Archive for May 2026
California mayor charged with acting as illegal agent for China
Eileen Wang, the mayor of Arcadia, California, has been charged with acting as an illegal foreign agent for China, the Justice Department announced on Monday. Wang agreed to plead guilty, the Justice Department said. Starting in late 2020 Wang and Yaoning “Mike” Sun worked together to operate a website called U.S. News Center that “purported…
Read MoreThreats called into multiple Tennessee schools
At least seven Tennessee school campuses were placed on lockdown Monday morning after threats were reported against the schools. The Franklin Police Department reported that a bomb threat was called into Franklin High School and Page High School. Both schools were placed on lockdown while investigations were underway. Franklin police determined the bomb threats were…
Read MoreStafford man who called for ‘killing migrants’ pleads guilty to terrorism offences
A rightwing extremist who called for “killing migrants when they arrive on their boats” has pleaded guilty to terrorism offences. Ivan Jennings, 46, from Stafford, admitted encouraging terrorism between 15 August and 14 November 2024 at Leicester crown court on Monday. He had previously pleaded guilty to dissemination of a terrorism publication at a hearing…
Read MoreFrance arrests Tunisian suspected of planning ‘jihad-inspired’ attack in Paris
French authorities have arrested a 27-year-old Tunisian man suspected of “plotting a violent action inspired by jihadism”, the anti-terror prosecutor’s office told AFP on Monday. According to a source familiar with the case, the investigation established that the suspect was aiming to attack “a Paris museum as well as members of the Jewish community, although…
Read MoreCanberra teenager charged with additional terrorism offences, including planning an attack
A Canberra teenager has been charged by the ACT Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) with additional terrorism offences, including acts in preparation for a terrorist act. The youth, 17, is the first person to be charged with planning a terrorist act in the ACT. It is alleged the teenager was planning an attack on people…
Read MoreAt least nine people killed in explosion at Pakistan market
An explosion in a busy market in northwestern Pakistan has killed at least nine people and wounded 30, according to emergency workers and a medical official. The blast on Tuesday was caused by a bomb-laden rickshaw in Pakistan’s town of Sarai Naurang, in Lakki Marwat district, a region close to the border with Afghanistan, said…
Read MoreAs attacks on Europe’s Jewish communities escalate, Iran may be recruiting operatives online
The Kenton United Synagogue, in northwest London, was one of a string of mainly Jewish sites struck in arson attacks across the British capital and other European cities in the past two months, including schools, businesses and volunteer-run ambulances. An official works among the burnt out ambulances at the scene of an antisemitic arson attack…
Read MorePakistan blames Afghanistan-based militants for deadly attack on police
Pakistan blames Afghanistan-based militants for the attack on a police post that killed 15 personnel over the weekend, Pakistan’s foreign ministry said on Monday, signaling fresh tension between the neighbours whose militaries have clashed over the issue this year. The police personnel were killed in a car bombing at a police post in the northwestern…
Read MoreIran hangs grad student accused of spying for the CIA and Israel’s intel agency
Iranian authorities on Monday hanged a post-graduate student from an elite Tehran university on charges of espionage, the latest in a spate of executions against the backdrop of the war against the United States and Israel. Erfan Shakourzadeh, 29, was hanged after being convicted for allegedly collaborating with the CIA and Israel’s Mossad intelligence service,…
Read MoreTwo arrested over arson attack at former synagogue
A man and a woman have been arrested by counter-terrorism police over a suspected arson attack at a former synagogue in east London. Minor damage was caused to a set of gates and a lock at the front of the former East London Central Synagogue building in Whitechapel on Tuesday. No-one was injured. The suspected…
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