A report by
Max Hill QC, an independent reviewer of terrorism legislation, reviewing the
police response to the March
2017 Westminster attack, concludes that the arrests of 12 people cleared of involvement were appropriate, as was the questioning of them on their religious beliefs.
(The Guardian)
Italian counter-terror police arrest Elmahdi Halili on suspicion of planning attacks with knives and lorries, attempting to recruit terrorist attackers, and creating the first piece of
Islamic State propaganda in Italian.
(The Local)
Iraqi authorities announce the arrest of alleged senior
Islamic State member Saab Abdullah al-Issawi in a military-supported airdrop in
Anbar.
(Iraqi News)
Conviviality PLC, owner of
Wine Rack and
Bargain Booze, announces it has been refused investment to stave off bankruptcy and will likely enter administration.
(The Guardian)
A
New Zealand light aircraft pilot Rod Vaughan claims that his plane was brought down at
Waihi after colliding with a
drone. If true, it would be the first such incident in the country.
(Stuff)
English judge Christine Henson fines St. Michael's Hospice in St. Leonards, at
East Sussex, over the July 2015 fire in which three residents died.
(BBC)
Mubarak al-Ajji, named on a
Qatari official list of wanted terrorists, wins second place at a government-sponsored
triathlon and is photographed at the medal ceremony.
(The Week)
The trial of Noor Salman, widow of
Pulse nightclub shooter
Omar Mateen, hears closing arguments. Jurors begin deliberations. During the trial it was revealed that Mateen's father was an FBI informant.
(CNN)
French left-wing activist Stephane Poussier receives a one-year suspended term for praising the death of a policeman in a terrorist attack.
(The Times of Israel)
The
linguistics journal Diachronica publishes
Australian research implying that a tracement of the country's indigenous
languages can be made back to a single, common language known as Proto-Australian, which was spoken around 10,000-years ago.
(BBC)
Research published in the journal Science Advances implies
the Earth may have had water earlier than thought, and that terrestrial water could have survived the impact that created
the Moon, the event which was previously hypothesised to be responsible for our planet's water.
(New Scientist),
(Science Advances)
Research published in the journal
Nature implies the existence of a galaxy that appears to contain no
dark matter, dubbed
NGC1052-DF2. If confirmed it would be the first such galaxy discovered.
(BBC),
(Nature)