2 h. ago Jailed Islamist killer who won payout under ECHR rules for solitary confinement held prison officer hostage at knife point and told him: 'I've killed two people and I'll kill you'

Drug gangster turned jihadist sympathiser Fuad Awale, 38, used European rights laws to argue that his being locked up alone was unfair - despite the move following his hostage taking terror attack.

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18 h. ago Fury at 'sick joke' £240,000 taxpayer bill for Islamist double killer under ECHR rules after he whined that putting him in solitary for taking prison officer hostage breached his human rights

Fuad Awale was given the cash in compensation and costs by the High Court after he complained that a decision to place him in solitary confinement left him 'severely depressed'.

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20 h. ago Fury at 'sick joke' £240,000 handout for Islamist double killer under ECHR rules after he whined that putting him in solitary for taking prison officer hostage breached his human rights

In what has been branded a 'sick joke' Fuad Awale was given the cash by the High Court after he claimed that a decision to place him in solitary confinement left him 'severely depressed'.

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31 h. ago Islamist double murderer who held prison officer hostage is awarded £240k taxpayer

Fuad Awale was transferred to a special separation unit for dangerous convicts after he and another convict ambushed a jail worker and threatened to kill him.

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39 h. ago Executions in Saudi Arabia hit highest number on record in 2025

Analysts attribute increase to kingdom’s ‘war on drugs’ as authorities kill 356 people by death penaltySaudi authorities executed 356 people in 2025, setting a new record for the number of inmates put to death in the kingdom in a single year.Analysts have largely attributed the increase in executions to Riyadh’s “war on drugs”, with some of those arrested in previous years only now being executed after legal proceedings and convictions. Continue reading...

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4 d. ago DC pipe bomb suspect confesses to planting explosives after watching YouTube but says he 'did not want to kill people'

Brian Cole Jr, 30, has reportedly confessed to placing pipe bombs outside of America's two largest political parties on the eve of the January 6, 2021 riots.

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7 d. ago From shipwrecked sailors to serial killers: Inside the worst cases of cannibalism the world has ever seen

But there are some who plunge into a darkness so grotesque it challenges our very understanding of evil. These are the people who not only kill, but consume their targets.

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9 d. 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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9 d. ago ‘Freedom is a city where you can breathe’: four experts on Europe’s most liveable capitals

From Copenhagen’s cycle lanes and Vienna’s shared parks to Barcelona and London’s unfulfilled potential, better living is close at handThe angry rumble of a speeding SUV. The metallic smog of backlogged traffic. The aching heat of sun-dried neighbourhoods baking in an oven of concrete and asphalt.For most people, the mundane threats that plague our environments are likely to annoy more than they spark dread. But for scientists who know just how dangerous our surroundings can be, the burden of knowledge weighs heavy each day. Across Europe, environmental risks cause 18% of deaths from cardiovascular disease and 10% of deaths from cancer. Traffic crashes in the EU kill five times more people than murders. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Two men found guilty of Manchester plot to ‘kill as many Jewish people as they could’

Preston court finds Walid Saadaoui and Amar Hussein guilty of preparing acts of terrorism after buying AK-47s from undercover officerTwo men have been found guilty of plotting to “kill as many Jewish people as they could”, in what detectives believe would have been the UK’s worst terror attack if it hadn’t been thwarted.Walid Saadaoui, 38, and Amar Hussein, 52, have been found guilty at Preston crown court of preparing acts of terrorism between 13 December 2023 and 9 May 2024. Jurors were told they were Islamist extremists with a “visceral dislike” of Jewish people who planned a marauding attack in Greater Manchester. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Man threatens to kill people inside Welsh pub leaving punters stunned

Robert Oakley also threatened to defecate in the police vehicle after he had been arrested for his 'very aggressive' behaviour

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1 week ago Nick Reiner remains on suicide watch while held in solitary confinement after doctors cite a 'mental disability'

Nick Reiner is being held under heightened supervision inside Twin Towers Correctional Facility, where authorities say he remains on suicide watch following a mental health evaluation.

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2 w. ago US military says strikes on 3 boats in the eastern Pacific Ocean kill 8 people

The U.S. military says it has attacked three boats accused of smuggling drugs in the eastern Pacific Ocean, killing a total of eight people

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3 w. ago Teaching assistant banned from classrooms after telling pupils he had shot dead over 250 people as a military sniper codenamed Kill Switch and still had his gun at home

A professional standards hearing heard that Scott John Trigg-Turner, 44, told students at Bassaleg School in Newport, South Wales, that he served in the US marines under the codename 'Kill Switch'.

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