Europe

December 22, 2023

South Korea has reportedly donated demining machines to Ukraine as humanitarian assistance. According to the South Korean embassy in Ukraine on Thursday, two demining machines and ten pickup trucks were handed over to Ukraine at a ceremony in Kyiv in a partial fulfillment of an earlier aid promise of ten demining machines and 100 trucks in ...

December 21, 2023

On 18 December, Europol’s EU Internet Referral Unit coordinated a Referral Action Day (RAD) on terrorist online content. The operational action also involved special units from Czechia, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Finland, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom, and different units at Europol specialised in chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear substances and explosives (CBRNE), as well as ...

December 20, 2023

The Commission is allocating today around €690 million to Czechia, Finland, France, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal and Romania to further develop the rescEU strategic reserves of medical and chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear (CBRN) items. The reserves are part of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism’s rescEU medical stocks funded by the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority ...

December 20, 2023

Ukraine’s spies aim to intensify intelligence operations and conduct sabotage strikes deep in Russian-controlled territory next year to bring the war as close to the Kremlin as possible, the head of Ukraine’s SBU security service told POLITICO. “We cannot disclose our plans. They should remain a shocker for the enemy. We prepare surprises,” Major General Vasyl ...

December 20, 2023

The National Police of Spain successfully thwarted a potential jihadist attack by arresting three highly radicalised teenagers in coordinated operations in Madrid and Barcelona. The individuals, minors who had actively expressed their intent to carry out a terrorist action, were taken into custody this Monday. The teenagers went further, expressing a clear intention to carry out ...

December 19, 2023

The Central Bureau of Judicial Investigations (BCIJ) under the Directorate General of Territorial Surveillance (DGST) arrested on Tuesday, as part of a joint security operation with the General Commissariat for Information of the Spanish police, an extremist active in Farkhana (Nador region), in parallel with the arrest by the Spanish authorities of other elements in ...

December 19, 2023

Ukraine’s and non-governmental operators’ bomb disposal units have inspected and brought back into use over 200,000 hectares of agricultural land since the beginning of the year. “Our bomb disposal experts from Ukraine’s State Emergency Service, State Transport Special Service and non-governmental mine action operators are performing very well. We are inspecting 3,000 to 5,000 hectares of ...

December 19, 2023

The Walton Coastguard Rescue team and the explosive Ordnance Disposal team were sent to inspect part of Walton beach on Saturday. Upon arrival the crews discovered three unexploded ordnances which following an inspection were confirmed to be from the Second World War. The mortar rounds are understood to have washed up on the beach during low ...

December 18, 2023

The bomb disposal squad discovered and defused an explosive device near the headquarters of the riot police officers (MAT) in the district of Zografou in central Athens on Monday. Unidentified individuals had earlier sent an audio message to the Efimerida ton Syntakton newspaper and the Zougla news website, alerting them to the placement of a bomb ...

December 18, 2023

Detectives investigating an explosion in Sidcup where a ULEZ camera and surrounding property were damaged have arrested two men. The arrests were made on Monday, 18 December by detectives from the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command, which is leading the investigation due to its expertise in incidents involving explosives. A 60-year-old man in Sidcup was arrested at ...

December 18, 2023

Police in Paphos have taken a 20-year-old into custody on Sunday to facilitate investigations into a case involving the possession of explosive materials and violence at a sports venue. According to a statement released on Monday, during Sunday’s football match between Pafos and Apoel at the Stelios Kyriakides stadium in Paphos, police caught several fans throwing ...

December 16, 2023

German police have removed boxes of ice pack gels used to make explosives from properties linked to four men arrested on Thursday night over a Hamas plot to attack Jewish institutions in Europe. Officer were seen carrying blue boxes which were said to contain data storage devices, ice pack gels and other evidence. Read more… Source: MSN News  

December 16, 2023

A pipe bomb exploded in the garden of a house in Dunmurry on Friday. Detectives are investigating the attack in Sunnymede Park, which was reported shortly after 11.30pm. The pipe bomb had partially exploded and a number of people were evacuated from their homes as a precaution while police and ammunition technical officers examined the scene. Read ...

December 16, 2023

In a landmark development for Ukraine’s recovery and safety, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Kingdom of the Netherlands announce a new partnership, marked by acontribution of $10 million towards mine action in Ukraine. The initiative will focus on accelerating the clearance of landmines using state-of-the-art technology and bolstering Ukraine’s capacity to manage mine ...

December 16, 2023

Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) officers were spotted on Cramond beach as they detonated a historic object that was found in a residential area. Edinburgh police were called to the Craigmillar Park area at around 3.25pm on Friday 15 December. They say that a historical ordnance was found and as a result the EOD team attended to ...

December 15, 2023

Serbian police arrested at least three people across the country and one in the Czech Republic on Friday in connection with major false bomb reports. The Ministry of Internal Affairs announced early Friday that an extensive international operation was expected to result in the arrest of individuals connected to frequent reports of explosive devices in various ...

December 14, 2023

Four people have been arrested in Germany and the Netherlands on suspicion of being part of a cross-border Hamas terror plot that German prosecutors said aimed to obtain weapons to target Jewish institutions in Europe. The office of Germany’s federal prosecutor said three men had been detained in Berlin and the fourth in Rotterdam on Thursday ...

December 14, 2023

Airports should introduce new scanners which will eliminate the need for passengers to remove liquids and laptops from their luggage as soon as possible, a minister has said. The next generation of scanners, which use CT (computer tomography) scans rather than X-rays, could mark the end of the 100ml liquid limit, and the need to remove ...