The Niger State government said it is deploying resources to rescue 15 female Islamiya pupils abducted by bandits over the weekend, while the school’s proprietor insists that no concrete steps have been taken on the ground. Aminu Abubakar Bako said that no government official had visited the community and that the bandits had demanded a ransom of 100 million nairas. The bandits called on Monday, saying the pupils were still safe but warning that their safety could not be guaranteed if the payment was delayed.
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The national president of the Nigeria Union of Mining Workers (NUMW), Musa Adamu Nasiru, told the inquiry commission that six of the miners who died in the custody of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) were registered members of the union. The president of the Niger Miners Association, Abdulrazak Yusuf Mohammed, told the same commission that he was informed that 65 people were in detention, that only 17 survived and that forty-eight died in custody. In Niger State, thirty-seven people accused of illegal mining died in NSCDC custody, according to Nigerian authorities.
One person died, three were injured and five excavators were set on fire at Chenxi Mine Site Four in the Wanderer mining area of Shurugwi during an outbreak of violence, according to 263Chat, in a text republished by AllAfrica. Zimbabwe Republic Police spokesperson Commissioner Paul Nyathi said investigations into the violence that occurred on the night of November 2 are under way and that more details will be released as the probe advances. What triggered the incident and whether any arrests have been made remained unclear.
Indonesian police detained three senior police generals suspected of illegally wiretapping President Prabowo Subianto. According to Reuters, in a text published by KTWB, the president’s recently appointed chief of staff, Listyo Sigit Prabowo, is among those detained. According to the police, the three illegally intercepted the phones of the president, state officials, political figures, business people, journalists and organizations between 2025 and this year, and the government says the investigation is at an early stage, with no motive established and no evidence linking the suspects to treason.
An understanding between pro-government and opposition senators cleared the way for a vote on a proposal to lower the age of criminal responsibility this Wednesday (4), one day after approval of the Public Security Constitutional Amendment Proposal (PEC). The move, however, faces disagreements inside the Workers’ Party (PT), as lawmakers debate different criteria for holding teenagers criminally responsible.
The Senate plenary approved in two rounds on Tuesday the Proposed Constitutional Amendment (PEC) on Public Security, keeping the version sent by the Chamber of Deputies and leaving out the reduction of the age of criminal responsibility. The vote was 73 to zero in the first round and 75 to zero in the second. The proposal writes the Unified Public Security System (Susp) into the Constitution, a system created by law in 2018 that provides for coordination among security agencies at different levels of government. At least 49 votes in favor were required in each round to approve the constitutional change.
Sheikh Yahaya Masussuka, an Islamic cleric respected in Katsina, was shot dead by two armed men on a motorcycle outside his home in Dutsin-Ma, northern Nigeria, last week. The group Ansaru claimed responsibility for the killing in a four-minute video obtained by Nigerian newspaper Premium Times, in a report republished by AllAfrica.
San Diego's Registrar of Voters was evacuated on November 2 over a suspected bomb threat, the day before the midterm elections, according to the Hindustan Times. The evacuation order was lifted within about two and a half hours and the affected streets were reopened.
Jordan’s King Abdullah II said the kingdom would not be shaken by a deadly attack on a church in the western city of Karak last month. The attack, two weeks ago, hit an Orthodox church in Karak Province, in the west of the country, and left nine people dead and about 40 wounded.
Japan launched a new national agency to boost its disaster response. Reconstruction Minister Goshi Hosono, newly named to serve concurrently as disaster management minister, spoke at a press conference at the National Disaster Management Agency in Tokyo on November 2, 2026.
Police said on Sunday that five people were killed in two separate incidents in India’s northeastern state of Manipur, as fresh ethnic violence erupted in the conflict-hit region. Officials said on Monday that the deaths occurred in the Kangpokpi and Noney districts.
Heavily armed police officers have started patrolling Sydney's streets with assault rifles, part of heightened security measures following last year's deadly shooting at Bondi Beach. 15 people, including a 10-year-old girl, were killed in December when two gunmen opened fire on an event marking the Jewish festival of Hanukkah at the beach. The rifle patrols are an Australian first.
Japan has asked the US for thorough discipline enforcement after Marine Kalvin Montoya Cardona was arrested in Okinawa on suspicion of drunk driving during curfew hours — caught at around 12:25 a.m. on Saturday with twice the legal blood-alcohol limit, according to Kyodo News.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said on Sunday that an underage Russian national was detained over a threat to carry out a terrorist attack in Moscow’s Tsaritsyno Park, after Russia received a tip-off from the United States, The Moscow Times reported.
French prosecutors opened an investigation into attempted murder after Molotov cocktails were thrown at security forces during Saturday’s protests in Paris, according to Al Jazeera. The prosecutor’s office said that “explosive devices were thrown at around 15 gendarmes as well as police officers,” referring to military police officers who are part of the French armed forces, and that no suspects had been arrested at this stage. The gendarmerie said 13 members of the injured officer’s unit were hurt, and the interior ministry counted more than 770 arrests across France.
The Catholic priest Samir Daou was murdered in his home and stabbed more than 20 times, and robbed of his personal possessions, including his wallet, car and clothes, according to the Jerusalem Post. Daou's family found his body inside a house he owned in Ain Jrain, in the Jbeil district, with visible traces of blood, L'Orient Today reported. The killing sparked sectarian outrage and calls for the deportation of Syrians, according to Lebanese media reports.
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said this Sunday that an underage Russian national was detained over a threat to carry out a terrorist attack in Moscow’s Tsaritsyno Park, after Russia received a tip-off from the United States, according to the Interfax news agency, cited by The Moscow Times. The FSB said, according to Reuters, that it was “grateful to the American side for providing the information”.
Newark police are investigating a shooting in the area of East Main Street and Choate Street, near the University of Delaware campus, on October 31 at about 11:13 p.m., according to the Newark Police Department. The department said there does not appear to be an ongoing threat to public safety related to the incident and that Main Street is closed from Library Avenue to Academy Street during the investigation. The university sent an emergency alert asking people to avoid the area. No details had been released on injuries or arrests.
The US Embassy in Moscow warned on Saturday of a “credible threat” of a mass-casualty incident at the Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in the Russian capital, according to the Hindustan Times. Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said it had received information from the US through established cooperation channels about a possible terrorist attack in Moscow.
Greece arrested two Greek men and an Albanian national suspected of stealing copper gas pipes from a building, causing a leak that led to a deadly explosion in central Athens last month — six people were killed in the September 25 blast in the tourist district of Plaka, four of them Americans, authorities said, as cited by Reuters in a text republished by Marketscreener.
Peru’s president, Keiko Fujimori, arrived on Wednesday night in El Salvador for a four-day official visit, with a meeting with President Nayib Bukele and a tour of the Terrorism Confinement Center (Cecot). Fujimori, who took office on July 28 and had said during the campaign that she wanted to build a Salvadoran-style prison, is visiting the Cecot just over a week after the Costa Rican president’s tour of the megaprison.
Colombia’s president, Abelardo de la Espriella, ordered on Thursday the temporary militarization of Cúcuta, on the border with Venezuela, amid a wave of violence and killings by illegal groups, a city that in recent days saw the murder of a mayoral hopeful and a bombing that left four police officers wounded.
France’s Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez warned of a very high risk of public disorder and announced the deployment of around 70,000 police officers for a new wave of protests this weekend, according to Le Monde. Demonstrations will be allowed, but not in city centers where there is a risk of public disorder, with a pledge of an extremely firm response, also according to Le Monde.
France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office confirmed Thursday that Kevin T., 39, had been formally charged with murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, after admitting he targeted people who appeared to be Muslim, African or North African, according to Al Jazeera. Last Friday he fired from his car at people in the towns of Trappes and La Verrière, west of Paris, killing one and wounding seven others, including a child; most of the victims had foreign heritage.
The intelligence department of Sistan and Baluchestan province said it dismantled four terrorist cells and arrested 16 people in the center and south of the province, some of whom came from abroad, according to Mehr News. Security forces seized nine Kalashnikov rifles, two US-made M4 rifles and seven pistols with ammunition.
The leak site Distributed Denial of Secrets released data on more than 40,000 Department of Homeland Security employees, including details about officials working in sensitive fields such as surveillance and human intelligence, according to the Jerusalem Post. The data include job titles and email groups that show which agents were assigned to special operations, surveillance jobs, computer forensics and undercover work, according to Reuters.
Serbian police killed an attacker outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade on Wednesday after an officer was targeted in a “terrorist attack”, outgoing Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said, according to Le Monde. Dacic said the terrorism threat level had been raised to its highest, the “red alert”, which means tighter security checks and an increased police presence at sensitive sites, including infrastructure facilities and places where large crowds gather.
El Salvador sent about 1,000 troops to Haiti after four Salvadorean members of a UN-backed security mission went missing in a gang ambush on the outskirts of the capital on October 18, according to the South China Morning Post.
At least 62 people were killed in a gun attack attributed to armed criminals locally known as “bandits” in northeastern Nigeria, the country’s emergency agency said on Tuesday, according to the Times of India. According to the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), the gunmen attacked Binnari community in the Karim-Lamido local government area of Taraba State on October 24.
A man was detained in Tel Aviv on Tuesday on suspicion of stabbing the Democrats' Chairman Yair Golan during a campaign tour to encourage voter turnout at HaMesila Park, according to the Jerusalem Post. At the man's “threatening approach,” Golan's security detail intercepted him and a large knife fell to the ground from inside his jacket. The man was arrested after approaching the center-left party leader with a knife, according to the Middle East Eye.
A car was deliberately driven into a group of people in Neustadt am Ruebenberge, a town in northern Germany near Hanover, shortly before midnight on Monday, leaving four to five people with injuries ranging from minor to severe, a police spokesperson said, according to Reuters, in a report published by WHBL.
Two men have been charged with national security offences after an investigation into a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford in the UK, according to the Guardian. One of them, a 24-year-old man, was charged with assisting a foreign intelligence service, the BBC reported. The charges were brought under the National Security Act, according to the BBC.
Jordanian security forces arrested on Monday three suspects in the shooting attack during a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church on Friday in the village of Hamoud, Karak governorate, which killed nine people, according to Jordanian state television cited by The Jerusalem Post. The attack also left 25 people wounded, according to TRT World.
Interpol will seek approval at its general assembly in Hong Kong next month for a new “silver notice” system to track and seize criminals' assets and speed up financial investigations into transnational crime, according to the South China Morning Post.
Police in Taraba state said unknown gunmen raided the village of Binnari in northeast Nigeria on Friday, killing at least 10 people, looting shops and setting houses ablaze, the BBC reported. Police said they recovered 10 bodies with gunshot wounds and warned the death toll could still rise as officers kept searching the nearby bush. Survivors who spoke to Agence France-Presse (AFP) said they had counted at least 20 dead. Amnesty International's Nigeria director, Isa Sanusi, told the BBC that bereaved families the organisation spoke to said up to 50 people had died, and that the initial funeral had 37 people.
City councillor Iara Pimentel, of the Workers’ Party (PT), from Montes Claros, in Minas Gerais state, was hospitalized on the night of Saturday 24 after being hit in the face by a stone thrown by Bolsonarist militants, according to Carta Capital. She was taking part in a campaign event by Workers’ Party members in her hometown when she was struck.
A 31-year-old gold trader spent almost 36 hours in a bunker in Trujillo, northern Peru, built in the basement of a house in a residential neighborhood, with no natural light or ventilation and oxygen tanks keeping the captive alive, according to El País. Jenss Lara's statement to the Attorney General's Office, obtained by the newspaper, describes men posing as police officers who handcuffed him and took him to a cell with a steel door and a digital lock. Gangs such as Los Pulpos, which emerged in the city, have turned extorting “protection money” from merchants into a criminal enterprise, and the kidnappings target million-dollar ransoms. Trujillo has been under a state of emergency since 2024, and the fight against crime was a central theme of the campaign that helped Keiko Fujimori win the presidency in June.
A United States Marine was indicted over the robbery and murder of a woman in Okinawa, according to Kyodo News.
Nigerian police said on Saturday that 10 bodies had been recovered as of Friday evening after a large group of gunmen on motorcycles attacked Binnari village in Taraba State in eastern Nigeria. Survivors told the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency that at least 20 people were killed, and Amnesty International said in a statement on Saturday that the death toll was 40.
The identity of the three gunmen who opened fire at a church in Jordan's Karak governorate on Friday, killing eight people and injuring dozens according to the Jordanian Ministry of Health, has not been confirmed, and government statements refer to them as “unknown assailants”. Security forces are still searching for them.
France is set to deploy more than 70,000 police officers and gendarmes for a new round of protests against deteriorating school conditions and the rising cost of living, according to Al Jazeera. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said police had arrested 135 people and seized a variety of weapons as they deployed for nationwide demonstrations, according to DW. President Emmanuel Macron condemned what he called a “racist terrorist attack” after a gunman opened fire from a car west of Paris on Friday, killing one person, wounding a 12-year-old girl and injuring four others.
Italy has sent 500 additional soldiers to Milan, on top of hundreds already stationed there, to support about 5,000 police and other law enforcement personnel ahead of new protests, according to the Associated Press (AP), in text published by The Times of Israel. Authorities are conducting drone surveillance, checks at railway stations and online monitoring for potential calls to violence. Protests are scheduled on Saturday in many other European cities, from Portugal to Albania, according to the AP.
The death toll from the attack on an Orthodox church in Al-Karak, Jordan, has risen to eight after a Jordanian woman injured in the attack died in a local hospital, according to the kingdom’s Health Ministry, cited by TASS. The US embassy in Amman said security had been stepped up at malls, foreign embassies and other locations across Jordan after Friday’s attack, according to the Jerusalem Post.
Australian independent MP Helen Haines, 65, had both her legs amputated after what authorities say was a deliberate attack outside her electorate office in Wangaratta, north-east of Melbourne, on Monday, the BBC reported. Her condition has improved from critical to serious but stable. Nugent, arrested moments after he allegedly drove his Toyota LandCruiser into the MP, faces three charges — dangerous driving causing serious injury, intentionally causing serious injury, and causing harm to a Commonwealth public official.
The Louvre, the Orsay Museum, the Picasso Museum and the Grand Palais are closed on Saturday in Paris because of planned protests, France 24 reported. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez said as many as 70,000 officers will be deployed nationwide, along with helicopters, armored vehicles and water cannons.
Less than 24 hours after being stabbed in midtown Manhattan, a Chabad-Lubavitch man returned to the same street where he was attacked to help employees wrap tefillin, according to The Times of Israel. He was taken to Bellevue Hospital on Wednesday evening around 6 p.m., where medical staff assessed that he had no internal bleeding and would not need stitches. No arrests have been made, and the assailant has been described as a woman in her 40s.
Jordan declared three days of national mourning for the victims of the shooting at a funeral at a Greek Orthodox church in Karak, about 180km (110 miles) south of Amman, according to the kingdom's Petra news agency. Gunmen opened fire during the funeral on Friday, killing seven people and wounding 40 others, according to authorities cited by the Guardian.
French President Emmanuel Macron condemned as a “racist terrorist attack” the shooting that killed one person and wounded five in the Paris suburbs, including a 12-year-old girl shot eight times, according to the SCMP. The gunman fired from his car on Friday. Macron visited Trappes, the working-class town southwest of Paris where the attack took place and which is suspected of having targeted people of foreign origin. Amid protests in the country, the president met student union representatives, France 24 reported.
At least seven people were killed on Friday when two gunmen opened fire on a funeral in central Jordan, according to the country's state media, as cited by the BBC. Another 10 people were injured at the church in Karak governorate. State-owned television Al-Mamlaka reported that security forces were deployed to the Hamoud church and were pursuing two suspects who, according to reports, got out of a vehicle before opening fire. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, and Jordanian authorities have not said who was responsible.
A shooting left one person dead and four wounded on Friday in Trappes and neighboring La Verrière, west of Paris, according to TRT World. France’s National Anti-Terrorism Prosecutor’s Office said it is investigating the case as “murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise”, the outlet reported. The individual was arrested and placed in police custody, and all security forces were fully mobilized, TRT World reported. The BBC reported at least one dead and four injured in the Paris suburb.
The New York Police Department said on Thursday it was investigating the stabbing of a Jewish man the previous day as a potential hate crime, according to the Times of Israel.
Four Salvadoran soldiers with the Gang Repression Force (FRG), the UN mission that has operated in Haiti since April, have been missing since Sunday night (18), after the vehicle they were in was ambushed in the Santo neighbourhood of Croix-des-Bouquets, in greater Port-au-Prince. Four days into the operation, the soldiers have not been found. The FRG said that “several gang members were killed and others wounded during the clashes” and that four of its personnel were wounded. El Salvador’s president, Nayib Bukele, said on Wednesday (21) that the four are aviation technicians and that the Salvadoran mission in Haiti has “only pilots and technicians”, working on medical evacuation.
A mob of about 50 people beat a foreign national to death on Thursday in central Durban, a South African port city that is a flashpoint for anti-migrant sentiment, police said.
President Emmanuel Macron said only authorised union protests will be allowed in French towns and cities on Saturday, after demonstrations across the country turned violent last weekend. The Rhône prefecture decided to prohibit by decree any demonstration in the city of Lyon this Saturday, “in light of the events of 17 October”. At least 2,500 people have been arrested across France since the disorder broke out, and Macron met intelligence services and ministers on Thursday to prepare for the next national day of protests, according to the BBC.
Haiti’s government said the release of the Salvadorans kidnapped by gangs is “an absolute priority” and that all necessary resources are being mobilized, in a statement that calls the hostages “abducted soldiers”, according to AP News. El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele said on Wednesday he had launched a military operation to rescue the four Salvadoran aviation technicians kidnapped in Haiti, according to the same report.
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele announced on Wednesday that he had launched a military operation to rescue four Salvadoran aviation technicians kidnapped by gangs in Haiti, according to the Associated Press (AP). The four disappeared after an ambush by armed gangs on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, according to security officials. AP reported that after fleeing a burning vehicle in the Santo area of Croix-des-Bouquets the four were left unaccounted for; Bukele demanded the hostages be returned alive and unharmed and said the Salvadoran mission involves only pilots and technicians for medical evacuations.
Fresh curfews were imposed across the city centers of Paris and Lyon on Tuesday after the first quiet night since the worst rioting in years, adding open-ended bans to the entry-and-stay ban already applied in Paris, according to NPR. Paris police said the curfew in two zones — around Place de la République and the Les Halles shopping district — had restored public peace and would remain in place for as long as necessary, and Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said the deployment of forces for Saturday’s protests will be massive, with Sentinelle troops guarding sensitive sites.
Italy on Tuesday approved the deployment of 500 troops to Milan after violent clashes as fuel price protests hit pasta production and food deliveries in southern Italy, France 24 reported. The government also announced new security measures aimed at tackling the kind of violent protests that damaged Milan's central shopping district when weekend rioters, many of them minors, looted stores and set fire to property, AP reported. A government decree calls for the deployment of an additional 500 soldiers to Milan through the end of the year, requires parents to pay for damage caused by minors and makes it easier to prosecute minors over 14.
Paris police banned people from entering or remaining in areas around the Place de la République and in the Les Halles district from Monday night until 6 am on Tuesday, the dpa news agency reported. Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said one of the aims of the curfew is to protect people and also property, in particular shops.
The French government will reinforce police with troops and mount a large security operation for protests planned for Saturday, the government said on Tuesday, according to the South China Morning Post (SCMP). Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said “the deployment next Saturday will be massive” and that the immediate priority was to restore order after rioting and looting hit Paris, Marseille, Lyon and other cities on October 17. He also said further curfews will be imposed where necessary, according to NHK World.
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said in Parliament that the security deployment for next Saturday will be massive, acknowledging that the operation for last weekend’s protests had been too static and not mobile enough, according to France 24.
Iran's envoy said Iraq agreed to expel the anti-Iran adversary group, Mehr News reported. Tehran and Baghdad agreed on the expulsion of “anti-Iran separatist terrorists”, according to the official Iranian agency IRNA. Iran says Iraq has agreed to expel Iranian Kurdish opposition groups from the Kurdistan region, according to The National.
France saw a calm night after the first curfews and will impose new curfews in areas where needed on Tuesday, according to Agence France-Presse (AFP), in a text republished by RFI — Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said the previous day's measures helped keep the night calm and police confirmed the night passed without major incidents across the country, according to the same agency.
Australian independent MP Helen Haines, 65, underwent surgery overnight, has lost a leg and remains in critical condition in a Melbourne hospital, according to Australian media outlets. Eyewitnesses said the man accused of the attack made a U-turn before ramming her twice near her electorate office. The Australian Federal Police (AFP) said the alleged targeting appeared to be an “isolated incident” and that there were no known further threats associated with the attack.
Agents from the US Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) responded to a reported shooting at a mosque in the 2200 block of Albert Ave. in Columbus, Ohio. The shooting near the mosque left 1 dead and 1 injured, according to the Hindustan Times.
Italian police detained 271 young people in Milan on Sunday during unrest, after a second day of protests over poor public services and rising costs, authorities said, in a report by the Jerusalem Post. Of those taken to police stations, 32 were arrested, including 23 minors and 13 foreign nationals, police said on Monday.
Australian police are investigating a suspected car attack that left independent lawmaker Helen Haines in critical condition, DW reported. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese told the Australian Broadcasting Corp., according to NPR: “This wasn’t an accident. There was a deliberate act, it would appear. We don’t know what the motivation is.” Police said they found and seized a knife inside the Toyota.
Muhammad Sarwar, designated as a global terrorist by the US Treasury Department, died in Lahore, Pakistan, according to The Hindu.
At least 17 people were killed in a crush at an event in the Indian city of Kolkata to mark the Hindu festival of Durga Puja, according to the BBC; West Bengal Chief Minister Suvendhu Adhikari said 25 people were being treated for injuries and that a seven-year-old girl was among the dead. The incident occurred during sudden rainfall, which witnesses say prompted a surge of people to try to seek shelter.
A 16-year-old opened fire on Thursday at Silver Rail school in Bend, Oregon, killing three children and a teacher before being shot dead by an armed bystander, according to The Guardian. The gunman, a Bend resident, forced his way in at around 1pm by shooting at locked doors. Authorities said the children killed were aged five, eight and 11, and that a seven-year-old child and a 54-year-old teacher were hospitalized in critical condition. Police identified the gunman as Griffin J. John II, a former pupil and a special educational needs student there, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) reported.
President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva said on Thursday (15), in an interview with TV Globo, that the First Command of the Capital (PCC) and the Red Command (CV) terrorize Brazilian communities, but rejected framing the gangs as terrorist organizations in the terms backed by the US government, according to Brasil 247. Lula said he handed US President Donald Trump a written proposal for cooperation against organized crime and drug trafficking based on the experience of the Federal Police.
A 16-year-old fatally shot three children and a teacher at a primary school in the US state of Oregon, before being killed by a bystander, according to BBC News. The three children killed were aged five, eight and 11; a seven-year-old and a 54-year-old teacher were taken to hospital in critical condition, police said.
Saudi Arabia’s civil defence issued on Thursday, on social media, an early warning about “potential danger” in the kingdom’s Jazan province and reported moments later that the threat had passed, warning people to avoid “gathering and filming” in the interest of safety, according to the Middle East Eye.
Costa Rica inaugurated a mega-prison for 5,100 inmates on Wednesday that emulates the Terrorism Confinement Centre (CECOT), a symbol of Salvadorean President Nayib Bukele’s security strategy, according to the South China Morning Post. President Laura Fernandez promises the nation will become a “global benchmark” for prison security as the facility opens to confront the cartels.
Somalia added 10 individuals to its national financial sanctions list over alleged involvement in financing and supporting Al-Shabaab, by decision of the national anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing committee on Tuesday, according to the Shabelle Media Network, in text republished by AllAfrica. Financial entities and people in the country are barred from transacting with those listed and must freeze assets and report operations to the Financial Reporting Center, the committee said.
The head of Britain’s domestic intelligence service MI5, Ken McCallum, said Russia remained “aggressor number one” and that the agency’s terrorism and state-threats operational missions are now of pretty much equal scale, according to BBC News. He said MI5 had made over 50 arrests in the last year over Iran-linked activities. McCallum also said Iran is trying to hit military sites in the UK and that the suspected plot to attack a US-run military air base in September is “not unique”, according to ABC News, in a story distributed by The Associated Press (AP).
Pakistani authorities imposed on Sunday a state of emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, under two constitutional security articles, effectively suspending the provincial government of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), a move the prime minister's cabinet justified by the provincial government's “deliberate disengagement from the fight against terrorism”, according to Al Jazeera. The measures were approved under Articles 232 and 234 of the Constitution, with an 11-member technocratic council and Fakhr Alam named chief secretary of the province, according to Dawn.
Saudi Arabia stopped issuing public warnings of imminent military attacks in the days before the deadly strikes on Riyadh airport, which killed at least 18 people and wounded more than 300, according to Reuters. The last alert before the attacks went out on September 29, for Najran province, according to the agency, which says officials from an allied Western government asked Saudi authorities why the alerts had stopped.
Algerian authorities announced on Sunday the arrest of 61 Moroccan nationals earlier this month on suspicion of planning “acts of sabotage”, according to Hespress, with AFP. The General Directorate of National Security (DGSN) said the 61, including a former soldier in the Moroccan army, “were preparing to commit acts of sabotage undermining security and public order”. Le Monde reported the same arrests.
Poland's police said on Sunday they had received information about a possible plot to attack Prime Minister Donald Tusk and Defense Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, according to the Associated Press. Security services, police and representatives of the Interior Ministry had an emergency meeting scheduled to start at 11 a.m. (0900 GMT) on Sunday.
The Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) said in a statement that its founder, Abhijeet Dipke, and two other leaders were detained before disembarking from a flight in the Indian capital, according to AFP. The Hindu newspaper reported more than 5,000 protesters had been detained, a figure it was not immediately possible to verify, according to AFP. Ahead of the protest, authorities closed dozens of metro stations, cancelled more than 200 trains and temporarily shut down mobile internet around the protest site, according to AFP.
A riot at a prison in Sinaloa, Mexico, left 10 dead and 16 injured during family visiting hours, with the Public Security Secretariat counting nine inmates and one family member killed and 16 inmates taken for treatment, according to the Hindustan Times. Al Jazeera notes the prison clash in Sinaloa with 10 dead.
New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday, October 8, that he would ask US President Donald Trump to withdraw federal immigration agents from the city, according to Le Monde. The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) says the agents were trying to arrest a Dominican immigrant with a prior conviction for grand larceny.
British police arrested a 22-year-old British national in Westminster on Tuesday, the seventh suspect linked to the Fairford incident, according to TASS. Counter Terrorism Police say the detainee is connected with activity that took place close to RAF Fairford, according to Al Jazeera. The six people arrested earlier on suspicion of terrorism in the same case were all released on bail. On Monday, US President Donald Trump said his administration withdrew the B-1 bombers from the base because of what he described as “some threats”, according to Al Jazeera.
The US ambassador to Mexico, Ronald Johnson, said US Coast Guardsmen came under fire in a border area. President Claudia Sheinbaum said Mexico asked the United States for all the evidence because it has none. Some 500 US troops, along with helicopters, drones and anti-drone equipment, have been sent to the border since the alleged shooting. The Washington Post reported that the two countries deployed hundreds of troops to a border area where US officials said members of the US Coast Guard came under fire.
Two police officers were killed in an attack on a patrol in Bampur, in Sistan and Baluchestan province, and another was injured, according to Mehr News in English. The victims were identified as Amir-Hossein Ghasemi and Nezam Dastgoshadeh, according to Mehr News in English.
Iraq’s Hashd al-Shaabi forces say they carried out security operations across 12 provinces, arresting 55 suspects, including at least 23 linked to the dissolved Baath party, according to the force itself.
France’s education minister, Edouard Geffray, said that security conditions have not been met in about 400 to 500 schools, which will be fully or partly closed on Monday, while organizers called for renewed large-scale protests on Tuesday, citing a lack of “concrete measures” from the government. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez says that 1,747 people were arrested on Friday and 24 schools have been burned or ransacked since the protests began.
The US Southern Command killed four people in a strike on a suspected drug-trafficking vessel in the Caribbean on Sunday, according to the Times of India. The command said confirmed intelligence revealed the vessel’s active involvement in narco-trafficking and called the dead narco-terrorists. According to US media cited by TASS, more than 230 people have been killed in US strikes on boats allegedly used by drug traffickers since such attacks began last fall.
A Marine stationed at Futenma Air Station is suspected of killing a 39-year-old woman in a hotel in Naha on Saturday and taking her wallet and backpack, according to NBC News, citing local police; he was arrested at 1 a.m. Sunday, and the Government of Japan lodged a strong protest with the United States, calling the case brutal and heinous.
The co-pilot of the flydubai flight said during interrogation that he planned to direct the hijacked aircraft to Tel Aviv and steer it into Ben Gurion Airport’s terminal, according to unnamed sources cited by Israeli Channel 12 and reproduced by TASS. The plan was thwarted only because the commander, despite his injuries, managed to open the cockpit door, TASS reported. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has called for a thorough review of “all aspects” of security of foreign civil flights to Israel in the wake of the attack, according to The Washington Post.
The flydubai co-pilot may have tried shutting down the two engines of the Boeing 737 after his plan to crash the aircraft into a building in Tel Aviv failed, according to the Corriere della Sera, in a text republished by the Hindustan Times. Netanyahu instructed the head of the National Security Council, Shmuel Ben Ezra, to appoint an examiner to review all security aspects of foreign civil aviation to Israel. Investigators were still working to determine a motive, but an Israeli official said information from the inquiry suggested the suspect acted alone.
Lessons will be totally or partly suspended in 400 to 500 schools in France on Monday because security conditions “have not been fulfilled”, the education minister, Édouard Geffray, said on Sunday, according to The Guardian. The minister said 24 schools have been burnt or ransacked and 78 education staff members injured since student unrest began last week.
The co-pilot of flight FZ1073 was identified as Hamam al-Hammami, an Omani who had previously been barred from flying in Oman over alleged extremist views and moved to an administrative role at Oman Air before being hired by flydubai, according to Al Jazeera citing the Associated Press. Israel received the flight's crew and passenger lists in advance, and the checks would fall to the Transport Ministry's security department and the Mossad, according to Al Jazeera citing Haaretz. Iran denied any link to the incident and said the accusations are based on fabricated evidence, according to the Hindustan Times.
French police arrested around 5,000 people since Monday, most of them teenagers, and about 400 high schools — roughly one in 10 — were closed on Friday due to the unrest, according to Reuters. Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez confirmed nearly 5,000 arrests by early October, with 1,949 people detained on Thursday alone and another 1,747 on Friday, according to the Tehran Times.
The co-pilot of the Flydubai flight from Dubai to Tel Aviv attacked the pilot with a cabin crash axe and attempted to take control of the aircraft, according to the United Arab Emirates’ prosecutor general. The plane, carrying more than 170 people, plunged 17,000ft (5,200m) two and a half hours into its journey. The prosecutor general said the co-pilot “attempted to carry out a terrorist attack”.
Pakistan’s security forces killed five Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants in an intelligence-based operation on Saturday, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, according to an official cited by the Times of India. The operation took place in South Waziristan district, based on intelligence about hideouts, with weapons and ammunition seized. On Friday, seven militants from the same group were killed in North Waziristan district.
The Brazilian government is investigating the “possible threat” cited by the United States as the reason to suspend service at the US embassy in Brasília, according to G1. According to government interlocutors, the United States informed Brazil about the indications of a threat, and Brazilian authorities were already investigating the case before the disclosure of the statement about the closure.
The man accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe has been charged with engaging in conduct in preparation of acts of terrorism, including against Nigel Farage, police have said. The charge, according to counter-terrorism police, relates to activity alleged to have taken place between 31 May 2024 and 8 July this year.
About 400 schools in France remained closed on Friday (October 2) amid student protests, and the toll includes about 100 schools severely damaged and 40 headteachers injured, according to The Guardian. Nearly 3,000 high school students, aged 15 to 18, have been detained since the start of the protests, according to the Interior Ministry.
A 25-year-old UK-Iranian dual national was arrested in Westminster, London, on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts in connection with the incident at RAF Fairford, counter-terror police said, according to the BBC. Five men in their twenties arrested near the airbase on Sunday remain on police bail, also according to the BBC. The RAF Fairford airbase hosts United States Air Force (USAF) personnel, according to The Jerusalem Post.
The United States suspended in-person services at its embassy and consulates in Brazil on Friday (2) for security reasons, according to G1. In a statement, the embassy advised US citizens who need emergency assistance not to come to its diplomatic facilities.
France’s Interior Ministry recorded 1,949 arrests on Thursday (October 1, 2026) in student protests marked by fires and blockades spreading across the country, according to the ministry, as cited by The Hindu. A total of 305 officers were injured in the clashes, according to the same report.
French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu called a crisis meeting on Thursday and told ministers to cancel travel plans to deal with the student protests, according to The Guardian. Police counted about 900 demonstrations, blockades and related incidents outside high schools across the country, with more than 160 shut down. Since the start of the protests, hundreds of high school students aged 15 to 18 have been detained, including 625 on Wednesday alone, according to the Interior Ministry, and more than 80 police officers and firefighters and 120 pupils and teachers have been injured.
British counter-terrorism police arrested a 27-year-old man in Westminster on Thursday on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts under section 5 of the Terrorism Act 2006, according to The Guardian. The detainee is a UK-Iranian dual national and the arrest was made in connection with the incident at RAF Fairford, according to Counter Terrorism Policing, quoted by the BBC. A second man, 26, a UK national, was questioned under caution.
The Quds base of the ground forces of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said it identified and struck a team planning an operation in southeastern Iran, with six members of a takfiri group killed and explosive packages discovered and seized, according to Mehr News Agency.
Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, said it was too early to tell who was behind the apparent attempt to crash the Dubai–Tel Aviv flydubai flight, carrying more than 170 people, most of them from Israel, with flights to and from Israel suspended during the investigation, according to The Guardian.
At least seven people were killed and four were wounded, two of them critically, after unknown assailants opened fire on a vehicle near the Masyaf Bridge in Homs, according to the Homs Media Directorate, cited by Middle East Eye.
French security forces detained more than 600 people on Wednesday, while dozens of police officers and gendarmes were wounded in the escalation of protests, which included high school blockades, according to the interior minister, in an AFP text republished by the Hindustan Times. Interior Minister Laurent Nunez said 625 people were detained in the blockades, pointed to an “expansion of the movement” and condemned an “escalation of violence” outside certain schools.
The UN Security Council extended the mandate of the Gang Suppression Force (GSF) in Haiti until March 31, 2027, in Tuesday's vote, according to Al Jazeera. China, Russia and Pakistan abstained, citing concerns over the measure's effectiveness. US ambassador to the UN, Waltz, said that about 1,500 GSF troops are currently operating in Haiti and the remaining 4,000 are expected to arrive in the coming months.
British counter-terrorism police confirmed that no improvised explosive devices were found in the three vans searched near RAF Fairford and that a quantity of petrol was recovered from the vehicles. The five men released on police bail remain under investigation and must adhere to strict conditions.
Marco Rubio said the incident at the British air base RAF Fairford “clearly involved” a foreign actor, according to The New York Times. British counterterrorism police said on Tuesday they had found no explosives in the three vans used by the five men arrested on suspicion of planning a terrorist act near a base used by American bombers to strike Iran. The men were detained early Sunday after three vans were spotted near RAF Fairford, a UK-owned base, according to the Associated Press.
US secretary of state Marco Rubio said that a foreign actor was involved in the suspected bomb plot at the Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Fairford in the United Kingdom, hours after the five suspects arrested close to the airbase were released on bail, but provided no evidence for his claims, according to The Guardian. After the suspects' release, it emerged that no explosive material had been found.
British police said the five men detained near the Fairford air base are UK nationals from London, and all of them were released on bail without immediate charge, according to The Guardian. For the newspaper, the absence of an immediate charge suggests they are not deemed to pose a serious and violent threat. Iran has said that bases used by the US to attack it, including Fairford, were “legitimate targets”. According to The Guardian, the question of whether Iran had a hand in the alleged plot remains open.
Five men were arrested on suspicion of preparing a “terrorist act” and explosive-related offenses in the Whelford area, next to Fairford base, according to DW. British counter-terrorism police are investigating whether Iran was behind a suspected bomb plot targeting RAF Fairford, a British air base used by US forces in operations against Iran, according to The Jerusalem Post, and US President Donald Trump praised the arrests, calling it an “amazing job”.
85 households in Whelford, about 1.6 km from RAF Fairford, were evacuated in the early hours of Sunday after authorities were alerted to suspicious vehicles, according to AFP. Police arrested five men on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act near the base, without confirming the nature or source of the threat, according to AFP. In March, the United Kingdom authorized the US to use Fairford for specific defensive operations against Iran, and since then US bombers have used the runway, according to AFP.
London's Metropolitan Police confirmed it is leading the investigation into an incident overnight near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire, with five men arrested on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act, according to Le Monde. The five were initially arrested on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act near an air base in southwestern England used by the US Air Force. RAF Fairford is also being used by the US for strikes on Iranian missile sites targeting ships in the Strait of Hormuz, according to France 24.
Gunmen killed at least 27 people in two mass shootings in Johannesburg and Cape Town on Sunday, September 27, 2026, police said. Eight gunmen armed with assault rifles and pistols stormed a bar southwest of Johannesburg on Saturday night, killing 17 people and wounding 15. In a separate shooting at a barbecue venue in a township outside Cape Town, gunmen killed 10 people and wounded 11 early on Sunday. Police said no suspect has been arrested in either case.
The capital police in Pakistan requested PKR 820 million for a week of security against the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) march on Islamabad, an amount that would cover the rent of shipping containers, accommodation and meals for police personnel arriving from Punjab and Sindh. According to Dawn, citing police sources, postponing the march to October 4 would effectively double the amount and would likely cost more than PKR 1 billion.
Armed men stormed a house in the KwaMakhutha township, about 30 kilometers south of Durban, on the night of Tuesday, September 22, 2026, and killed at least 11 people attending a party, including a woman believed to be pregnant; three others were wounded, according to South African police cited by The Hindu and Al Jazeera. KwaZulu-Natal Premier Thamsanqa Ntuli said the assailants entered shortly before 11 p.m. (UTC-4) and that the motive is not known; local broadcaster eNCA reported that the victims were forced into a single room before the shooting. Police said some of the dead were already on the crime intelligence radar over suspected illegal activities and that a feud between rival groupings cannot be ruled out. South Africa has one of the world’s highest murder rates, with an average of about 60 killings a day in a population of roughly 62 million, according to Al Jazeera.