Topic: Europe

Five Polish soldiers killed in Afghanistan

Taliban bombers killed five Polish soldiers in an attack on their convoy in Afghanistan on Wednesday, the deadliest single loss for Warsaw's NATO contingent in the 10-year war."This is the most deadly attack in the history of Polish military missions abroad," Poland's ...

Suspicious package at Credit Suisse in New York

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Parts of the Credit Suisse headquarters in New York were evacuated on Wednesday due to a suspicious package that arrived in the mail, police said, a week after a letter bomb was sent to Deutsche Bank in Germany.A ...

Parcel bomb sent to Greek embassy in Paris

PARIS (Reuters) - An anonymous parcel containing explosives and apparently mailed from Italy was found and safely disposed of at the Greek embassy in Paris on Monday, in an incident that coincided with a flurry of letter bombs and threats in Rome.French ...
Italian anarchists claimed responsibility for a letter bomb blast Friday that nearly blinded the director of Italy's tax collection agency, following a foiled attack on the head of Deutsche Bank.The package included a note signed by FAI -- Federazione Anarchica Informale (Informal ...

Mosque suicide attack kills six in Afghanistan

A suicide bomber on Friday attacked a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, assassinating a district police chief and killing at least five other people, a government official said.The attack happened as worshippers were leaving the mosque after the main Friday prayers in the ...

Anarchists claim Italian letter bomb: sources

ROME (Reuters) - An Italian anarchist group claimed responsibility for a letter bomb that injured the chief of a state tax collection agency in Rome Friday, police sources said, days after a device linked to the same group and addressed to a ...

Italian letter bomb injures top tax collector

ROME (Reuters) - A letter bomb blamed on anarchists injured the chief of a state tax collection agency in Rome on Friday, two days after a similar device addressed to a top banker was intercepted in Germany.The bomb exploded at the headquarters ...

Belarus sentences two to death for metro bombing

MINSK (Reuters) - A court in Belarus sentenced two men to death Wednesday for carrying out a bomb attack at a metro station in central Minsk which killed 15 people and wounded scores of others.Dmitry Konovalov and Vladislav Kovalyov, both 25, were ...

Four due in court on terror charges

Four young men charged with terrorism offences were due to appear in a London court on Saturday as part of a major counter-terror operation, police said.Khobaib Hussain, Ishaaq Hussain and Shahid Kasam Khan, all 19, and Naweed Mahmood Ali, 24, were charged ...

Four due in British court on terror charges

Four young men charged with terrorism offences were due to appear in a London court on Saturday as part of a major counter-terror operation, police said.Khobaib Hussain, Ishaaq Hussain and Shahid Kasam Khan, all 19, and Naweed Mahmood Ali, 24, were charged ...
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