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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

Niger has declared two days of national mourning from Friday, after at least 69 people were killed in an attack by suspected Islamist insurgents.

A dozen civilians were killed on Monday and four others are reported missing in northern Burkina Faso in attacks attributed to jihadists near the border with Niger.

Ethiopia's government has declared a nationwide state of emergency as war intensifies in several regions in the country.

Officials in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa have called on residents to register their weapons and get ready to protect their neighbourhoods amid fears that rebels could advance on the city.

The Ethiopian government has said it will continue its fight against Tigrayan rebel forces, despite growing international calls for a ceasefire.

More than 20 people have been killed and at least 16 injured in an attack on a military hospital in the Afghan capital Kabul.

Five Eritrean footballers from the women's Under-20 national team have gone missing during a regional tournament in Uganda. The players disappeared from their hotel in Jinja on Tuesday morning.

Nigerian police say six people kidnapped from the University of Abuja earlier this week have been freed.

Nine Ethiopian anti-government groups, including the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF) and Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), have agreed to form an alliance against Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed's administration.

Police in Uganda say they have recovered explosives and other weapons during a search in the capital, Kampala, near the site of last month's explosion in a restaurant that killed a waitress.

ASIA

Counter-terrorism police have arrested four people on charge of being involved in illegal arms trade and seized five firearms and 301 rounds of bullets from them in a raid in Sayedabad bus stand area in Dhaka.

EUROPE

Three people have been seriously injured in a knife attack on a high-speed train in southern Germany.

A Russian diplomat was found dead last month outside the country's embassy in the German capital.

A group of Turkish Twitch streamers have been involved in a money laundering scheme that has reportedly netted $10m.

MIDDLE EAST

At least 29 civilians were killed or wounded in north Yemen when ballistic missiles launched by the rebel Houthi movement hit a religious school and mosque.

At least nine people have been killed in a car bombing near an airport in Yemen's temporary capital, Aden.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has said he escaped unhurt after a drone attack on his home inside Baghdad's high-security Green Zone.

THE AMERICAS

A shootout involving rival gangs on a beach near the Mexican resort of Cancún has left two suspected drug dealers dead, prosecutors say.

A Chinese intelligence officer has been convicted by a US jury of plotting to steal secrets from aviation companies, according to the US justice department.

A football coach was shot in the shoulder during an Argentine third-tier match on Sunday [31st October].

Five individuals charged in multi-million dollar money laundering conspiracy.

The Israeli company behind the controversial Pegasus spyware has been added to a US trade blacklist.

UK

Luke Aaron Skelton, 18, from Washington, Sunderland, has been charged with planning an extreme right-wing terrorist attack.

Sabbir Miah, a 28-year-old from east London, has now been charged with sharing a terrorist publication.

Mason Yates, 18, of Elstree Court, Widnes, has been charged with terrorism offences - two counts of possession of a document likely to be useful to a person preparing or committing an act of terrorism contrary to the Terrorism Act 2000.

Alexander Gray, a neo-Nazi extremist has been jailed for attacking two brothers because one of them had a black girlfriend.

Two men have been jailed for drug supply and money laundering offences after being found with a suitcase containing a quarter of a million pounds.

Two children have been arrested after reports that visitors to a retail park were being threatened with a gun. Armed officers recovered a toy gun, painted black, and a kitchen knife, which was being carried in a rucksack. The two boys were aged 11 and 12 and the police also escorted home two other children, aged 11 and seven.

CYBER/CRYPTO

The United States government has offered a bounty of up to $10million (￡7.4m) for information about the hacking group known as DarkSide.

Ukraine's premier law enforcement and counterintelligence agency on Thursday disclosed the real identities of five individuals allegedly involved in cyberattacks attributed to a cyber-espionage group named Gamaredon, linking the members to Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB).

Google Chrome hacking alert as billions warned to update their browsers immediately.

North Korean threat actor Lazarus group has resorted to supply chain attacks similar to SolarWinds and Kaseya to compromise the regime’s targets

Chinese officials have arrested members of a criminal group charged with alleged money laundering using the country’s CBDC, the digital yuan. The news implies the Chinese government and law enforcement will have greater control and oversight over financial activities in the country with its CBDC.

The company behind Facebook and Instagram has removed more than 1,000 fake accounts in Nicaragua which it says were part of a disinformation campaign by the government.

New Delhi: IFSO, Cyber Crime Unit of Special Cell on Monday (November 1) busted a racket involved in cheating by impersonation using WhatsApp hacking. The syndicate operating from Delhi and Bangalore arrested a person named Chimelum Emmanuel Aniwetalu.

[UK] A man whom police say illegally accessed the social media account of a US citizen and then tried to blackmail them has been jailed. As well as hacking into the victim's Instagram account, Gurvinder Bhangu also accessed their email, according to the West Midlands force. The 23-year-old from Sandwell pleaded guilty to blackmail, fraud and offences under the Computer Misuse Act.

51-year-old Canadian hacker Gary Bowser has pleaded guilty to multiple hacking charges, must now pay $4.5m, and could also face up to 10 years in jail.

The Black Shadow hacking group on Tuesday uploaded what it said was the full database of personal user information from the Atraf website, an LGBTQ dating service and nightlife index.