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The threat to the UK from International Terrorism is SUBSTANTIAL

The threat to Great Britain from Irish Republican Terrorism is SEVERE

Threat levels are designed to give a broad indication of the likelihood of a terrorist attack.

LOW means an attack is unlikely

MODERATE means an attack is possible, but not likely

SUBSTANTIAL means an attack is a strong possibility

SEVERE means an attack is highly likely

CRITICAL means an attack is expected imminently

AFRICA

Islamist militants have ambushed a convoy that was trying to rescue civilians from a hotel amid fighting in northern Mozambique, reports say.

A suspected suicide bomb attack outside a Catholic church in the Indonesian city of Makassar has left at least 14 people wounded, police say.

Medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says its staff on Tuesday witnessed Ethiopian soldiers shoot dead four civilians in the northern Tigray region.

Rebels trying to oust the president of the Central African Republic say the former head of state, François Bozizé, is now in charge of their group.

Mozambique’s defence ministry says Islamist militants carried out Wednesday's attack in the northern town of Palma, close to a multi-billion dollar gas project run by French oil giant Total.

Eritrea will withdraw troops from Ethiopia almost five months after a conflict started in the Tigray region, Ethiopia's prime minister has said.

Officials in northern Mali have accused French forces of killing six civilians in an airstrike.

ASIA

North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, says the US and Japan - the first such test since Joe Biden became US president.

North Korea has claimed the missiles it launched Thursday were a "new-type tactical guided projectile", in its first statement since the test.

Myanmar's security forces have opened fire on protesters as the leaders of its coup marked Armed Forces Day.

US Defence Secretary Lloyd Austin has made an unannounced visit to Afghanistan, weeks before a planned withdrawal of all remaining US troops.

The Philippines has called on China to withdraw more than 200 ships it accuses of encroaching upon its territorial waters in the South China Sea.

AUSTRALIA

Four neo-Nazi groups banned in Europe and North America are operating in Australia, it has been revealed, as police and terrorism experts warn of an increasing global threat posed by lone-wolf far-right extremists.

Gabriel Crazzi, 34, from Chambers Flat, south of Brisbane, is facing seven charges including making "incursions into foreign states with the intention of engaging in hostile activities" and preparations for the incursions. He and his co-accused, Ahmed Talib, 31, from Melbourne, are alleged to have funded Queensland man Ahmed Succarieh's 2013 trip to Syria.

EUROPE

Turkey 'thwarted' plans of terror groups. Domestic, cross-border operations against terror groups erase possibility of terror state in Syria, says parliament head

The Spanish National Police (Policía Nacional) supported by Europol, arrested three individuals in Madrid and Santa Cruz de Tenerife for their suspected involvement in the facilitation of terrorist financing.

The suspects are believed to have used a non-governmental organisation to finance the activities of Al-Qaeda affiliated militants.

France's foreign minister has accused Russia of using its Sputnik coronavirus vaccine as an instrument of aggressive diplomacy.

France has accused the UK of "blackmail" over its handling of coronavirus vaccine exports, amid continuing tensions over supply chains.

UK

The size of the Army is expected to be reduced by about 10,000 soldiers as part of a move towards robots, drones, and cyber warfare.

Sohaib Embarek, a 34-year-old man and a Spanish national of no fixed abode,A has been jailed for [6 years] for terrorism offences following an investigation by Counter Terrorism Policing South East (CTPSE).

Protesters have attacked police after thousands of people turned up to a demonstration that officers had "strongly advised" against attending.

Violence at a third night of protests in Bristol has been condemned as "disgraceful" by Prime Minister Boris Johnson.

A Royal Navy Hawk T1 jet has crashed in a field in Cornwall.

NatWest £365m money laundering case linked to separate case involving infamous gold dealer James Stunt

Criminal case against NatWest tip of £90bn iceberg in 'money laundering capital of the world'

A money-launderer has been jailed after he was caught by police in Sheffield with over £1m in his car which was linked to organised crime.

Cannabis with a street value of more than £1m has been recovered in Peterhead, police have said.

Eighteen people have been arrested after protesters blocked tram lines in Manchester, police have said.

Police are searching for a man who was mistakenly released from a west London jail. William Fernandez was being held on remand at HMP Wormwood Scrubs where he was awaiting trial for various offences including sexual assault.

[County Armagh] A 40-year-old man has been charged with a range of offences including four counts of making explosives under suspicious circumstances.

USA

A Russian man in the US has pleaded guilty to plotting to extort money from the electric car company Tesla.

A gunman has killed 10 people, including a police officer, following an hours-long stand-off at a grocery market in the US state of Colorado.

The Belize Football Federation has expressed its "disappointment and disgust" after a bus taking the national team to their hotel in Haiti was held up by an armed gang.

Dominion Voting Systems has filed a $1.6bn (£1.2bn) defamation lawsuit against Fox News, arguing it promoted baseless claims of vote-rigging.

CYBER/CRYPTO

Taiwanese electronics and computer maker Acer has been hit by a ransomware attack where the hackers are demanding $50 million (R731 055 500) the largest known ransom to date.

A Swiss cybersecurity firm says it has accessed servers used by a hacking group tied to the SolarWinds breach, revealing details about who the attackers targeted and how they carried out their operation. The firm, PRODAFT, also said the hackers have continued with their campaign through this month.

Covid-19 vaccines, vaccine passports and faked negative test papers are being sold on the darknet. Prices range between $500 (£360) and $750 for doses of AstraZeneca, Sputnik, Sinopharm or Johnson & Johnson jabs. Fake vaccination certificates are also being sold by anonymous traders for as little as $150.

Hackers in China used fake Facebook accounts and impostor websites to try to break into the computers and smartphones of Uyghur Muslims, the social network said Wednesday.

A firm that has the registered details of more than nine million chipped pets across the UK has been accused of losing its customers' data. Petlog is requesting that all users create a new account, but is not explaining why they need to do so.

A man from Cyprus was sentenced to prison for committing federal computer fraud, including hacking a consumer report website based in Arizona, according to a statement released by U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Arizona.

[USA] Eleven people have been arrested in connection with drug manufacturing and money laundering allegations at several restaurants.

A cyber-attack has disrupted live broadcasts on Australia's Channel Nine TV network, prompting concerns about the country's vulnerability to hackers.

Several members of the German parliament, The Bundestag, and political activists in the country were targeted using a spear-phishing campaign, German newsmagazine Der Spiegel reported Friday.