Tag: Attack

JUST IN: Maduro unharmed after drone ‘attack’ with explosives — Venezuela government

CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP)– Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was unharmed after an exploding drone “attack” interrupted his speech at a military ceremony Saturday, the government said. “This is an attack against President Nicolas Maduro,” minister of communication Jorge Rodriguez said following the incident, which saw uniformed military members break ranks and scatter after a loud bang interrupted the leader’s remarks and caused him to look to the sky, according to images broadcast on state television.

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Palace condemns “brazen terrorist attack” in Lamitan, Basilan

(Eagle News)—The Palace on Tuesday, July 31,  condemned what it considered a “terrorist attack” in Basilan that left at least six people dead. “We condemn in the strongest possible terms the latest terrorist attack in Basilan perpetrated in violation of our laws,” Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said in a statement. According to Roque, investigators were now probing the incident. He also vowed to “bring the perpetrators of this brazen attack to justice.” At least six […]

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More than 10 civilians killed in Mali attack

BEMAKO, Mali (AFP)–At least 10 civilians have been killed in a possible jihadist attack in Mali’s northeast, close to the border with Niger, according to armed Touareg groups and local authorities. More than 100 people, including numerous civilians, have been killed in recent months in the unstable region, where jihadist groups who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group operate. On Sunday, “armed bandits linked to local criminal groups operating on the Mali-Niger border […]

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France charges 10 ultra-right suspects over plot to attack Muslims

  PARIS, France (AFP) — French authorities have charged 10 suspected far-right extremists in connection with an alleged plot to attack Muslims, a judicial source said Thursday. The nine men and one woman aged 32 to 69 were arrested in raids across France on Saturday. They appeared before a judge on Wednesday evening and were charged with “criminal terrorist conspiracy”, the source said. Several were also charged with violations of firearms laws and the manufacture or […]

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Libyan sentenced to 22 years over Benghazi attack

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) – Libyan Ahmed Abu Khattala was sentenced Wednesday in Washington to 22 years in prison for his role in the 2012 Benghazi attack that killed a US ambassador and three others. Prosecutors were unable to convince a jury that Khattala, leader of a militant group who had been photographed watching the attack on September 11, 2012, was directly to blame for the deaths of US Ambassador Christopher Stevens, a second State […]

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Bong Go says Duterte will not commemorate anniversary of Marawi siege

 “Why honor” that day Marawi was attacked?, he asks (Eagle News)–President Rodrigo Duterte will not attend ceremonies to commemorate the first anniversary of the Marawi siege, his aide said on Wednesday, May 23. “Why honor (that day)?” Special Assistant to the President Bong Go said. According to Go, the President would much rather commemorate the anniversary of the liberation of Marawi from terrorists in October. Earlier, Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque said Duterte might attend the […]

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Officer, 4 attackers dead in Indonesia police station assault: official

PEKANBARU, Indonesia (AFP) — Four men were shot and killed as they staged an attack on a police headquarters that left one officer dead and two wounded, Indonesian authorities said Wednesday, days after a wave of deadly suicide bombings in another part of the country. The group slammed a minivan into a gate at the station in Riau on Sumatra island and then attacked officers with samurai swords, according to the country’s national police. “Four have […]

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Two families staged Indonesian suicide bombings: police

by Juni Kriswanto Agence France Presse SURABAYA, United States (AFP) — A family of five, including a child, carried out the suicide bombing of a police headquarters in Indonesia’s second city Surabaya on Monday, police said, a day after a deadly wave of attacks on churches staged by another family. The spate of bombings has rocked Indonesia, with the Islamic State group claiming both the church and police station attacks, raising fears about its influence […]

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UPDATED: Four suicide bombers dead in Indonesia police HQ attack: authorities

SURABAYA, Indonesia (AFP) — Four militants on motorcycles blew themselves up at a police headquarters in Indonesia’s second city Surabaya on Monday, police said, wounding at least 10 people including officers a day after a deadly wave of suicide bombings hit churches. A young girl who was with the group survived the attack, police said as they revised their initial report that two suicide bombers had participated. “There were four perpetrators riding two motorcycles who have […]

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Police widen probe into Chechen-born Paris knife attacker

by Sophie Deviller and Sofia Bouderbala Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — Investigators on Sunday widened a probe into the Chechen-born 20-year-old whose stabbing spree in central Paris, claimed by the Islamic State group, left one person dead and four seriously wounded. The man, identified as naturalized Frenchman Khamzat Azimov, carried out the attack Saturday night in a lively area of theatres and restaurants near the city’s historic opera house. The knifeman, whose rampage […]

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Hunt underway for driver who tried to ram French soldiers

  PARIS, France (AFP) — A hunt was underway Thursday for a man who tried to ram his car into soldiers jogging near their barracks in southeast France, without causing any injuries, the army said. The man first threatened a group of soldiers who were out jogging at around 8am in Varces-Allieres-et-Risset, near Grenoble, and later tried to run down another group of soldiers returning from a jog, army spokesman Colonel Benoit Brulon told AFP. […]

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Hero French policeman fighting for life after jihadist shooting spree

  by Remy Zaka with Pauline Talagrand and Katy Lee in Paris © Agence France-Presse TREBES, France (AFP) — A heroic policeman who swapped himself for a hostage was fighting for his life Saturday after being shot by a gunman who killed three people in a shooting spree French President Emmanuel Macron branded “an Islamist terrorist attack”. Arnaud Beltrame, 45, was among a group of officers who rushed to the scene in the town of Trebes […]

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