25/09/24

Man sentenced for assault and terrorism offences

A man from Swansea has been sentenced for terrorism offences and an assault that was motivated by and demonstrating hostility towards the victim based on her transgender identity. Alex Hutton pleaded guilty to the offences at was sentenced to five years and four months in prison at Winchester Crown Court on Thursday .....

24/09/24

Student arrests in Columbia County for terroristic threats spike after Apalachee shooting

Of the about two dozen student arrests thus far this school year related to Columbia County schools, 15 occurred in the days following the Sept. 4 shooting at Apalachee High School near Winder, Georgia, in which two students and two teachers lost their lives. Following the shooting, which resulted in .....

24/09/24

Israeli strikes kill 492 in Lebanon’s deadliest day of conflict since 2006

MARJAYOUN, Lebanon (AP) — Israeli strikes Monday on Lebanon killed more than 490 people, including more than 90 women and children, Lebanese authorities said, in the deadliest barrage since the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah war. The Israeli military warned residents in southern and eastern Lebanon to evacuate ahead of .....

24/09/24

UK collaborates with US and Canada on cybersecurity

The UK Ministry of Defence, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Canadian Department of National Defence have agreed to collaboratively pursue research, development, test and evaluation technologies for artificial intelligence (AI), cyber, resilient systems and information domain-related .....

24/09/24

Data-driven strategy to target VAWG

The government has announced a new national strategy to use advanced data analysis and algorithms to relentlessly target the most dangerous perpetrators of violence against women and girls (VAWG). The initiative is part of the government's mission to reduce VAWG by 50 per cent within the next decade. Police forces .....

23/09/24

Man jailed for threatening to kill MP

A man has been sentenced for sending threatening emails to an MP and telling a 999 call worker he planned to attack NHS workers. On Tuesday 17 September, Ryan Breheny from Wigan, was jailed for three years and three months for threats to kill at Bolton Crown Court. In June, he called 999 and threatened to kill .....

23/09/24

Trump’s would-be assassin Ryan Routh tracked president for a month before trying to kill him

The suspect in an assassination attempt on Donald Trump kept a handwritten list of dates and locations of the former president’s movements and staked out his Florida home and golf course, prosecutors said. The suspect’s phone pinged towers near Trump’s golf course and his Florida home repeatedly from August 18 .....

19/09/24

Israeli citizen is arrested 'after accepting cash from Iran to assassinate Benjamin Netanyahu'

An Israeli citizen was arrested after allegedly accepting money from Iran to assassinate Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, it has been revealed.  Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant and Shin Bet Director Ronen Bar announced today that Tehran was behind a plot to kill senior officials .....

19/09/24

No electronic equipment considered safe after Lebanon device attacks

Just as crowds had gathered to mourn some of those killed in Tuesday’s wave of pager-bomb attacks, an explosion sparked chaos in Dahiyeh, Hezbollah’s stronghold in southern Beirut. A video captured the blast, showing a man lying on the ground and panicked people, some screaming, running away. All this, .....

19/09/24

Man jailed for Telegram race hate posts amid riots

A man who used a fake name to send "vile" racist messages on a messaging app with thousands of members to provoke violence has been jailed for two years and four months. The court heard Ehsan Hussain, himself Pakistani, used the name Chris Nolan on a Telegram chat with nearly 12,500 members called Southport Wake Up. .....