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The United Kingdom has had a 35% rise in the last year in the number of suspects investigated annually for probably working for a hostile foreign government, chief UK’s domestic security service, MI5 said on Thursday.

During the service’s annual update on threats facing the UK, Ken McCallum said, “A more hostile world is forcing the biggest shifts in MI5’s mission since 9/11," and that his “teams are currently running near-record volumes of investigations."

He expressed condolences to the families of the two people killed in an ISIS-linked attack on a synagogue in Manchester earlier this month.

The chief further said that the “aggregate scale of the terrorist threat is huge," and the combination of rising threats from state actors as well as from a mix of terror

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