France: An incendiary device explodes outside the Russian Consulate in Marseille

A suspect threw an incendiary device that exploded outside the Russian Consulate in Marseille early Monday, authorities said, on the third anniversary of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. No injuries were reported. A second device, also thrown against the consulate’s outer Read More …

Thailand: Twenty-three people, including seven police officers, injured in bomb explosion in Yala

Twenty-three people, including seven police officers, were injured in a bomb explosion near a supermarket in Bannang Sata district, Yala province, on late Sunday. Bannang Sata Police chief Col. Pol. Ranon Surawit said the explosion occurred at 8.20pm local time Read More …

Bulgarian nationalists vandalise EU building in protest against plans to join eurozone

Police in Bulgaria’s capital have clashed with nationalist protesters who are demanding the government scrap plans to bring the country into the eurozone. Around 1,000 protesters gathered in front of the Sofia office of the European Commission, the European Union’s Read More …

German police arrest Syrian refugee after stabbing at Berlin Holocaust memorial

Authorities in Berlin have detained a teenage Syrian refugee after a man was stabbed near the city’s Holocaust Memorial late Friday – as divisive rhetoric swells over Germany’s immigration policy, ahead of a consequential national election. The 19-year-old suspect was Read More …

France: One dead, several wounded after stabbing in Mulhouse

At least one person has died and two police officers have been seriously injured in a stabbing incident in eastern France, according to local media reports, with the alleged perpetrator taken into police custody. The incident took place shortly before Read More …

Israel: Bat Yam residents shaken by coordinated explosions

Residents of Bat Yam were left shaken on Thursday night after two explosions rocked empty buses in separate parking lots in the city. Security forces, including the Israel Police and the Shin Bet (Israel Security Agency), launched an investigation, treating Read More …

Italy prosecutors open terrorism probe into oil tanker blasts

Italian authorities opened a terrorism investigation into explosions last weekend that damaged an oil tanker off northern Italy, in the latest of four such incidents in the Mediterranean and Baltic seas in the past month, the chief prosecutor of the Read More …

Florida man allegedly killed wife with homemade bomb inside car after argument

Shocking footage shows the moment a car exploded in Florida, killing a woman who police believe was targeted by her husband. Doorbell footage obtained by NBC 6 shows that the car was parked on a road in the Miami suburbs Read More …

Mexico: Jalisco Cartel using fake bodyguard job ads to recruit ex Colombian soldiers to produce landmines

The Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación (CJNG) is actively recruiting Colombian soldiers in order to handle the installation and production of explosives, more concretely landmines, according to testimony from a former Colombian soldier. The former member of Colombia’s armed forces was Read More …

Myanmar: Nine injured in landmine blast in Tanintharyi region

Nine people, including children, were injured in a landmine explosion in southern Myanmar’s Tanintharyi region on Tuesday (Feb 18). The attack carried out by terrorists occurred at around 2.10pm local time on Tuesday, when a light truck carrying civilians was Read More …

Nigeria: Two dead, dozens injured in Zamfara market explosion

Two victims of the gunpowder explosion that rocked the Talata Mafara weekly market in Zamfara State have died while receiving treatment at the Usmanu Danfodiyo University Teaching Hospital, Sokoto. The deceased, Muhammad Lawal Matusgi and Sani Adamu Kanarkalgo were among Read More …

UK: Protesters climb on top of arms factory gatehouse

Six people have been arrested after a protest at an Israeli-owned arms factory. Protesters from Palestine Action climbed onto the gatehouse of Armstrong Works on Newcastle’s Scotswood Road and dumped rubble in front of the building’s gates to prevent access. Northumbria Read More …

Pakistan: Remote-controlled bomb blast in DI Khan kills two security personnel, injures six

A remote-controlled bomb blast in Tehsil Kulachi claimed the lives of two security personnel and left six others injured on Bypass Road near Loni Bridge. According to sources, the security forces’ vehicle was targeted by a bomb placed under the Read More …

Benin: Militant attack kills six soldiers

A militant attack on an army position has killed six soldiers in northern Benin, where government troops are trying to curb cross-border assaults by armed Islamist groups, an army spokesperson said. The encounter on Saturday also left 17 militants dead, Read More …

India: CRPF CoBRA personnel injured in IED blast by Maoists in Bijapur district

A personnel of the CRPF’s CoBRA unit was injured after an improvised explosive device (IED) planted by Maoists went off in Chhattisgarh’s Bijapur district, police said on Saturday. The blast occurred on Friday evening when a team from the 202nd Read More …

Pakistan: IED defused near mosque adjacent to police station in Bannu

A locally made improvised explosive device (IED) was recovered from near a mosque on the premises of Ghoriwala Police Station here on Saturday. The timely intervention by the Bomb Disposal Unit averted a potential catastrophe. Police sources said that the Read More …

Ukraine: Three Mine Action Center personnel killed in Mykolaiv terrorist attack

On February 14, a terrorist attack in Mykolaiv claimed the lives of three service members from the Mine Action Center — Vadym Yelisieiev, Olena Kliuchnikova, and Yevhenii Siryk. The Mine Action Center announced their deaths in a Facebook post. According Read More …

Lebanese authorities arrest 25 after attack on UN peacekeepers

Lebanese authorities arrested more than 25 people on Saturday following an attack on a United Nations convoy that wounded two peacekeepers the day before, the interior minister said in a statement. UN and Lebanese officials have condemned Friday’s attack, which Read More …

Austria: Man stabs 5 people in Villach killing 14-year-old in what police describe as a random attack

A 23-year-old man stabbed five passersby in southern Austria on Saturday in what police said was a random attack that left a 14-year-old dead and four others injured. The suspect was detained in the city of Villach, where the attack Read More …

Spain: Authorities arrest fugitive responsible for 2017 bomb explosion in Florence

The anarchist Salvatore Vespertino, a fugitive since July 2023 who had been missing since February of the same year, was captured tonight in the Spanish city of Vallecas (Madrid). The anarchist, arrested today by the Spanish National Police, was sentenced Read More …