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The Taj Hotel continues to burn from an attack that killed multiple people in Mumbai in 2008. Photo: AP
India

India readies for ‘big win’ US extradition of 2008 Mumbai attack suspect

Tahawwur Hussain Rana, a Canadian citizen born in Pakistan, will face trial in India for helping to plan the 2008 Mumbai attack.

France

Police in Paris arrest 2 over terrorist attack plot

Climate change

Opinion | An Asia racked by natural disasters needs insurers to step up

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Singapore

Singapore detains boy, 17, allegedly planning to kill Muslims

The boy, 17, had decided on five mosques across Singapore for his post-Friday prayer attacks.

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Singapore has seen several cases in recent years where young Singaporeans have been detained for allegedly making attack plans following exposure to extremist content online. Photo: AFP
Tesla

Musk says ‘terrorism’ behind fire at Rome Tesla showroom

Tesla cars have become targets for vandalism across several countries in response to Elon Musk’s right-wing activism.

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The Philippines

Piracy threat prompts dark sail for cruise ship in Philippine waters

For passengers aboard the Queen Anne, their cruise holiday took a dramatic turn as they approached the Philippines.

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Pakistan

Pakistan charges human rights, Baloch activist with ‘terrorism’

Mahrang Baloch, one of Pakistan’s most prominent human rights advocates, has long campaigned for the Baloch ethnic group.

Activists from the Baloch Students Council taking part in a protest demanding the release of Mahrang Baloch, in Lahore on Sunday. Photo: AFP
Britain

UK teen who planned school killing jailed for minimum 49 years

He said his aim was to conduct an attack more deadly than the US Sandy Hook and Virginia Tech massacres.

Japan

Video | Families mark 30 years since deadly Tokyo sarin attack

The Japanese doomsday cult released a deadly nerve agent inside the Tokyo subway system, killing 14 people and sickening thousands.

Pakistan

Pakistan vs Isis-K: inside the global crackdown that won Trump’s praise

In a seven-month operation spanning 21 nations, Pakistani intelligence dismantled an Isis-K cell tied to bombings in Kabul, Moscow and Kerman.

Militants riding in a convoy wave an Isis flag. Photo: AP
Middle East

Head of Islamic State in Iraq and Syria killed, Iraqi PM says

Abdallah Maki Mosleh al-Rifai was killed by Iraqi intelligence members and US-led coalition forces, PM Mohammed Shia al-Sudani says.

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Iraqi Army soldiers hold a flag of Islamic State after regaining control of a village outside Mosul in 2016. Photo: AP
Pakistan

Pakistan says all train hijackers killed, ending hostage stand-off

Separatist militants had blown up a railway track and taken hundreds of captives, 21 of whom died.

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Pakistan

Video | Pakistan insurgents hijack train and take hostages

The Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) has demanded the release of Baloch political prisoners, activists and missing persons in exchange for the hostages

Pakistan

Pakistan forces rescue 190 hostages after train attack

Security sources said Baloch militants had made bombers wearing ‘suicide jackets’ sit next to some of the hostages.

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Paramedics treat an injured passenger at the Mach railway station in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan province after security forces had freed hostages taken by armed militants who ambushed a train on Tuesday. Photo: AFP
Israel-Gaza war

Trump warns Hamas as US holds unprecedented talks for Gaza hostages

US president tells Gazans ‘you are dead’ if remaining hostages are not freed now.

A Hamas fighter takes up a position ahead of the release of hostages in Khan Younis, Gaza Strip, on February 15. Photo: AP
Israel

1 dead in Israel stabbing attack, assailant killed

A man and woman around 30 years of age as well as a 15-year-old boy were seriously injured, Israel’s emergency service said.

Pakistan

Suicide blast at Pakistan’s ‘University of Jihad’ kills 4

The school is known as the ‘University of Jihad’ for its fiery ideology and the number of Taliban fighters it has produced.

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Israel-Gaza war

Israel sends tanks into West Bank for first time in decades

Palestinian authority criticises ‘dangerous escalation’ as Israel ramps up West Bank offensive.

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Palestinian children and journalists disperse as Israeli tanks enter the Jenin camp for Palestinian refugees. Photo: AFP
Diplomacy

Opinion | Why Pakistan’s strategic alliance with China will strengthen

Given the India-US bromance, Pakistan and China have little choice. Expect Afghanistan to remain a focus amid efforts to counter US-led narratives.

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Pakistan

Pakistan NGO chief who alleged vote rigging has home sealed

Sarwar Bari’s report alleged widespread rigging in national elections last year, when a coalition of parties friendly to the military took power.

Donald Trump

US labels 8 drug cartels as terrorist groups as part of Trump border crackdown

The label is normally reserved for groups like al-Qaeda or Isis that use violence for political ends, not for money-focused crime rings.

A truck burns on a street in Culiacan, Sinaloa state, Mexico, in January 2023 after Mexican security forces captured Ovidio Guzman, a son of former Sinaloa cartel boss “El Chapo”, seting off gunfights and roadblocks. Photo: AP
Crime

Austria foils railway station terror attack, arrests teen, 14

Investigators found material that suggested the teen, an Austrian with Turkish roots, supported the Islamic State group.

The teen, 14, apparently had planned an attack at the Westbahnhof, a major railway station in Vienna. Photo: AFP
Austria

Austria calls stabbing that killed teen an ‘Islamist attack’

One killed, five injured in attack by a 23-year-old Syrian asylum seeker in the Austrian city of Villach.

Crime

Sweden jails man for joining Islamic state, in first under new law

The case is the first conviction for the crime of ‘participation in a terrorist organisation’, under a law that was adopted in 2023.

France

French police hunt man who threw grenade into bar, injuring 15

Two of the wounded were still in critical condition on Thursday.

Police investigators work outside the community bar where a grenade was thrown. The bar is named after a town in Turkey, and is run by Algerian managers and frequented mostly by men, according to neighbours. Photo: AFP
Singapore

Singapore detains teen ‘East Asian supremacist’ for planning attacks on Muslims

Ethnic Chinese Singaporean Nick Lee Xing Qui was radicalised online and aspired to carry out a Christchurch-style attack, investigators said.

Mourners pray near a mosque in Christchurch, New Zealand, that was targeted in the 2019 attacks. Nick Lee Xing Qui had role-played as the Christchurch mosque shooter, investigators said. Photo: AP
Belt and Road Initiative

China-Pakistan ties: presidents to focus on terrorism and economy

Asif Ali Zardari will arrive in China on Tuesday and is expected to discuss with Xi Jinping safeguarding China’s presence in the region.

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Syria

Car bomb kills 20 in northern Syria, deadliest attack since Assad toppled

No immediate claims of responsibility for ‘terror’ attack in Manbij, near the Turkish border. Victims were mostly women, officials said.

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