Nagoya teenager handed prison sentence for making explosives, drugs and 3D-printed gun
A court in Nagoya imposed a sentence of three to five years on a former university student on Monday for making an explosive often used in the powerful bombs detonated in terror attacks, as well as stimulant drugs and a 3D-printed gun. The 19-year-old male, ...
A 19-year-old Nagoya university student who had already been arrested for alleged production of explosives and a 3D printed gun was served a fresh arrest warrant Thursday over stimulant drug possession, police said. The male student, whose name is being withheld because he is a ...
Parts of Frankfurt airport were evacuated for several hours on Tuesday following a lapse in security in which a French family of four were allowed to leave the secure zone despite testing positive for explosives, federal police said. After the alarm had been raised, the ...
FBI probing suspicious packages found at U.S. installations in D.C.; explosive residue found
Suspicious packages were found at multiple U.S. government installations in the Washington, D.C. area on Monday and were being analyzed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation to determine their contents, law enforcement officials said. Among the facilities where the packages turned up were Fort McNair ...
The Iraqi city of Mosul will remain strewn with unexploded bombs for a decade, endangering a million or more civilians who want to return home following the end of three years of Islamic State occupation, a U.N. demining expert said on Wednesday. Pehr Lodhammar, a ...
Civilian deaths from explosives surged in 2017, campaign group says
More than 40 civilians were killed every day by explosive weapons last year, according to a preliminary survey of media reports, a sharp rise on 2016 largely due to an increase in deadly airstrikes, a campaign group said Monday. From monitoring English-language news reports up ...
Major airlines to bolster bomb checks by randomly inspecting passengers' gadgets
Japan’s biggest airlines will start checking passengers’ electronic devices for bombs next week at the request of the U.S.
Aichi man referred to prosecutors for making explosive used by terrorists
Police referred to prosecutors Tuesday a 23-year-old man suspected of producing the same explosive used in terrorist attacks in Paris in 2015 and one in Brussels last year.
Tokyo prosecutors have indicted a South Korean man for trespassing at Yasukuni Shrine in late November when a small explosion occurred there. Chon Chang-han, 27, allegedly entered the shrine's grounds with unlawful intent on the morning of Nov. 23. The blast occurred in a men's ...
Uganda seizes explosives, suicide vests from suspected al-Shabaab cell
Police in Kampala seized "substantial amounts of explosives" and suicide vests in raids on a suspected al-Shabaab cell that was planning an imminent attack, a Ugandan official said in an interview on Sunday. Police arrested 19 people in the operation on Saturday, and Information Minister ...
