Archive for September 2026
Romanian intelligence service says it prevented Russian sabotage operation
Romania’s SRI intelligence service prevented a sabotage operation coordinated by Russia on Romanian territory, it said on Tuesday, as Ukraine’s European allies seek to counteract what they say are Moscow’s attempts to destabilise them. European countries blame Moscow for sabotage, cyberattacks and disinformation targeting supporters of Kyiv’s war effort. They include an August drone attack…
Read MoreMyanmar resistance group says it hit a military air base at Mandalay airport with drones
Myanmar’s main pro-democracy resistance group said Friday its armed wing launched drone attacks on a military air base that shares a compound with an international airport serving the country’s second-largest city, forcing the airport to shut down. It was the latest attack in Myanmar’s more than five-year conflict between the military and armed resistance groups…
Read MoreArgentine teenager planning school shooting with ChatGPT raided after FBI alert
The Argentine Federal Police (PFA, in Spanish) raided the home of a teenager in Quilmes, Buenos Aires Province, on Thursday after the United States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) alerted them that he had been discussing murdering his classmates with the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT. Alejandro de Mena, legal assistant at the Quilmes Juvenile Criminal…
Read MorePoland and Ukraine slam Russian strike on train near their border as ‘escalation’
Poland’s Prime Minister Donald Tusk said he expected Moscow to escalate the war in “in the coming weeks”, following Russian strikes that hit a Warsaw-bound train in Ukraine, just two kilometres from its border with Poland. EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said she believed Russia’s strike to close to the Polish border was designed…
Read MoreHigh school stabbing in Croatia leaves 2 wounded and attacker detained
A student in a high school in Croatia’s capital, Zagreb, on Friday stabbed and wounded another student and a janitor, authorities said. The attacker was detained. Croatia’s Ministry of Education said he used a “sharp object” in the attack. The student who was attacked received surgery for multiple stab wounds but was out of danger…
Read MoreHouthis capture more Yemeni Red Sea islands, tightening grip on Bab el-Mandeb
Yemen’s Tehran-backed Houthis captured more islands in the southern Red Sea, government and Houthi officials said Monday, strengthening their control of a major maritime shipping route. The capture of the islands of Greater and Lesser Hanish is the latest in the group’s swift advance around the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, a key passage for oil shipments…
Read MoreFort Pierce man arrested after 8 explosive devices found at home during risk protection order
A Fort Pierce man is in custody after the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office said explosive devices were found at his home while detectives were serving a risk protection order. The agency said its investigation began Thursday around 12:20 p.m., when detectives identified “suspected destructive devices” at a residence in the 6000 block of Balsam…
Read MoreAlien Terrorist Removal Court deports legal US resident to Afghanistan in first-ever case
For the first time, the Justice Department brought a case before a decades-old but until now unused special court to deport a legal US resident to Afghanistan after she conceded to being an “alien terrorist,” court records show. Prosecutors alleged Nazira Haji Zada, 47, originally from Afghanistan, supported a plan by her son and son-in-law…
Read MoreOrganizers of Hong Kong’s Tiananmen vigils sentenced prison
Three pro-democracy activists in Hong Kong who organized annual vigils for victims of China’s 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown were sentenced to prison terms between five and over seven years Friday after being convicted under a national security law that critics say has stifled dissent in the Chinese territory. Lee Cheuk-yan was sentenced to seven years…
Read MoreIsrael says it has destroyed major underground Hezbollah base
Israel’s military says it has destroyed a large underground complex operated by Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. It said it used more than 1,000 tonnes of explosives to destroy two tunnels spanning more than 2km (1.2 miles) beneath the Ali Taher Ridge. Israeli forces took control of the ridge last week after months of fighting with…
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