59 m. ago Hospital where gunman took hostages remains closed to visitors as injured reported stable

Workers at a Pennsylvania hospital who were injured during a shooting that left the gunman and a police officer dead are reported in “medically stable” condition

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5 h. ago French authorities detained 4 people after a deadly stabbing linked to Islamic extremism

French anti-terrorism authorities say four people are in custody after a deadly stabbing in eastern France that authorities linked to Islamic radicalism

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58 h. ago Fundamentally by Nussaibah Younis review – witty debut about Islamic State brides

A young academic travels to Iraq to help a British Asian who joined IS at 15, in this rollicking account of a UN deradicalisation programmeQuestions around our individual and collective beliefs, and the consequences of holding them close to our hearts, form the basis of Nussaibah Younis’s stinging and entertaining debut novel. Nadia is a lecturer in criminology at UCL whose latest academic article on Islamic State brides has garnered global attention. Now the UN has its eyes on her. Her research, which asks questions such as, “What’s the appropriate punishment for IS brides who didn’t commit any violent crimes?”, “Can we detain people just because of their beliefs?” and “Should we try to change their beliefs?”, takes her to Iraq, where she’s tasked with leading a UN deradicalisation organisation: UNDO. But, she discovers, “half the UN doesn’t believe in deradicalisation”.Escaping a “juvenile heartbreak” and a strenuous relationship with her mother, Nadia arrives in Baghdad with...

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3 d. ago Fears of ‘propaganda exercise’ as hostage body to be released, lawyers say

Islamic Jihad says it will release body of UK-linked hostage Oded Lifshitz on Thursday.

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3 d. ago ‘Two days ago he hugged me...now he’s dead’: Family friend's horror as Hackney stabbing victim named

Police and paramedics tried to save the victim’s life on Bodney Road just before 6pm on Tuesday

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4 d. ago ‘Two days ago he hugged me...now he’s dead’: Woman’s horror as family friend, 20, stabbed to death in Hackney

Police and paramedics tried to save the victim’s life on Bodney Road just before 6pm on Tuesday

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4 d. ago ‘Two days ago he hugged me...now he’s dead’: Horror as man stabbed in Hackney

‘Two days ago he hugged me...now he’s dead’: Horror as man stabbed in Hackney  Evening Standard

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4 d. ago Police in disputed Kashmir raid bookstores, seizing books related to Islamic group

Police in Indian-controlled Kashmir have raided bookstores and seized 668 books linked to a major Islamic organization in the disputed region, where a strict controls on the press have escalated in recent years

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5 d. ago French authorities double down on ‘discriminatory’ hijab ban in sport

French lawmakers will this week debate a bill that would ban headscarves in all sporting competitions

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7 d. ago Austria stabbing that killed teenager was Islamist attack, minister says

Targeting of passersby in southern city of Villach had ‘IS connections’, says interior ministerA stabbing that left a teenager dead and five others injured in southern Austria was an Islamist attack, Austria’s interior minister has said.“It is an Islamist attack with IS connections,” Gerhard Karner told reporters on Sunday in the southern city of Villach, where Saturday’s attack took place, referring to the Islamic State group. Continue reading...

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