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French police detain brothers over ‘lethal and antisemitic’ plot

March 16, 2026 World Justice News 0

French anti-terror prosecutors have opened an investigation into two brothers suspected of plotting a “lethal and antisemitic” attack. They say the men – described as Moroccan-Italian nationals aged 20 and 22 – were picked up […]

TikTok fined millions for illegally sending users’ data to China

May 3, 2025 World Justice News 0

TikTok has been fined €530m (£452m) because it was illegally sending user data to China, Ireland’s privacy watchdog said on Friday. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission found the social media app’s data transfers to China broke strict data […]

Afghan man arrested in alleged US election day attack plot

October 9, 2024 World Justice News 0

The US Department of Justice has arrested a man who allegedly planned an attack on Election Day in the name of the Islamic State group. The suspect, Nasir Ahmad Tawhedi, 27, is a citizen of […]

Belgium detains two far-right terror suspects

November 11, 2023 World Justice News 0

Anti-terrorism police in Belgium have detained two suspected members of a far-right group accused of plotting bomb attacks and inciting violence. The pair, a man and a woman in their early 20s, were picked up […]

Police in Paris shoot woman after she ‘threatened to blow herself up’ and allegedly made death threats on a train

November 1, 2023 World Justice News 0

Police shot a woman in Paris after she allegedly threatened to blow herself up and made death threats on a train. Two police officers together fired eight shots, seriously injuring the woman, after stopping her […]

Six held in far-right group National Action investigation

January 3, 2018 World Justice News 0

Six people have been arrested on suspicion of being members of the banned far-right group National Action. Five men from Cambridge, Banbury, Wolverhampton, Leicester and Stockport, and a woman from Banbury were detained by police […]

Human Rights

Patients in chains rescued from suspected illegal rehab centre in South Africa

October 16, 2026 0

A pastor and his wife have been arrested in South Africa after 200 people, some in chains, were found held at a suspected illegal rehabilitation centre in the north-eastern part of the country. The facility, […]

Human Rights

UK threatens to ban Eritreans over migrant return policy

October 15, 2026 0

Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has threatened to ban all Eritreans from entering the UK if the east African country’s government does not accept more returns of small boat migrants and foreign national offenders. From Thursday, […]

Human Rights

Report finds ‘clear human rights failures’ in southern Scotland

October 7, 2026 0

A new report has found “clear human rights failures” across the south of Scotland with basic obligations on food, health and housing not being met. The study was carried out over eight different local authority […]