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TERRORISM

Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Nov 23, 2015
United with Putin against terror?
Putin sees the Paris terrorist attacks as an opening for Russia to improve its ties with the West, and he wants to take advantage of it. The West should not shut him out.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Nov 23, 2015
Before Paris terrorist attacks, authorities across Europe missed many red flags
In hindsight, there were multiple chances to stop the terrorists who attacked Paris.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 23, 2015
French youth line up to join the military after Paris attacks
France says it's at war and its young people are heeding the call of duty.
WORLD
Nov 23, 2015
Suicide bomber kills four in Cameroon; three cohorts die after early detonation
Four civilians were killed in northern Cameroon on Saturday in a suicide bomb assault by suspected Boko Haram militants in which three female attackers and one man blew themselves up, security sources said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2015
Islamic State main foe and Russia must realize Assad must go, Obama says
U.S. President Barack Obama said Russia must make a strategic decision about Syria and the next several weeks will show whether Russian President Vladimir Putin will give up backing the Syrian regime of Bashar Assad to join in a broad campaign against Islamic State.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 23, 2015
Brussels stays on high alert, suspects two terrorists ready to attack; synagogues shuttered
Belgium said it faced a serious and imminent threat of a Paris-style attack, and kept Brussels on maximum alert on Monday as security forces searched for militants thought to be at large in the capital.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 23, 2015
Fearing Syrian terrorist 'Trojan horse' among refugees, Trump OK with return to waterboarding
Donald Trump, the leading Republican contender for U.S. president, says he would return to strong interrogation techniques such as waterboarding if he were elected because their severity pales against Islamic State practices.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Nov 23, 2015
Paris hospital reports theft of medical protective clothing amid bio-terror fears
French police are investigating the recent theft of medical protective clothing from a hospital in Paris, the Paris public hospital administrator AP-HP has said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Nov 22, 2015
Obama's four-summit trip did not always go according to script
From Turkey to the Philippines to Malaysia, it has been an overseas trip for U.S. President Barack Obama that often veered off-script.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 22, 2015
Few dissenting voices as France curbs rights after massacre
France calls itself "the homeland of human rights" but has focused in the past week on limiting them as the government pushed through sweeping curbs on basic freedoms in the wake of the Paris massacre.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 21, 2015
Press gets tense over possible terrorism in Tokyo
Look around, if you will, for a waste receptacle on any station platform in the Tokyo metropolitan area; you won't find one. Their disappearance, a precautionary measure against urban terrorism, can be dated to the immediate aftermath of the nerve gas attack on the city's subway system by members of...
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 21, 2015
In Paris attacks, nurse discovered the man he was trying to save was a bomber
In the chaos of the explosion at the Comptoir Voltaire cafe, one of several targets hit in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks, nurse David sought to help the wounded.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 21, 2015
Tapped phone led Paris attack leader to his death
Police watched the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks being led by a woman into an apartment the evening before both died there in a raid by special forces, a police source said on Friday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 21, 2015
Belgium raises terror alert to highest level in Brussels, warns of 'imminent threat'
Belgium raised the alert status for its capital, Brussels, to the highest level on Saturday, shutting the metro and warning the public to avoid crowds because of a "serious and imminent" threat of an attack.
WORLD
Nov 21, 2015
In rare admission, U.S. says civilians were killed in an airstrike in Iraq
A U.S. airstrike that targeted an Islamic State checkpoint in Iraq in March likely killed four civilians, one of whom may have been a child, the U.S. military said on Friday in a rare statement acknowledging the death of civilians.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 21, 2015
Paris attacks may have cost militants as little as $7,500
The militants who killed 130 people in Paris, triggering new airstrikes on Syria and security alerts around the world, may have spent as little as €7,000 ($7,500) on their attacks.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 21, 2015
Mali hotel attack puts veteran 'dead' militant Belmokhtar back in spotlight
The deadly attack on a hotel in the Malian capital, Bamako, on Friday claimed by two radical Islamist groups has put veteran militant leader Mokhtar Belmokhtar back in the spotlight months after he was reported killed.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 21, 2015
At least 19 dead after Islamists seize hotel in Mali capital
Islamist militants killed 19 people in an attack on a top hotel in the capital of Mali on Friday before Malian commandos stormed the building and rescued 170 people, many of them foreigners.
WORLD
Nov 20, 2015
Brother of suspected Paris attack mastermind arrested in Morocco
Moroccan authorities last month arrested Yassine Abaaoud, a younger brother of the suspected Islamic State mastermind of the Paris attacks, after he arrived in his father's hometown of Agadir, a Moroccan security source said on Friday.
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.
U.S. aircraft carrier returns to Japan carrying navy’s ‘most capable fighter’
U.S. 7th Fleet Commander Vice Adm. Fred Kacher speaks to reporters shortly after the arrival of aircraft carrier USS George Washington at Yokosuka naval base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Friday.
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.
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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