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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Counter-terrorism police are involved in an investigation into a man being set alight as he walked home from a mosque and a man has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. The victim suffered facial burns when his jacket was set alight in Shenstone Road in Edgbaston, Birmingham, at around 7pm on Monday. West Midlands […]
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A Twitter user accused of encouraging others to decapitate anyone who insulted Islam has told a jury he retweeted praise for a terrorist “just to have some more followers”. Ajmal Shahpal told Birmingham Crown Court he did not believe that the killer of French school teacher Samuel Paty was “as brave as a lion” or […]
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A far-right politician planning to burn a copy of the Koran during a visit to Wakefield will “not be allowed access” into the UK, the security minister has said. Tom Tugendhat said Danish-Swedish Rasmus Paludan, the leader of the Stram Kurs party founded in 2017, has been added to the “warnings index” and will be […]
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