Paris — At least 15 commercial flights in Europe had to deal with bomb threats Thursday, with at least one being diverted to a military base in France. While authorities have reported no explosives discovered on any of the jets, and they all appeared to be hoaxes, Thursday’s incidents add to a fast-growing number of journeys…
London — The head of Britain’s top domestic spy agency MI5, Sir Ken McCallum, painted a dark picture Tuesday of the changing national security threats facing the U.K. and the world. “We have entered a new era of national security, requiring a new response,” he said in his annual threat update at MI5 headquarters in…
London — Iran has made a “major shift” in its efforts to attack the United Kingdom, including going after harder targets such as military bases, the head of Britain’s domestic spy agency MI5 warned Tuesday. In his annual threat update at MI5 headquarters in London, Sir Ken McCallum outlined the growing challenges facing the country, from…
London — The British government believes Iran “played a part” in the incident over the weekend at the RAF Fairford air base in England, which has been used by U.S. warplanes carrying out strikes on Iran, U.K. Prime Minister Andy Burnham said Wednesday. Burnham’s remarks to the BBC were the first confirmation by the British government…
London — President Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio have criticized British counterterror police’s handling of a possible plot targeting a U.K. air base used by U.S. forces, with Rubio calling it a “very serious” incident and alleging that it “clearly involved” a foreign actor, and the president suggesting it “might be” Iran. Five…
Tel Aviv — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to address the United Nations General Assembly on Thursday as his country faces broad condemnation and growing isolation over Israel’s actions in the Gaza Strip and the occupied West Bank. Netanyahu arrived in New York early Thursday morning and is due to leave just a few…
Several supporting acts quit Ed Sheeran’s tour on Tuesday after the rapper Macklemore was removed for pro-Palestinian comments he made during a concert in New Jersey. Hours after Sheeran posted on social media about Macklemore’s ouster and attributed the decision to the tour’s promoters, Aaron Rowe, Beoga, Finneas, and Danish band Lukas Graham posted on…
Israel announced on Monday it had recovered the wreckage of the Altalena, an arms-smuggling boat whose sinking by the Israeli military just after the state’s founding in 1948 exposed divisions that persist today. The Altalena had set sail from France loaded with weapons packed for the Irgun, the militant Zionist force that conducted attacks against…
Iran’s foreign ministry said on Monday that the defence pact signed last week between Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkiye was “a sign of a change in the perception” of regional countries towards the United States. The joint defence agreement, signed in Makkah on Friday, aims to strengthen collective deterrence and empowers its signatory states to…
Washington — Democratic Rep. Haley Stevens of Michigan said Thursday she’s moving on from the contentious Senate primary, which she lost to Abdul El-Sayed, saying their “differences were aired out.” “Everything that needed to be said in the primary was said,” Stevens said in an interview with “The Takeout with Major Garrett.” “It’s a big…
