When Thursday's assault in central Jakarta was over, the death toll was far lower. Of the seven killed, five were the attackers themselves and only two were civilians — a Canadian and an Indonesian. Another 20 people were wounded.
A large amount of emails impersonating the South Korean presidential office and the foreign ministry to poll opinions about the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK)'s fourth nuclear test had been sent to government officials, local media reported Friday citing police and the intelligence agency.
Thursday's terror attack in Indonesia's capital of Jakarta raised concerns over people's security in daily life, as it took place all the sudden in a public area that could kill anybody without warning, local residents said.
Indonesia's Jakarta police chief Tito Karnavian said terror group Islamic State (IS) was the perpetrator of the suicide bombing in Jakarta on Thursday that killed seven people and injured 20 others.
One policeman and three civilians were killed, and two other policemen were injured after gunmen attacked a traffic police post near a shopping mall here on Thursday, national police spokesman, Brigadier General Anton Charliyan told reporters.
Malaysian authorities have beefed up vigilance over potential terror treats following the bombing attacks in Indonesian capital of Jakarta on Thursday.
Two suicide bombings which struck the eastern Nangarhar and southern Helmand provinces on Wednesday, have claimed 13 lives including four attackers in Afghanistan, officials said.
An Australian police officer and a security guard are in a critical but stable conditions after an alleged confrontation with a man who was threatening doctors with scissors at a local hospital.
More than 40 Malaysian were fighting for Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, police said Tuesday, following reports that two Malaysian suicide bombers had carried out attacks recently.
German authorities said on Monday that nearly all the suspects in a rash of New Year's Eve violence against women in Cologne had an immigrant background.
German police have so far identified a total of 16 suspects who could relate to sex attacks committed against women in the western German city of Cologne, German media Focus Online reported on Thursday.
Following revelations that numerous sexual assaults took place in Cologne, Germany over New Year's Eve, Austrian police in Salzburg on Thursday reported a number of similar incidents.
A government official on Thursday said investigators looking into the attempted attack on police officers in the northern suburb of Paris earlier on Thursday did not yet have clear grounds to describe it as a terror act.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel expressed her outrage over series of sex attacks committed against women in the western German city of Cologne on New Year's Eve, demanding a hard response from the law, her spokesman Steffen Seibert said on Tuesday.
A grand jury in Cleveland in the U.S. state of Ohio on Monday acquitted a white police officer who shot and killed a 12-year-old black teenager last year.
At lunch break, pupils in Boshe, a small coastal village in south China's Guangdong Province, rush out of the school, laughing and chasing each other, just like in any other small town.
Hong Kong police on Wednesday (Dec 23) charged five men with conspiracy to arson over a small blast outside the legislature earlier this month.
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