Counter-terror police are investigating reports that an Oxford Union speaker broke the law by “expressing support” for Hamas during a debate on Israel. During the debate, which took place last week, one of the speakers argued that the events of Oct 7 2023 were “not terrorism” but were instead “acts of heroism”....
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A woman has been charged with a terrorism offence as part of an inquiry into material taken into a prison. Counter Terrorism Policing North East also charged three other individuals following an investigation at HMP Lindholme, near Doncaster. Rhea Wood, 35, of Shoreham Street, Sheffield was charged with dissemination of...
Police in India’s capital Delhi have searched around 40 schools after they received anonymous bomb threats, a police spokesperson has told the BBC. The schools received emails threatening that bombs would be detonated unless $30,000 (£23,582) was paid to the sender, news agency ANI reported. No bombs have been found...
A fire which ripped through Melbourne’s Adass Israel synagogue is being treated as a likely terror attack, Australian police say. Three suspects are being hunted over Friday’s early-morning blaze, which left one man with a minor burn to his hand and caused extensive damage. Witnesses say they saw masked figures...
Australia’s prime minister has blamed antisemitism for an arson attack on a synagogue in Melbourne. Cars and buildings across the country have been vandalised and torched in protests against the war between Israel and Hamas, which began in October last year. Police said they were searching for two people suspected of...
A senior Hamas official was arrested during an operation in Jenin, according to a joint statement from the IDF, the Israel Police and the Shin Bet. According to the statement, IDF reservists, Border Police officers and Shin Bet officers have arrested Omar Fayed, one of the heads of Hamas’s military...
A French cop has been stabbed multiple times in the neck and hand inside a police station, local media reports. The attacker pulled out a knife and is said to have thrown himself at the officer in the hallway of La Rochelle police station. The policeman had been walking through...
A laboratory technician who collected documents on how to make homemade explosives and weapons has avoided a prison sentence. Charles Cannon, 22, of Aldershot, Hampshire, was convicted of seven charges of possessing terrorist information dating back six years. He was described as having a “dangerous mindset” and speaking “enthusiastically of...
The Senate passed a massive foreign aid bill to Ukraine and Israel without border security measures after Republican turmoil ultimately tanked a bipartisan deal last week. The sprawling $95 billion bill captured the necessary 60 senators needed to send the legislation to the House Tuesday morning after a rare all-night session ending in a...
Assistant Chief Constable (ACC) Vicki Evans of Cambridgeshire Constabulary has been appointed as the new Senior National Coordinator (SNC) for Counter Terrorism Policing. ACC Evans was appointed this week as the permanent successor to Deputy Assistant Commissioner (DAC) Tim Jacques, who has retired from policing after 37 years, the last...
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