bt.com.bn reported that a series of blasts shook a town in the restive Thai south leaving three dead and 17 wounded, officials said yesterday, days after a major attack on a military base in the unrest-hit region.
Three bombs have exploded in the provincial town of Pattani since late Saturday, while police said four more devices had been defused, in the latest attacks to rock the Thai south, where thousands have died in a nine-year insurgency. Read Article
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan – Foxnews.com reported that Pakistani police say militants have attacked the office of a senior political official in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing at least two people. Police officer Ahmed Khan says the militants who staged the attack on Monday were disguised in tribal police uniforms. They fired assault rifles at the […]
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VICTIMS: CONSTRUCTION WORKERS ARE FROM UNITED KINGDOM, ITALY, GREECE, AND LEBANON Company: Setraco construction ft.com reported that gunmen in northeastern Nigeria kidnapped up to seven foreign workers from the UK, Italy, Greece and Lebanon during a raid on a construction company compound on Saturday night, police said. It is the biggest kidnapping of foreign nationals […]
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ft.com reported….In the immediate aftermath of last month’s terrorist attack on a gas facility in Algeria, David Cameron, Britain’s prime minister, offered a sweeping analysis of the dangers of jihadism, warning that it was an “existential” and “global” threat that would take “decades, rather than months” to overcome. However, in a speech to the Royal […]
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Catholic.org reported that neighboring Syria, Lebanon fears that the chaos wrought by the civil war there will spill into their borders. A huge influx of Syrian refugees, coupled with recent clashes between Lebanese army units and radical Islamists fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad have all fueled new fears. Read Article
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According to iol.co.za, Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered security forces to be on high alert on Thursday to protect against attacks by militants ahead of next year’s Winter Olympics in Sochi. Russia, which this week hosts the G-20 meeting of major world economies, is battling an Islamist insurgency in the Caucasus region which grew out […]
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According to dw.de, gunmen have stormed a military base in southern Thailand, according to an army spokesman. The assault, which is the most deadly in some eight years of violence, has left at least 16 militants dead. The gun battle between soldiers and at least 60 insurgents happened Wednesday in the province of Narathiwat on […]
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Seventeen Kurds have been arrested in southwestern France in an anti-terror probe into extortion rackets used to raise funds for the outlawed Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), legal sources said Tuesday. The people arrested in the cities of Bordeaux and Toulouse are suspected of being senior figures within the regional structure of the organisation, the sources […]
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As reported by thenewnationbd.com, “An expatriate was shot dead and three people were injured in an attack by some terrorists at Radhapur in Sadar upazila of the district early Monday. The deceased was identified as Mehedi Hasan, son of Mofiz Ullah of Srirampur village of the upazila. The victim’s family said the terrorists of ‘Shamim […]
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Globalpost.com reported that Spanish police on Thursday defused a nail bomb found next to a confessional in the Almudena Cathedral in the historic heart of Madrid, officials said. A priest found the bomb in a bin bag and evacuated the cathedral, a tourist attraction next to the city’s old royal palace, a spokesman for the […]
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