5 d. ago Facebook slow to act on posts celebrating Bondi beach massacre, anti

Exclusive: CST highlights volume of IS-supporting accounts and says social media firms ‘putting all of us in danger’Facebook hosted terrorist propaganda that celebrated the murder of Jews and praised Islamic State, a leading anti-hate group has alleged.The posts included celebrations of the Bondi beach massacre that the Community Security Trust says Facebook has been too slow to take down. The posts were still on Facebook on 16 December, two days after the attack, and received shares and likes. Continue reading...

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5 d. ago Facebook slow to act on posts celebrating murder of Jews, anti

Exclusive: CST highlights volume of IS-supporting accounts and says social media firms ‘putting all of us in danger’Facebook hosted terrorist propaganda that celebrated the murder of Jews and praised Islamic State, a leading anti-hate group has alleged.The posts included celebrations of the Bondi beach massacre that the Community Security Trust says Facebook has been too slow to take down. The posts were still on Facebook on 16 December, two days after the attack, and received shares and likes. Continue reading...

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1 week ago US carries out strikes on Nigeria targeting Islamic State militants, Trump says

President claims strikes targeted militants in country’s north-west, accusing group of attacking Christian communitiesDonald Trump has said the US carried out airstrikes against Islamic State militants in north-west Nigeria on Thursday, after spending weeks decrying the group for targeting Christians.The president said in a post on his Truth Social platform: “Tonight, at my direction as Commander in Chief, the United States launched a powerful and deadly strike against ISIS Terrorist Scum in Northwest Nigeria, who have been targeting and viciously killing, primarily, innocent Christians, at levels not seen for many years, and even Centuries! Continue reading...

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1 week ago Rachel Riley's husband says 'my heard was torn to pieces' ahead of big decision

Former Strictly Come Dancing professional dancer opens up about his emotional departure from the BBC show and life with Countdown presenter wife Rachel Riley and their two daughters

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1 week ago Rachel Riley’s husband Pasha addresses big decision after ‘my heart was torn into pieces’

Countdown's Rachel Riley met husband Pasha Kovalev when they starred together on Strictly Come Dancing in 2013, announcing their romance shortly after the show finished

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1 week ago Piles of cash, guns, surveillance footage and a glimpse inside a safe house

Islamic State-inspired terrorists Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein planned to kill as many Jewish people as they could

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1 week ago The holiday camp entertainer and the 'soldier of Islam' who wanted to murder as many Jewish people as possible

The deeply troubling story of two Islamic State fanatics who plotted mass murder in Manchester

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1 week ago From Haven holiday camp worker to terrorist: The horrifying lives of the would

The deeply troubling story of two Islamic State fanatics who plotted mass murder in Manchester

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1 week ago Triathlete who‘d discussed dangers of shark attacks is feared killed by shark after going missing off Monterey coast

Erica Fox, who spoke to The Independent about the dangers of sharks for swimmers, went missing on Sunday

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1 week ago ‘My blood is boiling, brother’: the foiled plot to massacre Jews on streets of Greater Manchester

Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein thought ‘zero hour’ had finally arrived until undercover operative thwarted themWhen Walid Saadaoui recruited Amar Hussein to join him in a pogrom on the streets of Greater Manchester, Hussein wept with joy.For years, the two men had been sleeper agents for the Islamic State terrorist group. Each had lived quietly in Britain for years, waiting for the right moment to stage an attack, and for the right person to give them the support to make it happen. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Islamic State terrorists discussed attacking Countdown star Rachel Riley

EXCLUSIVE: Walid Saadaoui was unaware that his plans to attack Jews - including a discussions about attacking an event where Rachel Riley was to be a guest speaker - were being secretly recorded by an undercover agent

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2 w. ago Islamic State praises Bondi terrorists and warns of more attacks in chilling message

Islamic State released a bulletin addressing the Bondi Beach shooting. It made a terrifying warning that people 'not be surprised by bloodshed'.

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2 w. ago Australian police say Bondi Beach mass shooting was inspired by Islamic State

Australia’s federal police commissioner Krissy Barrett says a mass shooting in which 15 people were killed during a Hanukkah celebration at Sydney’s Bondi Beach was “a terrorist attack inspired by Islamic State."

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3 w. ago Bondi beach shooting live updates: federal cabinet meeting to discuss terror attack; antisemitism envoy says calling out hate is ‘not enough’

Alleged shooters in terror attack named as father and son as NSW health minister says death toll may riseAmid the horror of the shooting, one video has emerged showing incredible bravery – a bystander rushing one of the gunmen from behind to wrestle the firearm off him.Praised a hero, he is being identified by some media as a 43-year-old fruit shop owner from the Sutherland Shire. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Proud father shows how son, four, is already a child genius as he rattles through Countdown's number game

Little Acer was filmed standing in front of the TV as Channel 4 host Rachel Riley drew the cards for the famous numerical challenge.

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3 w. ago Taylor Swift: The End of an Era review – as she breaks down over the terror plot, it’s impossible not to feel her pain

The singer’s tears over the Islamic State terrorist plot against her show and Southport attack make this behind-the-scenes docuseries about her world-conquering tour more moving than anyone could have anticipatedSwifties had long guessed that there would be a documentary going behind the scenes of Taylor Swift’s blockbuster Eras tour. The 2023 Eras Tour concert movie didn’t show any of the inner workings of this three-and-a-half-hour behemoth, which ran for 149 dates from 2023-24. Fans put some bits together, such as how Swift arrived on stage being pushed inside a cleaning cart. Plus, given the two albums she wrote during and about the Eras tour – 2024’s The Tortured Poets Department and this year’s The Life of a Showgirl – it wouldn’t be Swiftian to overlook another lucrative IP extension.What fans could never have imagined was that Disney was set to start filming as the Eras tour was due to hit Vienna on 8 August 2023 – the first of three shows in the Austrian capital that were c...

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3 w. ago Emotional Taylor Swift breaks down as she opens up about Southport tragedy for first time

The singer wiped away tears in her new Disney Plus documentary series when discussing the Southport attack

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3 w. ago Florida's CAIR vows lawsuit against DeSantis over 'foreign terrorist' label

Gov_ Ron DeSantis has labeled the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a "foreign terrorist organization."

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