Tag: terrorism

• Friday, January 16th 2015 - 05:58 UTC

  We won't let the voice of freedom be muzzled

  

  By David Cameron and Barack Obama - Two hundred years ago this month, Britain and the United States fought each other at the Battle of New Orleans. It was the last major battle where our nations met as enemies. In modern times, our special relationship as allies and partners has been the firm foundation of our shared security and prosperity.

• Wednesday, January 14th 2015 - 07:30 UTC

  Paris killings deepen Islam controversy in Germany with rallies in several cities

  

  Thousands of Germans turned out for an anti-Islam rally on Monday in Dresden, where some protesters wore black ribbons to show their solidarity with the 17 victims of last week’s terror attacks in Paris.

• Friday, November 21st 2014 - 06:15 UTC

  Lives lost to terrorism soared 61% in a single year, according to GT index

  

  The number of lives lost to terrorist attacks increased by 61% in a single year, according to the second edition of the Global Terrorism Index (GTI), rising from 11,133 in 2012 to 17,958 in 2013.

• Saturday, August 30th 2014 - 11:03 UTC

  Britain raises terrorism level to 'severe' in response to possible attacks

  

  Britain raised its terrorism threat level on Friday to “severe”, the second highest level, in response to possible attacks being planned in Syria and Iraq, Home Secretary (interior minister) Theresa May said.

• Saturday, July 19th 2014 - 07:51 UTC

  Pope sends message demanding justice on 20th anniversary of AMIA bombing

  

  On the 20th anniversary of the AMIA Jewish community center bombing, the Argentine pontiff sent a message for “justice” to Argentina’s Israeli community and relatives of the 85 victims that resulted dead in the attack.

• Thursday, June 27th 2013 - 05:25 UTC

  Energy companies pull a Blackwater (*)

  

  By Daniel J. Graeber - Norwegian energy company Statoil said last week it was forming a special operations division to handle emergency operations in response to a terrorist attack on a natural gas facility in Algeria. The company said it would double the amount of employees it had designated for existing security operations after reviewing the measures in place at the In Amenas gas facility.

• Saturday, March 17th 2012 - 06:07 UTC

  Argentina/Israel honour victims of 1992 terrorist attack and accuse Iran

  

  Argentina and Israel gathered on Friday to honour the 29 victims of the 1992 terrorist car bombing at the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, the first of two deadly attacks against Jewish interests in Argentina. The second in July 1994 against the Jewish community organization AMIA claimed 85 lives.

• Friday, August 19th 2011 - 01:59 UTC

  US Terrorism report: Argentina has not advanced in ‘anti-money laundering activities”

  

  The US Department of State released it’s 2010 Country Reports on Terrorism, in which it praised Argentina for “cooperating well” with the US in analyzing possible terrorist threat information,” although it warned about the country’s “virtually no progress toward addressing anti-money laundering and counterterrorist finance activities.

• Tuesday, July 19th 2011 - 05:01 UTC

  Jewish community complains lack of progress in AMIA bombing investigation

  

  Seventeen years after 85 people died and hundreds were injured in Argentina's worst terrorist attack, their relatives criticized both Iran and their own government Monday for failing to solve the case.

• Monday, February 7th 2011 - 19:50 UTC

  British PM David Cameron “the doctrine of state multiculturalism has failed”

  

  Britain’s Prime Minister identified segregation and separatism as key issues behind the threat of Islamic extremism and called for a “shared national identity”.
  Speaking at the Munich Security Conference PM Cameron stressed the difference between Islam as a religion and Islamic extremism as a political ideology, and said that Western countries need to confront extremism rather than practice a “hands-off tolerance”.