Featured Global Security News Stories
Americas
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Trinidad And Tobago
2 Feb 2006
Murders are up by 65 per cent and there has been a 70 per cent increase in gun-related homicides at the end of January compared with the same period last year.
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East Asia / Pacific
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Indonesia
2 Feb 2006
Dozens of people are feared to be still missing after a ferry sank in heavy seas in eastern Indonesia on Tuesday.
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Europe
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France
2 Feb 2006
The managing editor of a French daily that republished caricatures of the Prophet Muhammad has been fired, the paper said Thursday, as debate over the drawings mounted among French Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
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Europe
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Spain
2 Feb 2006
A woman called the Basque highway agency and the daily Gara about an hour before the explosion to warn a bomb had been placed outside the regional post office headquarters of Bilbao.
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Europe
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United Kingdom
2 Feb 2006
The UK should expect more suicide bombings, the independent reviewer of the terrorism laws has warned. Lord Carlile says he has seen "alarming" information about the "real and present danger of shocking terrorism acts" by suicide bombers.
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Europe
2 Feb 2006
Europeans who have joined fellow militants fighting in Iraq could use their newly acquired skills to launch terror attacks at home, the EU's anti-terror coordinator warned Thursday.
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Middle East / N. Africa
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Iraq
2 Feb 2006
Guerrilla attacks in Iraq have forced the cancellation of more than 60 percent of water and sanitation projects, in part because American intelligence failed to predict the brutal insurgency, a U.S. government audit said.
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Middle East / N. Africa
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Lebanon
2 Feb 2006
A small bomb exploded at a military barracks in the Ramlet al-Baida neighborhood of Beirut at about 2 a.m. Thursday, authorities say. One soldier was reported to be lightly injured by flying glass, and glass shattered in nearby cars and apartment buildings.
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Middle East / N. Africa
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West Bank/Gaza
2 Feb 2006
Militants from the Popular Resistance Committee and Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades issued a statement Thursday threatening Danish, French and Norwegian nationals in Gaza and the West Bank. The statement - part of continuing reaction to cartoons deemed offensive to Islam that were printed in the three countries' newspapers - also demanded that offices and diplomatic facilities close.
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South / Central Asia
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Afghanistan
2 Feb 2006
A suicide bomber has killed himself and three others in the south-eastern Afghan province of Khost, police say.
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South / Central Asia
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Bangladesh
2 Feb 2006
Awami League (AL)-led 14-party opposition alliance begins marches from different parts of the country towards Dhaka today for their February 5 mass gathering at Paltan Maidan in the capital demanding resignation of the government.
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South / Central Asia
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Sri Lanka
2 Feb 2006
The Sri Lankan parliament has been shut down following a security alert shortly after it met on Thursday.
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