Anti-terror police arrest 2 in Denmark

Canadians are feeling more worried about a terrorist attack happening here but also more confident about government efforts to combat terrorism, according to a new poll. Terrorism has figured prominently over the past month, first with the Boston Marathon bombings that killed three people and left more than 250 wounded, then with the arrest in Montreal and Toronto of two men accused of plotting to blow up a Via Rail train.

Police in Britain have arrested three men for alleged terrorist funding, just days after a British Airways worker was detained on suspicion of the same offence, police said.Anti-terrorism officers arrested the suspects in Berkshire, southeast England, in raids early Wednesday and took them for questioning at a London police station."Three men were arrested... for an alleged offence of terrorist fund raising," said a spokesman from London's Metropolitan Police."The men aged 31, 32 and 43 were arrested at separate residential premises."

Police arrested nine people and seized guns and ammunition in southern France in anti-terrorism raids, sources close to the investigations said on Tuesday.Police made the arrests on Tuesday morning in the southern port city of Marseille and the nearby town of Avignon, the sources told AFP.They seized "some weapons, including a Kalashnikov (rifle) and a pump-action shotgun, as well as ammunition," said one official close to the investigation.

B.C.’s police watchdog on Wednesday officially cleared the Prince George RCMP of any criminal wrongdoing for shooting dead Gregory Matters, a 40-year-old Bosnia veteran suffering from post traumatic stress, in an altercation at his rural home. Nevertheless, Mr. Matters’ family continues to question why a helicopter, four heavily armed Mounties and two bullets to the chest were needed to subdue a mentally unstable man armed with nothing more than a throwing hatchet.

High-speed car chases can be captivating, in part because they often don't end well.

"Follow the Prophet Mohammed, don't follow bin Laden!" That was the message from an anti-terrorism summer camp led by a top scholar which attracted hundreds of young Muslims in Britain this week.Al-Hidayah (The Guidance) was led by Dr Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri, who earlier this year issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, against terrorism.His message to the roughly 1,300 people attending the three-day event on a university campus in Coventry, was clear -- terrorism is anti-Islamic.

The Metropolitan police is spending more than £800,000 a year on equipping response vehicles in London with Tasers, despite growing concern among human rights campaigners and some politicians over their use.

Israeli security forces on Tuesday arrested nine Palestinians in a second raid in as many days in a refugee camp in mainly Arab east Jerusalem after youths hurled stones at them."Nine people were arrested after border police and police came under attack from stone throwers," said police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld.Several dozen youths could be seen hurling rocks, bottles and paint at security forces for the second consecutive day in the Shuafat refugee camp.