Britain's Home Office said Wednesday it is banning the military wing of Hezbollah, the Lebanese political movement, because of its support for "terrorism" in Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
Britain has granted asylum to Mehdi Kazemi, a gay Iranian student who faced deportation from the United Kingdom and feared execution in Iran for being homosexual, officials confirmed Tuesday.
Britain's Home Office has signed an extradition order that will send accused terrorist Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States for prosecution, CNN has confirmed.
Two men arrested last week in connection with a plot to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier were released without charges early Wednesday, police said.
A system using fingerprint scanning and face recognition systems, designed to speed up passenger transit times and increase security, is beginning a trial at Heathrow airport's Terminal 3.
Britain has lowered its terrorist threat level from "critical" to "severe," three days after police said they had foiled a plot to blow up as many as 10 commercial airliners.
The UK Home Office has raised the terrorism threat level in Britain to its highest state, "critical," which is used when an attack is considered imminent.
Britain's Home Office said Wednesday it is banning the military wing of Hezbollah, the Lebanese political movement, because of its support for "terrorism" in Iraq and the Palestinian territories.
Britain has granted asylum to Mehdi Kazemi, a gay Iranian student who faced deportation from the United Kingdom and feared execution in Iran for being homosexual, officials confirmed Tuesday.
Britain's Home Office has signed an extradition order that will send accused terrorist Abu Hamza al-Masri to the United States for prosecution, CNN has confirmed.
Two men arrested last week in connection with a plot to kidnap and kill a British Muslim soldier were released without charges early Wednesday, police said.
A system using fingerprint scanning and face recognition systems, designed to speed up passenger transit times and increase security, is beginning a trial at Heathrow airport's Terminal 3.
Britain has lowered its terrorist threat level from "critical" to "severe," three days after police said they had foiled a plot to blow up as many as 10 commercial airliners.
The UK Home Office has raised the terrorism threat level in Britain to its highest state, "critical," which is used when an attack is considered imminent.
British police are facing criticism over the length of time it took them to take action against radical Muslim cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri, who is starting a seven-year prison sentence for inciting the murder of non-believers.
Radical cleric Abu Hamza al-Masri has been sentenced to seven years in prison after being found guilty on 11 terror-related charges, including soliciting murder and inciting racial hatred.
The Brazilian man mistakenly shot and killed by anti-terrorist police in London last week had a false stamp on his passport and had been in Britain for two years with an expired visa, officials say.
Two of the men who tried to bomb London's mass transit system on July 21 were east African immigrants who had lived in Britain legally for more than a decade, the British government revealed Tuesday.
A Palestinian man, detained without trial under Britain's controversial anti-terror laws for three years, has been granted bail, the government has said.
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