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Air strikes, dozens dead in Nigeria assault on IslamistsKano, Nigeria (AFP) May 17, 2013 Nigeria's military on Friday attacked Boko Haram Islamist strongholds across the northeast, launching air strikes on insurgent camp with dozens of militants killed in the fighting, the military said. Several thousand soldiers have spread across three northeastern states where President Goodluck Jonathan imposed a state of emergency, saying Boko Haram had seized territory and declared war on the government. Forces have also been deployed to seal some of the region's porous borders and block the ... read more |
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'Israel wants to keep Assad in power' Syria's jihadists have edge, control oil Commentary: Israel: Crises 360 degrees Tunisia teeters as it grapples with jihadists Unspent billions of Chilean defense fund remain a mystery N. Korea 'special envoy' in China meeting Iran expanding nuclear activities: IAEA | .. |
![]() Outside View: Looking for some good in a loser's life In the aftermath of the April 15 Boston Marathon bombing, efforts have been made to understand the Tsarnaev brothers' mindset and what motivated them to allegedly carry out a terrorist attack killing three and injuring more than 260 innocent civilians. ... more | .. |
![]() Hundreds protest against terrorism in Tunis Hundreds of Tunisians, including police, human rights activists and political party representatives, protested on Friday against "terrorism" after the government said two wanted jihadist groups had ties with Al-Qaeda. ... more | .. |
![]() Rapid Threat Assessment Could Mitigate Danger from Chemical and Biological Warfare For more than fifty years, researchers have been studying exactly how aspirin affects the human body. Despite thousands of publications on the topic, our understanding is still incomplete. Mea ... more | .. |
![]() Tunisia at war with 'international terrorism' Press reports warned Thursday that Tunisia was "at war with international terrorism" after the government revealed that jihadists being pursued by the army have ties to Al-Qaeda and the Islamist rebellion in Mali. ... more |
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![]() Tunisia Al-Qaeda groups will be defeated: PM Prime Minister Ali Larayedh insisted on Wednesday that Tunisia's security situation was improving and that fugitive jihadist groups with links to Al-Qaeda would be defeated. ... more | .. |
![]() Qaeda suspects kill 3 Yemen generals: military Al-Qaeda-linked suspects on Wednesday shot dead three air force generals from the strategic Al-Anad air base in the southern province of Lahij, the army said. ... more | .. |
![]() Outside View: What 9/11 is telling us years later To those Muslims looking to expand Islam's global reach, symbolism is very important. ... more | .. |
![]() Tunisia links two wanted jihadist groups to Al-Qaeda Tunisian authorities on Tuesday recognised that two jihadist groups which the army has been hunting on the Algerian border have links to Al-Qaeda, stressing their determination to take them out. ... more |
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![]() Report: Rajoy receiving widely divergent assessments of ETA threat Spanish Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is dealing with three conflicting assessments of the threat posed by Basque separatists, a newspaper report indicated. ... more | .. |
![]() Briton jailed for 10 years for selling fake bomb detectors A British businessman was on Thursday sentenced to 10 years in jail for selling fake bomb detectors to the Iraqi government and other countries, by a judge who told him he had blood on his hands. ... more | .. |
![]() Sri Lanka rejects commonwealth criticism Sri Lanka's external affairs minister hit back at criticism over the country being chosen to host the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in November. ... more | .. |
![]() Boston bombing carjack victim recalls his night of terror An immigrant entrepreneur from China came out of the shadows Friday with his harrowing tale of being carjacked at gunpoint by the Tsarnaev brothers after the Boston Marathon attacks. ... more |
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![]() Outside View: Terror by 'lone wolves' adds new danger While still unknown, evidence and intelligence information is indicating the two immigrant brothers alleged to have bombed the Boston Marathon are from that hard-to-track group of terrorists known as "lone wolves," who lack an affiliation with larger terror group or operation. ... more | .. |
![]() German top court orders changes to 'terror' database Germany's top court on Wednesday allowed a central security database aimed at keeping track of violent extremists to stand but said lawmakers must bolster its civil rights protections. ... more | .. |
![]() US poison letter suspect released amid new scare A man charged with sending a poison-laced letter to the White House was released on bond Tuesday as a letter sent to a US airbase raised similar fears before it was found to be harmless. ... more | .. |
![]() Boston bomb suspects 'unknown in Chechnya': leader Two ethnically-Chechen brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston Marathon bombings had no connection with Chechnya, the leader of the mainly Muslim region in southern Russia said Friday, blaming their upbringing in the United States. ... more |
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Australia's resources boom over? Israeli gas finds secure its self sufficiency EU leaders face up to shale challenge Chinese PM pledges stronger partnership with Pakistan Computational tool translates complex data into simplified 2-dimensional images Robots learn to take a proper handoff by following digitized human examples Frigid Heat: How Ice can Menace a Hot Engine | .. |
![]() SciTechTalk: Surveillance in Boston bombing raises issues The public release of photos and videos in the hunt for the Boston Marathon bombing suspects was made possible in large part because we now live in a society where we are never long out of the field of view of a camera mounted somewhere or carried by someone. ... more | .. |
![]() Online manhunt for Boston bombers raises concerns The FBI released photos of two Boston bombing suspects Thursday - and warned against publishing other images, in a clear slap to an army of amateur sleuths trying to solve the case, many online. ... more | .. |
![]() Brazil beefs up security before pope's visit, World Cup Brazil is beefing up national security in preparation for the July visit of Pope Francis, the FIFA World Cup next year and the 2016 Olympics. ... more | .. |
![]() For overseas students, Boston bombs hit home The death of a Chinese student in the Boston bombings presents a potential image nightmare for US higher education, determined to counter perceptions that the United States is unsafe. ... more |
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![]() Police ask public for digital images of Boston blasts Police investigating the Boston marathon attacks urged the public Tuesday to come forward with any digital images they might have that could help solve the crime. ... more | .. |
![]() EU, NATO react with horror at Boston attacks EU and NATO leaders reacted with revulsion Tuesday to the twin bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon that killed at least three people. ... more | .. |
![]() German anti-racism rally staged ahead of right-wing terror trial Thousands of anti-racism demonstrators marched in Munich, Germany, last weekend ahead of a murder trial for five suspected neo-Nazi group members. ... more | .. |
![]() Taiwan train scare suspects extradited from China Two Taiwanese men suspected of planting suitcases loaded with petrol on a high-speed train and in a politician's office in Taiwan were extradited from China on Tuesday, police said. ... more |
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