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Moscow (AFP) - Russia on Tuesday sought to shift blame for the Moscow concert hall attack onto Ukraine and its Western backers, despite the Islamic State group claiming responsibility for the massacre of at least 139 people. The Kremlin's security services have been scrambling to explain how gunmen on Friday managed to carry out the worst attack in Russia in over two decades. President Vladimir Putin has acknowledged that "radical Islamists" conducted the bloody assault, but suggested they were linked to Ukraine, two years into the Kremlin's offensive on the country. The head of Russia's FS...
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Moscow (AFP) - Russia has ordered four men accused of killing at least 137 people in a massacre at a Moscow concert hall to be held in custody on "terror" charges with the death toll expected to climb as more than 100 people are hospitalised. The men face life in prison, although Russian officials have clamoured for the lifting of a moratorium on the death penalty to deliver even harsher sentences. In a series of late-night court hearings in Moscow that ran into the early hours of Monday, the four men -- with bruises and cuts over their faces -- were dragged into the court in front of dozens ...
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Washington (AFP) - The White House vowed Monday to respond decisively to an attack in Jordan it blames on Iran-backed militants, in which a drone slammed into a military base and killed three Americans while troops were in their beds. The casualties -- the first US military deaths in an attack in the Middle East since the Israel-Hamas war began -- raised fears of an escalating conflict, as fighting rages in Gaza and related violence plagues other parts of the region. "We are not looking for a war with Iran," US National Security Council spokesman John Kirby told reporters Monday afternoon, add...
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Washington (AFP) - President Joe Biden faced intense political pressure Monday to retaliate against Iran for a deadly drone strike on US troops, posing a major challenge for the Democrat in an election year. Striking Iran would dramatically escalate the risk of the wider war Biden says he's trying to avoid -- not to mention the possibility of more US caskets coming home in the months before polls open. But with Republicans urging the 81-year-old to hit Iran directly, Biden can ill afford to portray weakness as he struggles with low approval ratings ahead of a likely rematch with former preside...
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Paris (AFP) - Ecuador presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio was shot dead Wednesday at an election rally in the nation's capital. Here is a look at other recent major political assassinations worldwide. Shinzo Abe, 2022In a drama that sent shock waves through a country with low gun crime, former Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe, who had resigned from his position in 2020 but remained a key political voice, was campaigning for his ruling party when a lone gunman killed him on July 8, 2022. Abe's accused killer targeted the former leader believing he had ties to the Unification Church,...
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Jeddah (Saudi Arabia) (AFP) - A security guard and a gunman were killed in an exchange of gunfire in front of the US consulate in the Saudi coastal city of Jeddah on Wednesday, officials said. No Americans were harmed in the shooting outside the consulate, which was put under lockdown, the State Department said. "At 6:45 pm (1545 GMT), a man stopped in a car in front of the consulate building and got out with a weapon in his hand," the official Saudi Press Agency quoted a police spokesman as saying. "Security forces reacted... resulting in an exchange of fire that killed the assailant," it sa...
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Kyiv (Ukraine) (AFP) - Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday praised his country's air defence forces, after the capital Kyiv saw the largest drone attack since the beginning of the Russian invasion. The overnight attack killed two people and wounded three others. The latest drone attack came as Russia has intensified aerial strikes on the capital this month, and warned the West against escalating the conflict after the United States agreed to greenlight F-16 deliveries. Ukraine said the latest attack in Kyiv was the largest of the invasion, with around forty out of more than fifty ...
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Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) (AFP) - Gunmen attacked a prison in the northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez on Sunday, leaving 14 people dead and allowing 24 inmates to escape, the Chihuahua state prosecutors' office said. An unknown number of gunmen aboard armored vehicles took part in the attack, and the dead included 10 prison guards and security agents, the office said in a statement. About five hours after the dawn incursion began, security forces managed to control the situation, which had also erupted into fighting between inmates within the sprawling state prison, near Mexico's border with t...
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Paris (AFP) - A Moroccan man sentenced to life in prison for an attempted terror attack on a Paris-bound train in 2015 that was foiled by passengers, had his appeal rejected Thursday by a French court. Their heroics were later immortalised in the Clint Eastwood film "The 15:17 to Paris". Ayoub El Khazzani, now 33, was disarmed and pinned down by passengers, who included off-duty American soldiers, on the Thalys train from Amsterdam on August 21, 2015 and convicted five years later of "attempted terrorist murders". The attack came as France was reeling from the jihadist murders at the Paris off...
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Kabul (AFP) - The damage inflicted by a United States drone that killed 10 members of Aimal Ahmadi's family in the Afghan capital can still be seen in the courtyard of his home a year after the strike. The 32-year-old, whose daughter was among those killed, left Afghanistan with some of his family members, moving to a refugee camp in Qatar from where they now expect to be evacuated to the US for a future far from home. "I don't wish that any human being would go through what we went through, it's terrible, unimaginable", Ahmadi told AFP from Qatar. On August 29, 2021, Ahmadi's three-year-old d...
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