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"Islamist Extremists, Far-Right Groups Spreading Poison": UK PM Rishi Sunak
Following weeks of simmering tension in the UK over the Gaza conflict, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Friday said that the "time has come" to battle extremist forces as he warned "democracy itself is a target".
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Extremist Islamist Group's Member Arrested For Kerala RSS Worker's Murder
An office-bearer of the Popular Front of India (PFI) was today arrested in connection with the killing of an RSS worker in Palakkad district of Kerala, police said here.
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Pakistan Removes Ban On Radical Group After Deadly Protests
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday gave his permission to remove the extremist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) from the list of banned outfits, succumbing to the hardline Islamists to end the deadly anti-government agitation.
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New Zealand Supermarkets Take Knives Off Shelves After "Extremist" Stabbing
New Zealand supermarket group Countdown said on Saturday it has removed knives and scissors from its shelves, a day after a man the authorities called an Islamist extremist stabbed six people in one of the company's stores.
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Sri Lanka School Principal, Teacher Arrested For Link To Terror Attack
Sri Lankan Police said Friday they have arrested a school principal and a teacher for their alleged links to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ) blamed by the government for the deadly Easter Sunday bombings which killed nearly 260 people.
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Sri Lanka Blames Local Islamist Group Behind Easter Bomb Blasts
Sri Lanka said on Monday it believed a local Islamist extremist group was behind deadly suicide bomb blasts that killed nearly 300 people as it announced a national state of emergency beginning midnight.
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Sri Lanka Narrows Down On Islamist Group After Blasts, Declares Emergency
The Sri Lankan government believes a local Islamist extremist group called the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) was behind the deadly suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people, government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said Monday.
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Bangladesh Police Say Top Islamic Terrorist Shot Dead
Bangladesh police said Tuesday they had killed the chief of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an extremist group accused of murdering secular activists and inspiring a cafe siege that killed 22 people.
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Bangladesh Arrests 5 Linked To Deadly Cafe Siege
Five people linked to the Islamist extremist group behind July's Dhaka cafe siege that left 22 hostages, most of them foreigners, dead have been arrested, Bangladesh police said Thursday.
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Bangladesh Set To Hang Extremist Leader
Security was tightened in a Bangladesh southern city on Sunday ahead of the expected execution of a senior Islamist extremist whose group has been linked to the murder of foreign hostages, police said.
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Australia Unveils 'How-To' Guide To Fight Terrorist Propaganda
Australia on Tuesday released what the government says is the world's first ever how-to-guide for combating radical Islamist propaganda in Southeast Asia, which it hopes will help disrupt local recruitment efforts by groups such as ISIS.
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Bangladesh Arrests Top Islamist Extremist
Bangladesh's elite security force said today it had arrested a top regional head of the home-grown Islamist extremist group blamed for an attack on a Dhaka cafe in which 20 hostages were murdered.
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Hezbollah Says Mustafa Badreddine Was Killed By Islamist Extremists
Lebanon's Hezbollah on Saturday blamed Islamist extremists for killing the Shiite militant group's top military commander in Syria in an artillery attack.
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Suspected Islamist Extremists Arrested In Bosnia
Police in Bosnia said today that they have detained 11 people suspected of links with the ISIS and its militants fighting in Syria and Iraq.
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Islamic Extremist Arrested In Germany On Terror Charge
Authorities in Germany have arrested one of the country's most prominent Islamic extremists on suspicion of supporting a foreign terror group, prosecutors said today.
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"Islamist Extremists, Far-Right Groups Spreading Poison": UK PM Rishi Sunak
Following weeks of simmering tension in the UK over the Gaza conflict, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Friday said that the "time has come" to battle extremist forces as he warned "democracy itself is a target".
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Extremist Islamist Group's Member Arrested For Kerala RSS Worker's Murder
An office-bearer of the Popular Front of India (PFI) was today arrested in connection with the killing of an RSS worker in Palakkad district of Kerala, police said here.
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Pakistan Removes Ban On Radical Group After Deadly Protests
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday gave his permission to remove the extremist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) from the list of banned outfits, succumbing to the hardline Islamists to end the deadly anti-government agitation.
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New Zealand Supermarkets Take Knives Off Shelves After "Extremist" Stabbing
New Zealand supermarket group Countdown said on Saturday it has removed knives and scissors from its shelves, a day after a man the authorities called an Islamist extremist stabbed six people in one of the company's stores.
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Sri Lanka School Principal, Teacher Arrested For Link To Terror Attack
Sri Lankan Police said Friday they have arrested a school principal and a teacher for their alleged links to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ) blamed by the government for the deadly Easter Sunday bombings which killed nearly 260 people.
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Sri Lanka Blames Local Islamist Group Behind Easter Bomb Blasts
Sri Lanka said on Monday it believed a local Islamist extremist group was behind deadly suicide bomb blasts that killed nearly 300 people as it announced a national state of emergency beginning midnight.
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Sri Lanka Narrows Down On Islamist Group After Blasts, Declares Emergency
The Sri Lankan government believes a local Islamist extremist group called the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) was behind the deadly suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people, government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said Monday.
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Bangladesh Police Say Top Islamic Terrorist Shot Dead
Bangladesh police said Tuesday they had killed the chief of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an extremist group accused of murdering secular activists and inspiring a cafe siege that killed 22 people.
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Bangladesh Arrests 5 Linked To Deadly Cafe Siege
Five people linked to the Islamist extremist group behind July's Dhaka cafe siege that left 22 hostages, most of them foreigners, dead have been arrested, Bangladesh police said Thursday.
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Bangladesh Set To Hang Extremist Leader
Security was tightened in a Bangladesh southern city on Sunday ahead of the expected execution of a senior Islamist extremist whose group has been linked to the murder of foreign hostages, police said.
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Australia Unveils 'How-To' Guide To Fight Terrorist Propaganda
Australia on Tuesday released what the government says is the world's first ever how-to-guide for combating radical Islamist propaganda in Southeast Asia, which it hopes will help disrupt local recruitment efforts by groups such as ISIS.
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Bangladesh Arrests Top Islamist Extremist
Bangladesh's elite security force said today it had arrested a top regional head of the home-grown Islamist extremist group blamed for an attack on a Dhaka cafe in which 20 hostages were murdered.
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Hezbollah Says Mustafa Badreddine Was Killed By Islamist Extremists
Lebanon's Hezbollah on Saturday blamed Islamist extremists for killing the Shiite militant group's top military commander in Syria in an artillery attack.
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Suspected Islamist Extremists Arrested In Bosnia
Police in Bosnia said today that they have detained 11 people suspected of links with the ISIS and its militants fighting in Syria and Iraq.
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Islamic Extremist Arrested In Germany On Terror Charge
Authorities in Germany have arrested one of the country's most prominent Islamic extremists on suspicion of supporting a foreign terror group, prosecutors said today.
