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Added on the 08/10/2015 04:51:39 - Copyright : Reuters - Next Media
Taylor Swift fans gather outside Wembley stadium, London, ahead of doors opening for her first of five London dates. The popstar is resuming her monumental ‘Eras’ tour under tight security following the cancellation last week of three concerts in Vienna, due to a foiled suicide attack plot. IMAGES
The director of Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA), Graeme Biggar, says the agency has disrupted ransomware specialist LockBit "as part of an international task force of 10 countries". LockBit was targeted as part of a dedicated taskforce called Operation Cronos involving the NCA working with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation and agencies in nine other countries. SOUNDBITE
Images of the house in Castrop-Rauxel, western Germany, where an Iranian man has been arrested. Police and prosecutors suspect him of preparing an "Islamist attack" using cyanide and ricin. IMAGES
Images of police officers and FBI agents outside a Walmart in Chesapeake, Virginia where an employee shot and killed six people before turning the pistol on himself, according to authorities. IMAGES
IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi says 'security systems of the six reactors at the plant were not affected' and that 'there has been no release of radioactive material' after Russian troops attacked Europe's largest nuclear power plant (the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant), setting part of the Ukrainian facility ablaze in an assault the country's leader branded "nuclear terror" and said could endanger the continent. SOUNDBITE
The Assistant Director of the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) says that more than 100 "threats to life" were prevented by a huge global crime sting involving encrypted phones that were secretly planted by law enforcement agencies, during a press conference at Europol's HQ in The Hague. SOUNDBITE