general in charge of nuclear protection forces has been killed by a bomb hidden in an electric scooter. Lieutenant General Igor Kirillov was killed along with his assistant when the bomb exploded as they left an apartment building a few miles southeast of the Kremlin early on...
A man has been arrested on suspicion of possessing explosives under suspicious circumstance following a security alert in County Londonderry. The alert, which has now ended, caused a number of houses to be evacuated near Maghera. The man in his 50s, who is in police custody, has also been arrested...
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been targeted in an assassination plot by a neo-Nazi group who branded her a “fascist who persecutes fascists”. Twelve people – part of the far-right supremacist group known as Werwolf Division – were detained in country-wide raids by anti-terrorism police last week. Police recorded...
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