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Man who stabbed author Salman Rushdie convicted of โ€˜terrorismโ€™ charges

US court finds attacker, who is already serving a 25-year prison sentence, guilty of additional charges over 2022 assault.

Salman Rushdie attacker convicted of terror offenses

Hadi Matar, 28, was convicted of attempting to help Hezbollah by attacking the British-Indian author.

Hadi Matar convicted in terrorism trial over Salman Rushdie stabbing

A man was convicted on Wednesday of federal terrorism charges in the 2022 stabbing of Salman Rushdie, the author who has faced a decades-old death threat over his novel The Satanic Verses. A jury found Hadi Matar guilty of all the charges against him, including engaging in an act of transnational terrorism. A message seeking comment was sent to Matarโ€™s lawyers. Matar, 28, is already serving a 25-year New York state prison sentence on an attempted murder conviction in the August 2022 attack on an...

Russia charges Telegram founder Pavel Durov with โ€˜aiding terrorismโ€™

Russia's FSB says Telegram has not pulled content used by Ukrainian intelligence and 'terrorist' groups to plan attacks.

Russia charges Telegram founder Durov with facilitating terrorism

The FSB claims the messenger app, created by Pavel Durov, has failed to remove accounts and channels used for recruitment by Ukraine's secret service.

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Eight held from Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh for suspected terror links

Officials say they were trying to establish a Jaish network in Gujarat and other parts of the country

Terrorism trial opens in stabbing of author Salman Rushdie

The man convicted of trying to kill Salman Rushdie spent years researching the writerโ€™s whereabouts before stabbing him on a lecture stage, federal prosecutors said Wednesday at the opening of his federal terrorism trial. It is a second trial for Hadi Matar, who was found guilty in a New York state attempted murder case last year. The federal terror charges focus more on Matarโ€™s alleged motive for the attack on the renowned author and free-speech advocate in 2022. Prosecutors started working on...

Whatโ€™s behind the deadly bombing of a crowded Damascus cafe?

The blast near Damascus's main courthouse killed five and wounded 16 as Syria's new state battles to enforce security.