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Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 24, 2017
London attacker Khalid Masood was a criminal with militant links
Before he killed at least four people in Britain's deadliest attack since the 2005 London bombings, Khalid Masood was considered by intelligence officers to be a criminal who posed little serious threat.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 3, 2017
Controlled blasts heard in sealed-off Brussels district after man 'known to police' arrested with gas bottles
Brussels police detained a man with suspected militant links who was found to be carrying two gas bottles in his car after he was pulled over on Thursday for running a red light, officials said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 6, 2017
Berlin truck attacker used at least 14 names; Tunisian associate seen posing as Libyan
The Tunisian man who killed 12 people last month by plowing a truck into a Berlin Christmas market had lived under at least 14 different names in Germany, a regional police chief said on Thursday, raising more questions about security lapses.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Dec 28, 2016
Polish trucker shot dead by hijacker hours before Berlin attack: report
A Polish truck driver whose hijacked vehicle was used to crash into a Berlin Christmas market was shot in the head several hours before the attack and could not have attempted to foil it as previously thought, the Bild newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Dec 22, 2016
Trump: Berlin truck massacre 'an attack against humanity'
U.S. President-elect Donald Trump condemned the attack at a Christmas market in Berlin as "an attack against humanity" on Wednesday.
Japan Times
ASIA PACIFIC
Dec 1, 2016
New evidence shows deep Islamic State role in Bangladesh massacre that killed seven Japanese
Before Tamim Ahmed Chowdhury orchestrated Bangladesh's worst militant attack, he sought and won approval for it from Islamic State.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 10, 2016
Syrian refugee suspected of planning bomb attack in Germany is captured
German police said Monday they have captured a man suspected of planning a bomb attack who slipped through their grasp during a raid two days ago.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Sep 22, 2016
Investigators looking into whether NYC bomb suspect had help
U.S. authorities investigated on Wednesday whether anyone helped an Afghan-born American citizen charged with carrying out bombings in New York and New Jersey, while the city's top federal public defender asked for access to the man.
WORLD
Sep 12, 2016
Bangladesh cafe attack suspect killed himself as police closed in on flat
A suspected militant believed by Bangladesh police to have been among the planners of a July cafe attack that killed 22 people killed himself during a police raid on a hideout in the capital, police said Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 12, 2016
France arrests 15-year-old boy for planning 'imminent' Paris attack
A 15-year-old boy has been arrested in Paris suspected of preparing imminent "violent action," two judicial sources said, the second alleged plot with links to the Islamic State group discovered in France over the last week.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Aug 17, 2016
German 'dark net' sting leads to arrest of suspected seller of gun used in Munich massacre
Police on Tuesday arrested an armed 31-year-old German man who boasted during a sting operation that he had supplied the Glock 17 pistol used by a gunman who killed nine people in Munich on July 22, the Frankfurt state prosecutor said in a statement.
WORLD
Jul 31, 2016
London Metropolitan Police chief warns terrorist attack a case of 'when, not if'
Britain cannot be fully protected against terrorism and an attack similar to those seen recently in mainland Europe is a question of "when, not if," London's police chief said Sunday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 29, 2016
Islamic State video of church attacker Paris was tipped off to urges all Muslims to destroy France
Islamic State's affiliated news agency Amaq on Thursday released a video purportedly showing one of the two men who attacked a church in northern France this week urging all Muslims to destroy the country.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 24, 2016
Spy agencies struggle to spot threats from lone, mentally ill attackers
Recent attacks on civilians in the U.S. and Europe have exposed a gap in the intelligence community's efforts to track suspected extremists and prevent mass killings, half a dozen American, British and French counterterrorism officials said.
Japan Times
JAPAN / CHUBU CONNECTION
Jul 19, 2016
Nagoya professor distraught by Dhaka massacre, says killings go against Islam
Rahman M. Khondaker, a professor at Nagoya's Nanzan University, was shocked by the July 1 massacre of diners at a restaurant in Dhaka.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 18, 2016
Brother in Tunisia says Nice attacker sent him 'laughing' picture before massacre
The man who mowed through a crowd with a truck, killing 84 Bastille Day revellers in Nice on Thursday, had phoned home hours earlier and sent a "laughing" picture from the French city, his brother told Reuters.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 17, 2016
Profile of Islamist attackers shifting from idealists to disillusioned, unstable criminals
As authorities investigate the motives for a mass killing in Nice late Thursday that was claimed by the Islamic State group, analysts say the case appears to highlight a shift in the profile of those launching attacks in the name of hard-line Islamist groups.

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