All news on the topic: Terror attacks

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Top fear for Paris 2024 Olympics is Islamist terror attack, says police chief
“There is no clear-cut threat yet against the Games,” police chief added.
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ISIS warns of Eiffel Tower drone attack in chilling Paris Olympics threat
Supporters of Islamic State have issued a call for ‘lone wolves’ to carry out drone strikes on Paris during the 2024 Olympics.
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Alarming map depicts regions of Britain at risk of devastation in a hypothetical Russian nuclear strike
A shocking map has shown the devastating impact a nuclear attack could have across the UK - with millions dead, third-degree burns and cities completely destroyed
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The coroner’s conclusion in the Reading attacks inquest: Deaths were avoidable
The deaths of three men murdered by a man convicted under anti-terror laws in a Reading park were avoidable, an inquest has concluded.
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The FBI director has issued a serious warning about a potential terrorist attack in the US, stating that the threat level is at an unprecedented level
FBI director Christopher Wray has issued a stark warning that a ’coordinated terror attack’ could happen at a public place in the US as the terrorism threat is at an all-time high
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A 15-year-old boy has been sentenced to seven years in custody for his involvement in a terror attack plot targeting the Isle of Wight Festival
A teen appeared at Kingston Crown Court in southwest London after he obtained a weapon as part of his terror attack plans - police have warned how terrorist groups target those who are ’extremely vulnerable’
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Grand National security ’planning for worst case scenario’ at Aintree as terror attack ’likely’
Extra security measures have been introduced for the Grand National at Aintree Racecourse in Merseyside after Animal Rising’s protest last year – as well as increased risk of a terror attack in the UK
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Russia’s migrants and ethnic minorities shiver at new Putin terror crackdown
After deadly Moscow terror attack, authorities have targeted vulnerable scapegoats.
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Euro 2024 terror warning to England fans after ISIS Moscow attack and kamikaze drones raise ‘dangers to new level’
Germany will host 23 other nations - including England and Scotland during the month-long 51-game football showpiece
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UK should ’absolutely’ be concerned about threat of Islamic State after Moscow terror attack
Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said European countries must “remain vigilant” after 137 were killed in an assault that suggests the jihadist group still maintains the capacity for major atrocities
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Vladimir Putin rubbished UK & US warnings about ‘imminent terror attack’ in Moscow just 3 days before concert massacre
Watch The Sun’s Foreign Editor Nick Parker explain the horrific events last night in Moscow
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At least 82 people dead including 3 children as ‘ISIS’ gunmen storm & set fire to concert hall in Moscow terror attack
AT least 82 people have been killed and over 100 wounded after "ISIS" gunmen stormed a concert hall in a bloody massacre on the outskirts of Moscow.
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Scientist's warning for events after creating drone 'capable of hunting people'
Drones could one day be used by terrorists to target major events and 'hunt people' - as a scientist showed how AI could be used to make it target humans on the ground
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Lee Rigby's widow calls on politicians to stop fuelling anti-Muslim hate
Rebecca Rigby, whose soldier husband was murdered in a terror attack in Woolwich in 2013, has signed a joint letter calling for an end to hatred towards Muslims
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Student who planned to kill 50 people made sick plan from his mum's back bedroom
Wannabe revolutionary Jacob Graham, 19, from Norris Green in Liverpool, had collected a stash of chemicals and manuals on weapons, bombs and poisons, police said
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Labour's Rochdale by-election candidate apologises for 'offensive' Israel claims
Azhar Ali, who is standing for Labour in the Rochdale by-election this month, said his remarks about the October 7 attacks were 'deeply offensive, ignorant and false'
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General warns West is facing new ISIS ‘War on Terror’ after Middle East carnage
Fears are mounting about whether Britain and The US will be forced into a wider conflict and face attacks on their soil after fighting erupted across multiple fronts this winter.
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NHS doctor begs UK government to save his family in Gaza after 120 days of war
NHS consultant Salim’s parents, eight siblings and 15 nieces and nephews are among hundreds of thousands who fled to Rafah. The city is the crossing point between Gaza and Egypt but they cannot leave as they are not UK citizens
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Sobbing probation officer 'didn't know' Reading terrorist had killed before
Laura Rixon, probation officer for Reading terror attacker Khairi Saadallah, has admitted she was unknowingly “managing an unconvicted murderer” before he killed three people, an inquest heard
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The scandal behind Woolworths from bombings to fires and fatalities
Much-loved high street store Woolworths shut its doors for the final time 15 years ago but it fought many dramatic battles to try and survive and there was even loss of life along the way
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23-year-old 9/11 mystery is finally solved following victim's DNA breakthrough
New York City medical examiner's office identified the man as John Ballantine Niven, a 44-year-old executive at Aon Risk Services, an insurance firm on the 105th floor of tower two of the trade center complex
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Boy, 15, 'planned Isle of Wight terror attack and wanted to stab his teacher'
Police arrested a schoolboy with a kitchen knife in his rucksack, who allegedly intended to use the blade in a vicious attack on one of his teachers who made a joke about pork
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Teen Muslim convert 'looked up weapons and Isle of Wight festival as target'
The teen who had Osama Bin Laden as his phone screensaver left handwritten notes for his family in case anything happened to him, the court was told
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Reading terror attack victim's brother tells inquest 'time has stood still'
Joseph Ritchie-Bennett, 39, was killed alongside James Furlong, 36, and David Wails, 49, in June 2020 by Khairi Saadallah. A full inquest into their deaths began at the Old Bailey on today
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'I survived a plane bomb that left me falling 33000ft without a parachute'
Air hostess Vesna Vulović was the only person to survive when the JAT Yugoslav Airlines plane she was working on was blown out of the skies by a suspected terrorist bomb in 1972