“The two men – passengers on United Flight 908 from Chicago O’Hare to Amsterdam on Sunday night – were arrested Monday at Amsterdam’s Schiphol International Airport after ‘suspicious items’ were found in checked baggage, U.S. and Dutch authorities said. Suspicious items found in luggage associated with the pair ‘were not deemed to be dangerous in [...]
“A car packed with at least 110 pounds (50 kilograms) of explosives blew up in an office district of Colombia’s capital Thursday, shattering windows and injuring nine people, police said. No deaths were reported. The blast occurred at 5:30 a.m. (1030 GMT) outside a 12-story building housing Caracol Radio, the Spanish news agency EFE and [...]
“A bombing in Northern Ireland is the latest in a series of attacks targeting police, sparking fears of a return to the years of unrest in Northern Ireland known as ‘the Troubles.’ The latest bombing appeared intended to hit police, but injured three children, hit by flying debris and then treated in a hospital.
“Gunmen killed a Yemeni intelligence officer in the flashpoint southern province of Lahij, a security official said on Saturday. ‘Armed men ambushed the chief of the Lahij intelligence service’s investigations department, Colonel Ali Abdul Kareem al-Ban, who was killed in a hail of bullets,’ the official told AFP. The attack took place on Friday evening [...]
The Department of Homeland Security warned Metro about an unconfimed threat to the D.C. Metro system on Sunday. NBC4 obtained an internal memo from Homeland Security about the concern. Someone traveled to Turkey last July to obtain a U.S. visa to come to the States to blow up an unspecified Metro station, the memo said.”