A number of people have been killed in a shooting at a Jehovah’s Witness meeting hall in the north German city of Hamburg. Police say the gunman acted alone and is thought to be dead. It is unclear if the attacker is among the six or seven fatalities reported by...
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A dissident republican group has warned that relatives of Northern Ireland police officers are considered targets. The Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) informed its staff of the new threat made by Arm na Poblachta (ANP) in a statement to The Irish News. It said it was taken seriously and...
Georgia police have filed terror charges against 23 protesters accused of attacking officers at an event against a planned police training site. Police say the group left the larger protest to throw “large rocks, bricks, Molotov cocktails, and fireworks” at officers and construction equipment. Hundreds of people attended a concert...
Nine security officers were killed and at least 13 others were wounded during a suicide attack in southwest Pakistan. The blast happened in Balochistan province when the officers were returning to the provincial capital Quetta after policing a festival. Images show a police truck crushed and overturned, with blood stains...
The New IRA has admitted it shot Det Ch Insp John Caldwell in Omagh on Wednesday. It did so in a typed statement which appeared in Londonderry on Sunday night. The police’s main line of inquiry was that the republic dissident group, the New IRA, was behind the attack. Two...
Three men have been arrested for attempted murder of an off-duty officer shot in Northern Ireland. The officer, named as Detective Chief Inspector John Caldwell, was shot multiple times in front of young people he had been coaching at a sports centre just before 8pm on Wednesday, in Omagh, Co...
Matthew King, 19, is being sentenced at the Old Bailey for planning terror attacks on British police and soldiers The Islamic State convert was caught carrying out reconnaissance of police stations, railway stations and an army barracks in 2021 and 2022 King, from Wickford in Essex, was put under police...
A suspicious object discovered in the front garden of a house in Newry has been declared as a “viable pipe bomb device”. Police were called to Barcroft Park in the city before 17:30 GMT on Wednesday. A number of homes were evacuated in the housing estate during the security alert. Residents...
At least 47 people have been killed by a bomb that apparently targeted policemen praying in a mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan. The mosque is within the tightly-guarded police headquarters area. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif said “terrorists want to create fear by targeting those who perform the duty of defending Pakistan”....
A serving member of the British Army has been charged with a terror offence, the Metropolitan Police has said. Daniel Abed Khalife, 21, was charged over two incidents including attempting to “elicit information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism”...
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