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Ocean Calls podcast: Are underwater cables safe?

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The media loves telling stories about how one country could steal data from their adversary or cut their web connection altogether by attacking undersea cables. But how true are these claims?

Germany

Iranian national arrested in Germany on suspicion of plotting attack

The 32-year-old suspect was believed to have procured lethal poisons including cyanide and ricin, but authorities have confirmed that no evidence was found in his flat.

Italy

Italian 'white supremacist' arrested on suspicion of inciting hatred

The 23-year-old allegedly spread neo-Nazi content online, possessed weapons, and had made death threats against an Italian senator who survived the Holocaust.

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South Korea continued nationwide anti-terror drills.

South Korea continued nationwide anti-terror drills on Wednesday as part of the annual Ulchi Exercise.

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Afghanistan

Afghanistan: Western countries issue terror warning for Kabul airport

The UK, the US and Australia have warned people to stay away from Kabul airport due to the "high threat" of a terrorist attack. European nations are winding down evacuations.

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Heavy military in Kabul, Afghans try to leave capital

Police tightened security in Kabul as the lightning Taliban offensive continued to close on Afghanistan's capital.

Norway

Norway marks a decade since Utoya massacre killed 77 people

On July 22, 2011, right-wing extremist Anders Breivik set off a bomb in the capital, Oslo, killing eight people, before heading to tiny Utoya island where he stalked and shot dead 69 mostly teen members of the Labor Party’s youth wing.

United Kingdom

British woman pleads guilty to St Paul's Cathedral terror plot

Safiyya Shaikh, 36, was planning on planting a bomb at the famed London cathedral as she prepared her pledge of allegiance to the so-called Islamic State group.

World News

Euroviews. Targeting environmental activists with counterterrorism measures is an abuse of the law ǀ View

Protecting the endangered Asiatic cheetah. Tweeting a satirical poem. Attending a climate conference. Campaigning against a power plant. These actions hardly conjure images of suicide bombers or coup plotters. Yet, they have been labelled “eco-terrorism,” “extremism,” “threats to national security".

Netherlands

Dutch police arrest two suspected of 'preparing terrorist attack'

Authorities believe the attack would have been carried out at the end of the year, involving bomb vests and "one or more car bombs".

France

Christmas market reopens in defiance of terror attack

Christmas markets around Europe are open for business — including in Strasbourg, which refuses to be cowed by last year’s Islamist gun rampage.

United Kingdom

UK terror threat level downgraded to 'substantial'

"Despite the change in the threat level, terrorism remains one of the most direct and immediate risks to our National Security," Home Secretary Priti Patel said in a statement.

Sri Lanka

All suspects in Sri Lanka bombings arrested or dead - police

All suspected plotters and those directly linked to Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday bombings have either been arrested or are dead, the country's acting police chief said on Monday.

Benin

Dead body believed to be Benin guide found

A body allegedly belonging to Benin guide was found by authorities after two French tourists and their guide were reported missing on Wednesday.

World

Sri Lankan Airlines puts flight marshals on planes, tourist numbers to drop by 500,000

One week after the attacks in Sri Lanka, executives from the country’s Tourism Development Authority and national airline attended the Arabian Travel Market in Dubai.

Sri Lanka

Sri Lanka bans face veil amid alerts for 'imminent attacks'

Sri Lanka banned women from wearing face veils as security officials warned that Islamist militants behind Easter Sunday's bombings are planning ' imminent attacks.'

Germany

Police arrests suspect in series of bomb threats in Germany

The town halls of Augsburg, Göttingen, Chemnitz, Kaiserslautern and Neunkirch were affected.

Netherlands

Dutch prosecutors investigate terrorist motive in tram shooting

"Up to this point, a terrorist motive is seriously being considered," prosecutors said in a statement, citing "the nature of the shooting and a letter found in the getaway car."

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Hundreds of Syrian civilians arrive at screening centre

Hundreds of men, women and children, including supporters of the so-called Islamic State, continued to arrive at an open-air medical screening centre in the Syrian desert on Tuesday.

Spain

Catalan police arrest over 17 people in anti-terrorist raid

The Catalan regional police service, Mossos d’Esquadra, have arrested a least 17 people who they believe are linked to a jihadist cell based in and around Barcelona.