24/05/24
Crime report reveals Scotland 'terror attack' plan
A multi-agency police inquiry has investigated what appear to have been preparations for a terrorist attack in Scotland. Brief details of the case have been revealed in a report from the National Crime Agency (NCA). The NCA said a counter terrorism investigation titled Operation Ferulic was led by Police Scotland .....
24/05/24
French arrest over suspected Olympic torch relay plot
A man has been detained on suspicion of planning an attack on the Olympic torch relay in Bordeaux, French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin has said. He gave few details but praised police for ensuring security during Thursday's relay. Prosecutors said the suspect had written a disturbing message that "could .....
24/05/24
Man charged with helping Russian intelligence in UK
A man has been charged with assisting Russian intelligence after being arrested by UK counter-terror police. Howard Michael Phillips, 64, from Harlow in Essex, was arrested in central London and is due at Westminster Magistrates' Court on Thursday afternoon. Investigators have also searched addresses in .....
22/05/24
Man charged with spying for Hong Kong found dead
A former Royal Marine charged with assisting the Hong Kong intelligence service has been found dead, police have said. Matthew Trickett, 37, a Home Office immigration officer, appeared in court charged under the National Security Act last week. He was found by a member of the public in a park in Maidenhead, .....
21/05/24
Germany bans Palestinian group over its pro-Hamas activities
Authorities in Germany's most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, have outlawed a Palestinian organization that promotes Hamas and calls for the eradication of Israel on Thursday. Police and investigators from the state’s security service stormed four properties linked to the association Palestine Solidarity .....
20/05/24
Russian spy who worked for King Charles ‘and MI6’ stripped of British citizenship
An Afghan man who worked for the UK government has lost a bid to regain British citizenship removed after he was exposed as a Russian agent. The ‘highly intelligent, quick-witted and cunning’ man, known only as C2, was headhunted by the Home Office in 2006, having sought asylum here in 2000. .....
20/05/24
Man Given Life Sentence for Hartlepool Terrorist Attack
A terrorist who murdered a 70 year old man and attempted to murder a second person has today (Friday, May 17) been sentenced to life imprisonment with a minimum term of 44 years and 152 days. Ahmed Ali Alid (01/01/79) of Wharton Terrace was sentenced at Teesside Crown Court after being found guilty, at a trial .....
20/05/24
President of Uzbekistan receives head of UN Office of Counter-Terrorism
AKIPRESS.COM - President of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev received Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations Office of Counter-Terrorism Vladimir Voronkov, who is in Uzbekistan to participate in the first meeting of the Regional Expert Council on Rehabilitation and Reintegration of Returnees, on May 15, UzA .....
20/05/24
French Head of FM Committee calls for allowing Ukraine to hit Russian territory
Jean-Louis Bourlange, Head of the French Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee, has written a letter to the French leadership calling on them to abandon the restriction put on Ukraine with striking Russian territory with French weapons. Bourlange wrote to the French leadership to refrain from .....
17/05/24
Street killing of pensioner 'terrorist act' - judge
A man who stabbed a stranger to death in an attack described by a judge as a terrorist act has been jailed for life. Moroccan asylum seeker Ahmed Alid, 45, roamed the streets in Hartlepool looking for a victim to attack in "revenge" for the Israel-Hamas conflict in October. He killed 70-year-old Terence Carney by .....