https://www.scmp.com/rss/324223/feed London, one of the world's major capital cities, has been the site of a number of terrorist attacks over the years. On March 22, 2017, four people were killed after a car ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge and a suspected Islamist-inspired attacker stabbed a policeman; on Novmeber 29, 2019, two people were killed when a terrorist attacked several people with a knife near London Bridge. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com For more than five years, former militant Ismarwan, 34, quietly worked on his farm at picturesque Mount Salak in Indonesia’s Aceh province, planting herbs that he used in the traditional treatment of breast cancer with seed money from the National Counter-Terrorism Agency (BNPT). He was able to make a decent living and appeared to have put his past life behind him, after his January 2015 release from imprisonment for his involvement in a paramilitary training camp for militants in Aceh. But on... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3042861/can-indonesias-reform-isis-militants-overturn-their-desire-die?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3042861/can-indonesias-reform-isis-militants-overturn-their-desire-die?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 21 Dec 2019 02:00:09 +0000 Islamic State on Saturday claimed responsibility for the stabbing attack in central London that left two people dead before the attacker was shot and killed by armed police. The Islamist militia's mouthpiece news agency, Amaq, said the man was an Islamic State fighter and that he carried out the attack in response to calls for targeting citizens of the countries that form an alliance fighting Islamic State. On Friday, a man identified by British authorities as 28-year-old Usman Khan stabbed two... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3040083/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-london-bridge-knife-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3040083/islamic-state-claims-responsibility-london-bridge-knife-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Nov 2019 23:02:01 +0000 A coroner has cleared MI5 and the police of failing to prevent the London Bridge terrorist attack. The chief coroner of England and Wales, Judge Mark Lucraft QC, delivered his conclusions on Friday at the end of inquests into the deaths of eight people in the June 2017 attacks. The coroner said he “was not persuaded” that chances were lost by counterterrorism investigators, who had been monitoring the ring leader, Khuram Butt, since 2015, that could have “realistically saved lives”. But he said... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3016588/british-police-and-mi5-cleared-failing-prevent-june-2017-london?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3016588/british-police-and-mi5-cleared-failing-prevent-june-2017-london?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Jun 2019 17:15:54 +0000 Eight people were killed and 48 injured in less than 10 minutes of “high and terrible” drama as terrorists went on the rampage in the heart of London, an inquest has heard. The London Bridge inquests began at the Old Bailey on Tuesday with details of the attack on June 3, 2017 being read out by Judge Mark Lucraft QC, the chief coroner. Details emerged of an off-duty nurse killed as she tried to help the wounded, and a passer-by who desperately tried to tackle the terrorists with a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3009255/terror-inquest-hears-details-2017s-deadly-london-bridge-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3009255/terror-inquest-hears-details-2017s-deadly-london-bridge-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 May 2019 12:59:54 +0000 A teenager accused of planting a bomb on a London Underground train last week allegedly bought components on Amazon, packing the device with shrapnel, a prosecutor said on Friday. Ahmed Hassan, 18, appeared in court on charges of attempted murder a week after the attack at Parsons Green station, which injured 30 people. Dressed in a grey jumper and white trousers, the teenager spoke only to confirm his name and address before prosecutor Lee Ingham briefly presented his case. The device contained... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2112543/teen-charged-over-london-bomb-bought-components-amazon-and-packed?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2112543/teen-charged-over-london-bomb-bought-components-amazon-and-packed?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 23 Sep 2017 09:55:30 +0000 British police said Sunday they had made a second arrest in connection with the bombing of a London Underground train, as their probe into the terror attack widened. The 21-year-old man, who has not been named, was arrested late Saturday in Hounslow, on the western rim of the capital, a statement said. Officers had earlier arrested an 18-year-old man over Friday’s attack at Parsons Green station, which injured 30 people, and said they were hunting for more suspects. The bomb detonated in a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2111552/uk-police-arrest-second-man-after-london-subway-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2111552/uk-police-arrest-second-man-after-london-subway-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 17 Sep 2017 08:40:33 +0000 British police raided a home near London on Saturday just hours after making their first arrest in the investigation into the bombing of an underground train a day earlier. An 18-year-old man was detained at Dover port, one of the country’s main links to Europe, with officers describing the development as a significant step in their investigation. They later announced that the raid was under way. “Police officers have evacuated and are searching a residential address in Sunbury, Surrey,” a... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2111502/british-police-arrest-man-over-bomb-blast-london-train-islamic?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2111502/british-police-arrest-man-over-bomb-blast-london-train-islamic?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 16 Sep 2017 13:38:51 +0000 Britain raised its national threat level to maximum on Friday after a bomb detonated on a London Underground train, and Prime Minister Theresa May said troops would be deployed to key locations. The terror threat has been increased from “severe” to “critical”, meaning another attack is expected imminently, after the explosion on a packed morning rush-hour train left 29 people injured. In a pre-recorded television statement, May said military personnel would replace police officers “on guard... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2111453/theresa-may-rebukes-trumps-unhelpful-speculation-over-london-train?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2111453/theresa-may-rebukes-trumps-unhelpful-speculation-over-london-train?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Sep 2017 18:54:06 +0000 At least 22 people were injured when a bomb detonated on a packed London Underground train during the morning rush hour on Friday in what police are treating as a “terrorist incident”. Witnesses reported seeing a “wall of fire” and passengers with facial burns and hair coming off at Parsons Green station in west London after the explosion. “At 8.20 this morning at Parsons Green station there was an explosion on a Tube train. We now assess that this was a detonation of an improvised explosive... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2111363/reports-london-subway-explosion-passenger-stampede?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2111363/reports-london-subway-explosion-passenger-stampede?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 15 Sep 2017 08:04:31 +0000 Until 15 years ago, the Indonesian island holiday paradise of Bali seemed an unlikely place for a terrorist attack. Then it happened, at the cost of 202 lives in a nightclub bombing. That should not be forgotten when wondering why Hong Kong’s elite counterterrorism officers regard 600 local locations as sensitive when the city’s official overall terrorism threat level remains “moderate”. Elite police keep watch for lone-wolf terrorists at Hong Kong airport That threat level basically means there... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2111093/hong-kong-police-respond-global-terror-threat?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2111093/hong-kong-police-respond-global-terror-threat?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Sep 2017 19:27:55 +0000 The UK’s top diplomat in Hong Kong reassured travellers on Tuesday the British authorities had already stepped up security measures after last weekend’s deadly terror attack in London, saying he was not aware of anyone who has decided to avoid visiting his country. British Consul General Andrew Heyn also denounced the “cowardly but barbaric” attack in London, stressing that the UK people and friends around the world remained united in rejecting the terrorists’ message of hate. “In terms of... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2097203/security-britain-tightened-london-attack-uks-top-diplomat?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/law-crime/article/2097203/security-britain-tightened-london-attack-uks-top-diplomat?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Jun 2017 16:59:31 +0000 Prime Minister Theresa May has called for international agreements to regulate the internet, after a spate of terrorist attacks in Britain. This is long overdue, and May is right to push the world on this. But whatever form such agreements may take, they will be insufficient to address the spread of cyberterrorism. The fundamental problem is that cyberterrorists operate anonymously and in a borderless world. For laws to work, those they seek to apprehend must first be identified, but the... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2097066/why-theresa-mays-call-arms-terrorism-social-media-could-be?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2097066/why-theresa-mays-call-arms-terrorism-social-media-could-be?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Jun 2017 04:38:11 +0000 Hong Kong and mainland tourists are continuing to visit the United Kingdom, apparently undeterred by recent terror attacks in the country, although analysts say the incidents may have a short-term negative impact on tourism. Despite three major terrorist incidents in the UK - attacks in London last Saturday, a suicide bombing in Manchester in May, and a March attack on the Westminster Bridge - , various travel industry representatives suggest these events have had no significant impact on travel... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2097017/hong-kong-and-mainland-tourists-keep-visiting-uk-despite-terror?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/economy/article/2097017/hong-kong-and-mainland-tourists-keep-visiting-uk-despite-terror?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Jun 2017 23:03:18 +0000 London twice and Manchester once in the space of less than 2½ months – is this becoming a dangerous pattern where terrorists are outwitting British intelligence services? What are we, in the UK, getting wrong at our end? And, for the terrorists, what are they really achieving by targeting those very multicultural cities that comprise the heart of their sympathiser base in the Western world? Just last week, a young man stood blindfolded on a street with a placard that said “Do you trust me... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2096915/after-london-and-manchester-terror-attacks-uk-needs-act-now?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2096915/after-london-and-manchester-terror-attacks-uk-needs-act-now?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 05 Jun 2017 07:07:00 +0000 A suspected terrorist attack was thwarted in central London on Thursday after armed police arrested a man who is alleged to have been carrying knives near the Houses of Parliament. The dramatic afternoon arrest followed a tense intelligence operation that had earlier identified the man detained as being of concern to counter-terrorism investigators. His movements were being tracked just before his arrest. The scene where the man, aged 27, was arrested is metres away from where five weeks ago... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2091279/knife-packing-terrorist-foiled-london-police-near-parliament?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2091279/knife-packing-terrorist-foiled-london-police-near-parliament?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 27 Apr 2017 17:18:41 +0000 Terrorism respects no borders, as a string of recent atrocities proves. In a mere week, a subway bombing in Russia’s St Petersburg killed 13 people, four died in a truck attack in Stockholm, Sweden, and blasts outside Coptic Christian churches in Egypt took the lives of 47. The tragedies came as a terror plot was foiled by Norwegian police in Oslo and a tourist died in a London hospital, the fifth victim of last month’s car-and-knife rampage in the British capital. These were on top of... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2087818/vigilance-and-unity-are-key-fight-against-extremism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2087818/vigilance-and-unity-are-key-fight-against-extremism?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 14 Apr 2017 16:40:32 +0000 Police have found no evidence that the man who killed four people in the attack outside the British Parliament in London last week was associated with the Islamic State group or al-Qaeda, a senior British counterterrorism officer said Monday. Deputy Assistant Commissioner Neil Basu of the Metropolitan Police said Westminster attacker Khalid Masood clearly had “an interest in jihad”, but police have no indication he discussed his attack plans with others. Basu, who also serves as Britain’s senior... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2082667/police-find-no-evidence-london-attacker-associated-islamic-state?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2082667/police-find-no-evidence-london-attacker-associated-islamic-state?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Mar 2017 01:08:07 +0000 British police investigating a deadly attack on parliament made a new arrest Sunday as officials set their sights on accessing WhatsApp, the heavily-encrypted messaging service that was used by the killer. The arrest came four days after the lightning assault that unfolded in the shadow of the Houses of Parliament, in which an apparently lone attacker killed four people and wounded 50 before being shot dead by armed police. The latest arrest was a 30-year-old man who was detained in the central... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2082351/london-attack-investigators-demand-access-encrypted-whatsapp-used?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2082351/london-attack-investigators-demand-access-encrypted-whatsapp-used?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Mar 2017 00:16:50 +0000 British police said they had made two further significant arrests in the investigation into the attack on London’s parliament and gave the birth name of the man behind the assault as Adrian Russell Ajao. Britain’s top anti-terrorism officer, Mark Rowley, said police had nine people in custody after the attack on Wednesday which killed five people including the assailant. Residents recount their experiences of London terror attack Police had said the man behind the attack was British-born Muslim... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/2081860/2-significant-arrests-made-london-terror-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/2081860/2-significant-arrests-made-london-terror-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Mar 2017 08:38:02 +0000 A defiant message purportedly scrawled on a board at an underground railway station condemning the terrorist attack in London was read out in Britain’s parliament, praised by the prime minister and widely shared on social media before being revealed as a computer-generated fake. The message: “All terrorists are politely reminded that this is London and whatever you do to us we will drink tea and jolly well carry on thank you” seemed to sum up the unflustered mood Britons are known for after... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081759/brilliant-london-tube-message-terrorists-defiant-inspirational-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081759/brilliant-london-tube-message-terrorists-defiant-inspirational-and?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Mar 2017 01:02:31 +0000 Before he killed at least four people in Britain’s deadliest attack since the 2005 London bombings, Khalid Masood was considered by intelligence officers to be a criminal who posed little serious threat. A British-born Muslim convert, Masood had shown up on the periphery of previous terrorism investigations that brought him to the attention of Britain’s MI5 spy agency. But the 52-year-old was not under investigation when he sped across Westminster Bridge on Wednesday, ploughing down pedestrians... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081750/i-immediately-recognised-him-what-we-know-about-london-attacker?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081750/i-immediately-recognised-him-what-we-know-about-london-attacker?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:02:00 +0000 As Britain’s MI5 intelligence service probes the terrorist attack in London on Wednesday that ended in four deaths and more than 40 injuries, some ethnic Chinese people who live or study in London recounted the dramatic terrorist attack to the Post. As of Thursday, police had arrested eight people at six locations in London and Birmingham as part of the probe into Wednesday’s lone-wolf attack that British Prime Minister Theresa May said was inspired by a warped Islamist ideology. China, world... https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/2081634/ethnic-chinese-people-britain-recount-their-experiences-terror-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/2081634/ethnic-chinese-people-britain-recount-their-experiences-terror-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Mar 2017 00:01:33 +0000 Britain is not unaccustomed to terrorist violence. After the IRA bombs that targeted pubs and other crowded venues towards the end of the 1900s came the London transport suicide bombings by four Islamists that killed 52 people in July 2005. The allegiances of those killers, their planning, weapons and modus operandi, can be potential clues to police and undercover agents trying to prevent attacks. Islamic State claims responsibility for London attack as killer revealed as British-born known to... https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2081700/scourge-terrorism-must-be-tackled-its-roots?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/2081700/scourge-terrorism-must-be-tackled-its-roots?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Mar 2017 20:37:39 +0000 The Islamic State group on Thursday claimed the deadly assault at the British parliament, as Prime Minister Theresa May identified the attacker as a British-born man known to intelligence services. “An act of terrorism tried to silence our democracy,” May told a packed House of Commons, which stood for a minute’s silence in remembrance of the victims of Wednesday’s strike on the symbol of Britain’s democracy. “We are not afraid and our resolve will never waver in the face of terrorism,” May... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081585/pm-may-london-attacker-was-british-born-known-security-services?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081585/pm-may-london-attacker-was-british-born-known-security-services?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:00:00 +0000 Prime Minister Theresa May had just cast her vote for a pensions bill when she was told the UK Parliament was under attack. Minutes earlier, the tourists that throng Westminster Bridge, taking selfies in front of Big Ben, had scattered as a car careened down the sidewalk toward them, before crashing into the railings next to the famous clock tower. There were shouts as the driver jumped from the wreckage and ran through the crowds around the corner toward the huge iron gates of Parliament that... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081581/how-one-man-brought-terror-heart-london-car-and-knives?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081581/how-one-man-brought-terror-heart-london-car-and-knives?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:36:32 +0000 In January, Hong Kong Commissioner of Police Stephen Lo Wai-chung said during his year-end briefing on the city’s crime situation that there was “no intelligence to indicate that Hong Kong is under imminent threat” from terrorists. While the terror threat has been “moderate” the past few years, the preparation against global terrorism has still been long in coming. Francis Shun Leung, superintendent of the force, affirmed that all 30,000 police have to act as a counter to any threat of... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2081576/hong-kong-ready-combat-global-terrorism?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/geopolitics/article/2081576/hong-kong-ready-combat-global-terrorism?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Mar 2017 10:36:28 +0000 World leaders unanimously condemned the attack in the heart of London by a man who was shot dead by armed police, with many saying they stand with Britain. Three people were killed and more than 40 injured in the attack outside parliament Wednesday when a man mowed down pedestrians with a car then leapt out and stabbed a police officer. In an address outside her Downing Street office, Prime Minister Theresa May described the attack as “sick and depraved” saying the assailant chose the site as an... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081513/china-world-leaders-stand-britain-after-london-terror-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081513/china-world-leaders-stand-britain-after-london-terror-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Mar 2017 06:20:11 +0000 A young Chinese woman was one of the more than 40 people ­wounded in the deadly terrorist attack in London, on Wednesday, Europe-based Chinese language news outlet Nouvelles d’Europe ­reported on Thursday. The Chinese tourist was in London on holiday, the report said. She was hit by the assailant’s car and suffered a bone fracture near her shoulder and bruising, it said, adding that her injuries were not life-threatening and that she had been hospitalised. The Chinese embassy in ­London reminded... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2081498/chinese-tourist-wounded-london-terror-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy-defence/article/2081498/chinese-tourist-wounded-london-terror-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Mar 2017 05:39:39 +0000 When Airey Neave, the last British MP to be assassinated in parliament, was blown up by a magnetic bomb under his car as he was driving out of the underground car park, his Irish murderers boasted they had killed him “inside the ‘impregnable’ Palace of Westminster”. That was back in March 1979 when the Houses of Parliament were, in reality, far from impregnable. There has always, of course, been a constant police presence at Westminster but even during those years of the IRA and INLA bombing... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081485/mps-british-parliament-remain-hard-target-terrorists?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081485/mps-british-parliament-remain-hard-target-terrorists?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Mar 2017 04:43:04 +0000 Wednesday’s attack in London involved one of terrorists’ new favourite tactics: driving a vehicle into a crowd. In July, a terrorist in Nice drove a truck into a crowd of people celebrating Bastille Day in the French Riviera, killing 84. And in December, a man rammed a vehicle into a Christmas market in Berlin, killing 12. In the London attack, a vehicle ploughed into pedestrians on Westminster Bridge, leaving at least three dead and dozens injured. The attacker then stabbed a police officer at... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081469/terrorist-behind-wheel-car-or-truck-becomes-weapon-mass?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081469/terrorist-behind-wheel-car-or-truck-becomes-weapon-mass?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Mar 2017 04:07:08 +0000 Donald Trump Jr is facing a backlash for criticising London mayor Sadiq Khan with a scornful tweet sent hours after an attack at the Houses of Parliament left three dead, including a police officer. The US president’s eldest son tweeted a link to a September 2016 story in the Independent, which quoted Khan saying terror attacks were “part and parcel of living in a big city”, and “I want to be reassured that every single agency and individual involved in protecting our city has the resources and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081457/donald-trump-jr-called-disgrace-tweet-criticising-london-mayor?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081457/donald-trump-jr-called-disgrace-tweet-criticising-london-mayor?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Mar 2017 03:31:31 +0000 The MP’s had been told to shelter inside. Just steps from Britain’s parliament building, a grisly scene was unfolding. An attacker had mowed into a crowd of people on Westminster bridge. Then, knife in hand, he charged the building’s guards. The ensuing scuffle left at least one police officer gravely wounded. Shots had been fired; no one knew whether the danger had subsided. That didn’t stop British MP Tobias Ellwood. While his colleagues gathered on the chamber floor, Ellwood headed outside to... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081421/heroic-mp-who-tried-vain-save-stabbed-officer-had-been-touched?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081421/heroic-mp-who-tried-vain-save-stabbed-officer-had-been-touched?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Mar 2017 01:22:09 +0000 Tourists were stuck in mid-air on the popular London Eye attraction for around an hour on Wednesday following a suspected terror attack outside the Houses of Parliament. Visitors on the London Eye, a 135 metre high big wheel, were later evacuated after the attack, in which a police officer was stabbed and the suspected assailant shot. The London Eye has a clear view over the area. “At present we are holding all of our guests within our attractions as per tried and tested security procedures,”... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081343/tourists-trapped-london-eye-during-terror-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081343/tourists-trapped-london-eye-during-terror-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Mar 2017 19:15:30 +0000 Scottish lawmakers suspended their vote for a second independence referendum on Wednesday following a terrorist incident outside the Houses of Parliament in London. The Scottish Parliament in Edinburgh was just hours away from a landmark decision to ask the British government for permission to review Scotland’s place in the United Kingdom. The ruling Scottish National Party (SNP) was expected to gain approval for its separatist ambitions with support from the Green Party, but the vote was put on... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081316/scotland-suspends-independence-vote-after-uk-attack?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081316/scotland-suspends-independence-vote-after-uk-attack?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Mar 2017 18:15:15 +0000 British police arrested eight people in armed raids Thursday linked to the deadly “Islamist-related” attacks the day on the symbol of the country’s democracy. Britain’s top anti-terror officer Mark Rowley also said police have revised down the number of victims from Wednesday’s rampage to three from four. Some 40 people were wounded. “We have searched six addresses and made seven arrests,” Britain’s top anti-terror officer Mark Rowley told reporters in London. He said the raids included... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081269/reports-possible-gunfire-near-britains-parliament-police-called?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2081269/reports-possible-gunfire-near-britains-parliament-police-called?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:00:30 +0000