France's parliament voted early Wednesday to extend a national state of emergency until July 15, after next year's elections.
The overseers of the U.S. intelligence community have not embraced a CIA assessment that Russian cyber attacks were aimed at helping Republican President-elect Donald Trump win the 2016 election, three American officials said on Monday.
Turkey declared a day of national mourning on Sunday (Dec 11) after twin bombings killed 38 people near a football stadium in Istanbul and said Kurdish militants appeared to have staged the attacks.
Cyberattacks that pounded the underpinnings of the internet on Friday, crippling Twitter, Netflix and other major websites, were carried out by weaponising once-dumb devices made smart with online connections.
Twitter, PayPal and some other major United States websites were shut down temporarily on Friday as American Internet infrastructure companies Dyn and Amazon were hit by waves of cyber attacks.
Afghans marked Ashura or the 10th day of Muslim's month of Maharram on lunar calendar which is a remembrance day for Muslims particularly the Shiite sect to observe the martyrdom of prophet Mohammad's grandson Imam Hussain and his 72 companions who were killed in Karbala of Iraq in 680 AD.
U.S. Congress voted on Wednesday to override President Barack Obama's veto of a bill allowing families of the victims of the Sept. 11 terror attacks to sue Saudi Arabia.
U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a bill that would allow the families of the Sept. 11 terror attacks' victims to sue Saudi Arabia in U.S. courts.
Violent attacks in the U.S. states of New York, New Jersey and Minnesota over the weekend could help Republican candidate Donald Trump's presidential campaign, at a time when terror threat is on the rise.
French President Francois Hollande said on Monday more resources were needed to combat terrorism in a country where more than 230 people have been killed in militant attacks since the start of 2015.
Thai police investigators on Wednesday (Aug 31) said they are seeking a Russian man suspected of using malware to withdraw 12 million baht (S$473,000) from dozens of cash machines across the country.
Thousands of police reservists will patrol outside French schools next week as children return to the classroom after a summer overshadowed by two militant attacks, the government announced on Tuesday (Aug 23).
A car bomb exploded in a nightlife district in Thailand's deep south, killing one and wounding more than 30, in a nation already on edge after a bombing spree that targeted tourist towns.
A Thai military court has issued arrest warrants for 17 people amid a massive hunt for those responsible for last week's wave of bombings and arson attacks in southern resort destinations.
A Thai military court issued an arrest warrant on Tuesday (Aug 16) for a second suspect in connection with a wave of deadly bomb attacks last week that killed four people and injured dozens, the police said.
Dr. Ahmed Badawi, project director in Middle East Policy Center of Otto-Suhr Politics Institute in Free University of Berlin, believes "it is almost impossible to protect against an individual attacker intending to kill other people."
The Australian government said on Thursday that it "won't succumb" to Islamic State (IS) pressure in the wake of a U.S. Homeland Security report.
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