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  • Decision comes after Chinese foreign ministry’s external security affairs chief holds first such meeting with Iranian and Pakistani counterparts in Beijing
  • Move to ‘institutionalise’ the counterterror security consultation made under China’s Global Security Initiative, Chinese foreign ministry says
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The group of 10 were detained in March and accused of having links to Lebanon’s Shiite movement Hezbollah, which Abu Dhabi classifies as a terrorist organisation. One of the prisoners died in custody on May 4.

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Alt-right militia leader Stewart Rhodes’ sentence for seditious conspiracy is the toughest penalty given so far given over the January 6 insurrection.

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Head of German domestic intelligence agency says the mixing of previously separate groups – from alt-right extremists to QAnon conspiracy theorists – and their willingness to use violence were particularly worrying.

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The government declared a one-month amnesty for citizens to surrender unregistered weapons as part of a crackdown on guns following two recent shootings that left 17 dead, many of them children.

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Khan’s arrest has led to violent protests across the country, with at least two provinces asking the federal government to deploy troops to restore order.

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Amnesty was launched after a 13 year-old schoolboy with two guns allegedly killed 8 pupils and a security guard and wounded 6 other pupils and a teacher.

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Farajollah Cha’ab was a leader of the Arab Struggle Movement for the Liberation of Ahwaz and was accused of masterminding a 2018 attack on a military parade.

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Incidents like a suicide bombing in 2021 that killed nine Chinese nationals have prompted concerns for those working and living in Pakistan.

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According to Serbian legal provisions, the boy ‘is deemed criminally irresponsible, because he has not reached the age of 14’, the Tanjug news agency reported citing a statement by the prosecutor’s office.

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Autopsies on dozens of bodies found in mass graves linked to a Kenyan cult that practised starvation found some of the victims were strangled, beaten or suffocated.

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About 50 female judges remain in Afghanistan, in hiding after receiving multiple death threats, and another 20 are stranded in Pakistan, where they live in fear of being handed to the Taliban.

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Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, who set up the Good News International Church in 2003, is accused of inciting followers to starve to death ‘to meet Jesus’.

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Rebel Maoists – who ascribe to a form of communism developed by Mao Zedong – carried out the attack in the Dantewada district, police said.

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Pakistani officials moved a jailed Chinese national charged with blasphemy more than 200km away to a maximum-security prison for fear his presence could trigger a mob.

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The former prime minister’s bid for snap elections is evolving into a constitutional crisis that’s raised concerns about the future of the country’s democracy.

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At least six soldiers died and 21 others fled into the jungle when separatist gunmen attacked, according to military reports seen by journalists.

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Three people were killed in the attack on April 15, 2013 – including Lu Lingzi, a 23-year-old Boston University graduate student from China – and more than 260 were injured.

The landmark pact was signed 25 years ago on April 10, 1998. It created an invisible border between the island’s north and south, which has been sorely tested since Brexit.

Families, survivors urge ‘deserving punishment’ for perpetrators, as evidence suggest authorities had intelligence on potential attacks at least two weeks in advance.

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Khalid Aydd Ahmad al-Jabouri was responsible for planning Islamic State attacks in Europe and developed the leadership structure for the group, a US Central Command statement said.

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