Two anarchist groups claim responsibility for Cannes and Nice power outages

Nearly 45,000 homes were temporarily without electricity on Saturday night after a fire was started at an electrical transformer in western Nice. Two anarchist groups in France have claimed responsibility for a power outage that left more than 160,000 homes without power in the south of the country. The blackout affected the city of Nice…

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Georgian National Extradited from Moldova to Face Charges for Soliciting Hate Crimes and Planning Mass Casualty Attack in New York City

Georgian national Michail Chkhikvishvili, also known as Mishka, Michael, Commander Butcher, and Butcher, 21, of Tbilisi, was extradited to the United States from Moldova on May 22, and will be arraigned in federal court in Brooklyn today. Chkhikvishvili was arrested in Chișinău, Moldova, in July 2024 in connection with a four-count indictment returned in the…

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Germany arrests five teenagers over alleged right-wing extremist plot and attacks

German police on Wednesday arrested five teenagers linked to a right-wing extremist group that allegedly intended to carry out attacks on migrants and political opponents. The early morning arrests across several states in Germany followed raids on 13 properties associated with the self-styled “The Last Wave of Defence”, federal prosecutors said in a statement. Four…

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Neo-Nazi extremists guilty of planning terror attack on mosque

Three neo-Nazis who stockpiled weapons including a 3D-printed assault rifle are facing “substantial” prison sentences after they were found guilty of plotting a terrorist attack on a mosque in Leeds. Counter-terrorism police found an arsenal of more than 200 weapons that included crossbows, swords, machetes, axes, a baseball bat and numerous hunting knives, following raids…

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Germany bans biggest ‘Reichsbürger’ group and arrests four of its leaders

Germany has banned an extremist far-right organisation linked to the so-called “Reichsbürger” (Citizens of the Reich) movement and carried out dawn raids on its properties and leaders’ homes, the interior ministry said on Tuesday. Hundreds of security forces across several German states searched properties associated with the self-styled “Königreich Deutschland” (Kingdom of Germany) group, and…

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Misogyny to be treated as extremism by UK government

Extreme misogyny will be treated as a form of extremism under new government plans, the Home Office has said. Yvette Cooper, the home secretary, has ordered a review of the UK’s counter-extremism strategy to determine how best to tackle threats posed by harmful ideologies. The analysis will look at hatred of women as one of…

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Bomb goes off outside Hellenic Train offices in Athens

An explosion occurred outside the offices of Hellenic Train in Athens, Greek police said on Friday, adding there were no immediate reports of injuries. Police cordoned off the area after two Greek media organizations received warning calls that an explosive device would go off within 35 minutes, police officials said. A suspicious-looking bag was spotted…

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