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Stockholm truck attacker Rakhmat Akilov pleads guilty to terror charges
Updated : 8 years, 1 month ago IST
Stockholm [Sweden], Feb 13 (ANI): An Uzbek asylum seeker who confessed to wanting to mow down "infidels" in last year's Stockholm truck attack that killed five people has pleaded guilty to terrorism charges as his trial opened.
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Croydon attack: Six more people charged over assault
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Apr. 4 (ANI): Six more people were charged in connection with an attack on a teenage asylum seeker in south London, The Guardian reports.
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London: Five charged in attack on Kurdish asylum seeker
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [U.K.], Apr. 3 (ANI): Five people have been charged in connection with a brutal attack on a teenage asylum-seeker in London that left him with serious head injuries, CNN reports.
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London Stansted Airport temporarily closed as protesters surround 'de
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Mar. 29 (ANI): Takeoffs and landings have temporarily been halted at London Stansted Airport after pro-migrant activists stormed the runway in an attempt to keep a "deportation flight" of failed asylum seekers grounded at the Essex airport.
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Father of suspected Pakistani in Berlin attack refuses to believe his son
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], Dec. 21 (ANI): Pakistani asylum seeker and a suspect of Berlin attack Naveed Baloch's father has refused to believe that his son could have been involved in the attack.
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Angela Merkel says Christmas market assault likely 'terror act'
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Berlin [Germany], Dec. 20 (ANI): German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Tuesday said that authorities believe that the Berlin Christmas market assault was a "terrorist" attack likely committed by an asylum seeker.
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German Police detains Syrian asylum-seeker suspected of plotting terrorist
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Berlin, Aug. 10 (ANI): A German special police unit has detained a 24-year-old Syrian asylum-seeker whom they suspected of plotting a terrorist attack during the opening of the national soccer league season.
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UN says "gravely concerned" by Nauru abuse reports
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
London, Aug. 10 (ANI): Voicing concern over the leaked reports revealing widespread abuse and trauma among children and women at Australia's offshore detention centre for asylum seekers on the Pacific island of Nauru, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, has said it is "gravel
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Germany train attacker might be from Pakistan, say authorities
Updated : 8 years, 7 months ago IST
Kabul, July 20 (ANI): Germany authorities have expressed doubts regarding the country of origin of the Bavarian train attacker who was alleged to be an Afghan asylum seeker, saying he might have been from Pakistan.
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