Archive for August 2023
Woman arrested in plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Ukraine says
A Ukrainian woman has been detained by Ukraine’s Security Service in connection with an apparent plot to attack President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the service said on Monday. The woman, who is from Mykolaiv but was not publicly named, was being questioned, officials said. She had been part of a plot aimed at assassinating Zelenskyy during his…
Read MoreMan arrested in Bethlehem for alleged intent to detonate explosive at Musikfest 2023
Bethlehem police arrested a man who allegedly had intent to detonate an explosive device at Musikfest 2023. Officials say on Thursday, police received information that a man had made statements regarding his intent to construct and detonate an improvised explosive at Musikfest. The man was identified by police as Robert “Bob” Bowen. No specific location…
Read MoreRadical British preacher Anjem Choudary faces May trial on terrorism charges
The trial of radical British preacher Anjem Choudary on a charge of leading a terrorist organization will start in May of next year, a judge said Friday. Choudary, 56, is also charged with two other counts under the Terrorism Act: membership in a banned organization, the radical Muslim group al-Muhajiroun, and addressing meetings to encourage…
Read MoreUS calls suspected Israeli settler attack terrorism
Washington has condemned as terrorism the killing of a Palestinian by suspected Jewish settlers, in sharpened language that appeared to reflect U.S. frustration with surging violence in the occupied West Bank under Israel’s hard-right government. Israeli police detained two settlers in Friday’s incident near Burqa village. According to Palestinians, they were part of a group…
Read MoreIran-born Swedish woman burns Quran in Stockholm
An Iranian-born woman has burnt a copy of the Quran in the Swedish capital Stockholm under police protection. The woman, Bayrami Marjan, 47, set fire to the Quran at the Angbybadet beach in Bromma on the shore of Lake Malaren. Sweden and Denmark have recently witnessed a series of incidents involving the desecration of the…
Read MoreFrench authorities probe Corsican nationalist group’s terrorism claims
The FLNC says it carried out multiple attacks on the Mediterranean island, which has seen an uptick in nationalist-linked violence this year. France’s national anti-terrorist prosecutor has opened a preliminary investigation following the publication on Tuesday of a communiqué from the Corsican National Liberation Front (FLNC) which claimed responsibility for 16 attacks. The investigation was…
Read MoreFar-right satanist on terrorist watch jailed for making child abuse image
A convicted satanist and far-right extremist who was given a suspended sentence as a teenager has now been imprisoned after admitting further crimes including making an indecent photograph of a child. Harry Vaughan, from Twickenham, south-west London, was 18 when he admitted 14 terror offences and two of possessing indecent images of children during his…
Read MoreIslamic State group says its leader was killed by al-Qaida-linked militants in Syria
The Islamic State group announced Thursday the death of its little-known leader, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurayshi, who had been heading the extremist organization since November. It did not say when he was killed. Al-Qurayshi is the fourth IS leader to be killed since the group was founded by Iraqi militant Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi and declared…
Read More2 US Navy sailors arrested on charges tied to national security and China
Two U.S. Navy sailors have been arrested on charges related to national security and tied to China, U.S. officials said Thursday. A 22-year-old sailor assigned to a ship in San Diego was arrested Wednesday on a charge related to espionage involving conspiracy to send national defense information to Chinese officials, according to the U.S. officials,…
Read MoreMan rams car onto sidewalk in South Korea and stabs people; at least 14 hurt
A man rammed a car onto a sidewalk Thursday in South Korea, then stepped out of the vehicle and began stabbing people at a shopping mall. Authorities said at least 14 people were wounded in the country’s second mass stabbing in a month. At least five people were hurt by the car, and nine others…
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