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TEXAS SYNAGOGUE HOSTAGE SITUATION LABELLED TERRORISM

Four people were held hostage in Colleyville, Texas, on Saturday by an armed captor identified as British national Malik Faisal Akram.

EuroNews

6 days ago

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SRI LANKA: BLAME GAME AT TRIAL OVER EASTER BOMBINGS

Families of those killed in Sri Lanka’s 2019 Easter bombings say they continue to live with the pain – as the government and opposition trade blame for the carnage. A special court set up to try ...

Al Jazeera

11 days ago

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CALLS FOR U.S TO CLOSE 'UGLY' GUANTANAMO BAY SITE

Two decades after the first detainees arrived at Guantanamo Bay, a group of UN experts on Monday urged Washington to finally close the site of "unrelenting human rights violations".

France 24

13 days ago

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CHARLIE HEBDO ATTACK VICTIMS REMEMBERED SEVEN YEARS ON

On January 7, 2015, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, wielding Kalashnikovs, burst into Charlie Hebdo's offices in eastern Paris and killed 12 people.

EuroNews

17 days ago

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FRENCH SOLDIERS TO LEAVE MALI, END OF TERROR FIGHT

After nine years deployed in Mali, France is organising a drawdown, with troops preparing to leave the last of three bases in the far north of the insurgency-hit and poverty-wracked country. Fren...

France 24

1 month ago

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IRAQI, KURDISH FORCES RETAKE VILLAGE FROM ISLAMIC STATE

Iraqi forces and Kurdish Peshmerga fighters have recaptured a village in northern Iraq on Monday after Islamic State militants took it over the previous day, security and police sources said. Emer ...

Reuters

2 months ago

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TERROR GROUP BOKO HARAM 'ON THE BACK FOOT'

Boko Haram now appears to be on the back foot after 12 years of carrying out attacks in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state. But security forces have stepped up their campaign against the armed gro...

Al Jazeera

2 months ago

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TRIAL BEGINS OVER 2019 SRI LANKA EASTER BOMBINGS

The trial of 25 men in Sri Lanka, said to be linked to Islamic State, has begun over their alleged roles in the Easter church and hotel attacks that killed or wounded hundreds. This report contains...

Reuters

2 months ago

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TWIN SUICIDE BOMBINGS HIT POLICE, PARLIAMENT IN KAMPALA

At least three civilians have been killed in a double suicide bombing in the Ugandan capital Kampala. One explosion happened near a checkpoint at the central police station and the second near the...

Al Jazeera

2 months ago

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UK POLICE IDENTIFY LIVERPOOL BLAST SUSPECT, TERROR INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY

Police in the UK have identified the suspect behind an explosion which occurred outside a hospital in Liverpool on Sunday. Authorities say 32-year-old Emad al-Swealmeen, who was killed in the blas...

Reuters

2 months ago

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TAXI BLAST: LIVERPOOL MAYOR HAILS DRIVER FOR STOPPING 'AWFUL DISASTER'

Four men are under arrest after a vehicle explosion outside the Women's Hospital in Liverpool left one person dead and another injured, according to British counterterrorism police.

CBC News

2 months ago

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UK: 'HEROIC' TAXI DRIVER HAILED AFTER TERRORIST BLAST

The United Kingdom has stepped up its terror threat level following a blast in a taxi outside Liverpool Women's Hospital. It has been declared a "terrorist incident" and four people have been arr...

Al Jazeera

2 months ago

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UK: CAR BLAST OUTSIDE HOSPITAL PROMPTS COUNTER-TERROR INVESTIGATION

Counter-terrorism officers arrested three men after a vehicle exploded outside a hospital in the northern English city of Liverpool on Sunday, killing one person and wounding another, police said. ...

Reuters

2 months ago

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FRANCE COMMEMORATES ANNIVERSARY OF PARIS TERROR ATTACKS

France has been holding commemorations to mark the sixth anniversary of the terror attacks in the capital that left 130 people dead.

EuroNews

2 months ago

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BOLIVIA UNIONS GO ON STRIKE OVER NEW 'TERROR FINANCING' LAW

Bolivia’s transport and retail unions began an indefinite strike on Monday. They are protesting against a law on so-called "illicit profits and terrorist financing". Critics say the legislation is...

Al Jazeera

3 months ago

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IRAQ'S PM ESCAPES 'ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT' UNHURT

A drone laden with explosives targeted the residence of Iraq's Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi in Baghdad early on Sunday in what the Iraqi military called an attempted assassination, but said Ka...

Reuters

3 months ago

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ATTACKER IN CUSTODY AFTER THREE INJURED IN GERMAN TRAIN INCIDENT

Three people have been seriously injured, a German police spokesman said, in a knife attack on an express train. A 27-year-old man is in custody. Emer McCarthy has more.

Reuters

3 months ago

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SUSPECT IN PARIS TERROR ATTACKS TAKES STAND IN TRIAL

The lone survivor of the cell of Islamic State group extremists who attacked Paris in November 2015 came under public questioning Tuesday for the first time in France, describing a close family lif...

France 24

3 months ago

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DOZENS KILLED IN KABUL HOSPITAL EXPLOSION

At least 19 people were killed and 43 wounded when two explosions, followed by gunfire, hit Afghanistan’s biggest military hospital in the capital Kabul, interior ministry sources told Al Jazeera o...

Al Jazeera

3 months ago

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ISIS ATTACK ON 'DEFENCELESS' IRAQ VILLAGE, 11 DEAD

In Iraq, at least 11 people have been killed in an ISIL (ISIS) attack that has stoked sectarian tensions in Diyala province. Police said attackers used hand grenades and machine guns during their ...

Al Jazeera

3 months ago

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WARNINGS ISIS HAS CAPABILITY, INTENT TO ATTACK U.S WITHIN SIX MONTHS

The U.S. intelligence community has assessed that Islamic State in Afghanistan could have the capability to attack the United States in as little as six months, and has the intention to do so, a se...

Reuters

3 months ago

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UK MOURNS DEATH OF LAWMAKER SIR DAVID AMESS, KILLED IN 'TERROR INCIDENT'

Tributes have poured in at a session in the British parliament for murdered politician David Mess. The Conservative Party MP was stabbed while meeting constituents on Friday. Police are questioni...

Al Jazeera

3 months ago

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OUTPOURING OF TRIBUTES CONTINUES FOR MURDERED BRITISH MP

British MPs will gather in the House of Commons Monday to pay tribute to David Amess, the Conservative member who was killed at a regular meeting with his constituents at a church in Leigh-on-Sea.

CBC News

3 months ago

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SUSPECT HELD OVER KILLING OF BRITISH LAWMAKER NAMED, SON OF SOMALIA OFFICIAL

Ali Harbi Ali, the son of an ex-media adviser to a former prime minister of Somalia, has been arrested by British police under anti-terrorism laws following the killing of lawmaker David Amess, a s...

Reuters

3 months ago

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SECURITY CONCERNS FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS GROW AFTER U.K MP’S MURDER

Amid the shock and sadness over the murder of British member of Parliament David Amess, there is renewed concern about the security needs of MPs.

CBC News

3 months ago

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VIGIL HELD FOR BRITISH LAWMAKER, SUSPECT DETAINED UNDER TERROR ACT

Locals remembered murdered British lawmaker David Amess during a vigil on Saturday night, a day after he was stabbed to death in a church during an event with constituents. Police arrested a 25-ye...

EuroNews

3 months ago

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UK: TRIBUTES FOR RESPECTED MP KILLED IN ‘TERRORIST INCIDENT’

Metropolitan Police Counter Terrorism Command leads investigation into attack on Amess who was stabbed to death by a man who walked into his meeting.

Al Jazeera

3 months ago

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MURDER OF BRITISH MP DECLARED A 'TERRORIST INCIDENT'

British police have declared the murder of a Conservative lawmaker a terrorist incident. Sir David Amess was stabbed to death on Friday in an Essex church, where he had been meeting voters. Flora...

Reuters

3 months ago

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U.S REMEMBERS, HONOURS THE THOUSANDS LOST ON 9/11 ANNIVERSARY

Twenty years after hijacked passenger jets crashed into New York City’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon outside Washington, DC, people in the United States have come together to honour the near...

Al Jazeera

4 months ago

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PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN VISITS ALL THREE SITES OF 9/11 ATTACK

President Joe Biden commemorated the 20th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States on Saturday with visits to each of the sites where hijacked planes crashed in 2001, honoring the v...

Reuters

4 months ago