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Tuesday 11 August, 2020
The police officers died at checkpoints last night.
This has been the second attack on the capital in three days.
A report has pointed out the growing sophistication of social media allows more women to read jihadist propaganda.
The camp where the explosion took place also a suicide bombing on 10 December which killed at least 45 people.
94 people were injured in the blast which occurred as the wedding was drawing to a close on Saturday evening.
The shocking video, which appears to show Brahim Abdeslam blowing himself up, has caused controversy in France.
Thousands protested in anger after the attack.
WARNING: This article contains a graphic image of those killed in the blast.
At least 47 people were killed in Sanaa, while 20 soldiers are dead after a separate bombing.
Meanwhile, Nigerian authorities say a suicide bomber killed six people in Kano city today.
A suicide bomber detonated his vest at the entrance to the Lebanese restaurant as two other militants opened fire on customers.
The attack killed 22 people and left more than a hundred wounded.
Ten children were killed in the school attack with suicide bombers also targeting pilgrims at a Shrine as over thirty people died across the country.
The death of Ayfan Saadun al-Essawi comes just two days after the country’s finance minister escaped an apparent assassination attempt.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for today’s suicide bombings.
Al-Qaeda has been blamed for the attack, which struck Jaar yesterday.
The attacks in Baghdad and towns close to the capital came a day after the leader of Al Qaeda in the country said that it was returning to areas from which it had retreated before US soldiers left last year.
A suicide bombing targeted the national security headquarters in central Damascus with Syrian state TV reporting that Defence Minister General Daoud Rajha was also killed.
President Francois Hollande confirmed the nationality of the deceased in a statement this morning.
The bombing, believed to be a failed assassination attempt against the Minister of Defence, killed 96 soldiers at a military parade rehearsal.
A teenager detonated a bomb near a Pakistani market close to the Afghan border Friday, killing 20 people.
The announcement comes following the deaths of 26 people in an apparent suicide bombing in a Damascus neighbourhood that has witnessed anti-regime protests.
Worshippers had gathered at the shrine to celebrate the Shiite Muslim holiday of Ashoura when the first of today’s two Afghan explosions struck.
Some 300 people had gathered for Friday prayers and many were on their way out when the explosion occurred.
The blasts occurred in the early hours of Afghan Independence Day, marking Afghanistan’s full independence from Britain in 1919.
Afghan president was away in Kabul when attack was launched on Kandahar mosque. UN figures show number of Afghan civilians killed this year is up on figures for last year.
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Investigators believe Domodedovo airport suicide bomber appears in video released recently by Chechen militant Doku Umarov, who warns of “blood and tears”.
At least 79 wounded in the explosion, which is now thought to have been caused by a suicide bomber.
Two suicide bombers disguised as policemen targeted an administration compound in the northwest of the country.
Rebels claim that US and Israeli forces are stirring up ethnic and sectarian divisions within the country.
TWO SUICIDE BOMBS have killed at least 22 people at a Shia mosque in Iran, the BBC reports. The first bomb targeted the security checkpoint at the mosque. Over 150 people were wounded.
WITH INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL essentially off the cards for the rest of the year, it seems a lot of people have bought into the concept of a staycation at home here in Ireland.
Social media platforms are flooded with #staycation posts in what will hopefully boost businesses in domestic tourism following a devastating period for the sector.
But with a spike in new cases in recent days, a regional lockdown in the Midlands, and new measures this week including the mandatory wearing of face masks in all shops and commercial premises, fears are mounting that we could be entering a second wave.
So today we’re asking: Have you been on or are you planning a staycation this year?
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