Grenades, plastic explosives and about 200 detonators have been stolen from a French military site, after thieves cut through a wire fence surrounding the high-security location. An investigation has ...

A miniature sensor which offers a low cost method of detecting tiny amounts of airborne plastic explosives in seconds could soon be used by security teams in airports and public facilities in the US.

French police found plastic explosives on board a Royal Maroc charter plane that landed in the northeastern French airport of Metz from Marrakesh, French and Moroccan sources said today. A French ...

All 224 people on board died when Metrojet Flight 9268 crashed in the Sinai peninsula on 31 October Mohamed Abd El Ghany/Reuters Plastic explosives are likely to have brought down a Russian airliner ...

A man was caught with "military-grade" explosives at his home near Wembley Stadium, a court was told today. Khalid Rashad, 63, previously known as Burnell Mitchell, had a 226g stick of PE4 plastic ...

A Scottish poet and novelist has told how he was stopped by airport security who suspected he was carrying plastic explosives. The suspicious package was in fact a haggis. Ian Blake, who sometimes ...

A powerful plastic explosive is believed to have been used in the bomb planted under a PSNI officer’s car by the ‘IRA’ in east Belfast last weekend. The senior officer escaped with his life after the ...

A LEADING Muslim figure accused of keeping a stick of plastic explosives in his back garden near Wembley Stadium has told jurors how MI5 tried to recruit him as a "secret agent". Khalid Rashad, 63, is ...

Plastic explosives were mistakenly loaded onto a plane at a Paris airport after security officials lost track of it during an exercise, police say. Around 150 grams (about five ounces) of explosive ...

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Israel has been blamed for a targeted attack on Hezbollah members, using tiny amounts of explosives to detonate thousands of pagers, killing at least 12 people and injuring thousands. Nearly 3,000 ...

France is to review security at all of its munitions depots after 40 grenades, 180 detonators and plastic explosives were stolen from a major base in southern France. "Very well informed" thieves ...