Authorities call the attack an act of terrorism and distribute a photo of the wounded and ‘dangerous’ fugitive, identified as Cherif Chekatt.
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Crash outside parliament in London treated as terrorism
LONDON (AP) — A car plowed into pedestrians and cyclists near the Houses of Parliament in London during the morning rush hour Tuesday, injuring three people in what police suspect is the latest in a string of attacks in the British capital that used vehicles as weapons. Armed police flooded the area after the incident […]
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Hostage-taker in France kills 3, is shot dead by police
TREBES, France (AP) — An armed man took hostages in a supermarket in southern France on Friday, killing three people and injuring about a dozen others before being shot to death when French police stormed the market, authorities said. French President Emmanuel Macron said all evidence suggested that it was a terror attack — the […]
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Trump administration calls Poliquin's Iran bill 'unconstitutional'
Days before demonstrations broke out in cities across Iran, the U.S. Department of Justice told congressional leaders that a measure sponsored by a Republican congressman from Maine to unveil the secret holdings of Iranian leaders is unconstitutional. U.S. Rep. Bruce Poliquin’s measure, approved last month by the House, would require the secretary of the treasury […]
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Militants kill at least 235 in attack on mosque in Egypt’s Sinai
CAIRO — Militants set off a blast and gunned down fleeing worshippers at crowded mosque in Egypt’s northern Sinai Peninsula on Friday, killing at least 235 people in what appeared to mark the deadliest single assault on Egyptian civilians by suspected Islamist extremists. There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack on the […]
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Police search for suspect who made London subway bomb
Police and community support officers gather round a police vehicle near where an incident happened that police say they are investigating as a terrorist attack at Parsons Green subway station in London, Friday, Sept. 15, 2017.Fire brigade officers walk within a cordon near where an incident happened, that police say they are investigating as a […]
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Driver dies after ramming Paris police vehicle in ‘probable’ terrorist attack
Police vehicles prevent the access to the Champs Elysees avenue in Paris, France, on Monday, June 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Bertrand Combaldieu) PARIS — A car exploded as it crashed into a police vehicle on Paris’s famed Champs Élysées on Monday, fatally wounding its driver, in what authorities called a probably terrorist attack. Police were treating […]
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Time to become proactive about terrorists
In television it’s called a “loop,” the replaying of the same scene over and over and over again. The latest and most assuredly not the final terrorist attack in London last weekend was a “loop” that has become all-too familiar. The jihadists who claimed to be acting on orders from their god, killed at least […]
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Trump summons Muslim nations to confront ‘Islamic terror of all kinds’
Donald Trump on terrorism: ‘This is a battle between good and evil’ Donald Trump’s speech in Saudi Arabia, in 3 minutes RIYADH, Saudi Arabia — President Trump delivered a forceful address here Sunday summoning the Muslim world to confront “the crisis of Islamic extremism” as he seeks to create new partnerships to unite against global […]
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Poliquin, Pingree agree to cite North Korea for terror sponsorship
Both of Maine’s congressional representatives voted recently to call North Korea a state sponsor of terrorism. North Korea was taken off the list of terrorism sponsors in the final year of President George W. Bush’s administration as part of a deal to try to improve relations, a move that lifted some sanctions against the country. […]