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Brussels put on maximum alert on risk of Paris-like attack
Belgium put the capital Brussels on maximum security alert on Saturday, shutting the metro and warning people to avoid crowds because of ...EU tightens border checks, gun control after Paris
The European Union will step up checks on its citizens traveling abroad, tighten gun control and collect more data on airline passengers, ...Paris terror plotter took Metro after attacks
The suspected mastermind behind the attacks in Paris last week has been identified in CCTV footage from a metro station while the ...Israeli spy Pollard released after 30 years in US jail
Jewish American Jonathan Pollard was released from nearly 30 years in prison for passing US secrets to Israel on Friday in a ...Nearly 30 dead in Qaeda attack and clashes in Yemen
At least 15 Yemeni soldiers and 14 militants have been killed in an attack by al Qaeda on a military post in ...French PM warns of risk of chemical, biological attack
Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned Thursday of the danger of an attack in France using "chemical or biological weapons", in a speech ...APEC leaders say more global cooperation needed to fight terrorism
Leaders of Pacific rim countries vowed on Thursday to prevent terrorism from undermining values that underpin free and open economies, and said ...Migrant detentions in Mexico up 73 percent since 2014
Mexico detained 73 percent more migrants in the first year since the announcement of an operation to shore up security on its ...Two US Air France flights given all-clear after bomb scare
Authorities have given the all-clear to two Paris-bound Air France flights from the United States that were diverted Tuesday after anonymous bomb ...Two killed, 360,000 without power in Washington state storm
At least two people were killed in Washington state and about 360,000 homes and businesses in the Seattle-area were without power on ...