Rules on liquids and laptops to be eased at UK airports from June 2024

Rules around taking liquids and laptops through airport security will be eased from June 2024, the government has said. The announcement of the biggest relaxation of aviation security regulations in decades confirms reports last month that the change would come Read More …

TSA launches high-tech baggage handling system at Denver International Airport

Just before the busiest travel time of the year, TSA is rolling out an upgraded baggage handling system at Denver International Airport that promises to be safer and more efficient. The $160 million system is the first of its kind Read More …

Pakistan: At least three killed after a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up in Miranshah

At least three people were killed and five others were injured after a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up in North Waziristan’s Miranshah town. According to government sources, most of the casualties were pedestrians in the area. The injured and Read More …

Georgia: Blast from homemade bomb ‘violently’ rocks neighborhood in Morrow

A man is accused of detonating a handmade bomb that rocked an Atlanta-area neighborhood, sending debris flying everywhere, police in Georgia say. Joseph Borlie Jr., 57, was charged with manufacturing an explosive device and reckless conduct after witnesses said he Read More …

Afghanistan: ISIS Kabul Hotel Attack Kills and Injures 21 People

ISIS’s regional offshoot, ISKP claimed responsibility for the bomb and gun attack on a multi-story hotel in Kabul on Monday, which left at least 3 assailants killed and 21 others injured, including foreign nationals. The ISKP shared a video of Read More …

Pakistan: IED explosion kills 1, wounds 8 in Balochistan province

At least one person was killed and eight others were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, police said on Saturday. According to police officials in the area, the blast happened in a local Read More …

Cambodia: Tractor driver seriously injured by anti-tank mine in Oddar Meanchey province

A man in Oddar Meanchey province was seriously injured when the tractor he was driving hit an anti-tank mine. The incident occurred on Wednesday in Kon Chreung village of Samraong city’s Kounkriel commune, Heng Ratana, the Director general of Cambodian Read More …

Biden administration weighs Ukrainian requests for access to US stockpile of controversial cluster munitions

Ukrainian officials and lawmakers have in recent months urged the Biden administration and members of Congress to provide the Ukrainian military with cluster munition warheads, weapons that are banned by more than 100 countries but that Russia continues to use Read More …

UNMAS director calls for urgent acceleration of mine action efforts in Yemen

Hudaydah, 8 December 2022 – The Director of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) Ms Ilene Cohn concluded a week-long visit to Yemen where she visited Hudaydah, one of the most mine and explosive remnants of war-affected governorates in Read More …

West London barber convicted of funding terrorism

A west London barber has been found guilty of sending thousands of pounds to fund terrorist activity in Syria, following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command. Tarek Namouz, 43 (01.09.79) of west London, was arrested in May 2021 Read More …

Thailand: Yala court sentences militant boss

Yala Provincial Court has handed a jail sentence to a leader and member of a militant group that caused widespread damage in the southernmost provinces of Pattani, Yala and Narathiwat. An Internal Security Operations Command (Isoc) source yesterday said that Read More …

Ukraine: Russia-installed deputy head of Melitopol survives assassination attempt

An attempt was reportedly made on the life of a Kremlin-installed leader in the occupied city of Melitopol in southern Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region on Tuesday. Nikolai Volyk, the deputy head of Melitopol, was leaving his home when an improvised explosive Read More …

Germany launches huge operation against planners of alleged extreme-right coup

An active German soldier is among the suspects in a large-scale investigation by German authorities into an extreme-right movement allegedly planing to overthrow the state. Raids involving around 3,000 police officers were taking place in 11 of Germany’s 16 federal Read More …

Indonesia suicide bombing kills police officer; attacker leaves note criticising new criminal code

A suspected militant, angered by Indonesia’s new criminal code, killed a police officer and wounded at least 10 in a suicide bomb attack at a police station in the city of Bandung on Wednesday (Dec 7), authorities said. The suicide Read More …

Thailand: Bomb explosion kills three railway workers in Songkhla province

A bomb explosion on a railroad track killed at least three railway workers and officials as well as injured several others in southern Thailand on Tuesday, officials said, blaming separatist insurgents for the attack. The bomb was planted near the Read More …

Cambodia: Deminers urged to improve efficiency

The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) called on all demining operators improve their efficiency to guarantee the Kingdom reaches its 2025 goal of becoming mine-free. CMAA first vice-president Ly Thuch made the call at a December 5 Read More …

Afghanistan: At least 7 killed and 6 injured in explosion in Mazar-e-Sharif

Security officials in the northern Afghan province of Balkh said that an explosion in Mazar-e-Sharif, the provincial capital of Balkh, on Tuesday resulted in at least 7 fatalities and 6 injuries. According to the sources, a roadside mine detonation in Read More …

UK: Doomsday ‘prepper’ turned room into bomb factory, jury told

A self-styled Doomsday “prepper” turned his home into an explosives factory and set off devices in the garden, a court has been told. Simon Pilgrim, 41, from Derby, was arrested last December when police raided his accommodation in a multi-occupancy Read More …