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What's the price to keep the country safe after terror attacks?
News, New York Times, Published on 08/08/2016
» Soldiers are patrolling French beaches through the holiday this month. There has been talk of Guantanamo-style holding pens for thousands of terrorism suspects. The prime minister has suggested ending foreign funding for mosques.
Questions on UK policing mount as 3rd London attacker is identified
New York Times, Published on 07/06/2017
» LONDON - Questions about whether the British government could have done more to prevent the terrorist attack in London over the weekend mounted on Tuesday, two days before a national election, as new details emerged about the three men who carried out the deadly assault.
Philippine leader, focused on drugs, ignored IS
New York Times, Published on 11/06/2017
» MANILA -- It was classic bravado from the Philippines’ tough-guy president, Rodrigo Duterte. The Maute Group, a militant Islamic band fighting government troops near the southern Philippines city of Marawi last year, had asked for a cease-fire.
US threatens to punish Myanmar over Rohingya
New York Times, Published on 24/10/2017
» WASHINGTON: The Trump administration threatened Monday to take punitive actions against Myanmar unless it pulls back from its violent military campaign against Rohingya Muslims, expressing what it called “our gravest concern” over a crisis that has killed or displaced hundreds of thousands of people.
Trump heads to Asia with ambitious agenda
New York Times, Published on 03/11/2017
» WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump departs on his first trip to Asia on Friday weakened and scandal-scarred, ready to face off against newly empowered Chinese and Japanese leaders in a region increasingly determined to set its course without American direction.
Bus crash in Portugal kills 29
New York Times, Published on 19/04/2019
» BERLIN: A day after a bus plunged off a road on the Portuguese island of Madeira, killing 29 tourists, possibly all Germans, Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany said she was “saddened and distressed” by the incident, as her nation awaited word of the victims’ identities.
Saudi trainee kills 3 in Florida base shooting
New York Times, Published on 07/12/2019
» PENSACOLA, Florida: A member of the Saudi air force armed with a handgun fatally shot three people and injured eight others on Friday morning during a bloody rampage in a classroom building at the prestigious Naval Air Station in Pensacola, where he was training to become a pilot.
19 children, 2 adults killed in Texas school massacre
New York Times, Published on 25/05/2022
» UVALDE, Texas: A gunman killed at least 19 children and two adults on Tuesday in a rural Texas elementary school, a state police official said, in the deadliest American school shooting since the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary a decade ago.
Protest against Covid-19 lockdown after fire kills 10 in Xinjiang
New York Times, Published on 26/11/2022
» A deadly fire in an apartment building in China’s far western region of Xinjiang set off an outpouring of anger online and street protest in the region’s capital Friday, with residents calling for the lifting of lockdowns that have confined many to their homes for more than three months.
Fight in Gaza spilling over to Jerusalem, West Bank
New York Times, Published on 14/10/2023
» JERUSALEM — While world attention focuses on the war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza, a battle has been slowly brewing in the other Palestinian territory, the Israeli-occupied West Bank.