Bangladesh court acquits key political figure in 2004 deadly grenade attack

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — Bangladesh’s High Court on Sunday acquitted former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia’s son, Tarique Rahman, and overturned a verdict against him over a deadly 2004 grenade attack on a political rally. The ruling comes at a critical time as the South Asian...

Syrian insurgents have breached Syria's city of Aleppo after blowing up 2 car bombs, activists and fighters say

Former British soldier who broke out of prison is convicted of spying for Iran

LONDON (AP) — A former British soldier whose audacious escape from a London prison spurred a dayslong search was convicted on Thursday of spying for Iran. Daniel Khalife, 23, was found guilty by a jury in Woolwich Crown Court on violations of Britain's Official Secrets Act and...

Youth arrested in Germany on suspicion of planning an attack with pipe bombs

BERLIN (AP) — A youth suspected of planning to build pipe bombs to carry out an Islamic extremist attack has been arrested in western Germany, authorities said Thursday. The suspect, whose name and exact age weren't released, was arrested on Tuesday evening, prosecutors in Koblenz...

A fugitive wanted in the US for a pair of bombings is arrested in the UK after 20 years on the run

LONDON (AP) — A suspected animal rights extremist wanted in the U.S. for bombings in the San Francisco area was arrested in Britain after more than 20 years on the run from the law, officials said Tuesday. Daniel Andreas San Diego, one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives, was...

Massachusetts man pleads guilty to threatening Jewish community members and to bomb synagogues

BOSTON (AP) — A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty in federal court to threatening to kill members of the state’s Jewish community and bomb local synagogues. John Reardon, 59, of Millis, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty Monday to one count of obstruction of free exercise of...

UK authorities charge a man in last week's bomb hoax at the US Embassy

LONDON (AP) — UK authorities said Monday they have charged a 43-year-old man in connection with a bomb hoax near the U.S. Embassy in London last week. Daniel Parmenter appeared at Ealing Magistrates Court on Monday and was taken into custody. He was arrested at his...

Lawsuit against UK security agency by survivors of Ariana Grande concert bombing is rejected

LONDON (AP) — A legal claim against Britain’s domestic intelligence agency by more than 300 survivors of a bombing that killed 22 people at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in Manchester was rejected Friday by a special tribunal. Judges on the U.K.’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal...

Man who set off makeshift bomb outside Alabama attorney general's office sentenced to nine years

MONTOGMERY, Ala. (AP) — An Alabama man who detonated a homemade explosive device outside the state attorney general's office was sentenced to nine years in federal prison on Thursday. Kyle Benjamin Douglas Calvert, 27, plead guilty in August to the charge of malicious use of an...

The FBI arrested a man who's been charged with planning an attack on the New York Stock Exchange

A Florida man was arrested Wednesday and charged with a plot to “reboot” the U.S. government by planting a bomb at the New York Stock Exchange this week and detonating it with a remote-controlled device, according to the FBI. Harun Abdul-Malik Yener, 30, of Coral Springs,...