After a car rampage and two stabbings in and around the South Korean capital that shocked the nation in the past month, at least seven people have been arrested on suspicion of making threats to carry out similar acts, the police said on Saturday.
Many of the arrests came days after 14 people were injured in an episode in Seongnam, a city southeast of Seoul, that the authorities said was being treated as an “act of terror.” The assailant in
LONDON — Fancy losing sleep tonight? Just read the U.K. government’s list of all the massive threats it believes are currently facing the U.K.
The U.K. government’s National Risk Register, unveiled Thursday by Deputy Prime Minister Oliver Dowden, sets out key vulnerabilities and threats to the country. And it reveals previously classified information about the U.K. government’s thinking in a bid to encourage firms to up their mitigation strategies.
The register details a total of 89 risks that meet the
King Charles III is facing “major threats” from his brother, Prince Andrew, according to a royal commentator.
The Duke of York has been keeping a low profile since his bruising legal settlement with Virginia Giuffre.
His mother, the late Queen Elizabeth II, stripped him of his military titles and royal patronages back in 2022 amid the civil suit for sexual assault allegations.
The Prince strongly denied any wrongdoing but has not been able to shake himself free of controversy since.
This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here.
After the second indictment of Donald Trump, some extremists in the Republican Party have made barely veiled threats of violence against their fellow citizens. People who believe in the American idea should respond with faith in the American constitutional order and open disdain for
MP ALICIA Kearns is wearing one of her ‘Quality Street’ dresses; a glorious fuchsia pink wraparound confection. She looks stunning. Very Nigella Lawson.
While she’s delighted to accept a compliment on the frock, she is — quite rightly — frustrated when some of the men within Westminster obsess about what she looks like.
‘One [broadsheet] parliamentary sketchwriter has never written about my brain or my policies. Not once,’ she says. ‘He says I have barmaid’s forearms and I harrumph round
Civilizations don’t last forever. Just ask the Aztecs. Or the Maya. Or fans of the original Roman Empire.
From the ancient Myceneans in the Mediterranean to the Anasazi in Arizona, societies throughout history have often gone the way of the dinosaurs and the dodo. Wars, or disease, or altered weather patterns, or natural disasters, or famine have repeatedly tipped complex regional societies past the point of stability, initiating chaos, ruin and ultimately total demise.
In his original unabridged dictionary, published
Covid isn’t over yet, but scientists fear the next pandemic is already lurking just around the corner waiting to pounce.
Deadly diseases like Ebola and Nipah — which kill up to 75 per cent of people they strike — are two of the biggest threats.
Others pathogenic hazards, which could theoretically sweep the world if given the opportunity, include bird flu, Crimean-Congo haemorrhagic fever (CCHF) and the plague.
UK health officials are constantly monitoring the threats around the planet, in
Dr Anthony Fauci has claimed he would have ‘no problem at all’ if the GOP were to go through his records for connections to the Covid lab leak theory.
The White House’s top pandemic adviser said he would be ‘happy to cooperate’ with any probe because he had ‘nothing to hide’.
Republicans look likely to take the House of Representatives, which would mean they can issue a subpoena to access Dr Fauci’s documents.
Several GOP lawmakers have signaled their intent
Vladimir Putin told the President of Finland he is making a ‘mistake’ by joining NATO and currently faces ‘no threats’ in a ‘direct and straightforward’ phone call this morning.
President Sauli Niinistö had said the conversation was ‘conducted without aggravations’ as both parties worked to ‘avoid tensions’.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and cyber-attacks on Finland and Sweden have ‘altered the security environment’ in Helsinki, Putin was told.
According to a Russian readout of the call, Putin said: ‘Abandoning the traditional
