Archive for January 27, 2025
Suspect involved in Brussels terror attack in October 2023 arrested in Malaga
A suspect involved in the Brussels terror attack on 16 October 2023, which claimed the lives of two Swedish football fans, has been arrested at Malaga Airport, Spanish police and the Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced on Saturday. Belgian authorities believe this man supplied the firearm used by the attacker. Just after 19:00 on 16…
Read MoreSweden Seizes Vessel Suspected Of ‘Sabotage’ After Undersea Data Cable Rupture In Baltic Sea
Swedish prosecutors announced Sunday night that they have opened a preliminary investigation into suspected aggravated “sabotage” and ordered the detention of a vessel in the Baltic Sea suspected of damaging an underwater fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland earlier that day. “Several authorities, including the National Police Operations Department, the…
Read MoreThirty-seven suspected terrorists arrested in East Africa, says Interpol
Thirty-seven suspected terrorists, including suspected members of Islamic State, have been arrested across east Africa over the last two months, the global police body Interpol said on Monday. Interpol, which is headquartered in France, said the arrests had been made during November and December during operations conducted jointly with the pan-African police body Afripol. The…
Read MorePolice seek ‘sovereign citizen’ after traffic stop with shots fired Thursday in west Tulsa
Police were still looking on Friday for a man who led officers on a pursuit following a traffic stop Thursday in west Tulsa. A warrant was issued Friday for 35-year-old Michael Spear, who got into a confrontation with officers in what police described as a “sovereign citizen type of situation.” Those who claim to be…
Read MoreMother charged with murder in death of her 11-year-old daughter
A Baltimore County judge ordered a mental evaluation for a mother charged with murder in connection with the death of her 11-year-old daughter. County police said officers were called around noon Thursday to a house in the 2100 block of Firethorn Road for a cardiac arrest call, according to charging documents obtained by 11 News.…
Read MoreThieves Blow Up a Dutch Museum Door to Steal a Golden Helmet
The video is grainy but ominous: three hooded figures, clambering over one another to tug at a heavy access door of the Drents Museum — an art and history museum in Assen, the Netherlands — and then an explosion and a flurry of sparks in the wee hours of Saturday. By daybreak, it had become…
Read More22 reported killed in Lebanon before agreement to extend deadline for Israeli forces to withdraw
Israeli forces in southern Lebanon on Sunday opened fire on protesters demanding their withdrawal in line with a ceasefire agreement, killing at least 22 and injuring 124, Lebanese health officials reported. Hours later, the White House said Sunday that Israel and Lebanon had agreed to extend the deadline for Israeli troops to depart southern Lebanon…
Read MoreLatvia: Undersea cable likely damaged by external influence
An undersea fiber optic cable between Latvia and Sweden belonging to Latvia State Radio and Television Center (LVRTC) was damaged in the Baltic Sea on Sunday. The cable linked the Latvian town of Ventspils with Sweden’s Gotland island. “We have determined that there is most likely external damage and that it is significant,” Latvian Prime…
Read MoreCongo rebels reach center of eastern city in major escalation
Rwandan-backed rebels marched into the centre of east Congo’s largest city on Monday, witnesses said, in the latest escalation of decades of conflict in a region already suffering one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. The rebel alliance, spearheaded by the ethnic Tutsi-led M23 militia, said it had captured the whole of the lakeside city,…
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