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State of emergency in Crimea after power lines blown up
Crimea declared a state of emergency on Sunday after its main electricity lines from Ukraine were blown up, leaving the Russian-annexed peninsula ...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 ...Female suicide bomber and another jihadist killed in Paris assault
A female suicide bomber blew herself up and one other jihadist died in a police raid in Paris on Wednesday as explosions ...




