(AFP) Brief clashes broke out at Turkey’s border with Greece on Friday, where thousands of refugees have been encouraged by Ankara to leave for the European Union. Greek police fired tear gas at migrants trying to break through the fence, who responded […]
(AP) Turkey is sending elite special operations police to the border to stop Greek officers from driving back people who try to cross over to Europe, Turkish authorities said Thursday. Thousands of refugees and other asylum-seekers have tried to enter Greece from […]
(AP) A witness in the investigation of a 2015 attack on a Prophet Muhammad cartoon contest in suburban Dallas was sentenced Tuesday to 5 1/2 years in prison for making a false statement to FBI agents and tampering with a witness. Authorities […]
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(AFP) Police fired tear gas at protesting [migrants] on Monday on Lesbos, a Greek island on the frontline of the migrant crisis, an AFP photographer said. Sordid conditions in the camp of Moria, one of the most overpopulated in Europe, triggered the […]
(WMAR) A University of Maryland student was arrested and charged after a hate bias incident occurred. On December 12, 2019, around 11:30 a.m., UMPD was notified of a hate bias incident that occurred on December 10, 2019, around 8:18 p.m. A female […]
(Bergen Record) Muslim Americans and civil rights organizations are condemning comments Michael Bloomberg made defending a years-long mass surveillance program when he was New York City mayor. Bloomberg said the surveillance in mosques, schools and Muslim-owned businesses in New York and New […]
(Reuters) Greek police fired teargas to push back hundreds of stone-throwing migrants trying to cross the border from Turkey on Saturday, as a crisis over Syria shifted onto the European Union’s doorstep. Greece, which has tense relations with Turkey, accused Ankara of […]
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(Hill) Former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg (D) on Thursday defended surveillance of U.S. Muslims conducted by authorities after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, calling it a necessary response. In an interview with PBS Newshour‘s Judy Woodruff, the 2020 presidential candidate explained […]
(AFP) More than 1,000 people rallied on the Greek island of Lesbos on Thursday to protest against new migrant camps, a day after violent clashes left more than 60 injured, mostly police officers. Lesbos businesses and unions called for a general strike […]
(AFP) Hundreds of protesters on the Greek island of Lesbos on Wednesday threw stones at police who responded with tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets, an AFP photographer said, on a second day of demonstrations against the construction of new migrant […]
(Reuters) A police employee who fatally stabbed four colleagues in the force’s Paris headquarters ran an online search for “how to kill infidels” an hour before he rampaged through the building, a judicial source said on Wednesday. Data on the cell phone […]
(CBC) A man who was arrested in connection with the death of a 64-year-old woman in Toronto on Friday is now facing a terrorism-related charge. Police said Tuesday that Saad Akhtar, 30, of Toronto had his charges updated to first-degree murder including terrorist activity. […]
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(Breitbart) A 35-year-old Muslim man in the commune of Cavaillon is facing trial after being accused of domestically abusing his wife and daughters who refused to wear an Islamic veil. The man, who defines himself as a traditionalist Muslim, is said to […]
(Religion News) Calls are growing for Mayor Mike Bloomberg to apologize for his role in the New York Police Department’s long-running warrantless surveillance of area Muslims, which has seen renewed scrutiny since Bloomberg announced his candidacy for Democratic presidential nominee. A coalition […]
(Bergen Record) Even before he arrived at his job at Fort Dix one recent morning, Army Sgt. Syed Farhaj Hassan had already been bombarded by a Michael Bloomberg ad about gun control on television, and a radio piece about Bloomberg’s tenure as […]
(Detroit Free Press) Mike Bloomberg’s outreach to Arab American and Muslim communities in metro Detroit has sparked an intense debate, with some criticizing him over his past support of surveillance of their population in New York City when he was mayor. This […]
(Sydney Morning Herald) Police have raided homes in Sydney and Melbourne in an attempt to gather evidence against some of the 67 family members of Islamic State fighters living in a Syrian refugee camp. The Australian Federal Police has stepped up investigations […]
(Fox) Campus police removed former Democratic New York Assemblyman Dov Hikind from an event at Rutgers University Sunday afternoon, after Hikind asked guest speaker Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., about past comments he believes to be anti-Semitic. The event, titled “A Global Crisis: […]
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(Yahoo News) Despite a federal judge’s ruling last September that the U.S. government’s terror watch list violates constitutional rights, an FBI report obtained by Yahoo News shows local and state law enforcement agencies are being used to gather intelligence on individuals to […]
(Rotherham Advertiser) A man and a woman have been arrested in Rotherham on suspicion of facilitating female genital mutilation (FGM). Police said the arrests came after a woman attended a police station in Rotherham and reported she had been subjected to FGM, […]
(BBC) Britain’s most senior police officer has said the Streatham attacker was able to stab people despite being under surveillance because such operations are not “man-to-man marking.” Met Police commissioner Cressida Dick told a committee that Sudesh Amman was under “covert” police […]
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(Rotherham Advertiser) Vulnerable children at risk of forced marriage have been given the protection of full court orders. Initial proceedings began last autumn over the group of youngsters, which includes boys and girls. The orders are a safeguarding tool to help police […]
(Reuters) A man who attacked officers with a knife in a French police barracks was a trainee soldier, officials said, in the second case in four months of a violent assault by someone from within France’s security services. The assailant struck on […]
(AFP) French police on Tuesday cleared the last migrant tent camp in northeast Paris, moving 427 people to shelters as part of a plan to take migrants off the streets. The migrants, who included four women, were living in 266 tents and […]
(AFP) Police on the Greek island of Lesbos on Monday fired tear gas at hundreds of migrants protesting against tougher new asylum rules, officials said. Brandishing makeshift signs with the word “freedom,” some 2,000 men and women walked out of the overpopulated […]
(Reuters) Police shot and wounded a man armed with a knife after he attacked officers inside a police barracks in eastern France on Monday. Shortly before the knifeman struck the police facility in Dieuze, near Metz, the local police operations center received […]
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(Arizona Republic) An Iraqi man who is alleged to have been the leader of a group of al-Qaida terrorists has been arrested in Phoenix, according to federal officials. Ali Yousif Ahmed Al-Nouri, a 42-year-old Phoenix resident, is wanted to stand trial in […]
(Chicago Tribune) Since 2016, documentary filmmaker Assia Boundaoui has been waiting for answers from the FBI to one question: Which parts of her Arab American community in Bridgeview were surveilled after 9/11? After a court hearing last week, she learned she will […]
(AFP) Police moved hundreds of migrants from a makeshift camp in northern Paris early on Tuesday, the latest attempt to discourage asylum seekers from living in the streets of the French capital. Police said 1,436 people — including 93 children and 1,187 […]
(NY Post) The Federal Bureau of Investigation is reviewing claims Rep. Ilhan Omar married her brother, the Post has learned. Two FBI agents held an hours-long meeting in Minnesota in mid-October with a concerned party who handed over a trove of documents […]
(RTL) RAID and police units have been deployed in Épinal since Thursday morning, due to the suspected presence of explosive devices. A large-scale operation was carried out on rue Victor Hugo in Épinal this Thursday morning. Territorial intelligence had raised the alarm as to […]
(AP) An Afghan-born U.S. citizen already serving life in prison for a bombing in New York City was sentenced Friday to an additional life term for a shootout with police in New Jersey as he attempted to avoid arrest in 2016. State […]
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(MPR) The families of four Somali teenagers detained by Minneapolis park police in 2018 are splitting a $160,000 settlement after lodging a human rights complaint over the officers’ handling of the incident. Bystanders recorded part of the incident, showing the boys being […]
(BBC) Terror offenders will face more time in jail and be monitored more closely as part of new laws being introduced within weeks, the government has said. Automatic early release from prison will be scrapped for terror offenders while a minimum jail […]
(AFP) Security forces on Monday arrested seven men believed to be planning a terror attack in France and preparing to travel to conflict zones in Iraq and Syria, sources close to the case told AFP. [They] were detained by France’s DGSI domestic […]
(Local) The government is to work for tough new laws on citizens convicted of foreign militant activity, but is likely to be challenged by parties to its left. Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, along with Minister of Justice Nick Hækkerup and Minister for […]
(Columbus Dispatch) Columbus police Chief Thomas Quinlan said this week that he is open to taking another look at the division’s ban on head coverings for religious reasons. The ban made headlines in 2015 after a female police recruit left the Columbus […]
(Deutsche Welle) Police carried out raids at properties across four German states on Tuesday morning, targeting suspected Islamists who were believed to be “planning a serious violent act endangering the state.” Prosecutors in Berlin said the suspects were of “Chechen origin from […]
(BBC) An attack on prison staff by two inmates with bladed weapons is being treated as a terror attack, the Metropolitan Police has confirmed. Four officers and a nurse were injured at HMP Whitemoor in March, Cambridgeshire, on Thursday. One attacker is […]
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