A federal jury on Wednesday convicted a North Carolina man of instructing others how to build bombs with the intention of targeting federal law enforcement officers. Christopher Arthur, 39, faces a maximum 20 years in prison, according to federal prosecutors. He was also found guilty of illegal possession of unregistered devices, including a short-barreled rifle,…

MEXICO CITY—A drug cartel bomb attack that allegedly used a fake report of a mass grave to lure police into a deadly trap has had devastating collateral damage: It has led some authorities to abandon the volunteers who search for Mexico’s 110,000 missing people. Most of the searchers are distraught mothers looking for the bodies…

MEXICO CITY—A drug cartel set off a coordinated series of seven roadway bombs in western Mexico that killed four police officers and two civilians, officials said Wednesday. The governor of Jalisco state said the explosions were “a trap” set by the cartel to kill law enforcement personnel. Luis Méndez, the chief prosecutor of Jalisco state,…

A passenger who allegedly made a bomb threat aboard an Alaska Airlines flight from Atlanta to Seattle on July 4 has claimed he did so because he feared he would be killed by members of a “powerful cartel.” Brandon Scott, 38, was seated first class onboard Alaska Airlines flight 334 on Wednesday as it departed…

TOKYO—Japan’s National Police Agency said in a report Thursday that flaws in basic security such as an absence of metal detectors and bag checks allowed an attacker to enter a campaign crowd unnoticed and throw a pipe bomb at Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in April. The bomb fell near Kishida and he was pushed away…

A man is accused of phoning in bomb threats to Harvard University and demanding a large amount of Bitcoin in return, federal prosecutors said. William Giordani, of Nashua, New Hampshire, was arrested Tuesday on charges of conspiracy and aiding and abetting extortionate threats. He was released on conditions after a detention hearing in federal court…

A prominent Russian nationalist writer, Zakhar Prilepin, was wounded in a car bombing that killed his driver on Saturday and investigators said a detained suspect admitted acting on behalf of Ukraine. The attack took place three days after the Kremlin said Ukraine attempted to hit the Kremlin with drones—Ukraine denied it had anything to do…

A Russian fighter jet accidentally bombed the city of Belgorod near the border with Ukraine on April 20, according to officials, damaging an unspecified number of buildings and injuring at least three people. “At around 22:15 Moscow time on April 20, when a Su-34 plane of the Russian Aerospace Forces was performing a flight above the city…

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates—Some 2.5 tons of natural uranium stored in a site in war-torn Libya have gone missing, the United Nations nuclear watchdog said Thursday, raising safety and proliferation concerns. However, forces allied to a warlord battling the Libyan government based in the capital of Tripoli claimed on Thursday night that they recovered the…

A man has been arrested after an explosive was found in a checked bag at Pennsylvania’s Lehigh Valley International Airport, the FBI said Wednesday. Mark Muffley, 40, from Lansford, Pennsylvania, was arrested on Monday and charged with attempting to place an explosive or incendiary device on an aircraft after his suitcase triggered an alarm during the routine screening….