Articles by Tom Porter

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The Groups of Death: Online suicide forums linked to deaths of 130 Russian teens in six months

Investigation exposes social-media groups behind recent wave of suicides, as MPs call for website legislation.

May 17, 2016

Russia

Anti-terror raids were conducted in Birmingham andL

Isis: Three arrested in Syria-related London and Birmingham counter-terrorism raids

Separate dawn raids were conducted by police at addresses in London and Birmingham.

May 17, 2016

Syria Isis Islamic State

Judge expels drugs mule Melissa Reid from Peru

Reid had served a third of her sentence.

May 16, 2016

A picture taken from the beach in the southern Israeli kibbutz of Zikim shows the skyline of Gaza City

Hamas frogmen plotting underwater 'blue tunnel' strikes against Israel, claims IDF

Four Hamas militants reached the Israeli coast undetected from sea using underwater 'terror tunnel' in 2014.

May 16, 2016

Israel

Isis in Turkey: Intelligence service warns of imminent terror attacks in Ankara

The US Embassy is among the intended targets in the Turkish city on 19 May 2016, according to a report.

May 16, 2016

Isis Islamic State

Eurovision 2016: Furious Russian officials threaten boycott over Ukraine 1944 victory

Ukrainian winning song '1944' is about the persecution of the Crimean Tatars by the Soviet Union.

May 16, 2016

Russia Ukraine

Denmark to become first country to exclude 'transgender' from list of mental illnesses

Shadow health minister claims mental health classification "stigmatising".

May 13, 2016

French teacher who lied about anti-Semitic attack by Isis supporters gets suspended sentence

Man claimed he was knifed, days after Paris attacks, by extremists in Marseille.

May 13, 2016

France Isis Islamic State ISIL

Oslo police investigate possible synagogue bomb threat

Individual caught on CCTV leaving suitcase by door of the Det Mosaiske Trossamfund synagogue at 4am on Friday.

May 13, 2016

$16m art masterpieces stolen in Italy recovered by Ukrainian authorities

Haul included works by Rubens, Tintoretto and Mantegna.

May 12, 2016

Ukraine

Stockholm chemical leak: 500 evacuated from building amid fears of explosion

Five hundred people have been evacuated from a building in Stockholm.

May 12, 2016

Copenhagen bar owners call for government to tackle Muslim 'Sharia patrols'

Publicans claim immigrant youth activists threaten, vandalise and extort them in broad daylight.

May 12, 2016

More than a million refugees entered Germany

Germany probing 40 alleged terror suspects posing as refugees

German authorities have received 369 tip-offs about refugees with terror links.

May 11, 2016

German court halts Erdogan bid to gag media boss in satire row

Axel Springer chief defends satirist accused of insulting Turkish president.

May 11, 2016

Hillsborough verdict: Labour proposes families get same funding rights as police for inquests

Package of radical reforms to Policing and Crime bill proposed by shadow home secretary Andy Burnham.

May 11, 2016

Moscow Victory Day parade 2016: President Putin calls for international 'non-bloc' security force

Parade marking 75th anniversary of Allied world war victory saw military show off new weapons and equipment.

May 9, 2016

Vladimir Putin Moscow Russia

Belgian police inspect the entrance of an apartment in central Verviers, a town between Liege and the German border, in the east of Belgium

Belgium begins trial of alleged Isis terror cell which included Paris attacks leader Abdelhamid Abaaoud

Kalashnikov guns, explosives and police uniforms were found after raid on Verviers apartment.

May 9, 2016

Isis Islamic State

German court rules lawyer justified describing Bavarian minister as 'inbred'

Response to Joachim Herrmann's use of racist term leads to court case.

May 9, 2016

Uncanny statue of kneeling Hitler fetches record $17m at New York auction

From the rear the resin and wax piece appears to be a praying boy.

May 9, 2016

Sadiq Khan 'has won' London mayoral election, beating Zac Goldsmith

Pundits say Khan victory is now mathematically certain.

May 6, 2016

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