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Australia's police, spy agency linked to controversial hacking company

​Australian law enforcement agencies have been closely linked to controversial cyber security company Hacking Team.

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Tunisia arrests 8 prime suspects over beachhead attacks, intensive security measures taken

​Eight suspects directly involved with the Sousse Hotel attack were arrested and 12 others were interrogated by security forces, prime minister's office said on Thursday.

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Egypt's top prosecutor dies of blast injuries

​Egypt's Prosecutor General succumbed to injuries he sustained Monday in a bomb attack in Cairo, official MENA news agency reported.

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61 killed in violence, clashes with IS militants in Iraq

​A total of 61 people were killed on Sunday, most of them were Islamic State (IS) militants, in clashes, air strikes and gunfire across Iraq, security sources said.

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Kenyan police arrest 2 terror suspects along Tanzania border

​Kenyan security personnel have arrested two Tanzanian nationals as they attempted to sneak into the country to reportedly recruit young women to join Somalia based militant group Al-Shabaab.

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Iraq treads on bloody blade as army battling tit-for-tat with IS

​A total of 25 people were killed and 28 wounded on Monday in air strikes, clashes with the Islamic State (IS) militants and violent attacks across Iraq, security sources said.

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At least 10 killed as twin blasts hit Nigeria's Maiduguri city: source

​At least 10 people were killed and 60 others injured in twin blasts which hit a local bus station and market in Nigeria's Maiduguri city, capital of the northeastern state of Borno and theater of violence by Boko Haram, a local hospital official and witnesses said.

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Afghan forces kill 120 militants, recapture key district in northern province

​The Afghan national security forces killed at least 120 armed insurgents and regained control of the strategically important Yamgan district in the northern Badakhshan province after days of heavy fighting, the Interior Ministry said on Sunday.

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Kenya reviews anti-terrorism measures in wake of increased attacks

​Kenya said Thursday it has accelerated the restructuring of national security laws and policies to strengthen the fight against terrorism.

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Bloodshed persists in Iraq as 44 killed in air strikes, clashes

​A total of 44 people were killed Tuesday in the U.S.-led coalition air strikes and clashes between Iraqi forces and Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq, security sources said.

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Some 25,000 protesters surround Japan's Diet building against war legislation

​About 25,000 protesters on Sunday surrounded Japan's Diet building to express their strong opposition against Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's efforts to ram a series of security-related bills which are considered unconstitutional by constitutional experts.

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Abe's monocratic stewarding of national ship towards conflict stirring vociferous public opposition

​Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is forging ahead with his plans to pass contentious security legislation through parliament albeit at a delayed date and in spite of the fact that the vast majority of the public oppose the implications the new bills will have on the nation's future security and the fact the bills themselves have been deemed unconstitutional by a plethora of legal experts on constitutional matters.

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Egypt police foil suicide attack against tourists in Luxor

​Egyptian police foiled a suicide attack Wednesday near Karnak Temple in the Upper Egypt city of Luxor, security sources told Xinhua.

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Egypt more stable in Sisi's first year in office, amid human rights criticism

​On the same day last year - on June 8, 2014 - former army chief Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi was surrounded by a massive motorcade while heading to the Supreme Constitutional Court at a Nile River bank in Cairo to take oath of office as Egypt's new president.

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Suspected Boko Haram kills security operative in Nigeria

​Suspected Boko Haram militants killed a security operative at Ungwan Keke area of central north Nigeria's Kaduna State on Sunday after a gun battle with the Joint Security Operatives.

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Security forces repel suicide attacks, clashes continue with IS in central Iraq

​Iraqi security forces on Thursday repelled multiple suicide car bomb attacks by the Islamic State (IS) militants, while clashes with the extremist group continued in the provinces of Salahudin and Anbar, security source said.

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28 paramilitaries killed in car bombings in Iraq's Baiji

​Car bomb attacks killed at least 28 government-backed militiamen and wounded 36 others in Iraq on Tuesday, a security source said.