Crime

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Nigeria is currently grappling with a spate of mass abductions, but the vast country—bigger than France and Germany combined—faces a multitude of security challenges. Recent attempts by US President Donald Trump and his supporters to frame the insecurity purely as persecution of Christians overlook the complexity of Africa’s most-populous nation. Nigeria is home to over 250 ethnic...

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Guinea-Bissau's deposed President Umaro Sissoco Embaló has arrived in neighbouring Senegal following his release by military forces that toppled his government this week, Senegal's authorities have announced. His transfer came after negotiations by the regional West African bloc Ecowas, which worked to secure his safety amid rising tensions in Guinea-Bissau. Senegal's foreign ministry confirmed that Embaló landed...

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A 31-year-old man has been arrested at Manchester Airport on suspicion of terror offences in connection with the synagogue attack in the city earlier this year, police confirmed. The arrest brings the total number of people detained over the incident to seven. The attack, which occurred on 2 October at the Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, claimed...

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online David Coburn, a former Brexit Party MEP and one-time leader of UKIP Scotland, has strongly denied taking any money linked to a pro-Russian influence effort in the European Parliament. His name appears in WhatsApp exchanges between disgraced ex-MEP Nathan Gill and Oleg Voloshyn, a Ukrainian politician sanctioned by the UK and US for alleged ties to Russian...

Published: 28 November 2025 Friday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Israeli security forces have come under intense scrutiny after video emerged showing troops shooting dead two Palestinians who appeared to have surrendered during a military operation in the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. The footage, which circulated widely on social media, shows the men exiting a building with their hands raised before kneeling on the ground,...

Published: 27 November 2025 Thursday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online Last Friday evening, an Israeli airstrike hit a car in Froun, a village in southern Lebanon, marking yet another violent episode in a region already heavily impacted by decades of conflict. The area, historically a stronghold of the Shia Muslim community and Hezbollah, has long celebrated its fighters as “martyrs of the resistance,” with banners of those...

Published: 27 November 2025 Thursday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online A woman has tragically died, and a man remains in critical condition after being attacked by a shark while swimming at a remote beach in New South Wales, Australia. Authorities reported the incident occurred at Kylies Beach, located within Crowdy Bay National Park, approximately 300km north of Sydney. Police confirmed the woman, believed to be in her...

Published: 27 November 2025 Thursday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. Two members of the National Guard are in critical condition after being shot near the White House in Washington DC, in what city officials described as a “targeted shooting” that has shaken the nation. The attack occurred less than two blocks from the presidential residence, highlighting ongoing concerns about security in the nation’s capital. According to police...

Published: 27 November 2025 Thursday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A decade-old murder case in North Wales is being revisited in the hope of finally identifying a man whose remains were discovered in a remote forest. The body, found in Clocaenog Forest in Conwy county, has remained unidentified despite extensive investigations, leaving both the community and police seeking answers for more than ten years. In November 2015,...

Published: 27 November 2025 Thursday. The English Chronicle Desk. The English Chronicle Online. A Sudanese family living in Londonderry has declared that they will not be driven from their home after racist graffiti was daubed on their property, an incident that has sparked outrage across the local community. The words “local only,” accompanied by a cross hairs symbol, were sprayed overnight on the house where Hala Ahmed, her husband, and...