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Two weeks before the Paris massacre, we took our twin granddaughters, age 11, for their first visit to Paris. They live in Berlin and were eager to see Mona Lisa smile, watch artists paint in Montmartre and take a boat trip on the Seine. One night we watched the tip
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BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Islamic extremists armed with guns and throwing grenades stormed the Radisson Blu hotel in Mali's capital Friday morning, killing at least three people and taking numerous hostages, authorities said. Malian troops, backed by special forces from America and France, reacted quickly. As people ran for
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NEW YORK (AP) — A newly released Islamic State group video that briefly depicts images of Times Square is an advertisement for the terrorist organization meant to market fear, city officials said Thursday. Police officials said the video released Wednesday uses old footage of busy Manhattan streets to threaten an attack
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House threatened a presidential veto Wednesday of legislation that would tighten screening of Syrian and Iraqi refugees before they are granted U.S. entry, calling new requirements in the Republican-backed bill "untenable." The legislation pending in the House of Representatives sets high hurdles for
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ROME (AP) — Italy's state broadcaster is reporting that the FBI has passed on information to Italian authorities about possible targets for terror attacks, including St. Peter's in Rome and Milan's cathedral and La Scala opera house. RAI state radio said early Thursday that "
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BEIRUT (AP) — The Islamic State group has dramatically expanded its theatre of operations from its hub in Syria and Iraq, executing or inspiring a series of attacks across three continents that claimed more than 800 lives this year. The mayhem created by those attacks — including the downing of a Russian
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SAINT-DENIS, France (AP) — A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's gun and bomb rampage was believed to be holed up, police said. They said one man
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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Authorities cleared both Air France flights bound for Paris from the U.S. that had to be diverted Tuesday night because of anonymous threats received after they had taken off. Air France Flight 65 from Los Angeles International Airport to Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris
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