Britain faces a new and dangerous form of extremism, Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Tuesday, warning that loners and misfits were being radicalized by “a tidal wave of violence freely available online.” In a speech at Downing Street, Mr. Starmer said that unlike the terrorist threat posed by organized groups like Al Qaeda, where […]

After his expulsion, Mr. Rudakubana was enrolled at the Acorns School in Lancashire, which caters to children with special needs, and at Presfield High School and Specialist College. But he struggled to integrate, the safeguarding agency said, a situation that worsened after the pandemic began in 2020 and schools closed. Despite professionals’ efforts to engage […]

The trial began on Monday for Axel Rudakubana, 18, who is accused of carrying out a knife attack at a dance class last July in the northern English town of Southport that left three children dead and 10 other people injured. Mr. Rudakubana faces three charges of murder for the deaths of Bebe King, 6, […]

An unidentified gunman killed two high-profile judges outside Iran’s Supreme Court on Saturday in what the authorities are calling a terrorist attack, according to state-run media. The attacker opened fire on a square near the Supreme Court headquarters in the capital, Tehran, the Islamic Republic News Agency reported. The judges, Ali Razini and Mohammad Moqiseh, […]

One man was known as a killer, sentenced to life in prison in 2009 for killing a 16-year-old London student in a gruesome confrontation at a bakery. The other man was a balaclava-wearing rapper from South London, known as TEN, whose music in the drill genre about prison life, crime and bloodshed had gained him […]

More than two years after he was ensnared in a murder conspiracy case, a young man was freed from prison on Wednesday after Britain’s Court of Appeal found that the authorities had misidentified him in a video. The man, Ademola Adedeji, 21, was among 10 young Black men from Manchester whom prosecutors had accused of […]

A Thai court issued an arrest warrant for an adviser to the Cambodian strongman Hun Sen on Wednesday, charging him with hiring others to commit “premeditated murder” in the brazen killing of a former Cambodian opposition politician in Bangkok last week. The warrant was the strongest indication so far that Lim Kimya, who was gunned […]

The killer was waiting by a noodle stand on Tuesday afternoon, on a busy street in Bangkok, with foreign backpackers milling around. When the bus traveling from the border with Cambodia pulled up, he strolled toward it, video footage released by the Thai police showed. Three shots rang out, like firecrackers, witnesses said. Then the […]

A gunman was arrested after killing a security guard and injuring another person outside the Honduran consulate near Atlanta on Monday afternoon, officials said. A suspect was taken into custody at the scene, and the police believe there are no other threats to the public, said Emily Heenan, the spokeswoman for the city of Doraville, […]

A fresh injection of about 150 foreign officers arrived in Haiti this weekend to bolster an international security force charged with reigning in the powerful and well-armed gangs that have inflicted so much misery on the country for months. But if the past is any guide this latest infusion is unlikely to make much of […]