Articles filed under Terrorism
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APNewsbreak: Suspect in Halifax mall plot confessedFeb 13, 2015 10:00 pm - TORONTO (AP) - Canadian police have foiled a plot by three suspects who were planning to go to a mall in Halifax, Nova Scotia, and kill as many people as they could befo...
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Ukraine cease-fire deadline provokes last-gasp battleFeb 13, 2015 12:00 am - ARTEMIVSK, Ukraine - Russian-backed separatists mounted a vicious assault Friday in eastern Ukraine ahead of a weekend cease-fire deadline, pummeling a strategic railway...
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Portland worker pleads guilty for role in Pakistan bombingFeb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Portland city worker pleaded guilty to being an accessory after the fact to a suicide bombing that killed about 30 people in Pakistan and injured...
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AP Exclusive: High civilian death toll in Gaza house strikesFeb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - The youngest to die was a 4-day-old girl, the oldest a 92-year-old man. They were among at least 844 Palestinians killed as a result of airstrik...
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2 Al-Jazeera journalists walk free in EgyptFeb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - CAIRO (AP) - Two Al-Jazeera journalists walked free from an Egyptian prison Friday and were reunited with loved ones after more than a year behind bars on terror-related...
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2 Dems seek end of 2001 authorization for military forceFeb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - WASHINGTON (AP) - Two Democratic senators want to terminate legislation approving the use of military force against perpetrators of the Sept. 11 attacks - effective in t...
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2 Al-Jazeera journalists freed from prison in EgyptFeb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - CAIRO (AP) - Two Al-Jazeera English journalists were released from an Egyptian prison on Friday, after spending more than a year behind bars on terror-related charges in...
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AP Exclusive: Israeli house strikes killed mostly civiliansFeb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - RAFAH, Gaza Strip (AP) - The youngest to die was a 4-day-old girl, the oldest a 92-year-old man. They were among at least 844 Palestinians killed as a result of airstrik...
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Taliban hit Shiite mosque in Pakistan, killing 20Feb 12, 2015 10:00 pm - PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) - Taliban militants stormed a Shiite Muslim mosque in northwestern Pakistan on Friday, killing 20 people in a wave of gunfire and explosions befo...
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Official: U.S. surprised by collapse of Yemen governmentFeb 12, 2015 12:00 am - WASHINGTON - The Obama administration's senior counterterrorism official acknowledged Thursday that U.S. intelligence was surprised by the collapse of the U.S.-backed go...