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TERRORISM

WORLD
Jul 19, 2015
Czech Foreign Ministry says five nationals are missing in Lebanon
Five Czechs and their Lebanese driver are missing in Lebanon, a spokeswoman for the Czech Foreign Ministry said Saturday.
WORLD
Jul 18, 2015
Islamic State suicide car bomb kills over 100 in Iraq
More than 100 people were killed in a suicide car bombing at a busy market in an Iraqi town on Friday, one of the deadliest attacks carried out by Islamic State militants since they overran large parts of the country.
WORLD
Jul 18, 2015
Islamic State forces accused of using poison gas on Kurds in northeast Syria
The Islamic State group used poison gas in attacks against Kurdish-controlled areas of northeastern Syria in late June, a Syrian Kurdish militia and a group monitoring the Syrian conflict said Saturday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 17, 2015
Tennessee Marine slayings by lone gunman will be fully probed: Obama
President Barack Obama promised a full investigation into shootings at military sites in Tennessee that killed four Marines, described as a potential act of terrorism by U.S. officials.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 17, 2015
Kanagawa police issue new warrant for 2013 Algeria hostage crisis mastermind
Kanagawa Prefectural Police said Thursday they have obtained a fresh arrest warrant for the mastermind of the 2013 hostage crisis in Algeria that left dozens dead, including 10 Japanese.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 17, 2015
Gunman, four others killed in 'terrorist' attack on Chattanooga military installations
Five people were killed on Thursday, including a suspected gunman who opened fire at two military-related facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in an attack local officials described as an act of terrorism.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Jul 15, 2015
China arrests Britons, South Africans for 'terror' videos
Twenty foreign tourists including Britons, South Africans and an Indian national have been arrested in northern China, according to reports by Britain's Foreign Office and a South African charity, on suspicion some had ties to a "terror group."
ASIA PACIFIC / ANALYSIS
Jul 14, 2015
Poor intelligence, porous borders stymie Chinese control of Uighurs
Poor intelligence and porous borders with Southeast Asia are stymieing China's efforts to stop the flow of ethnic minority Uighur Muslims heading to Turkey, where China says many of them end up fighting for Islamists in Syria and Iraq.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jul 11, 2015
Man arrested for bomb threat over boy band film
Hyogo prefectural police arrested a 27-year-old man Saturday on suspicion of making a bomb threat against a sports stadium unless a film starring a Japanese boy band was pulled from theaters.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Jul 10, 2015
FBI reveals over 10 arrested in foiled Islamic State-inspired 'crowd sourcing' July 4 attacks
U.S. authorities foiled attacks planned around the Fourth of July, arresting more than 10 people in the month before the holiday who were inspired by Islamic State online recruitment, FBI Director James Comey said on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 8, 2015
Al-Shabab targets sleeping Christian quarry workers in Kenya, killing 14
Al-Shabab gunmen killed 14 people, mostly quarry workers, officials said, in an overnight attack on a residential complex in northeast Kenya that the Islamic militant group said had targeted Christians.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 3, 2015
Navy Yard lockdown lifted after report of shots being fired proves to be false alarm
Police issued an "all clear" on Thursday after a false alarm about gunshots fired at the U.S. Navy Yard in Washington, the site of a mass shooting that took 12 lives two years ago.
EDITORIALS
Jul 2, 2015
Step up train security
The fiery suicide on a bullet train should be a call to arms for railway operators to improve their security measures.
Japan Times
BUSINESS
Jul 1, 2015
Still reeling from museum massacre, beach carnage looks to doom Tunisia tourism
Tunisian shopkeeper Aghmi Bubaker doesn't need to be told that he is experiencing the worst threat yet to his 40-year career in tourism — the bullet hole in his battered green Mercedes Benz is a daily reminder.
WORLD
Jun 30, 2015
Afghan Taliban lose ground to IS loyalists
Fighters loyal to the Islamic State have seized substantial swaths of territory in Afghanistan for the first time, witnesses and officials said, wresting areas in the east from rival Taliban insurgents in a new threat to stability.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 30, 2015
Suspected Boko Haram suicide blasts during police raid in Chad capital kills 11
Suspected Boko Haram fighters blew themselves up during a police raid in Chad's capital early on Monday, killing five officers and six militants, police and government officials said.
BUSINESS
Jun 29, 2015
Islamic State peddling looted art on eBay, Facebook for cash flow
The Whatsapp message appeared on his iPhone: photos of an ancient Mesopotamian vase worth $250,000, part of a highly valued set, is waiting to be extracted.
WORLD
Jun 28, 2015
Suicide bombers kill at least three in northeast Nigeria
Two suicide bombers killed at least three people and injured 16 in the capital of the northeastern Nigerian state of Borno on Saturday, the latest in a string of deadly attacks by suspected Islamist militants.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jun 26, 2015
One decapitated in suspected terrorist attack on U.S. factory in France
A decapitated body covered in Arabic writing was found at a U.S. gas company in southeast France on Friday, police sources and French media said, after an assailant rammed a car into the premises, triggering an explosion.
ASIA PACIFIC
Jun 24, 2015
Bill would strip Australian extremists' children of citizenship
The Australian government will be able to strip the children of extremists fighting overseas of Australian citizenship under controversial legislation introduced into parliament Wednesday.

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