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Indonesia beefs up police presence after Jakarta blasts

The president of Indonesia Joko Widodo has ordered more police at hotels, airports, shopping centres across the country after Thursday’s (January 14)

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Kosovo anti-government rally turns violent

Crowds gathered in Kosovo to rally against an EU-brokered deal to give the country’s Serb minority greater local government powers. Opposition

France

Clarissa Jean-Philippe remembered a year after terror attacks in France

A year and a day after she was shot dead by Islamist gunman Amedy Coulibaly, policewoman Clarissa Jean-Philippe has been honoured at a ceremony near

Germany

Germany: Merkel backs deportation for law-breaking asylum seekers

Thousands gather for a day of protests in Cologne

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Tel Aviv suspect shot by police

Israeli special forces storm hideout in Arara

Germany

Cologne police chief 'retires' after New Year's Eve mass assaults

The police chief of Cologne has been “relieved of his duties” following criticism of his handling of a wave of attacks in the German city on New

Mexico

Mexico recaptures notorious drug lord "El Chapo", six months after jail break

Mexico says the operation was carried out with help from the US Drug Enforcement Administration and US Marshals

Germany

Cologne violence: 31 suspects named, police chief 'suspended'

The German Interior Ministry has identified 31 people suspected of playing a part in alleged incidents of theft and causing bodily harm in Cologne on

France

Man shot dead after attacking Paris police station 'identified'

A man shot dead by police as he apparently tried to attack a police station in Paris has reportedly been identified. French media reports say he was

Libya

Libya: Dozens killed in truck bomb attack at police training centre

Dozens of people have been killed in a truck bomb attack on a police training centre in the Libyan town of Zliten. There are conflicting reports

France

'Paper with ISIL flag' found on knifeman shot dead at Paris police station

A man said to be carrying a knife and wearing a fake suicide belt has been shot dead as he tried to enter a police station in Paris. Reportedly

Germany

Scuffles in Cologne as rival groups hold demonstrations over immigration

Scuffles have broken out between far-right activists and anti-fascist protesters in the German city of Cologne

France

Paris terror attacks directed from Brussels by 'Bouzid' and 'Kayal'

Reports from Belgium say investigators believe they have almost certainly uncovered the faces of two suspects who directed the Paris terror attacks

Germany

Tensions ease in Munich after train station closures

Two Munich train stations that were shut down for several hours on New Year’s Eve over fears of a terrorist attack by militants from Syria and Iraq

France

Car drives at soldiers on guard outside Mosque in southern France

In southern France soldiers opened fired on a car which tried to ram them twice. They were on guard outside a Mosque. The driver of the car is now in

Germany

Munich train stations reopen after 'unsubstantiated' bomb threats

Authorities in Germany shut down two train stations in Munich an hour before midnight last night after what police said was a tip-off about an

Italy

Italian authorities crackdown on illegal firecrackers

Police in Italy have seized several tonnes of illegal fireworks. In Caserta authorities confiscated a firework called ‘Bomb Paris,’ containing 10kg

USA

Rahm announces new measures in Chicago police shakeup

The increasingly-under-pressure mayor of Chicago Rahm Emmanuel has announced a raft of new measures he hopes will address public concerns about the

World News

Britain braces for second battering: Storm Frank expected imminently

After a Boxing Day battering, Northern Britain is bracing for more bad weather. Storm Frank is due to strike on Tuesday evening (December 29), with

USA

USA: White policemen to face no charges over fatal shooting of black boy with toy gun

There have been calls for nationwide protests after a US grand jury cleared two white policemen in the fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy