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 .....
17/05/24
Alleged Islamic State terrorist Neil Prakash has moderated his views, federal police investigator says
Detective tells Melbourne court he believes accused terrorist Neil Prakash no longer holds extremist views after experiencing the conditions in Syria.One of Australia’s most notorious alleged terrorists no longer holds his extremist views, according to the investigator leading the federal police probe into him. .....
17/05/24
Man arrested by counter terrorism officers in Bedfordshire remains in police custody
A man from Bedfordshire who was arrested on suspicion of a terrorism offence as part of an investigation being led by officers from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command remains in police custody. The 31-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday, 14 May on suspicion of possession of articles for terrorist purposes, .....
17/05/24
UK police charge man after anti-Muslim incidents in London
LONDON (Reuters) - British police charged a man with multiple counts of racially aggravated criminal damage on Thursday, after a series of anti-Muslim incidents last October and November at the office that serves Palestinian interests as well as mosques and businesses in the capital.Police said Jonathan Katan was .....
17/05/24
Police shoot knifeman dead as he tries to set fire to a synagogue in French city Rouen
French police have killed an armed man who wanted to set fire to a synagogue in the north-western city of Rouen, France's interior minister has said. The man was armed with a knife and an iron bar and when he went towards police they shot him, reports say. Rouen Mayor Nicolas Mayer-Rossignol said the attack on .....
16/05/24
Slovakian Prime Minister Robert Fico escaped death ‘by just a hair’ - as ‘lone wolf’ suspect charged over shooting
Slovakian prime minister Robert Fido escaped death "by just a hair" according to the country's president-elect, who confirmed if the gunshot wounds sustained in the attack were a few millimetres either side, he would have died. A suspected “lone wolf” gunman has been charged with the attempted murder of .....
16/05/24
Slovakia PM Robert Fico in stable but serious condition after shooting, doctors say
Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is in a stable but serious condition after being shot several times on Wednesday, doctors have said. Deputy Prime Minister Robert Kalinak added that Mr Fico's injuries were "complicated". Earlier Mr Fico, 59, was said to have been fighting for his life after being gravely injured .....