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LONDON, Dec 5, (AFP): One of the perpetrators of the deadly Paris attacks visited London and Birmingham earlier this year to meet people suspected of plotting terror activity in Britain, The Guardian reported Saturday. The newspaper, citing counter-terrorism officials, said the unnamed attacker had managed to enter Britain and travel …
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Bangladesh Police ‘arrest’ 10 for human trafficking
Security forces in Bangladesh arrested six people on Friday on suspicion of human trafficking and currency smuggling and possible involvement in militant activity, a spokesman for the special forces Rapid Action Battalion said. One Pakistani national was among the men detained at different locations in the capital Dhaka, Mufti Mahmud …
Read More »Female shooter pledged to IS – ‘RADICALIZED CALIFORNIAN HAD TERROR TIES’
SAN BERNARDINO, California, Dec 4, (Agencies): The woman who carried out the San Bernardino massacre with her husband had pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group and its leader on Facebook, a US law enforcement official said Friday, providing the strongest evidence to date that the rampage may have been …
Read More »Return Kohinoor diamond (Crown Jewels) to Pakistan
A Pakistani attorney said on Thursday he has filed a court petition seeking the return of the famed Koh-i-Noor diamond Britain forced India to hand over in colonial times. Once the largest known diamond in the world, the 105-carat Koh-i- Noor is one of the Crown Jewels. It is set …
Read More »Regime bombing in Syria kills 56 – Opposition seeks unified stance in Saudi
BEIRUT, Dec 4, (Agencies): Heavy government bombardment across Syria Friday killed at least 56 civilians, more than a fourth of them children, a monitoring group said. The bloodiest attack was in Eastern Ghouta, a rebel stronghold east of Damascus, where at least 41 civilians were killed, the Syrian Observatory for …
Read More »MOTIVE SOUGHT IN U.S. SHOOTING DEATHS OF 14 – Desert town stunned after mass shooting
SAN BERNARDINO, California, Dec 3, (Agencies): One moment, Syed Rizwan Farook was sitting at a table with colleagues at a holiday gathering for county health employees. Then suddenly he disappeared, leaving his coat on his chair. The next time his co-workers saw him, he was dressed in battle gear and …
Read More »Divorced Saudi women to get ID cards – No date set for change
RIYADH, Dec 3, (AFP): Female divorcees and widows in Saudi Arabia are set to get their own ID cards allowing them to act independently from men, local media reported on Thursday. The changes will allow women to register a child for school, access records and authorise medical procedures once their …
Read More »‘We’ll avenge man beheaded in IS video’
The president of Russia’s Chechnya region, Ramzan Kadyrov, said on Thursday that whoever was responsible for the beheading of a Russian man from Chechnya, purportedly shown on an Islamic State video, will be killed. “Yes, he was Russian-Chechen, he was beheaded .. there are proven facts,” Kadyrov told journalists. “Whoever …
Read More »Qatar says labour abuse claims ‘simply untrue’ – Amnesty criticises FIFA for not doing enough
DOHA, Dec 3, (AFP): Qatar on Wednesday dismissed claims it has done almost nothing to tackle migrant labour abuse since being awarded the 2022 World Cup exactly five years ago as “simply untrue”. In a vigorous defence of its treatment of foreign labourers, Doha said an Amnesty International report arguing …
Read More »Erdogan … oil sparks clash
MOSCOW, Dec 2, (Agencies): Russia’s defence ministry said on Wednesday it had proof that Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and his family were benefiting from the illegal smuggling of oil from Islamic Stateheld territory in Syria and Iraq. Moscow and Ankara have been locked in a war of words since last …
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