16 h. ago Three women are arrested on terror offences after van slammed into defence manufacturer

The incident unfolded near Leonardo UK's site on Crewe Road North in Edinburgh on Tuesday, where the facility's fence was left damaged and daubed in white paint.

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31 h. ago Three arrested under Terrorism Act after van crashes into defence factory fence

Police went to the Leonardo premises in the Crewe Road North area of Edinburgh on Tuesday.

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31 h. ago Three arrested under Terrorism Act after van incident at defence factory

Police went to the Leonardo premises in the Crewe Road North area of Edinburgh on Tuesday.

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32 h. ago Edinburgh crime: Three women arrested under Terrorism Act after protestors drive van into defence factory

There was a large police presence in the area.

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36 h. ago Edinburgh crime: Three women arrested after morning 'disturbance' at Edinburgh Morrisons supermarket car park

Enquiries remain ongoing into the disturbance.

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36 h. ago Edinburgh crime: Three women arrested after protestors drive van into Edinburgh defence factory

There was a large police presence in the area.

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36 h. ago Edinburgh crime: Police release CCTV image after serious assault on Clifton Terrace

Officers have released a photo of a man they believe “may be able to assist” with the investigation.

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5 d. ago Some abuse claims made because people ‘encourage’ each other, inquiry told

The Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry was hearing evidence from a former employee at a special residential school in Fife.

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7 d. ago Arrest warrant issued for Taliban’s supreme leader over persecution of women and girls in Afghanistan

Taliban have imposed harsh measures that range from banning women from public places to girls from attending school beyond the sixth grade

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8 d. ago ICC issues warrant for Taliban’s supreme leader for persecution of women

Rights activists hail move to arrest Haibatullah Akhundzada and Afghan chief justice Abdul Hakim Haqqani for crimes against humanityThe international criminal court has issued arrest warrants for two senior Taliban leaders, accusing them of crimes against humanity for the persecution of women and girls.In a statement, the ICC said on Tuesday there were “reasonable grounds to believe” the Taliban’s supreme leader, Haibatullah Akhundzada, and Afghanistan’s chief justice, Abdul Hakim Haqqani, had ordered policies that deprived women and girls of “education, privacy and family life and the freedoms of movement, expression, thought, conscience and religion”. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago ICC issues arrest warrants for Taliban leaders over persecution of women and girls

The International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for two top Taliban leaders

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8 d. ago Convicted paedophile brands residential school abuse allegations ‘rubbish’

An ex-teacher, referred to as Evan, gave evidence via videolink from prison, where he is serving an eight-year sentence for sexual assault and rape.

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9 d. ago Edinburgh paramedic who secretly gave woman abortion drug jailed for 10 years

He had researched about abortion after the woman told him she was pregnant.

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9 d. ago Paramedic who tricked woman into abortion jailed for 10 years

Stephen Doohan inserted an abortion drug into the woman without her knowledge.

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1 week ago Two more arrests over 'attempted murder' and 'firebombing' in Edinburgh

Arrests increase to 52 as police investigate suspected gang feud.

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1 week ago Urgent plea for taxi driver who stopped at the scene of horror crash that killed two sisters, 68 and 70, on a morning walk

Officers from Thames Valley Police rushed to the scene in Caversham, a village outside of Reading, in Berkshire.

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2 w. ago French police charge ‘incel’ suspected of planning knife attack on women

Detention of 18-year-old man part of anti-terror police force’s first case linked to involuntary celibate movementAn 18-year-old French man suspected of planning attacks on women has been charged in the country’s first case of a terror plot linked to the misogynist “incel” movement, officials said.The suspect was arrested on Friday by the DGSI domestic intelligence agency near a public high school in the southeastern city of Saint-Etienne. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago French police arrest ‘incel’ suspected of planning knife attack on women

Detention of 18-year-old man part of anti-terror police force’s first case linked to involuntary celibate movementAn 18-year-old French man who claimed affiliation with the misogynist “incel” movement has been arrested and placed under formal investigation on suspicion of planning attacks targeting women, France’s national anti-terrorist prosecutor’s office (PNAT) has said.The arrest on Wednesday was part of PNAT’s first case linked to the “incel” (involuntary celibate) movement, an online network of men motivated to engage in violence against women whom they believe unjustly reject their sexual or romantic advances. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago Six men guilty of gangland attacks in Edinburgh and Midlothian

The convictions were the culmination of a seven week trial.

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2 w. ago Soldier who raped woman he met on dating app has sentence increased

A panel of judges at the Appeal Court ruled that the original sentence was ‘unduly lenient’.

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