(AP) Three migrants and a suspected smuggler were seriously injured in North Macedonia when a car that police were pursuing overturned early Sunday, authorities said. Police said the car was carrying 11 migrants, five from Pakistan, three from India and three from […]
(AP) Intelligence reports indicate nearly 700,000 migrants are in Libya awaiting an opportunity to set out by sea toward Italy, a lawmaker from Premier Giorgia Meloni’s far-right party said Sunday, but a U.N. migration official called the number not credible. Tommaso Foti, […]
(Breitbart) A Tunisian migrant attacked French police with a knife in southern France this week, yelling the phrase “Allahu akbar!” The incident took place in the commune of Hyères, which lies on the Mediterranean Sea near Toulon. It saw the Tunisian, said to […]
(Pink News) The Abu Bakr Trust has released an apology after staff used its social media channels to urge followers to pray for protection against the LGBTQ+ community and called gay people “evil.” Bosses of the Abu Bakr Trust — a charity […]
(Majorca Daily Bulletin) Police investigating Rachid, the jihadist arrested in Campos on Thursday, are continuing to check whether he had any contacts in Mallorca and who may have been the reason for him having come to the island. As yet, there is […]
(BBC) A former suspect in the Manchester Arena bombing had his British citizenship revoked and then returned after MI5 changed its view of his role in the attack, the BBC can reveal. Mohammed Soliman, 26, was arrested in Libya after being stripped […]
(Majorca Daily Bulletin) The Spanish Audiencia Nacional (High Court) in Madrid today ordered the incommunicado detention (generally understood as a situation of detention in which an individual is denied access to family members, an attorney, or an independent physician) for the jihadist […]
(BBC) The UK will give France almost £500m over three years to help stop migrants crossing the Channel in small boats. The cash was announced at a summit in Paris between UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and President Emmanuel Macron, who said […]
(BBC) A British Muslim convert who allegedly travelled to Syria for terrorism has denied a string of charges. Aine Davis was arrested at Luton Airport in August and charged. The 39-year-old, formerly from London, pleaded not guilty to possession of a firearm […]
(Majorca Daily Bulletin) On Thursday, National Police officers from Madrid and Palma carried out an anti-terrorist operation related to alleged Islamists in Campos. The officers searched a property on C. Jaume II and one person is in custody. He is reportedly a […]
(AP) Europe continued its decade-old struggle Thursday to devise a migration system that would both better protect its extensive borders and avoid tragedies like last month’s shipwreck off Italy, which killed at least 70 migrants. Interior ministers from the European Union’s 27 […]
(AP) An 18-year-old man suspected of having planned an extremist attack in Frankfurt has been arrested near Germany’s border with Austria as he attempted to leave the country for Iraq and join the Islamic State group, German investigators said Thursday. The man, […]
(BBC) The charity watchdog has opened a probe into a mosque that was criticised by the Manchester Arena bomb inquiry. Didsbury Mosque in south Manchester had been attended by the suicide bomber Salman Abedi and his family. The public inquiry into the […]
(AP) A German appeals court on Thursday ordered a new sentencing hearing for a German convert to Islam who was given 10 years in prison on charges that, as a member of the Islamic State group in Iraq, she allowed a 5-year-old […]
(Brussels Times) Victims and relatives of victims gave testimony on Wednesday at the Brussels assize court in charge of trying 10 men — one of them in absentia — for the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in the Belgian capital. Before the […]
(Politico) The European Union warned Britain its crackdown on Channel migrant crossings violates international law — as the U.K. urged it to read the details. In an interview with POLITICO in Brussels, European Home Affairs Commissioner Ylva Johansson said she had spoken […]
(AFP) France and Britain are working on a new deal to thwart migrants crossing the Channel, which could be agreed at a summit between leaders Emmanuel Macron and Rishi Sunak later this week, a French official said Wednesday. Macron is set to […]
(BBC) Most of London’s anti-terrorism referrals are for “Islamist activity,” bucking a national trend, London’s Police and Crime Committee has heard. Latest figures from Prevent show there were more than three times the number of referrals compared to right-wing extremism, the meeting […]
(RTÉ) The former member of the Defence Forces Lisa Smith has lost her appeal against the severity of her sentence for membership of the Islamic State terrorist organisation, ISIS. The 41-year-old mother of one was jailed for 15 months at the Special […]
(BBC) A man posted an image of a terrorism victim’s severed head on Twitter while encouraging others to decapitate anyone who insulted Islam, a trial has heard. Ajmal Shahpal is alleged to have praised the killer of a French teacher for being […]
(BBC) A man on trial for murdering his niece had no motive, unlike her father who was “humiliated” after her failed forced marriage, a jury has heard. Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, is accused of killing Somaiya Begum at her home in Bradford, […]
(ITV) A long-awaited plan to “stop the boats” has finally been unveiled, with Home Secretary Suella Braverman announcing the Illegal Migration Bill in Parliament. The new law will force detention on virtually everyone who enters the UK illegally and make it impossible […]
(BBC) A new law set to go before Parliament later will introduce new measures aimed at removing migrants entering the UK on small boats. The Illegal Migration Bill is set to prevent those arriving illegally from claiming asylum, and will block them […]
(Sofia Globe) Bulgaria’s Supreme Court of Cassation has confirmed at final instance the life sentences without parole for Meliad Farah and Hassan El Hajj Hassan for their role in the July 2012 terrorist attack at Bourgas Airport in which five Israelis and […]
(Breitbart) Finnish police and domestic intelligence have arrested a 21-year-old suspected radical Islamic extremist who had procured materials on developing explosives to train to carry out a terrorist attack. Finland’s National Bureau of Investigation, the Helsinki police and the Finnish Security Intelligence Service were […]
(Local) Being discriminated against by public institutions, feeling as if they had to hide their religious identity and harassment were some of the experiences Muslims in Norway told a report they had been through in the past year. A full 43 percent […]
(Middle East Eye) The High Court in London has ruled that a tweet sent by the author and commentator Ed Husain had defamed a senior leader of the Muslim Council of Britain. Husain, also known as Mohammed Mahbub Husain, founded the defunct […]
(AFP) A teenage girl who lost both her legs in a 2016 Brussels suicide bombing, and fought back to become a Paralympian, was the first victim to testify on Monday at the trial of those accused of plotting or aiding the attacks. […]
(Brussels Times) Three months since Belgium’s biggest trial started, procedures will progress to a new phase that will see around 100 victims and their relatives share their testimonies this week. On Monday morning, medical experts, including a rehabilitation doctor and a psychiatrist, […]
(RTÉ) The Court of Appeal will give its decision this week on an appeal by former soldier Lisa Smith against her 15-month sentence for membership of the terrorist organisation ISIS. Lawyers for Smith, who was convicted last year by the Special Criminal […]
(BBC) MI5’s apology for not preventing the Manchester Arena attack is not “enough,” MPs have heard. The head of the security agency said on Thursday it was “profoundly sorry” that it did not thwart the suicide bombing in 2017 which killed 22 […]
(Breitbart) Populist French Senator Stéphane Ravier faces a criminal trial after publishing a tweet in January of last year in which he stated that “immigration kills the youth of France.” Ravier, a former member of Marine Le Pen’s National Rally (RN) who joined […]
(Sky News) The father of the youngest victim of the Manchester Arena bombing intends to sue MI5. Eight-year-old Saffie Roussos was one of the 22 people killed in the attack by suicide bomber Salman Abedi, 22, in May 2017. Now her father, […]
(National-UAE) New measures to curtail the number of migrant boats sailing across the English Channel to land asylum seekers in the UK are being urgently considered. Legislation promised as part of the UK government’s efforts to tackle illegal migration could come as […]
(AFP) Under-fire Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Saturday rejected any responsibility of her government for a devastating shipwreck off Italy’s southern coast last weekend which left at least 69 people dead. “The situation is as simple as it is tragic: We […]
(AP) Less than a week after a deadly migrant shipwreck off Italy, five European Union countries on the Mediterranean Sea pushed back Saturday against their northern neighbors for not accepting asylum-seekers under a voluntary relocation initiative. The ministers responsible for migration policy […]
(Sky News) Reports of death threats against West Yorkshire school pupils who allegedly damaged a copy of the Koran are alarming, the home secretary has said. Suella Braverman has spoken of her “deep concern” over the case and said it raises broader […]
(BBC) A man on trial for murdering his niece asked police “what the sentence was for someone in his position,” a court has heard. Mohammed Taroos Khan, 53, is accused of killing Somaiya Begum at her home in Bradford, in June 2022. […]
(Politico) Belgium’s highest court on Friday overturned a freeze on a controversial treaty on prisoner exchanges that could allow an Iranian diplomat convicted of terrorism to be sent back to Tehran. The treaty would allow Iranians convicted in Belgium to serve their […]
(BBC) Death threats sent to pupils who damaged a copy of the Quran at a school have been condemned by an education minister as “totally unacceptable.” West Yorkshire Police said officers had spoken to a child alleged to have made threats and […]
(Brussels Times) The court’s decision banning daily strip searches for those accused in the trial over the 22 March 2016 terror attacks in Brussels should be repealed, a lawyer for the Belgian state argued on Friday. The judge previously ruled that the […]
(BBC) The body of a 20-year-old woman was so badly decomposed it was not possible to determine how she died, a murder trial has heard. Somaiya Begum was found wrapped in a rug on waste ground in Bradford in July last year. […]
(Breitbart) A 44-year-old Somali-Dane has been indicted by a Danish court for selling his 12-year-old daughter into sexual slavery in Kenya and Somalia and forcibly circumcising her. The trial against the 44-year-old, who was arrested in January of 2022, began this week […]
(BBC) The head of MI5 said he was “profoundly sorry” the security service did not prevent the Manchester Arena attack. A public inquiry found MI5 missed a significant chance to take action that might have stopped the 2017 bombing. Chairman Sir John […]
(ITV) There was a “significant missed opportunity to take action” which could have prevented the Manchester Arena terror attack, a report has found. Failures to obtain “actionable intelligence” on bomber Salman Abedi meant he was able to build a “devastatingly destructive” device […]
(Radio France) A Paris court sentenced a French woman to 12 years in prison for two stays in Syria and territory controlled by the Islamic State armed group. Douha Mounib, 32, was found guilty of associating with terrorists in her two stays […]
(Arab News) Political correctness in the UK had created a “blind spot” in its national security regarding Islamist extremism, the British home secretary said on Wednesday. Suella Braverman also said not enough had been done to clamp down on a “highly coordinated” […]
(BBC) The chair of trustees at a mosque which was accused of turning a “blind eye” to extremist views prior to the Manchester Arena attack said he “would have done anything” to prevent the 2017 atrocity. Fawzi Haffar said he felt Didsbury […]
(BBC) A 20-year-old woman was murdered by her uncle and “dumped like rubbish” for refusing a forced marriage, a court was told. Somaiya Begum’s body was found wrapped in a rug on land near Fitzwilliam Street, Bradford, on 6 July. Prosecutors at […]
(BBC) Four trustees of a mosque have been jailed after attacking a worshipper who was unhappy they were using the site during lockdown. The victim, a 48-year-old man, was lured to the mosque in Hatfield Road, St Albans, Hertfordshire, on 4 June […]
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