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Pakistan Still Sheltering Terrorist Groups Targeting India, Warns US Report
Lashkar-e-Taiba, responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and Jaish-e-Mohammed, linked to the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament, continue to operate from Pakistani territory.
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UAE Blocks Students From UK Universities Over Radicalisation Fears: Report
UAE, which provides its high-achieving students generous grants to study abroad, has been restricting admissions to British universities over fears that campuses are being radicalised by an extremist Islamist group, a UK media report said.
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Delhi Bomber Had Made Radical Videos, Took Online Sessions On Suicide Bombing: Sources
Umar - who was recruited into the white collar terror module by other suspects in Haryana's Al-Falah University - shared other videos by radical Islamists with a group of people he was interacting with through encrypted apps.
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"Islamist Extremists, Far-Right Groups Spreading Poison": UK PM Rishi Sunak
Following weeks of simmering tension in the UK over the Gaza conflict, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Friday said that the "time has come" to battle extremist forces as he warned "democracy itself is a target".
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Extremist Islamist Group's Member Arrested For Kerala RSS Worker's Murder
An office-bearer of the Popular Front of India (PFI) was today arrested in connection with the killing of an RSS worker in Palakkad district of Kerala, police said here.
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Pakistan Removes Ban On Radical Group After Deadly Protests
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday gave his permission to remove the extremist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) from the list of banned outfits, succumbing to the hardline Islamists to end the deadly anti-government agitation.
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New Zealand Supermarkets Take Knives Off Shelves After "Extremist" Stabbing
New Zealand supermarket group Countdown said on Saturday it has removed knives and scissors from its shelves, a day after a man the authorities called an Islamist extremist stabbed six people in one of the company's stores.
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Sri Lanka School Principal, Teacher Arrested For Link To Terror Attack
Sri Lankan Police said Friday they have arrested a school principal and a teacher for their alleged links to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ) blamed by the government for the deadly Easter Sunday bombings which killed nearly 260 people.
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Sri Lanka Blames Local Islamist Group Behind Easter Bomb Blasts
Sri Lanka said on Monday it believed a local Islamist extremist group was behind deadly suicide bomb blasts that killed nearly 300 people as it announced a national state of emergency beginning midnight.
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Sri Lanka Narrows Down On Islamist Group After Blasts, Declares Emergency
The Sri Lankan government believes a local Islamist extremist group called the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) was behind the deadly suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people, government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said Monday.
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Bangladesh Police Say Top Islamic Terrorist Shot Dead
Bangladesh police said Tuesday they had killed the chief of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an extremist group accused of murdering secular activists and inspiring a cafe siege that killed 22 people.
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Bangladesh Arrests 5 Linked To Deadly Cafe Siege
Five people linked to the Islamist extremist group behind July's Dhaka cafe siege that left 22 hostages, most of them foreigners, dead have been arrested, Bangladesh police said Thursday.
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Bangladesh Set To Hang Extremist Leader
Security was tightened in a Bangladesh southern city on Sunday ahead of the expected execution of a senior Islamist extremist whose group has been linked to the murder of foreign hostages, police said.
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Australia Unveils 'How-To' Guide To Fight Terrorist Propaganda
Australia on Tuesday released what the government says is the world's first ever how-to-guide for combating radical Islamist propaganda in Southeast Asia, which it hopes will help disrupt local recruitment efforts by groups such as ISIS.
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Bangladesh Arrests Top Islamist Extremist
Bangladesh's elite security force said today it had arrested a top regional head of the home-grown Islamist extremist group blamed for an attack on a Dhaka cafe in which 20 hostages were murdered.
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Pakistan Still Sheltering Terrorist Groups Targeting India, Warns US Report
Lashkar-e-Taiba, responsible for the 2008 Mumbai attacks, and Jaish-e-Mohammed, linked to the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament, continue to operate from Pakistani territory.
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UAE Blocks Students From UK Universities Over Radicalisation Fears: Report
UAE, which provides its high-achieving students generous grants to study abroad, has been restricting admissions to British universities over fears that campuses are being radicalised by an extremist Islamist group, a UK media report said.
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Delhi Bomber Had Made Radical Videos, Took Online Sessions On Suicide Bombing: Sources
Umar - who was recruited into the white collar terror module by other suspects in Haryana's Al-Falah University - shared other videos by radical Islamists with a group of people he was interacting with through encrypted apps.
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"Islamist Extremists, Far-Right Groups Spreading Poison": UK PM Rishi Sunak
Following weeks of simmering tension in the UK over the Gaza conflict, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak Friday said that the "time has come" to battle extremist forces as he warned "democracy itself is a target".
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Extremist Islamist Group's Member Arrested For Kerala RSS Worker's Murder
An office-bearer of the Popular Front of India (PFI) was today arrested in connection with the killing of an RSS worker in Palakkad district of Kerala, police said here.
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Pakistan Removes Ban On Radical Group After Deadly Protests
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday gave his permission to remove the extremist group Tehreek-i-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) from the list of banned outfits, succumbing to the hardline Islamists to end the deadly anti-government agitation.
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New Zealand Supermarkets Take Knives Off Shelves After "Extremist" Stabbing
New Zealand supermarket group Countdown said on Saturday it has removed knives and scissors from its shelves, a day after a man the authorities called an Islamist extremist stabbed six people in one of the company's stores.
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Sri Lanka School Principal, Teacher Arrested For Link To Terror Attack
Sri Lankan Police said Friday they have arrested a school principal and a teacher for their alleged links to the local Islamist extremist group National Thawheed Jamaath (NTJ) blamed by the government for the deadly Easter Sunday bombings which killed nearly 260 people.
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Sri Lanka Blames Local Islamist Group Behind Easter Bomb Blasts
Sri Lanka said on Monday it believed a local Islamist extremist group was behind deadly suicide bomb blasts that killed nearly 300 people as it announced a national state of emergency beginning midnight.
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Sri Lanka Narrows Down On Islamist Group After Blasts, Declares Emergency
The Sri Lankan government believes a local Islamist extremist group called the National Thowheeth Jama'ath (NTJ) was behind the deadly suicide bomb attacks that killed nearly 300 people, government spokesman Rajitha Senaratne said Monday.
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Bangladesh Police Say Top Islamic Terrorist Shot Dead
Bangladesh police said Tuesday they had killed the chief of Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB), an extremist group accused of murdering secular activists and inspiring a cafe siege that killed 22 people.
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Bangladesh Arrests 5 Linked To Deadly Cafe Siege
Five people linked to the Islamist extremist group behind July's Dhaka cafe siege that left 22 hostages, most of them foreigners, dead have been arrested, Bangladesh police said Thursday.
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Bangladesh Set To Hang Extremist Leader
Security was tightened in a Bangladesh southern city on Sunday ahead of the expected execution of a senior Islamist extremist whose group has been linked to the murder of foreign hostages, police said.
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Australia Unveils 'How-To' Guide To Fight Terrorist Propaganda
Australia on Tuesday released what the government says is the world's first ever how-to-guide for combating radical Islamist propaganda in Southeast Asia, which it hopes will help disrupt local recruitment efforts by groups such as ISIS.
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Bangladesh Arrests Top Islamist Extremist
Bangladesh's elite security force said today it had arrested a top regional head of the home-grown Islamist extremist group blamed for an attack on a Dhaka cafe in which 20 hostages were murdered.
