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Massive snowfall traps thousands in French Alps. 28 Dec. Heavy snowfall... Suspected Boko Haram militants have struck in two state capitals in north-east Nigeria, with suicide attacks by female bombers in Maiduguri and a raid on a police base in Damaturu. At least five people.. The rebels, who declared independence in Donetsk and Luhansk in April, retreated towards the city of Donetsk last week after a government siege of their symbolic stronghold, Sloviansk. More than 1,000��.
US to appoint its first ambassador to Somalia in over 20 years
The US pulled its diplomats out of Mogadishu after the Black Hawk Down incident in 1993 that left 18 Americans dead.. Photograph: Radu Sigheti/REUTERS. David Smith, Africa. The US has carried out air strikes against suspected members of al-Shabaab and provided training and equipment to the African Union peacekeeping mission, Amisom. Sherman said: A small. Charlie Hebdo attack: French officials establish link between gunmen in both attacks ��� live��.
Iraqi army repels ISIS attack on Baiji oil refinery
Last month the army seized control of the countrys largest oil refinery after a prolonged siege.. But the army controlled its southern approaches, preventing insurgents from surrounding it, Reuters quoted a Baiji resident who toured the area. A.
Report: Islamic State-Linked Militants Hijacked Egyptian Missile Boat as Part.
Islamic State-linked militants commandeered an Egyptian navy missile boat last month as part of a plan to attack Israeli vessels in the Mediterranean Sea, Israels Channel 2 News reported Monday night. Though the hijacking occurred on Nov. 12 near the .
The Man Behind Mumbai - ProPublica
The three-day siege of Mumbai left 166 dead and 308 wounded.. The question, simply put, is whether the larger interests of the United States in maintaining good relations with Pakistan will permit Mir and other suspects to get away with one of the most devastating terrorist attacks in recent history.. Police deported him to France in October and captured Lodhi after watching him throw satellite photos of military bases in a dumpster and call Mir from a phone booth.
Sarkozys Backers To Use Toulouse Attacks To Steal French.
Sarkozy is just such a man, but after five years of his bluster and the war on terror wearing very thin, the French people are more than eager to see how he looks in the robes of a Carmelite monk.. KANDAHAR, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Le gouverneur de la province afghane de Kandahar a d��menti mercredi les propos du directeur des prisons qui avait affirm�� que le suspect des tueries de Toulouse et Montauban avait ��t�� arr��t��.. France siege suspect Merah dead.
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WASHINGTON (AP) ��� President Barack Obamas decision to pursue new relations with Cuba was driven in part by a stinging realization: Longstanding U.S. policies aimed at isolating Cuba had instead put Washington at odds with. By Matt Siegel SYDNEY (Reuters) ��� Human rights groups and some politicians on Thursday urged Prime Minister Tony Abbott not to use a deadly siege in Sydney as a pretext to crack down on refugees after he repeatedly questioned��.
In Remembrance Of A Great Nation..No Not The US
After decades of fulfillment of US Manifests Destiny, the US Army was ordered to attack and annihilate one of the last tribes of Native Original People of North America... the shooting of 12 people at the offices of satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo were killed in a raid on Friday by security forces on the print works where. Brothers suspected in Charlie Hebdo attack killed as French hostage siege ended: http://t.co/9nr0x0ccnf http://t.co/Fs1jcii1Id. Reuters. 09 Jan 2015.
A leap to freedom - Reuters
A detained protester jumps from a police truck as she escapes after riot police released teargas. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters.. France pursues female suspect after deadly siege��.
Israeli settlers set West Bank mosque aflame in price tag.
Reuters reports: A mosque [Abu Baker al-Saddiq] was set alight in a suspected arson attack in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday and the name of an Israeli vigilante group called price tag was found scribbled on an outside. Residents in the Wadi al-Niam village told Maan that clashes erupted in the village as Israeli bulldozers demolished a house of an elderly woman, Amnah Abu Sweilem, 70... France: Palestinian recognition shouldnt be merely symbolic
New group of Iraqi Peshmergas enters Syrian Kurdish town
Syrian Kurdish fighters, who have been resisting ISIS fighters in Kobane for nearly three months now, have welcomed the help of fighters who are known as Peshmergas or those who defy death. (File Photo: AFP) .
Turkey, US ease strains on ISIS but differences remain
The brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo killings were known to Frances intelligence service and were on the U.S. no-fly list, yet authorities were unable to prevent the attack, in part because the planning group involved may have been quite small.
Arsonists torch an Arabic-Hebrew bilingual school in Jerusalem
JERUSALEM ��� Arsonists who police suspect are Jewish extremists torched a first-grade classroom and scrawled racist graffiti on the walls of one of the few Arabic-Hebrew bilingual schools in Israel. Suspects hopped a fence and entered the Max Rayne .
A leap to freedom
In an effort to disperse members of the media who were jostling to take photographs and video footage of the only detained prote ster, the riot police fired a tear-gas canister next to the truck and the woman managed to break loose, jump out and sprint.
France: Heartbreak as deadly siege ends, search for.
And a woman wanted in the policewomans shooting is still afoot. Charlie Hebdo attackers. The flurry of deadly events Friday started in Dammartin-en-Goele, where the suspects in the magazine attacks, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, went to a print shop in an industrial area. After they walked into the shop, a salesman identified only as Didier told France Info radio that he inadvertently shook one of the gunmans hands when the pair arrived. The salesman said he��.
M of A - Why The Islamic State Announced Retaliation
Now, after nearly 200 U.S. and French airstrikes against it, a real threat of retaliation for these has been made. To probably. Its sentiments were not stirred during the long years of siege and starvation in Sh��m, and it looked the other way when the deadly and destructive barrel bombs were being dropped.. Attempts to pursue own geopolitical goals through violating the sovereignty of other states only escalates tensions and aggravates the situation even further.
France pursues female suspect after deadly siege
PARIS (Reuters) - French police searched for a female accomplice to militant Islamists behind deadly attacks on a satirical newspaper and Jewish deli and maintained a top-level anti-terrorist alert ahead of a Paris gathering with European leaders set.
Iraqi forces break ISIS siege of Amerli
President Barack Obama authorized renewed strikes, widening U.S. operations in Iraq in the midst of an international outcry over the threat to Amerlis mostly ethnic Turkmen population. Aid was delivered by U.S. aircraft as well as planes from Britain.
French parliament votes for recognition of Palestinian state
PARIS (Reuters) - French lawmakers on Tuesday urged their government to recognize Palestine, a symbolic move that will not immediately affect Frances diplomatic stance but demonstrates growing European impatience with a stalled peace process.. It.
Gunfire And Explosions At Nairobi Mall As Kenya Hostage.
Reuters journalists near the upmarket Westgate complex heard sporadic shots and also heavy bursts of rifle fire and muffled blasts on at least two occasions after daybreak.. But there was no indication of the fate of people whom the authorities had said on Sunday were being held by 10 to 15 gunmen - and possibly women - inside a large supermarket.. Foreigners, including a French mother and daughter, and two diplomats, from Canada and Ghana, were killed.
Suspected Boko Haram fighters mount deadly attacks after Nigeria ceasefire
A newspaper vendor stands along road as he holds newspapers with a front page headline reading Chibok girls: Weve reached deal with Boko Haram, in Abuja October 18, 2014. Nigeria said on Friday it had agreed a ceasefire with Islamist militants Boko .
First Formula E Race Shockingly Electrifying
As the South China Morning Post reported from the scene, fans lined the track sides, carrying children on their shoulders as the futuristic whine of the cars sounded across the track, and techno music added to the atmosphere. Fans were also.
2014: The year in pictures
Ukraines opposition agreed to observe an eight-hour truce in clashes with security forces after five days of deadly fighting but threatened to go on the attack if the government failed to agree concessions. Opposition leader and world boxing champion.
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LISBON (Reuters) ��� Portuguese police have arrested former Socialist prime minister Jose Socrates and three other people in an investigation of suspected tax fraud, corruption and money-laundering, the Prosecutor Generals office said on Saturday. It said in a.. NEW DELHI (AP) ��� Indian police on Friday searched the sprawling ashram of a guru who was arrested on suspicion of murder and criminal conspiracy after a deadly siege at his fortress-like compound.
Deadly siege ends, search for suspect continues in France
French riot police patrol in central Paris as part of the highest level of Vigipirate security plan after a shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, Friday, Jan. 9, 2015.. 9, 2015. The two main suspects in the weekly satirical newspaper.
Frenchman held 3 years by al-Qaeda freed in Africa
The news comes as French commandos launched an assault and explosions were heard from inside a printing house northeast of Paris where the suspects were holed up with a hostage on Friday. The two suspects - suspected behind the deadly killing of 12 .
White House opposes Nazi benefit payments
He said the Justice Department has said it has aggressively pursued Nazi war criminals and brought over 100 of them to justice.. AP reported Sunday that dozens of Nazi suspects have collected benefits after being forced out of the United States.
We want Christmas without occupation: Israel cracks down.
Reuters 23 Dec ��� A small group of Palestinian protesters in Santa Claus outfits clash with Israeli security forces a day before the start of Christmas celebrations in the West Bank. The demonstrators gathered at Bethlehem��.
Turkey plays a dangerous game with the Kurds
This started to change after PYD leader Salih Muslim traveled to Ankara and made sure that his group retracted support from the Syrian regime. In a similar development, jailed leader of the PKK, Abdullah ��calan, agreed to withdraw PKK militants from.
He Must Have Loved Ones, Too | The Counter Jihad Report
15, 2014: ���Two hostages and the gunman at the centre of a siege at a cafe in Sydneys CBD [central business district] were shot dead when armed police stormed the building,��� the Australian Broadcast Corp. reports. The victims were a 34-year-old man and a 38-year-old woman; the number of surviving hostages is ���as���. But the editorialists also suspect their countrymen of bad motives: ���The temptation will be to pursue vigilante justice.. The test of our humanity is��.
Self-styled sheik - The Daily Telegraph
THE ���fake sheik��� behind the deadly Sydney cafe siege railed against Australian ���terrorism��� on his website just a day before he took 17 innocent people hostage. In a chilling post on his personal website the self-styled Muslim��.
Kenyan security forces claim upper hand against al.
Increased levels of international support promised to help end siege after fierce fighting left at least 62 people dead.. Initial reports spoke of female militants, prompting media speculation that Samantha Lewthwaite, the widow of one of the London 7 July bombers, might be involved. The equipment, training and readiness of the fighters, believed to be members. Westgate mall suspect identified by BBC as Norwegian national. Relative says 23-year-old left Larvik for��.