A police officer has been stabbed in the Houses of Parliament in central London, in what police are treating as a terrorist incident, the BBC reports. Commons Leader David Lidington told MPs the “alleged assailant was shot by armed police”. There are also reports of as many as five people being “mowed down” on nearby…
Category: Security
Russia, France towards Syrian talks
Russian Foreign Ministers Sergei Lavrov and his French counterpart Jean-Marc Ayrault have agreed to cooperate in preparing the intra-Syrian talks in Geneva, the Russian Foreign Ministry said on Saturday. #SYRIA Report of the Russian Centre for reconciliation of opposing sides (March,18th) https://t.co/eatogHylpn pic.twitter.com/uwd3kpg2ar — Минобороны России (@mod_russia) March 18, 2017 “The ministers have agreed…
EU and Russia for common approach towards Libyan conflict
“… Russia being a very important permanent member of the Security Council, my assessment has been that Russia has always been highly involved in the discussions but also in the work on the Libyan file but this is more for the UN Representative (Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the United Nations Support Mission…
IS agent arrested in Spain
On 15 March 2017, the Spanish Guardia Civil supported by Europol, arrested in Girona, Spain, a Moroccan national suspected of helping finance the terrorist group Islamic State (IS). The arrested, aged 43, was under investigation for participating, along with two of his brothers arrested in July 2016, in a complex financial scheme which involved sending funds…
Suspect IS child-fighters in Chechnya
For the first time, severe repressive measures were applied to minors attending Islamic schools (‘medrese’), which in the Chechen Republic in recent years became numerous, – reports ‘Novaya Gazeta’, Russia. The human rights activists inform about 200 jailed, suspected in sympathies to the Islamic state, including children, detained for direct and indirect participation in attacks…
Operation Portu aganist firearms trafficking
The Spanish National Police has exposed the arsenal of war seized in January in Spain during operation Portu, supported by Europol. Over 10 000 assault rifles, anti-aerial machine guns, 400 shells and grenades, as well as pistols, revolvers and parts to reactivate weapons, have been catalogued. Huge firearms depot seized during operation Portu with Spanish…
Boris Johnson suspects Russia in a range of cybercrimes
The UK Foreign secretary Boris Johnson told there is “plenty of evidence” that Russia has the ability to disrupt British politics with cyber-attacks, following some reports that intelligence experts are to brief political parties on defence methods against hacking from Moscow. Johnson due to meet his Russian counterpart in March, said there was little doubt…
Russian submarine exercise
The Russian Northern Fleet’s submarines Yuri Dolgoruky and Obninsk held an exercise to fire torpedoes against an underwater target, the fleet’s press office reported on Friday via the Russian state agency ITAR-TASS. “The crews of the strategic missile cruiser Yuri Dolgoruky and the multipurpose nuclear submarine Obninsk performed this exercise in a duel option,” the…
Europol crack on Albania and Romania organized crime
Four individuals have been arrested as a result of a joint investigation between the Belgian and Romanian Police, supported by Europol, against a mobile organised crime group specialised in house burglaries. Up to now, the criminal gang is suspected of being involved in 40 different house burglaries with a prejudice estimated at more than EUR…
Gadget-spy dual use
Televisions, smartphones and Internet-connected vehicles are all vulnerable to CIA hacking, according to the Wikileaks documents released Tuesday. Crowd-sourced find in #Vault7 discovers CIA tool to make Android phones bulk-spy on WiFi networks around them https://t.co/GRqriXMU4H pic.twitter.com/cNfEIv4qLP — WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) March 7, 2017 The capabilities described include recording the sounds, images and the private text…
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