Archive for November 4, 2025
Commissioner asks police to review knife incidents
A police and crime commissioner (PCC) has called for an investigation into three knife-related incidents the police are reviewing for possible links to the train attack suspect. Cambridgeshire Police said it was re-examining an attack on a 14-year-old boy and two reports of a knifeman at a barbers’ shop in Peterborough between Friday and Saturday.…
Read MoreUN secretary-general says Sudan’s war is ‘spiraling out of control’
The United Nations secretary-general warned Tuesday that the war in Sudan is “spiraling out of control” after a paramilitary force seized the besieged and famine-stricken Darfur city of el-Fasher. Speaking in Qatar, Antonio Guterres called for an immediate ceasefire in the two-year conflict that’s become one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises. The war between…
Read MoreFeds bring criminal charges against 2 metro Detroit men for alleged terror attack plot
Three days after announcing their arrests on social media, the federal government brought criminal charges against two metro Detroit men, alleging they plotted to carry out a terror attack over Halloween weekend, only the FBI got to them first. According to a criminal complaint filed Monday, Nov. 3, Mohmed Ali and Majed Mahmoud both are…
Read MorePolice investigating whether train attack suspect linked to stabbing of 14-year-old on Friday
Throughout the day we’ve heard vivid accounts from victims of, and eyewitnesses to, a knife attack on a train in Cambridgeshire on Saturday evening. One of the victims, Stephen Crean, told the BBC his hand was “sliced” as he confronted the alleged attacker on the train and “tussled” with him. Anthony Williams, 32, today appeared…
Read MoreFBI aid leads to arrest of Argentine teen planning attack at ex-school
A 16-year-old boy from the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Caballito was arrested over the weekend by Argentina’s Federal Police after the FBI alerted authorities to his social media posts expressing plans to carry out an armed attack at his former school. The investigation, overseen by Argentina’s Ministry of National Security, began after the FBI office…
Read MoreTanzanian opposition claims security forces secretly dump bodies post-election
Tanzanian authorities faced mounting concern over killings during and after last week’s election, with the largest opposition party charging on Tuesday that the security forces were secretly dumping the bodies of hundreds killed in the violence that shocked the region. Protests spread across the East African country in the aftermath of voting on Wednesday, continuing…
Read MoreChina academic intimidation claim referred to counter-terrorism police
An investigation into allegations that Sheffield Hallam University faced sustained pressure from China to shut down human rights research has been referred to counter-terrorism police. The BBC and the Guardian newspaper have been reporting that documents show China waged a two-year campaign of intimidation and harassment, including demands the university stop sensitive research by one…
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