6 h. ago Eight people ‘linked to Albanian mafia’ arrested over plot to kill Brussels’ chief prosecutor

Suspects linked to drug trafficking underworld found after a four-month-long investigation

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27 h. ago MI5 names two people in alert to MPs and peers about Chinese espionage

Spy agency says Amanda Qui and Shirly Shen have been using LinkedIn to ‘obtain non-public and insider insights’MI5 has issued an espionage alert to MPs and peers warning that two people linked to the Chinese intelligence service are actively seeking to recruit parliamentarians.The two people, who operate as headhunters on the LinkedIn professional networking website aiming to obtain “non-public and insider insights”, MI5 said, are also targeting economists, thinktank staff and civil servants for their access to politicians. Continue reading...

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57 h. ago Chief prosecutor reassures Scots sex abuse victims after Supreme Court judgment

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC has said that sex abuse of women and children was “the single greatest challenge our justice system faces”.

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60 h. ago Chief prosecutor reassures victims of sex abuse after Supreme Court judgment

Lord Advocate Dorothy Bain KC says safeguards ‘remain firmly in place’ after judges’ ruling on questioning of victims’ history

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5 d. ago Kashmir is focus of arrests after Delhi car blast linked to ‘terror module’

Investigators believe an explosion that killed 13 people maybe linked to group operating in the disputed regionPolice have carried out raids and made several arrests across the Indian region of Kashmir in the aftermath of a car explosion in Delhi that left 13 people dead.On Wednesday, the Indian government confirmed it was treating the blast as a “terror incident” perpetrated by “anti-national forces”. The explosion took place outside one of India’s most significant monuments during rush hour on Monday evening. Continue reading...

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8 d. ago Istanbul's jailed mayor Imamoglu faces 142 criminal charges in corruption probe

Istanbul’s chief public prosecutor has filed an indictment against the city's jailed mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu

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8 d. ago Two teenagers arrested over 'plot to copy Southport child killer's crimes'

Two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, from Merseyside and South Wales, have been arrested for allegedly planning to emulate Southport killer Axel Rudakubana's horrific murders

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9 d. ago Sick link between people convicted of wildlife abuse and crimes against humans

A new report compiled by the Wildlife and Countryside Link says the only way of knowing the true scale of wildlife crimes is for the government to add them to the noticeable register

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1 week ago Famous American writer's son, 19, arrested over alleged plot to bomb Detroit gay bars in ISIS terror attack

Milo Sedarat, son of famed Iranian-American poet Roger Sedarat, was arrested after allegedly plotting to bomb gay bars in an ISIS-inspired attack, police sources said.

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2 w. ago Andrew's bid for police help to smear Virgina Giuffre must be fully investigated, says former prosecutor

Nazir Afzal, the ex-Chief Crown Prosecutor for North West England, today said there needed to be 'full transparency' into whether Andrew asked one of his bodyguards to investigate his accuser.

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2 w. ago FBI Director Patel says multiple people were arrested in Michigan in a Halloween weekend attack plot

FBI Director Kash Patel says federal officials have arrested multiple people in Michigan who had allegedly been plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend

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2 w. ago FBI thwarted a ‘potential terrorist attack’ during Halloween and arrested suspects in Michigan, Kash Patel says

Multiple people were arrested in connection to the plot

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2 w. ago FBI thwarted a ‘potential terrorist attack’ over Halloween and arrested suspects in Michigan, Kash Patel says

Multiple people were arrested in connection to the plot

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2 w. ago Top lawyer accuses chief prosecutor of bungling China 'spying' case saying trial SHOULD have gone ahead

Lord Carlile of Berriew, a long-serving KC and the government's former independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, said there was 'ample' evidence for a prosecution.

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3 w. ago China spy case evidence was not strong enough for trial, says chief prosecutor

Stephen Parkinson, the Director of Public Prosecutions, insisted the failure of the case was not ‘a question of blame’.

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3 w. ago The shock link between exercise and bowel cancer in younger people revealed: It happened to runner Alison

After running the London marathon for the second time aged 47, Alison Crooks felt she was in the best shape of her life. But two days after the event she was blindsided by a call from her GP.

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4 w. ago Moment wife laughs during arrest for 'plot to kill husband' with ex

Michelle Mills, 46, has been found guilty of planning to kill her husband Christopher weeks after his £124,000 Help for Heroes life insurance policy came into effect

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4 w. ago Moment cheating wife laughs as she's arrested over 'plot to kill her husband with her secret lover'

Michelle Mills, 46, is accused alongside her lover ex-Royal Marine Geraint Berry, 46, of planning to murder Christopher Mills, 48, in a bid to 'move forward' with their three-month affair.

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4 w. ago Top lawyers rounding on chief prosecutor over China spy case collapse rebuked

A CPS source says legal experts are entitled to offer an opinion ‘based on published documents and media reports’.

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