- Black Sea: Explosives-Packed Jet Ski Drone Appears Off Turkish Coast
July 25, 2024
A highly-modified jet ski loaded with explosives has been found off the Turkish coast near Istanbul. According to reports in the Turkish media, the adapted jet ski was found drifting off the coast of the district of Çatalca, close to Istanbul. Photos of the craft show that’s fitted with an electro-optical sensor turret and a planar ...
- UK: The moment an unexploded bomb was detonated on Anglesey beach
July 25, 2024
This is the moment an unexploded bomb was detonated on an Anglesey beach. The bomb squad was called to Ynys y Fydlyn, in the north of the island and the beach was cordoned off while it was exploded. Coastguard teams were also at the scene. A video of the moment the shell blew up, showed a ...
- Turkey: Perpetrator of Moscow car bomb attack arrested in Bodrum district
July 24, 2024
Evgenii Serebriakov, who allegedly carried out a car bomb attack in Russia’s capital Moscow, was captured in Türkiye on Wednesday, Turkish Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said. Yerlikaya said on X that Russian Interpol officials contacted Türkiye’s Interpol/Europol Department at 10.30 a.m., reporting that Serebriakov had arrived in Türkiye on a Moscow-Bodrum flight. Russian Interpol officials said ...
- Russia: Perpetrator suspected of car bombing in Moscow flees to Turkey
July 24, 2024
The man suspected of blowing up a Toyota Land Cruiser in northern Moscow has fled to Turkey, so Russian law enforcement officials are in talks on his extradition, Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Director Alexander Bortnikov told reporters. On Wednesday morning, an explosion occurred in a Toyota Land Cruiser parked on a street in the north ...
- Germany carries out raids and bans a group accused of links to Iran and support for Hezbollah
July 24, 2024
The German government on Wednesday banned an organization accused of being an “outpost” of Iran’s theocracy, promoting the ideology of its leadership and supporting Lebanon’s Hezbollah militant group. Police raided 53 properties around the country, including a prominent mosque in Hamburg. The ban on the Islamic Center Hamburg, or IZH, and five suborganizations around Germany followed ...
- Finnish ‘hero dog’ assists with Paris Olympics security
July 23, 2024
Security measures at the Paris Summer Olympics have been ramped up ahead of the games. As many as 45,000 police and 18,000 soldiers are guarding the event and the city, with two police dogs and dog handlers coming from Finland. The dogs, named Nalli and Quattro, and Senior Sergeant Mika Lekkerimäki and Senior Constable Heikki Nyman, arrived ...
- Ukraine: Bomb disposal experts dispose of FAB-500 aerial bomb in Donetsk Oblast
July 23, 2024
Bomb disposal experts of the State Emergency Service of Ukraine have seized and destroyed a FAB-500 aerial bomb in the village of Malynivka in Pokrovsk district, Donetsk Oblast. It is noted that the bomb was found during an examination of the territory of the village of Malynivka. Specialists from the State Emergency Service seized it and ...
- UK: Experts detonate unexploded wartime bomb at Dumfries and Galloway beach
July 23, 2024
An unexploded wartime bomb was detonated by experts at Powfoot beach. The World War II mortar had been discovered by a man with a metal detector who alerted the emergency services. And on Friday morning the Explosives Ordnance Disposal team blew up the device amid dramatic scenes near Seaward Caravan Park. Read more… Source: Daily Record News Sign up ...
- Spain: Court sentences man over explosive parcels sent to Ukrainian, US and Spanish offices in Madrid
July 23, 2024
A Spanish court handed an 18-year prison sentence Tuesday to a man found guilty of sending six parcels containing explosives to Spain’s prime minister and other government, military and diplomatic targets, including the U.S. and Ukrainian embassies. The 76-year-old Pompeyo González Pascual received 10 years for committing acts of terrorism and eight years for the manufacturing ...
- UK MOD says ‘key point’ reached in £6m project to expand Nuneaton army barracks
July 22, 2024
A ‘key point’ has been reached in the construction of a £6m extension at Nuneaton’s army barracks. The works will pave the way for Gamecock Barracks to play home to an Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Troop. It is relocating from Chetwynd Barracks in Nottingham, to Gamecock Barracks, which is known locally as Bramcote Barracks. The MOD ...
- Lithuania withdraws from Convention on Cluster Munitions
July 18, 2024
‘It is regrettable that Lithuania has taken the decision today to withdraw from the Convention on Cluster Munitions. Even though the security situation in Europe has changed due to Russia’s war of aggression against Ukraine, it is vital that states uphold their obligations to prohibit the use, stockpiling and transfer of these types of weapons,’ ...
- UK: Vehicles set alight and police car overturned amid disorder in Leeds suburb
July 18, 2024
Vehicles were set on fire and a police car was overturned as residents were warned to stay home following an outbreak of disorder in a Leeds suburb. The Home Secretary condemned the “shocking scenes and attacks” in Harehills, east Leeds, where there was a “large” police presence on Thursday evening, with helicopters deployed to the area. ...
- Switzerland: Detection of improvised explosive devices – armasuisse takes part in a European Defence Agency project
July 17, 2024
Bern, 17.07.2024 – Improvised explosive devices are set to be able to be detected quicker and more reliably in the future. The Federal Office for Defence Procurement armasuisse is taking part in a European Defence Agency (EDA) research project on this topic. The Deputy Chief of Armament Thomas Rothacher signed the agreement to participate in ...
- Yemen’s Houthis target 3 ships in Red, Mediterranean Seas
July 16, 2024
Yemen’s Houthi group announced Monday that it attacked three ships in the Red and Mediterranean Seas for breaching its embargo on vessels entering Israeli ports. In a statement, Houthi military spokesman Yahya Saree said the group’s fighters targeted the “BENTLEY I” ship in the Red Sea with several ballistic missiles, bomb-laden drones and unmanned boats. In ...
- Belgium: Police intercept vehicle after reports of explosion in Antwerp
July 14, 2024
Police in Antwerp intercepted a vehicle on Saturday evening following several reports of an explosion; no injuries were reported. “Numerous reports of an explosion were received just before 20:00,” said a spokesperson. It’s suspected that someone detonated something near a building in Wilrijk. The damage seems to be relatively minimal. The laboratory of the federal judicial ...
- UK: Award for police who arrested gunman after explosion
July 12, 2024
Five police officers who confronted a gunman who was armed with two explosive bags have been honoured at the National Police Bravery Awards. Damian Mazurkiewicz, 54, set off one device which emitted a cloud of smoke in a property in Gosport, Hampshire, in August 2023. He took aim at officers with the imitation weapon and also ...
- Belgian government to allocate EUR 1M for mine action project in Ukraine
July 12, 2024
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Ukraine has signed a financing agreement worth EUR 1 million with the Government of Belgium for the implementation of the UNDP’s Mine Action Project in Ukraine. According to the UNDP website, this agreement will be implemented until December 31, 2025, Ukrinform reports. “Belgium’s contribution to the Mine Action Project ...
- NATO members pledge 40 billion euros in military aid for Ukraine
July 10, 2024
NATO allies have agreed to fund military aid for Ukraine with 40 billion euros ($43 billion) next year, two Western European diplomats told Reuters on Wednesday, a week before the alliance’s leaders are set to meet in Washington. NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg had asked allies to make a multi-year commitment to keep military aid for Kyiv ...
