Could calling attacks like Southport 'terrorism' help to prevent them?
Keir Starmer says that terrorism has 'changed' and that the problem must be urgently addressed. But the system is fluid when it comes to what classifies as terrorism
Southport Killings Are a New Kind of Terrorism, U.K. Prime Minister Says
After a teenager admitted murdering three girls at a dance class, Keir Starmer said people were being radicalized into violence for its own sake and terrorism laws might need to change.
Terrorism laws must change in wake of Southport murders – PM
Sir Keir Starmer said the UK faces a new threat from loners radicalised by viewing extreme violent content online.
'Terrorism has changed', says PM on Southport attacks
"Terrorism has changed" as Britain faces a "new and dangerous threat" from extreme violence, Sir Keir Starmer has said in a statement on the Southport murders. Speaking in Downing Street after the government announced a public inquiry into the case, the prime minister said failings by the state "leap off the page".
Southport attack: changing the definition of terrorism won’t stop the violence
Axel Rudakubana has been sentenced to a minimum 52 years in jail for the killing of three young girls in Southport in a stabbing attack in 2024. After Rudakubana pleaded guilty to the murders, Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced a public inquiry, saying the state “failed in its duty” to protect the girls.
Britain faces new terror threat from 'misfits' after Southport murders - PM
Britain faces a new threat of terrorism from "extreme violence carried out by loners, misfits, young men in their bedrooms" following the Southport murders, the Prime Minister has said. Axel Rudakubana,
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Trump reinstates Cuba as state sponsor of terrorism, reversing Biden's decision
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S.F. eyes closer coordination with the feds on terrorism. Critics are worried
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Economic terrorism? Sharpton vows black boycott of companies that dump DEI
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Why Cuba and 3 other countries are on the State Sponsors of Terrorism list
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Pa. man charged with terrorism in connection with a series of threatening calls
SUNBURY — Terrorism charges have been filed against a Sunbury man accused of threatening to detonate bombs and shoot people in the central Susquehanna Valley in 2023. Gabriel Michael Drumheller, 23, ...
US must not become complacent to a growing terrorism threat, a Counterterrorism Center official says
The outgoing acting director of the National Counterterrorism Center says the U.S. is facing an elevated threat of terrorism.
Boy arrested at Muslim centre under Terrorism Act
A teenager has been arrested over offences under the Terrorism Act outside a Muslim community centre in Greenock. Police said the boy, 16, was arrested shortly after 09:00 at the Inverclyde Islamic ...