Archive for October 2023
Finland convicts 3 far-right men for plotting racially motivated attacks
Three Finnish men who embraced neo-Nazi ideology were found guilty Tuesday of committing crimes with terrorist intent including plotting attacks against migrants, critical infrastructure, and their perceived political opponents. The Paijat-Hame District Court sentenced the main suspect, Viljam Lauri Antero Nyman, to three years and four months in prison on charges of aggravated firearms offences…
Read MorePolice reportedly capture gunman who held staff hostage in a Japanese post office
Police in Japan ended an eight-hour standoff with a gunman at a post office Tuesday by arresting the suspect after two hostages were freed safely an attack authorities said could be related to an earlier shooting at a hospital. The man had entered the post office with a gun in Warabi, north of Tokyo, about…
Read MoreTwo Missouri men accused of assaulting officers during riot at U.S. Capitol charged
Two Missouri men accused of assaulting police officers during the U.S. Capitol riot, including pushing bike racks that were being used as barricades into a police line, have been charged. Jared Luther Owens, 41, of Farmington, and Jason William Wallis, 49, of St. Clair, were charged Monday with obstruction of law enforcement during a civil…
Read MorePolice open fire on woman who ‘made threats’ in Paris train station
According to witnesses the 38-year-old woman, who was completely veiled, shouted “Allahu akbar” (“God is Greatest”) and “made threats”, a police source said, adding that “police fired because they feared for their safety”. After passengers on a suburban train travelling from the eastern suburbs to Paris alerted police, agents managed to “isolate” the woman at…
Read MoreMan kills himself instead of carrying out US amusement park shooting, police say
A heavily armed man killed himself rather than carrying out an apparent plan to shoot up a mountaintop amusement park in Colorado, authorities said Monday. The 20-year-old man was found dead at Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park on Saturday morning before it opened to the public, apparently breaking into the park while it was closed. He…
Read MoreLeeds hospital patient talked down bomber, terror trial told
A patient “saved many lives” by talking down a hospital worker who planned to “kill as many nurses as possible” with a homemade bomb, a court has heard. Mohammed Farooq, 28, brought a pressure cooker device to St James’s Hospital in Leeds on 20 January to “commit a terrorist atrocity,” prosecutors claim. The clinical support…
Read MoreIsrael strikes Hamas terrorists inside Gaza tunnels
Israel has struck Hamas gunmen inside their vast tunnel network beneath Gaza, its military has said. “Over the last day, combined IDF combat forces struck approximately 300 targets, including anti-tank missile and rocket launch posts below shafts, as well as military compounds inside underground tunnels belonging to the Hamas terrorist organisation,” the Israel Defense Forces…
Read MoreCops were sent to Maine gunman’s home weeks before massacres amid concern he ‘is going to snap and commit a mass shooting’
The US Army asked local police to check on the reservist who killed 18 people after a soldier became concerned he would “snap and commit a mass shooting,” according to information shared with CNN. Officers from the Sagadahoc County and Kennebec County Sheriff’s Offices responded and tried to contact Robert Card on September 16, less…
Read MoreEx-GCHQ man jailed for life after stabbing US security worker
A former UK intelligence worker has been jailed for stabbing a US government employee. Joshua Bowles, from Cheltenham, attacked the woman in a leisure centre car park, three miles from GCHQ’s base, in March. He pleaded guilty to attempted murder and assaulting a second person, causing actual bodily harm. The 29-year-old was handed a life…
Read MoreAssault in SF leads to police pursuit, ‘suspicious devices’ thrown at officers, officials say
A dangerous police chase took place across the Bay Bridge and into the East Bay, and it all started when a man walked into one of San Francisco’s most well-known churches. ABC7 News spoke to the pastor of Saints Peter and Paul Church in SF, right next to Washington Square Park in North Beach. He…
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