By Samia Nakhoul and Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) – Jordan has foiled a suspected Iranian-led plot to smuggle weapons into the U.S.-allied kingdom to help opponents of the ruling monarchy carry out acts of sabotage, according to two Jordanian sources with knowledge of the matter. The weapons were sent by Iranian-backed militias in Syria to […]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky dismissed the head of the the agency responsible for his protection after two of its officers were detained over an alleged assassination plot against him. The sacking of State Guard Service (UDO) chief Serhii Rud was revealed in a decree published on the presidential website. No reason for the dismissal was […]
Ukraine said it foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It said members of Ukraine’s security service were part of the plot. Russia appears to have gained astonishing access to Ukraine’s security service. Ukraine’s security service, the SBU, said on Tuesday that it had foiled the latest Russian plot to assassinate Ukraine’s President […]
Ukraine’s state security service said it foiled a Russian plot to kill President Volodymyr Zelensky and other top officials. Investigators shut down the planned assassination by two colonels who served in Ukraine’s government protection unit and were reportedly recruited by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), according to a Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) post […]
KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian counterintelligence investigators have foiled a Russian plot to assassinate President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and other top military and political figures, Ukraine’s state security service said Tuesday. Two colonels in the State Guard of Ukraine, which protects top officials, were detained on suspicion of enacting the plan drawn up by Russia’s Federal […]
May 3—State police arrested a U.S. Army sergeant Friday on charges he gave money to his older brother who allegedly concocted a murder-for-hire plot in prison. Jeremiah Peikert, 30, who was stationed at the Fort Cavazos Military Base in Texas, was extradited to Connecticut and arraigned Friday in New London Superior Court on charges of […]
LONDON (AP) — A British man accused of plotting to torch a London business connected to Ukraine has been charged with conducting hostile activity to benefit Russia, prosecutors said Friday. Dylan Earl, 20, is connected to Russia’s Wagner mercenary group, which the U.K. government has declared a banned terrorist organization, prosecutors said. Earl is accused […]
DETROIT (AP) — A state investigator testified Wednesday that he considers former President Donald Trump and his White House chief of staff to be uncharged co-conspirators in a scheme to claim that he had won Michigan in the 2020 election, despite Democrat Joe Biden’s clear victory. Trump and Mark Meadows were among the names mentioned […]
“I want him to be completely gone from my life,” Stephanie M. Russell told the purported hitman on a recorded call Oldham County Detention Center Stephanie M. Russell, dressed in her scrubs for a mugshot following her May 19, 2022 arrest. Stephanie M. Russell was running her own pediatric clinic in Louisville, Ky., when she […]
(Bloomberg) — Poland has arrested a man on suspicion of assisting with a Russian plot to assassinate Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, the prosecutor’s office said on Thursday. Most Read from Bloomberg The Polish citizen identified as Pawel K was charged with declaring his readiness to help Russian military intelligence collect information about the security of […]
A Polish man has been arrested on allegations of being ready to help Russia’s military intelligence in an alleged plot to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky, Polish prosecutors said Thursday. The office of Poland’s National Prosecutor said in a statement that the man, identified only as Pawel K, was accused of being prepared to pass […]
WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish man has been arrested on allegations of being ready to help Russia’s military intelligence in an alleged plot to assassinate Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Polish prosecutors said Thursday. The office of Poland’s National Prosecutor said in a statement that the man, identified only as Pawel K., was accused of […]