Terrorist Act

Transportation Subject to Multiple Threats by a Range of Actors, DHS Warns – HS Today
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Transportation Subject to Multiple Threats by a Range of Actors, DHS Warns – HS Today

The 2024 threat assessment from the Department of Homeland Security says domestic and foreign adversaries likely will continue to threaten the integrity of U.S. critical infrastructure—including the transportation sector—over the next year, in part because they perceive targeting these sectors would have cascading impacts on U.S. industries and the American way of life. “From attacks…

36 Days of Type: Indian Laws That Shaped Our Lives
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36 Days of Type: Indian Laws That Shaped Our Lives

For #36DaysOfType, The Swaddle’s Denise D’Souza illustrated the A-Z of Indian laws that have impacted Indians in unforeseen ways. ⁠ The Armed Forces Special Powers Act of 1958 (AFSPA) grants the military the ability to maintain public order in ‘disturbed areas,’ through wide powers of arrest, the right to shoot to kill, and to occupy or…

The threats and remedies of human trafficking – The Nation
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The threats and remedies of human trafficking – The Nation

Human trafficking includes unjust practices including recruiting, transporting, transferring, harboring, or receiving persons through the use of force, coercion, deception, or other means for the purpose of exploiting them. This exploitation can take many forms, be it sexual exploitation, forced labor, domestic servitude, forced marriage or even extreme measures like organ removal. This crime is…

Migrant smuggling and human trafficking – The Nation
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Migrant smuggling and human trafficking – The Nation

Unemployment and extreme pov­erty in various countries have made many millions of men, women, and children vulnerable to traf­ficking and smuggling. Spurred by the twin crises of rising in­flation and unemployment, scores of Pakistanis are cross­ing national borders through illegal routes. They are even­tually victimised by people who exploit their poverty and helplessness. Due to…

Shamima Begum's jihadi husband insists they were happily married | Daily Mail Online
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Shamima Begum's jihadi husband insists they were happily married | Daily Mail Online

EXCLUSIVE: Shamima Begum’s jihadi husband insists they were happily married despite her claims she was ‘groomed and trafficked’ at the age of 15 and forced to wed 23-year-old man EXCLUSIVE: Shamima Begum’s husband insists their marriage was happy Dutch convert Yago Riedijk painted a picture of domestic bliss in Syria Begum’s lawyers say that she was…

Bulgaria charges 5 suspects in connection with Istanbul bombing | News – Al Jazeera
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Bulgaria charges 5 suspects in connection with Istanbul bombing | News – Al Jazeera

Prosecutor says police this week arrested three men of Moldovan origin and a man and woman of Syrian Kurdish descent this week. Bulgarian prosecutors have charged five people for supporting “terrorist acts” in connection with an explosion in central Istanbul that killed six people on November 13, chief prosecutor Ivan Geshev said on Saturday. Bulgarian…

EXCLUSIVE: ‘Dereliction Of Duty’: GOP Rep Demands Answers On The Massive Influx Of Migrants
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EXCLUSIVE: ‘Dereliction Of Duty’: GOP Rep Demands Answers On The Massive Influx Of Migrants

Republican California Rep. Darrell Issa is demanding Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas explain the nearly 600% increase in illegal migrants in fiscal year 2022 who were flagged as potential national security risks, according to a Tuesday letter exclusively obtained by the Daily Caller News Foundation. Border Patrol reported 25,627 encounters of “special…