A man has been charged with attempted murder after an 11-year-old girl was stabbed in Leicester Square.
Ioan Pintaru, 32, of no fixed address, has also been charged with possession of a bladed article and was remanded in custody to appear at Westminster magistrates court on Tuesday morning.more
An 11-year-old girl and 34-year-old woman have been stabbed in London's Leicester Square.
In a post on X, external, the Met Police said a man had been arrested and taken into custody, adding the force does not believe there are "any outstanding suspects".more
The police detained 8 people suspected of causing a false bomb alarm on board a plane flying from Warsaw to Newark in the United States, as a result of which the plane was turned back, the Warsaw police said yesterday.more
In the UK, the first people who fuelled the riots sweeping the country in recent days with their social media posts were sentenced to prison terms yesterday.more
Reports of antisemitic incidents in the UK in the first half of this year have reached another record high, according to figures from a Jewish security charity. From January to June 2024, the Community Security Trust (CST) recorded reports of 1,978 anti-Jewish hate incidents, up from 964 in the first half of 2023.more
The Pole was sentenced by a court in Copenhagen to four months in prison and expulsion from Denmark for attacking the country's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen. The incident occurred in early June in the center of the Danish capital.more
When asked for an explanation, the man is said to have apologised, saying he wanted to leave a mark of the family’s visit to the world-famous Unesco World Heritage site.more
Canadian police have arrested a 33-year-old Polish citizen who posted online threats against Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The man has been charged with two counts of making criminal threats, police said in a news release published Tuesday night.more
The police detained a 46-year-old man from Kraśnik (Lubelskie Voivodeship), wanted on a European Arrest Warrant, convicted of, among others, for stolen goods, car thefts and burglaries. The man was hiding in Great Britain, the police said.more
More than 500 new prison places will be made available to ensure those taking part in rioting and disorder on UK streets can be jailed, the government said. It comes after days of violence and unrest across parts of the UK following the fatal stabbing of three girls in Southport last week.more
The former head of counter-terrorism policing says some violence during the riots has “crossed the line into terrorism”. Neil Basu, who held the top counter-terror job between 2018 and 2021, said: “I hope my successors are looking at that very closely.”more
A 39-year-old Polish citizen living in Denmark will stand trial in Copenhagen today charged with assaulting Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen, Reuters reported.more
Yesterday, on the seventh day of protests sweeping across Great Britain following the killing of three young girls, the most serious riots broke out in Plymouth and Birmingham. In the event of further riots, an army of specialized officers is on standby, said British Prime Minister Keir Starmer after a meeting of the government's crisis council.more
Yesterday, violent riots broke out again in several British cities following the killing of three girls in Southport near Liverpool. Prime Minister Keir Starmer assured that the police have the full support of the government in taking action against extremists.more
A police station and a car set on fire, three police officers injured and eight people arrested so far - these are the results of the riots that erupted last night in Sunderland in northeast England following Monday's murder of three girls in Southport near Liverpool.more
A man has been arrested after a van drove into several gates at Government Buildings in Dublin. Gardai are also investigating an incident of criminal damage at Dublin’s Phoenix Park where the official residence of Ireland’s President, Michael D Higgins, is located.more
A Russian fake news website fueled the riots that broke out after a knifeman killed three girls in Southport by spreading false information that the perpetrator came to Great Britain illegally and was under MI6 surveillance, the Daily Mail revealed yesterday.more
Christopher Dunn of Missouri walked out of a St Louis prison after 34 years when his murder conviction was overturned. He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of applying for parole.more
The now famous former presenter of the British public broadcaster BBC Huw Edwards pleaded guilty in a London court yesterday to three charges of possessing sexually explicit images and videos of children, including sexual acts involving children.more
There was a riot last night in front of the gate leading to Downing Street, where the British Prime Minister's residence is located. Participants in a protest organised in the wake of Monday's knife attack in Southport threw flares outside the gate, with police using tear gas against them.more
The threat from international and domestic terror presents a “breadth of challenge greater than it has ever been”, according to senior US and UK police officers who oversaw the successful prosecution of Anjem Choudary.more
An organized criminal group led by a man from Poland is suspected of transporting to Finland and marketing an "exceptionally large" amount of drugs and substances for their production, as well as legal highs, the police said yesterday.more
Thirty-nine police officers have been injured after unrest broke out in Southport hours after a vigil took place to remember the victims of a knife attack in which three children were killed, the North West Ambulance Service said.more
