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Australian state police sectors raise terrorist threat levels

​State police sectors throughout Australia raised their terror warnings from medium to high on Tuesday following recent terror-related incidents in Sydney, Canada and France.

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Suspect in shooting of two Canadian police officers found dead

The suspect in the shooting of two Canadian police officers in Western Canada's province of Alberta was dead, the police announced on Saturday.

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Indonesian president's anti-corruption stance tested upon police chief candidacy

​The anti-corruption commitment of Indonesian President Joko Widodo was tested by his appointment on General Budi Gunawan, a senior police officer declared as a corruption suspect by the nation's powerful anti-graft commission.

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German paper becomes target of arson attack after reprinting Charlie Hebdo cartoons

A German news paper, which reprinted Charlie Hebdo cartoons, became the target of an arson attack early Sunday morning following a terrorist attack on the French satirical weekly.

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Searching operation in Aisne for Charlie Hebdo attack finished: media

​Police's searching operation for the two main suspects of Charlie Hebdo attack is finished, suspects still at large, said BFMTV on Thursday night.

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Three in custody for shooting two New York police officers

​The New York Police said Tuesday that three people are now in custody in connection with the shooting of two police officers responding to a robbery in Bronx the night before.

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Taliban rocket attack kills 3 civilians, police gun down 2 would-be suicide bombers

​A rocket fired by Taliban militants slammed into a residential area in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province, a former Taliban stronghold, on Tuesday killing three civilians and injuring two others, said Farid Ahmad Obaid, the police spokesman in the province.

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Brazilian president to be sworn in for second term

Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff will be sworn in for a second four-year term Thursday in the capital city of Brasilia.

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Suicide bomber killed in Nigerian church explosion: police

​A suicide bomber who targeted a church in northeastern Nigeria's state of Gombe during a new year mass was killed by his own bomb, local police authorities said.

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Seven shot, one killed on New Year's Eve in west Canada

​A New Year's Eve house party in Calgary in west Canada turned violent in the early hours of Thursday in a shooting that wounded seven people, according to the police.

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Insider attack, blasts kill 3, wound 10 in southern Afghan region

Insider attack against police and two blasts have claimed three lives and injured 10 others in Afghan restive southern provinces since Tuesday night, officials said Wednesday.

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Two men arrested in England on suspicion of "terrorism-related offences"

​Two men have been arrested in east England's Bedfordshire on suspicion of "terrorism-related offences, " local police was quoted as saying on Tuesday.

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Sydney driver survives 30 meters fall off cliff

A man is lucky to be alive after his car ploughed through a fence and plummeted more than 30 meters over a Sydney cliff on Monday.

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Pakistan boosts security for schools after Taliban attack

​Police in the Pakistani capital have devised a strategy to improve security for schools following a Taliban attack on an army-run school that killed 141 people, nearly all children, officials said Tuesday.

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Australians come to grips with tragic siege

​Terrorism has torn at the heart of Australian society triggering widespread fear and anger after an armed man showing Islamic flags held 17 people hostage in a Sydney cafe.

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Tributes flow for victims of Sydney cafe siege

​Florists in the center of Sydney have sold out of flowers on Tuesday after thousands people started leaving a floral tribute at Martin Place following reports that three people are dead in the cafe siege.

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HK police restore downtown traffic after clearing all occupy sites

​Hong Kong police on Monday cleared the last occupy site to put an end to the Occupy Movement which lasted for more than two months.