Terrorism
Russia says it intercepted Islamic State attack plot
On 17 December, police killed two attackers targeting security forces in Russia's neighbouring republic of Chechnya.
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REVIEW: Midnight Oil and terror in Australia
The band’s first new studio album in almost twenty years, The Makarrata Project, is a radical critique of Australian society made in collaboration with Indigenous Australian artists.
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'Charlie Hebdo' trial adjourned again as main accused unwell
The new delay further sets back the timetable for the trial and it is unclear when the verdict - which was supposed to have been handed down last week - will be announced.
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Macron urges 'rapid and coordinated' European response to terror
Such a response should focus on 'the development of common databases, the exchange of information or the strengthening of criminal policies,' French President Emmanuel Macron said after hosting a video conference with fellow EU leaders.
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Austria police raid dozens of 'Islamist-linked' targets
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said the raids were aimed at "cutting off the roots of political Islam".
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France fighting Islamist extremism, not Islam: Macron
The French president sparked protests across the Muslim world after last month's murder of teacher Samuel Paty - who had shown his class a cartoon of Muhammad - by saying France would never renounce its laws permitting blasphemous caricatures.
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Austria admits security failings over Vienna gunman
Interior Minister Karl Nehammer said intelligence services had received a warning from neighbouring Slovakia that the assailant had tried to buy ammunition, but that 'a failure of communication' had followed.
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IS claims Vienna shooting as Austria mourns
Four people were killed when Kujtim Fejzulai, described as a 20-year-old IS sympathiser who had spent time in prison, opened fire with a Kalashnikov in a busy area of the Austrian capital the day before the country went into a new coronavirus lockdown.
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UK increases terrorism threat level to 'severe'
The threat had been deemed 'substantial', where an attack is 'likely', since 4 November last year.
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Gunman on the run after Vienna 'terror attack' leaves two dead
The attacks, in six locations including near a synagogue in the centre of town, were carried out by 'several suspects armed with rifles', police said.
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Shocked France bolsters security after church killings
The bloodshed inside Nice's Notre-Dame basilica early Thursday morning added new tension in a country already on the highest alert after a string of attacks blamed on suspected Islamists in recent weeks.
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Anti-France protests draw thousands in Asia, Middle East
Smaller anti-France protests also took place in the Middle East after Macron's defence of the right to publish controversial cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad - a position that has sparked anger across the Muslim world.
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Two accomplices in Kenya's Westgate attack jailed for 33 and 18 years
Mohamed Ahmed Abdi and Hassan Hussein Mustafa, both 31, were found guilty on 7 October of conspiring with and supporting the four assailants from the Somalia-based jihadist group who died in what was then Kenya's worst terrorist attack in 15 years.
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Counter 'hate speech', UN rights chief says after France slayings
Michelle Bachelet voiced outrage at the attack Thursday in a church in Nice, where a knife attacker killed three people, cutting the throat of at least one woman.
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Macron vows defiance after 'Islamist' knife attack in church kills 3
The assailant, who was shot and wounded by police, was identified as 21-year-old Brahim Aouissaoui, who arrived in Italy last month, then travelled to France, judicial sources said.
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Saudi Arabia 'strongly condemns' knife attack in France
A knife-wielding man killed three people at a church in Nice on Thursday, slitting the throat of at least one of them, in an attack that triggered global shock.
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World leaders condemn deadly knife attack in France
Condemnation came from the pope and European leaders as well as from Turkey, which is involved in a heated diplomatic spat with Paris over cartoons mocking the prophet.
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Man held on terror charges after two wounded in Paris cleaver attack
A large meat cleaver found near the scene is believed to have been used by the attacker.
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Rwanda's Paul Rusesabagina denied bail in terrorism trial
Rusesabagina, who has become a high-profile government critic and has been living in exile for years, appeared last month under arrest in Kigali in murky circumstances, with his family alleging he was kidnapped abroad.
