A Libyan refugee behind the Reading terror attack could not be deported as he was facing a trial accused of eating a mattress at a police station, an inquest has heard. Khairi Saadallah shouted “Allahu akhbar” as he fatally stabbed friends James Furlong, 36, Dr David Wails, 49, and Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, in the Berkshire […]
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A teenage Islamic State fanatic has been jailed for life for plotting a terror attack on British police officers or soldiers after being radicalised online in the pandemic. Muslim convert Matthew King, 19, expressed a desire to kill military personnel as he prepared to stake out a British Army barracks in Stratford, east London. He […]
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A teenage Islamic State fanatic was reported by his mother as he plotted an attack on British police officers or soldiers, a court has heard Muslim convert Matthew King, 19, expressed a desire to kill military personnel as he prepared to stake out a British Army barracks in Stratford, east London. His plans, which he […]
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Hungarian President Katalin Novák has pardoned several convicted far-right terrorists on the occasion of Pope Francis’ trip to Budapest. “The week of the Pope’s visit offers a special opportunity for the head of state to make use of her right of amnesty,” the presidential chancellery announced in Budapest on Thursday evening. The amnesty affected the […]
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German police have arrested a 28-year-old Syrian man in the northern port city of Hamburg on suspicion of planning an Islamist attack, police and prosecutors announced on Tuesday. His brother, who is four years younger and lives in Kempten near the Austrian border in the southern state of Bavaria, is suspected of having aided and […]
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Two anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists plotted to destroy 5G masts and called for MPs to be hanged, prosecutors have told a jury. Darren Reynolds, 60, and Christine Grayson, 59, discussed armed uprisings and advocated violence towards people they called “traitors” on social media, Leeds Crown Court heard. Reynolds “went further” and posted extreme right-wing, antisemitic and […]
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A Lebanese-Canadian academic has been convicted in absentia of terrorism charges and sentenced to life in prison over a bombing outside a Paris synagogue in 1980 that killed four and wounded 46. The court in the French capital issued an arrest warrant for Hassan Diab, who lives in Ottawa, Canada, and denies wrongdoing. His lawyers […]
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Terrorist police have been called in to investigate an explosion at a house which left a man in his 40s with life-changing injuries. A specialist explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) team has been leading searches at the property in Loring Road, Sharnbrook, Bedfordshire, following the incident at around 7.40pm on Monday. And the police investigation, being […]
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A former British soldier has appeared at the Old Bailey accused of an extreme far-right terrorist plot to burn down a book shop. William Howitt, 26, of West Bridgford, Nottingham, is charged with preparation of terrorist acts. It is alleged that on or before March 14, he “wrote a plan for conducting an arson attack […]
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A man wielding a large knife killed two women and injured several other people at an Ismaili Muslim centre in Lisbon in an attack which Portuguese authorities said they were investigating as a possible terror act. The women were Portuguese staff members at the centre, Ismaili community leader Narzim Ahmad told Portuguese TV channel SIC. […]
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