Cyprus: Limassol tavern explosion linked to personal feud

Police were put on high alert early Monday after an explosion shook a tavern in Zakaki, Limassol. The blast occurred shortly before 5:00 a.m., causing minor damage to the establishment. Authorities confirmed that an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated at Read More …

Belgium: Car loaded with explosives breaks through roadblock at Belgian-Luxembourg border

On Friday at around 1am, a BMW broke through a roadblock set up by Belgian customs and police along the N81 between Arlon and Messancy, just a few kilometres from the Luxembourgish border, resulting in a car-chase. The four people Read More …

India: Two juveniles among 4 held for hurling crude bombs in Chennai

Four individuals, including two juveniles, were arrested for hurling a crude country bomb at a textiles showroom in Old Washermenpet over a dispute on Wednesday. However, the suspects told police that they had mistakenly targeted an adjacent shop instead of Read More …

Pakistan: Suspected militants burn girls’ school in North Waziristan, in third such attack this month

A group of militants used kerosine to set fire to a girls’ school in a former Pakistani Taliban stronghold, destroying furniture, computers and books, police said Wednesday, in the latest in a surge in such attacks. No one was hurt Read More …

Cyprus: Two men arrested after the largest cache of weapons and explosives ever found

Members of the police drug squad Ykan followed for over 24 hours the two men who were arrested and remanded for the largest cache of weapons and explosives ever found in Cyprus. The bust occurred on Monday when officers found Read More …

Germany: Turkish citizen killed in Dusseldorf arson attack

An arson attack was behind the fire in the German city of Dusseldorf that killed a Turkish citizen among others last week, with the motive behind the incident remaining unclear, German prosecutors have unveiled. Last week’s fire and explosion, which Read More …

Nevada: Carson City Man Arrested for Allegedly Building Explosives

A Carson City man was arrested and faces charges related to building explosive devices. Carson City deputies conducted a traffic stop on Saturday, May 18, around 1 a.m. on a car driven by 50-year-old Christopher Gorham. After searching the car, Read More …

UK: Explosive device found at Liverpool flat after police raid

An explosive was found at a flat after a street was evacuated, police have confirmed. Merseyside Police said an “improvised explosive device” was found following a raid in Ellis Place, Liverpool, after a bomb disposal team attended on Friday afternoon. Read More …

Building bombings and 14-year-old hitmen, organised crime overwhelms Sweden

In less than 15 years, Sweden has gone from being one of the world’s safest countries to having the highest rate of gun homicides in the entire EU (double that of Croatia, the second highest) and a number of explosions Read More …

Massachusetts: Robotic police dog shot multiple times, helped avoid bloodshed

Roscoe, a robotic dog, is being thanked by state police in Massachusetts for helping avert a tragedy involving a person barricaded in a home. The robot dog was part of the Massachusetts State Police Bomb Squad and deployed on March Read More …

Germany: Arson suspected in fire that killed Turkish-Bulgarian family in Solingen

A fire that claimed the lives of a Turkish-Bulgarian family in Solingen was apparently an arson attack, German authorities said on Wednesday. During the preliminary investigation “clear remains of an accelerant” were found in the wooden stairwell of the four-story Read More …

Malaysia: Molotov cocktail thrown at KK Super Mart in Bidor

Police are investigating an incident where a Molotov cocktail was hurled at a KK Super Mart outlet in Bidor, Perak. Perak police chief Comm Datuk Seri Mohd Yusof Hassan Basri said they have obtained CCTV footage of the incident, which Read More …

UK: Fake ‘bomb’ made from shower gel bottle and rubber glove forced a lockdown of HMP Lowdham Grange

A Nottinghamshire jail was placed in lockdown for hours when one of the prisoners placed a hoax improvised bomb in the exercise yard of its segregation unit. Nottingham Crown Court heard how convicted arsonist Mathew Lea left the plastic bottle Read More …

Washington: Homemade explosives used to target cannabis shop

Police in Washington state are investigating an incident involving an “improvised explosive device” found outside a cannabis shop in Tacoma on Friday. A suspect can be seen dropping off the homemade device and then throwing the Molotov cocktail at the Read More …

Georgia: Two men planned to have python eat woman’s daughter before bombing her home

Two Georgia men have been indicted on several federal charges in the bombing of a woman’s home and plotting to have a large python “eat the victim’s daughter,” federal officials announced last week. According to the release, the two men Read More …

CARICOM: Emergency summit in Jamaica to address spiraling Haiti crisis

Envoys from key nations were set to meet Monday in Jamaica to address the spiraling instability in Haiti, where gang violence has crippled the impoverished nation’s capital and forced foreign diplomats to evacuate over the weekend. Armed groups, which already Read More …

Mexican Drug Cartels Employ Landmines and IEDs in Escalating Turf Wars

The series of blasts in the Tierra Caliente — an area along the border of Jalisco and Michoacán states that has long been a hot zone for cartel warfare — mark an alarming escalation of violence in Mexico as criminal Read More …

Mexico: Three farmers killed by roadside bomb in Michoacan days after four soldiers die in explosive “trap”

Three farmers were killed Tuesday by a bomb apparently planted in a dirt road in the cartel-dominated western Mexico state of Michoacan, marking the second time in just five days that hidden explosive devices have caused multiple fatalities in the Read More …

Haiti: Gangs try to seize control of main airport as thousands escape prisons

Heavily armed gangs tried to seize control of Haiti’s main international airport on Monday, exchanging gunfire with police and soldiers in the latest attack on key government sites in an explosion of violence that includes a mass escape from the Read More …