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Hamas "Must Be Stopped": US Senate Leader In Israel
Islamist militant group Hamas "must be stopped", US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday as he reiterated United States support to Israel after last week's attack by the Islamist group.
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6 Civilians Killed, 10 Injured In Somalia Hotel Attack
Six civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a six-hour siege by Islamist Al-Shabaab militants at a beachside hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said Saturday.
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Pakistan Says Attack That Killed 13, Including 9 Chinese, Was A Suicide Bombing
A bus blast last month that killed 13 people, including nine Chinese workers, was a suicide bombing by Islamist militants backed by the Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Thursday.
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Kabul Says It Will Attack Taliban If Violence Does Not Stop This Week
Afghanistan's minister of defence said on Sunday that if the Islamist Taliban did not stop attacks by the end of the week, it would switch from 'defence mode' to attacking the militant group.
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Kerala Priest Thankful, Even To Abductors, After Release From Yemen
Kerala Priest Tom Uzhunnalil, who was kidnapped last year during a deadly attack by Islamist militants in Yemen, thanked on Saturday all those involved in his release, and even had a kind word for his abductors for not harming him.
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9 People Killed In Suicide Attack On Mogadishu Hotel In Somali
At least nine people were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday when a suicide bomber rammed a car into a hotel, police and witnesses said, in an attack claimed by militant Islamist group al Shabaab.
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Student Arrested After Dhaka Cafe Attack Acquitted Of Terror Charges
A man who was dining in a Dhaka cafe when it was attacked by Islamist militants and who was later detained as a suspect has been acquitted of terrorism charges and released on bail, police said on Sunday.
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Bodies Of 9 Italians Killed In Bangladesh Attack Brought To Rome
The bodies of nine Italians killed by Islamist militants who stormed an upmarket restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital last week were brought to Rome in a military plane on Tuesday.
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ISIS Clams Responsibility In Hindu Priest's Hacking Death In Bangladesh
Suspected militants in Bangladesh hacked an elderly Hindu priest to death on Tuesday, in what police suspected was the latest in a spate of attacks by Islamists on minority groups in the majority-Muslim country.
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Third Suspect Arrested Over Gurudwara Attack In Germany
A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the bombing of a gurudwara by Islamist militants in the German city of Essen, police said today amid reports that two teenagers had rehearsed for the terror attack by detonating a prototype of their self-made bomb.
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Bangladesh Professor Killed By Suspected Islamist Militants
Suspected Islamist militants brutally murdered a university professor today in northwestern Bangladesh, a police official said, the latest in a series of attacks on liberal activists.
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Pope Calls Pakistan Attack 'Hideous,' Demands Protection For Christians
Pope Francis on Monday condemned the Easter suicide bomb by Islamist militants that killed at least 70 people in Pakistan, many of them Christians, as "hideous" and demanded that the country's authorities protect religious minorities.
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At Least 65 People Killed In Attack In Nigeria's Maiduguri
At least 65 people were killed during an attack by Islamist militant group Boko Haram near Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, a Reuters reporter said after counting bodies at a hospital morgue.
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Burkina Faso's Long Night Of Horror In Killing Spree By Terrorists
When Burkina Faso anti-terrorism Commander Evrard Somda arrived with 20 men to start a fight-back against Islamist militants holed up in a smart hotel, his first decision was to seal off the area and throw away the rule book.
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At Least 20 Victims From Burkina Hotel Attack: Hospital
Around 20 people have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants on a hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso on Friday, according to the director of the university hospital who spoke to patients wounded in the attack.
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Hamas "Must Be Stopped": US Senate Leader In Israel
Islamist militant group Hamas "must be stopped", US Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said Sunday as he reiterated United States support to Israel after last week's attack by the Islamist group.
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6 Civilians Killed, 10 Injured In Somalia Hotel Attack
Six civilians were killed and 10 wounded in a six-hour siege by Islamist Al-Shabaab militants at a beachside hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, police said Saturday.
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Pakistan Says Attack That Killed 13, Including 9 Chinese, Was A Suicide Bombing
A bus blast last month that killed 13 people, including nine Chinese workers, was a suicide bombing by Islamist militants backed by the Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies, Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi said on Thursday.
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Kabul Says It Will Attack Taliban If Violence Does Not Stop This Week
Afghanistan's minister of defence said on Sunday that if the Islamist Taliban did not stop attacks by the end of the week, it would switch from 'defence mode' to attacking the militant group.
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Kerala Priest Thankful, Even To Abductors, After Release From Yemen
Kerala Priest Tom Uzhunnalil, who was kidnapped last year during a deadly attack by Islamist militants in Yemen, thanked on Saturday all those involved in his release, and even had a kind word for his abductors for not harming him.
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9 People Killed In Suicide Attack On Mogadishu Hotel In Somali
At least nine people were killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Wednesday when a suicide bomber rammed a car into a hotel, police and witnesses said, in an attack claimed by militant Islamist group al Shabaab.
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Student Arrested After Dhaka Cafe Attack Acquitted Of Terror Charges
A man who was dining in a Dhaka cafe when it was attacked by Islamist militants and who was later detained as a suspect has been acquitted of terrorism charges and released on bail, police said on Sunday.
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Bodies Of 9 Italians Killed In Bangladesh Attack Brought To Rome
The bodies of nine Italians killed by Islamist militants who stormed an upmarket restaurant in the Bangladeshi capital last week were brought to Rome in a military plane on Tuesday.
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ISIS Clams Responsibility In Hindu Priest's Hacking Death In Bangladesh
Suspected militants in Bangladesh hacked an elderly Hindu priest to death on Tuesday, in what police suspected was the latest in a spate of attacks by Islamists on minority groups in the majority-Muslim country.
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Third Suspect Arrested Over Gurudwara Attack In Germany
A third suspect has been arrested in connection with the bombing of a gurudwara by Islamist militants in the German city of Essen, police said today amid reports that two teenagers had rehearsed for the terror attack by detonating a prototype of their self-made bomb.
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Bangladesh Professor Killed By Suspected Islamist Militants
Suspected Islamist militants brutally murdered a university professor today in northwestern Bangladesh, a police official said, the latest in a series of attacks on liberal activists.
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Pope Calls Pakistan Attack 'Hideous,' Demands Protection For Christians
Pope Francis on Monday condemned the Easter suicide bomb by Islamist militants that killed at least 70 people in Pakistan, many of them Christians, as "hideous" and demanded that the country's authorities protect religious minorities.
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At Least 65 People Killed In Attack In Nigeria's Maiduguri
At least 65 people were killed during an attack by Islamist militant group Boko Haram near Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri, a Reuters reporter said after counting bodies at a hospital morgue.
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Burkina Faso's Long Night Of Horror In Killing Spree By Terrorists
When Burkina Faso anti-terrorism Commander Evrard Somda arrived with 20 men to start a fight-back against Islamist militants holed up in a smart hotel, his first decision was to seal off the area and throw away the rule book.
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At Least 20 Victims From Burkina Hotel Attack: Hospital
Around 20 people have been killed in an attack by suspected Islamist militants on a hotel in the capital of Burkina Faso on Friday, according to the director of the university hospital who spoke to patients wounded in the attack.
