Archive for May 2025
State Department labels Haitian gangs as terrorist organizations
The Trump administration has designated a coalition of Haitian gangs that have embroiled the Caribbean nation in mass violence as terrorist organizations, a White House official confirmed to NBC News. The Viv Ansanm coalition and the Gran Grif gang will now be labeled a Foreign Terrorist Organizations and as Specifically Designated Global Terrorists by the…
Read MoreState of panic growing in Sudan’s wartime capital amid drone strikes
Dark clouds of smoke have been rising over Sudan’s wartime capital Port Sudan for two consecutive days. A state of panic is building in the administrative centre that is home to tens of thousands of people seeking safety during two years of war between Sudan’s army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF). This is…
Read MoreSpain: cable theft that caused rail chaos was ‘act of sabotage’, says minister
Spain’s transport minister has said the country’s rail network suffered “an act of serious sabotage” after vital signalling cable was stolen over the busy bank holiday weekend, bringing severe delays to high-speed services between Madrid and Seville that affected more than 10,000 travellers. Government sources said the problems on the line between the capital and…
Read More13 security guards kidnapped from a Peruvian gold mine found dead
The bodies of 13 security guards kidnapped from a major Peruvian gold mine just over a week ago were found Sunday, the mining company said. The Peruvian company, La Poderosa, said that a search and rescue team had recovered the staff members’ remains on Sunday. It blamed their abduction on informal miners allegedly linked to…
Read MorePolice continue to question Iranian men over alleged terror plot
Five men are continuing to be questioned by police over an alleged terror plot in the UK. The men, including four Iranian nationals, are being held over an alleged plan to “target a specific premises”, the Metropolitan Police said. They were arrested in Swindon, west London, Stockport, Rochdale and Manchester. Three other Iranian men were…
Read MoreHouthis Tease ‘New Weapons’ to Keep Planes Out of Israel’s Skies
A source within Yemen’s Ansar Allah movement, widely known as the Houthis, has told Newsweek the group possesses new weapons capable of enforcing a newly announced aerial siege against Israel, whose military said it’s on high alert to thwart all emerging threats to the nation’s skies following a weekend attack on its busiest airport. The…
Read MoreSeven Iranians arrested in British counter-terrorism probes
British counter-terrorism police have arrested eight men including seven Iranians in two separate operations, officers said, in what the interior minister called some of the biggest investigations of their kind in recent years. Five men, four of them Iranian nationals, were arrested on Saturday over a suspected plot to target specific premises, London’s Metropolitan Police…
Read MoreGreece: Woman dies after device explodes in her hands
A woman was killed in an explosion in Thessaloniki, northern Greece, police said on Saturday. An explosive device the woman had been carrying exploded in her hands, authorities said. “It appears that she was carrying an explosive device and planned to plant it [at] a bank’s ATM,” a senior police official told the Reuters agency.…
Read MoreAt least 7 dead after Doctors Without Borders facility in South Sudan targeted in aerial bombing
The medical charity Doctors without Borders said Saturday that its facility in a remote part of South Sudan was targeted in an aerial bombing that killed at least seven people. Fangak County Commissioner, Biel Butros Biel, told The Associated Press that a 9-month-old child was among the dead in the aerial attack. He added that…
Read MoreYemen’s Houthis announce campaign targeting Israeli airports
Yemen’s Houthi rebels said late on Sunday they would impose a “comprehensive” aerial blockade on Israel by repeatedly targeting its airports, in response to Israel expanding its operations in Gaza. The Iran-aligned Houthis claimed responsibility for a missile strike on Sunday that hit near Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport, the latest in a string of attacks,…
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