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PARIS ATTACKS

Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 19, 2020
Macron unveils curbs on foreign imams and teachers amid wariness over 'separatism' risk
French President Emmanuel Macron said on Tuesday he would curb the practice of foreign countries sending imams and teachers to France to crack down on what he called the risk of "separatism.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 24, 2018
Islamist gunman kills three at French supermarket
A gunman killed three people in southwestern France on Friday as he held up a car, fired on police and seized hostages in a supermarket, screaming "Allahu akbar" before security forces stormed the building and he was killed, authorities said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 4, 2017
Five held, grilled over wired explosives found planted in posh Paris neighborhood
French counterterrorism investigators questioned five people on Tuesday after police over the weekend found what appeared to be a ready-to-detonate bomb at an apartment building in one of Paris's poshest neighborhoods.
WORLD
Oct 12, 2016
Lawyers of Paris attacker resign, chalk his silence up to constant surveillance
Lawyers for the only known survivor of a group of Islamist militants who killed 130 people in Paris last year on Wednesday resigned from the role, saying his continued refusal to testify was due to the conditions of his detention.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 14, 2016
Spain nabs Frenchman wanted for allegedly supplying arms to Paris terrorist
Spanish police have arrested a Frenchman suspected of supplying the arms used by an Islamist militant to kill four people at a kosher supermarket and a policewoman in Paris in January 2015, Spain's interior ministry said on Wednesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Apr 8, 2016
Australia to strip dual nationals involved in terrorism of citizenship
Australia, a staunch ally of the United States and its battle against Islamist militants in Iraq and Syria, said on Friday it would strip dual nationals convicted of terrorism-related crimes of citizenship.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 31, 2016
Hollande scraps plan to strip terror convicts of French nationality
French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday scrapped contested constitutional reforms he proposed after the Paris attacks, in an embarrassing U-turn for his already beleaguered government.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 28, 2016
Belgium seeks more information on 'man in the hat'; death toll at 35
Belgian police issued a new appeal on Monday for information about a man caught on CCTV at Brussels Airport with two others who are thought to have blown themselves up in the check-in area last Tuesday.
WORLD
Mar 27, 2016
Nails and nail polish remover: Brussels bombers prepared a 'satanic' cocktail
An empty apartment block on a quiet street turned out to be the perfect place for the three suspected Brussels attackers to prepare the home-made nail bombs used in Tuesday's airport and metro attacks, which killed at least 31 people.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 27, 2016
Charged Brussels suspect may be missing airport bomber
"The man in the hat" is how Belgium has come to know the country's most wanted suspect in the Brussels attacks, seen in a CCTV picture with two others who were about to blow themselves up at Brussels airport on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 25, 2016
Tech could help secure public spaces, if Europeans wants more surveillance
Facial recognition software, scanners that detect weapons and cameras that spot nervous people are some of the technologies that could be used more widely to secure public places, but some would require greater acceptance of surveillance in Europe.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 25, 2016
Recent raids may have led Brussels bombers to ditch plan to hit nuke plant: paper
Suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Brussels were originally considering an attack on a nuclear site in Belgium, but arrests started last week may have forced them to switch to targets in the Belgian capital, the DH newspaper said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Feb 4, 2016
Terror fight after Paris attack prompts charge of stifled debate
In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, a hardened French government is not giving dialogue a chance, charges former Justice Minister Christiane Taubira.
WORLD
Jan 15, 2016
French identify another Paris attacker via DNA from body parts
French investigators have confirmed that Belgian-Moroccan Chakib Akrouh, who blew himself up when trapped by police on Nov. 18, was the third member of the three-man unit that killed dozens of cafegoers during a multipronged Islamist attack on Paris days earlier.
WORLD
Jan 3, 2016
Man who drove car at French troops had jihadi propaganda on computer
French investigators found jihadi propaganda material on Saturday on the hard drive of the computer of a man who drove his car into troops guarding a mosque in southern France on New Year's Day but said it did not prove he had links with any terrorist groups.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 31, 2015
New Year's to see less-bright City of Light as terror-wary Paris scrubs fireworks, abstains
Authorities in Paris, with an eye to security following the November attacks by armed militants, are shortening a New Year video light show at the Arc de Triomphe at midnight on Thursday and cancelling a fireworks display to keep down crowds.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 30, 2015
Islamic State leader with links to Paris attacks 'mastermind' killed in targeted air strike in Syria: Pentagon
A U.S.-led coalition has killed 10 Islamic State leaders in the past month with targeted air strikes, including individuals linked to last month's attacks in Paris, a spokesman for the coalition said on Tuesday.
EDITORIALS
Dec 12, 2015
Abe's anti-terrorism measures
The government should weigh the benefits of measures to prevent terrorist acts against the risk of violating people's constitutional rights.
Tokyo Metro’s overseas efforts begin in earnest with London deal
Tokyo Metro will soon have a role in the running of London's Elizabeth Line, a major train route serving the U.K.’s capital city and environs.
Man charged with murder allegedly made victim date other men for money
A car carrying suspect Ryotaro Masuda, who was indicted for allegedly beating his 25-year-old girlfriend to death, leaves the Shibuya Police Station in Tokyo on Thursday.
Russia fired experimental ballistic missile at Ukraine, Putin says
Ukrainian firefighters work on a spot following an airstrike in Dnipro on Thursday.
Ex-yokozuna Kitanofuji dies at 82
Yokozuna Kitanofuji enters the ring during the May 1970 grand sumo tournament in Tokyo.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Shohei Ohtani wins National League MVP award
Shohei Ohtani celebrates after hitting a three-run home run against the Padres during the National League Division Series at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles last month.
The slow-burn success of ‘A Samurai in Time’
A 19th-century warrior gets struck by lightning and wakes to find himself in 21st-century Kyoto in Junichi Yasuda’s surprise hit “A Samurai in Time.”
Around a quarter of Japan married couples in their 20s met through dating apps
A survey released by an organization promoting “Good Couples Day” shows that 24% of couples in their 20s met their marriage partner through a dating app.
'Tokyo Swindlers': Get deep into the minds of real estate con artists
In Ko Shinjo's "Tokyo Swindlers," a group of con artists manipulates real estate giants into falsified deals within the highly competitive, quick market.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.

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