Bomb scare

German police defuse 21 explosive devices uncovered at power grid in Saxony

German police said on Friday they were searching for a man who sent letters claiming responsibility for a series of sabotage attacks on the power grid after they found explosives at his home.

German special police forces secure the area on the day of German Chancellor and Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party leader Friedrich Merz, and Saxony-Anhalt State Prime Minister and top candidate Sven Schulze visit to UPM Biochemicals in Leuna, Germany, September 3, 2026.
A large Iranian missile fragment found in an open area in central Israel, April 22, 2026.

Large Iranian missile fragment located in open area in central Israel

Members of the explosive ordinance disposal unit inspect a defused US-made bomb (C), dropped during World War II, that was found inside a construction site at the junction of Convention Avenue and Hung Hing Road in the Wan Chai district of Hong Kong on May 11, 2018.

WWII bomb found in Hong Kong defused after mass evacuation

Illustrative: German police guard the Reichstag building, the seat of the German lower house of parliament Bundestag, before the German presidential election in Berlin, February 12, 2017

WWII bomb forces overnight evacuation in central Berlin


US Jews suffer nearly 200 swatting, false bomb threats throughout weekend

In recent days, law enforcement in Ohio and California have announced the arrest of alleged perpetrators of a high volume of swatting activity and false bomb threats.

 SWAT officers aiming guns (illustrative).

Synagogue bomb threats in Massachusetts heighten concerns in local communities

Weiss mentioned that the email provided a phone number for further information.

 Park East Synagogue

Police evacuate Toronto Jewish day school after bomb threat

The threat claimed bombs had been planted in the school parking lot. Its subject line was “Death by fire.”

 A police officer speaks with security personnel after a shooting incident at the West Edmonton Mall in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada August 21, 2023

Shabbat event for NYC officials in San Juan interrupted by protesters amid bomb threats

The following day, an inert grenade was found at Holocaust Memorial Park in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, and a false bomb threat was called into Central Synagogue in Midtown Manhattan.

IAC pro Israel rally at the World Trade Center Sunday, May 23

Jewish schools across Paris evacuated due to a bomb threat

According to senior sources in the organized Jewish community, who spoke to The Jerusalem Post, "there was a bomb threat towards many Jewish schools."

 The Eiffel Tower lights up in white and blue, the colours of the Israeli flag, following Hamas' biggest attack on Israel in years, in Paris, France, October 9, 2023

US and Israeli embassies hit with bomb threats in Buenos Aires

The US embassy said it is back to normal operations on Wednesday afternoon.

 People hold a Palestinian flag and placards during a demonstration in support of Palestinians, in Buenos Aires, Argentina October 9, 2023.

Germany's Hamburg airport halts after Iran plane threat

The German air force said on its X social media account that it escorted the plane after it entered German airspace east of Berlin due to a bomb threat.

Police detain suspects as they patrol along the German-Polish border to prevent illegal migration near Klinge, Germany, September 20, 2023.

Synagogue bomb threats continue despite arrest of a suspect

Since the summer, dozens of Jewish institutions across America have been targeted with fake bomb threats, according to the Anti-Defamation League.

 NEW JERSEY police officers stand guard in front of the United Synagogue of Hoboken in New Jersey, last year.

Man in Peru charged with making recent bomb threats to US synagogues, FBI says

The FBI says Nunez Santos, who is Peruvian, embarked on the bomb threat spree after asking teen girls to send him pornographic pictures of themselves and being rejected.

FBI van in Texas

Singapore blows up 100 kg. bomb from World War 2

The war relic, which was unearthed last week, had been deemed unsafe to move and hence had to be disposed of on-site by the military.

 People sit along the Marina Bay area in the hazy skyline of Singapore March 4, 2014