The Israel-Gaza war has created a new “radicalisation moment” in the UK with the potential to push more people towards terrorism, the head of counter-terrorism policing has said. Matt Jukes said “extraordinary amounts” of online comment, amplified by misinformation and AI-generated false images, had fuelled the “intense risk”. He compared...
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One person has died and at least one other injured after a man wielding a machete carried out attacks at two churches in southern Spain. According to the interior ministry the suspect first entered the church of San Isidro in Algeciras where the priest was attacked and seriously injured. The...
Ten people have died following a shooting at a ballroom dance studio in the Californian city of Monterey Park, police said. Police say another 10 people are injured and the suspect remains at large. The shooting happened at about 22:20 local time on Saturday (06:20 GMT on Sunday). Thousands of...
A man has been arrested by counter-terrorism police after a potentially suspicious package was found outside a hospital maternity unit in Leeds. St James’s university hospital declared a critical incident and evacuated patients from the Gledhow wing after the alert on Friday morning. Counter-terrorism police said they had launched an...
A man has pleaded guilty to plotting a terror attack allegedly targeting the police or military. Matthew King, 19, was accused of carrying out surveillance at police stations, railway stations and an British Army barracks in London. At a hearing at the Old Bailey, King, from Wickford in Essex, admitted...
Six people have been injured with one in a critical condition after a knife attack at Paris’s international Gare du Nord station early on Wednesday. Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin said the man was stopped by two off-duty police officers who were returning home from a shift. He said the suspected...
A 32-year-old Iranian man has been arrested in Germany for allegedly plotting an “Islamist-motivated” attack. The man had been plotting to use cyanide and ricin to commit a “serious act of violence”, North Rhine-Westphalia police said in a statement. They raided the man’s Castrop-Rauxel residence, in the Ruhr region, but prosecutors...
A man has been jailed for 12 years for sending Covid relief grants he received from a London council to fund so-called Islamic State terrorists in Syria. Barber shop owner Tarek Namouz, 43, was given thousands of pounds of bounce back loans which he transferred abroad. Kingston Crown Court heard...
A gunman has opened fire in central Paris, killing three people and wounding four others. Witnesses said the attacker targeted a Kurdish community centre and restaurant and prosecutors said they would look into a possible racist motive. A suspect aged 69 was quickly arrested and it soon emerged he was...
Recent arrest statistics have shown an increase in teens arrested for terrorism-related offences. The Home Office recently released statistics detailing the police’s use of powers under the Terrorism Act 2000. The statistics show that there were 190 counter terrorism arrests in the year to September. Children under 18 accounted for...
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