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Lebanon

Funerals begin in Beirut as Lebanon's politicians appeal for unity

The funerals have begun in Beirut of the 44 victims of Thursday’s bombing in a busy neighbourhood loyal to Hezbollah. November 13, 2015 Beirut

Syria

Civilians dead in mortar attack on Assad's Latakia stronghold

A mortar attack has killed at least 22 civilians and injured some 65 in ‘‘Latakia’‘:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latakia in Syria. Death and

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Syria: at least 22 people killed in mortar attack in Latakia

Israel

Six Israelis injured in fresh wave of street attacks

Street violence in Israel has claimed the lives of 11 Israelis and at least 72 Palestinians in the past five weeks.

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Israel

Elderly woman stabbed and Palestinian shot dead as Middle East violence rages

Violence flared again between Israelis and Palestinians on Monday with more stabbings and shootings. A 19-year-old Palestinian was arrested after

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At least 13 dead following Al-Shabaab attack on Somali hotel

Security forces in the Somali capital Mogadishu fought for several hours on Sunday before clearing a hotel of Islamist al Shabaab gunmen. Two bombs

Somalia

Somalia: deadly attack by Al-Shabaab on Mogadishu hotel

At least a dozen people have been killed at a hotel in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, in an attack by Al-Shabaab Islamic militants. Two car bombs

Tunisia

Italy won't extradite suspect in Tunis Bardo Museum attack

An Italian court refused on Wednesday (October 28) to extradite a Moroccan man suspected of having supplied weapons for the attack on Tunisia’s Bardo

World News

MSF: will Haydan lead to a change of heart?

Medecins Sans Frontieres says it may be forced to reconsider how it deploys staff after another of the hospitals it supports was flattened by air

Yemen

MSF hospital in north Yemen destroyed in airstrike three weeks after Kunduz

First, Kunduz in northern Afghanistan, and now three weeks later it is Heedan in Houthi-controlled north Yemen, another Medicins sans Frontieres

Belgium

Belgium: 'Terrorism not a motive' for Flawinne barracks attack

Police in Belgium say they are not focussing on terrorism as a motive for a failed attack on a military barracks in Flawinne. Vincent Macq, crown

Maldives

Maldives vice president arrested and charged with attempted murder of president

The vice president of the Maldives has been arrested and charged with attempting to assassinate the president. President Abdulla Yameen escaped

Bangladesh

Ashura attacks as Shi'ites are killed in Bangladesh and Pakistan

A twelve-year-old boy has been killed and more than 100 injured in a bomb attack in the Bangladesh capital Dhaka. One killed and hundred injured in

Nigeria

Dozens killed in Nigeria bomb blasts

At least 37 people have been killed and 107 wounded in two bomb attacks in north-eastern Nigeria. A device was detonated during morning prayers at a

Sweden

Sweden school attack: sword attacker had racist motive, say police

The masked swordsman who stabbed two people to death at a school in Sweden had a racist motive and had planned the attack. That is according to

Sweden

Masked man kills a pupil and a teacher at a school in Sweden

A community in western Sweden is in shock after a masked man with a sword killed a teacher and a pupil at a school. A pupil and a teacher were also

USA

Hillary Clinton 'took responsibility' for 2012 Benghazi consulate attack

Hillary Clinton says she took responsibility and launched reforms following a deadly 2012 attack on a US consulate in Libya.

Turkey

Erdogan: Ankara attacks were a "collective" effort

The Turkish President says he now believes the Syrian secret police or Mukhabarat along with ISIL and Kurdish militants all played a role the recent

Sweden

Sweden: assailant now dead after double-fatal school sword attack

Police investigating a sword attack at a school in Sweden say the attacker is now dead. A masked man wielding a sword killed a teacher and seriously

Sweden

One dead, four wounded in Swedish school sword attack

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