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Pakistani women mourn following an attack by gunmen on a bus carrying Shi’ite devotees outside a hospital in Karachi on May 13, 2015. (AFP Photo/Asif Hassan)
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Visitors at the Bardo museum are evacuated in Tunis, on March 18, 2015. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
Tunisia: Gunman known to intelligence ahead of attack
Tunis, AP—One of the two gunmen who killed 19 tourists and others at a prominent Tunisian museum was known to intelligence services, Tunisia’s prime minister said Thursday. But no formal links to a particular terrorist group have been established in an attack...Caption:
Bangladeshi secular activists take part in a torch-lit protest against the killing of Avijit Roy, in Dhaka on February 27, 2015.
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Attackers in Bangladesh hack to death American blogger
Dhaka, Bangladesh, AP—A prominent Bangladeshi-American blogger known for speaking out against religious extremism was hacked to death as he walked through Bangladesh’s capital with his wife, police said Friday. The attack Thursday night on Avijit Roy, a...Caption:
Emergency services gather outside a venue after shots were fired where an event titled “Art, blasphemy and the freedom of expression” was being held in Copenhagen, on February 14, 2015. (AP Photo/Polfoto, Janus Engel)
One dead after shootout at Danish meeting with controversial artist Vilks
One civilian was killed and three police were wounded on Saturday in shooting at a public meeting in the Danish capital Copenhagen attended by the controversial Swedish artist Lars Vilks, police and the Danish Ritzau news agency reported. Danish police confirmed one...Caption:
Security was ramped up around the Eiffel Tower in Paris as the capital was placed under the highest alert status on January 8, 2015. (AFP Photo/Bertrand Guay)