Terrorism
Niger army killed 24 'suspected terrorists': government
The suspects had been planning an attack on the market town of Banibangou but the army was alerted and, after an exchange of fire, 26 people were arrested on...
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OPINION: Mozambique's Cabo Delgado insurgency has a complex reality
In the Mozambican province wracked by a violent insurgency, the convenient labelling of those rising up against the predatory elite paints a picture that is far from reality.
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Concerns raised over suspected South African involvement in Mozambique attacks
Willem Els, senior training coordinator on terrorism for the Institute for Security Studies, said that South Africa should be extremely worried about South Africans fighting alongside the insurgent group in Mozambique.
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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.
