Archive for May 2024
Germany: Knife attack in Mannheim, suspect shot
A police officer was reportedly among those injured during a stabbing attack in the German city of Mannheim on Friday around midday. Police said that a “firearm was used against the attacker,” injuring the suspect. They added there was no further danger to the public. “First responders, emergency services and a rescue helicopter have been…
Read MoreTrump supporters call for riots and violent retribution after verdict
Supporters of former President Donald Trump, enraged by his conviction on 34 felony counts by a New York jury, flooded pro-Trump websites with calls for riots, revolution and violent retribution. After Trump became the first U.S. president to be convicted of a crime, his supporters responded with dozens of violent online posts, according to a…
Read MoreAppeals court upholds retired NYPD officer’s 10-year prison sentence for Capitol riot attack
A federal appeals court on Tuesday upheld a retired New York Police Department officer’s conviction and 10-year prison sentence for assaulting a police officer during the Jan. 6, 2021, siege at the U.S. Capitol. A three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit rejected Thomas Webster’s claims that he…
Read MoreHouthi Rebels Say At Least 16 Killed, 35 Others Wounded In Joint Us-British Airstrikes In Yemen
Joint British-U.S. airstrikes targeting Yemen’s Houthi rebels killed at least 16 people and wounded 35 others, the rebels said Friday, the highest publicly acknowledged death toll from the multiple rounds of strikes carried out over the rebels’ attacks on shipping. Three U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity to describe a then-ongoing attack, described the…
Read MoreBerlin Lets Ukraine Use German Weapons Against Targets In Russia After The Us Also Eases Its Stance
The German government said Friday that Ukraine can use German-supplied weapons against Russian attacks from positions just over their joint border, in a significant policy change that came a day after U.S. President Joe Biden gave Kyiv a green light to strike back with American weapons at Russian military assets targeting the country’s second-largest city.…
Read MoreForeign National Sentenced for Kidnapping and Assaulting U.S. Army Soldiers in Colombia
A Colombian national was sentenced today to 48 years and nine months in prison for his role in kidnapping and assaulting two U.S. Army soldiers who were on temporary duty in Bogota, Colombia. According to court documents, Jeffersson Arango Castellanos, 36, and his co-conspirators targeted, incapacitated, and kidnapped two U.S. soldiers in Bogota to rob…
Read MoreWoman charged with making bomb threat at South Jordan elementary school
A woman who police say caused an elementary school to be evacuated because of a bomb threat she blamed on her ex-husband is now accused of being the instigator. Aleesha Young, 39, was charged Thursday in 3rd District Court with making a false weapons of mass destruction alarm, a second-degree felony. On April 22, police…
Read MoreBombmaking Instructor Who Taught How to Kill Law Enforcement Sentenced to 25 Years
Christopher Arthur, 40, was sentenced today to a total of 300 months’ imprisonment for teaching another individual how to make and use an explosive knowing that the individual intended to use that instruction in the murder or attempted murder of federal law enforcement. In July 2023, he was convicted by a jury on that crime…
Read MoreEurope on high alert after suspected Moscow-linked arson and sabotage
Security services around Europe are on alert to a potential new weapon of Russia’s war – arson and sabotage – after a spate of mystery fires and attacks on infrastructure in the Baltics, Germany and the UK. When a fire broke out in Ikea in Vilnius in Lithuania this month, few passed any remarks until…
Read More2 soldiers are killed in a West Bank car-ramming attack, Israeli military says
The Israeli military said Thursday that two soldiers were killed in a car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank. Violence in the West Bank has surged throughout the war in Gaza as Israel raids Palestinian towns in the territory to crack down on militancy, with incursions resulting in the deaths of more than 500 Palestinians.…
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