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Children & Teens
How violent extremists are thriving online — and why it’s getting harder to catch them While Islamist and far-right extremism is on the rise, so too is nihilistic extremism — that which is driven not by a specific ideology, but simply 'destruction and chaos.'
(Sky News) Violent extremists are using AI to evade social media moderation, according to the leader of one of Europe’s leading violence prevention task forces. Speaking at TikTok’s Trust and Safety Forum in Dublin, Judy Korn, managing director of the Violence Prevention […]
Alcohol & Drugs
Doctor Hossam Metwally poisoned partner in ‘exorcism ritual’
(BBC) An anaesthetist who poisoned his partner in a series of botched exorcism ceremonies is facing jail. Hossam Metwally, 61, performed a “dangerous perversion” of the Islamic Ruqya ritual on Kelly Wilson at the couple’s home in Grimsby. Sheffield Crown Court heard […]
News: Europe
Five years after attacks, Belgium remembers its dead
(AFP) “Aline, Patricia, Leopold, Gilles, Johanna, Loubna …” Five years on, the 32 victims of the Brussels bomb attacks were the focus of Monday’s national day of commemoration. The March 22, 2016, bombings were the worst massacre in the country’s modern peacetime […]