ICE facilities on higher alert after deadly Dallas shooting, director says, as FBI investigates as ‘act of targeted violence’

Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Todd Lyons said he would put all ICE facilities on a higher alert following a shooting at a Dallas field office on Wednesday which killed one detainee and critically wounded two others. While no officers were injured, the Department of Homeland Security said the shooting was “an attack on…

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Denmark alerts NATO and EU after coordinated drone attacks at its airports

Denmark has reached out to NATO and the EU after it was forced to close Aalborg airport and placed three other airports on alert on Thursday as unauthorised drones conducted what authorities described as coordinated attacks. Copenhagen was considering whether to trigger the alliance’s Article 4, in what was a hybrid attack involving a “systematic…

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14-year-old suspect in thwarted attack on Evergreen Middle School found to have committed conspiracy to commit murder, possession of explosive device

A 14-year-old has been found to have committed three felonies in planning an attack on Evergreen Middle School in Cottonwood. The trial took place on Wednesday at Tehama County Juvenile Court and concluded in the afternoon. The Tehama County District Attorney’s Office says the court found the teenager to have committed three felonies, including conspiracy…

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Former student arrested after mass shooting threat at Central Florida school

A 30-year-old woman was taken into custody on Wednesday after a “threatening Facebook post” was discovered, according to the Ocala Police Department. In an affidavit, police said that the post was made around 6 a.m., and it read, “I was so (expletive) close to sh*oting up Meadowbrook academy.” The account that posted the threat was…

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Twenty injured in Yemen drone attack on Israel, rescuers and military say

Rescuers sayat least20 people have been injured in southern Israel after the Israeli military said a drone was launched from Yemen. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said the drone struck theresort town of Eilat on the Red Sea coast, with attempts made to intercept it. The Magen David Adom emergency medical service said 20 people…

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Man arrested in connection with cyber-attack on airports

A person has been arrested in connection with a cyber-attack which has caused days of disruption at several European airports including Heathrow. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said a 40-year-old man was arrested in West Sussex “as part of an investigation into a cyber incident impacting Collins Aerospace”. There have been hundreds of flight delays…

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Moldova arrests 74 over ‘Russian plan to incite mass riots’

Moldova has arrested scores of suspected saboteurs it claims were trained by Russia to provoke rioting before key elections this weekend. Maia Sandu, the president, accused Moscow of spending “hundreds of millions of euros to buy hundreds of thousands of votes” for pro-Russian parties ahead of the vote. The parliamentary election on Sunday will either…

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