13/11/23

A former worker at the UK's intelligence agency GCHQ, who tried to murder a US spy, has been jailed for life. Joshua Bowles, 29, was sentenced to a minimum of 13 years behind bars for the "premeditated, targeted and vicious" knife attack at a leisure centre. Bowles, who had two knives, punched and stabbed the woman .....

13/11/23

A teenager from Swindon has been sentenced to six years in prison for the possession and dissemination of terrorist material. 18-year-old Malaki Wheeler was convicted of six offences after a three-week trial at Winchester Crown Court. The offences include three offences of disseminating terrorist publications, .....

09/11/23

Reports to a UK police counter-terrorism hotline have more than doubled since the Hamas attack on Israel. Police said that between October 7 and 25 the anti-terror hotline received around 1,350 reports, more than twice the number of contacts compared to the same period last year. The number of .....

08/11/23

King Charles III has outlined key government law-making plans in his first speech as monarch, including the Terrorism (Protection of Premises) Bill as legislation to be introduced to parliament.The address today on 7th November 2023, marked the formal opening of the Parliamentary year, and detailed legislation intended .....

31/10/23

French counter-terrorism police have shot and wounded an unarmed woman in a full veil after she threatened train passengers, Paris authorities say. Officers opened fire eight times when the woman refused to comply with police orders, a source told the BBC. The alarm was raised by passengers on an RER suburban train .....

31/10/23

Two women have been arrested on suspicion of terrorism offences following a Met Police appeal. The suspects, aged 29 and 44, came forward to a police station in south London on Monday after they recognised themselves in the appeal pictures. They are currently being held in custody at a police station in west London .....

18/10/23

PARIS (AP) — Three French airports in the cities of Lyon, Toulouse and Lille were evacuated on Wednesday following security alerts, police said. They were the latest in a series of evacuations around France this week that included popular tourist attractions the Louvre Museum and Versailles Palace following the .....

18/10/23

The Manchester Arena bomber died in a suicide attack that "murdered 22 innocent victims", a coroner has ruled. Salman Abedi, 22, died when he detonated a home-made device in the arena foyer at the end of an Ariana Grande concert in May 2017. Coroner Sir John Saunders, who also chaired the Manchester Arena Inquiry, .....

17/10/23

Police in Brussels have shot dead the man who killed two Swedish nationals on Monday evening. The 45-year-old man named as Abdesalem was shot in a café in the Schaerbeek neighbourhood. Two Swedes were killed and a third seriously injured in the automatic rifle attack on Monday. It took place on Boulevard .....

16/10/23

New York Comic Con came to a dramatic early close today (Sunday) as police dealt with a suspicious package near the main entrance to the Javits Center at W35th Street and 11th Avenue.Police on the scene just before 4:15pm this afternoon ordered a “Full freeze on 11th Avenue from W34th to W38th. No vehicles and no .....