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Canadian police have arrested a Somalian man suspected of stabbing an officer and deliberately ramming pedestrians during a high-speed chase in a rented truck, injuring four in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced as a "terrorist attack".

Authorities in Edmonton confirmed the 30-year-old had applied for asylum and was known to the security services following a complaint in 2015.

"There was insufficient evidence to pursue terrorism charges," Marlin Degrand, of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police said at a press conference, adding: "The suspect was not deemed to pose a threat to Canada."

Police declined to identify the man because he had not yet been charged, saying the pending charges included terrorism and five counts of attempted murder.

The arrest early on Sunday came after an officer was run over outside a football game and attacked with a knife. Hours later, a U-Haul van injured four other people after swerving into pedestrians in a second attack police believe is related.

The recovery of an Islamic State flag from one of the vehicles used in the attacks had led police to pursue the incidents as an act of terrorism.

Edmonton police chief Rod Knecht said officers took a suspect into custody and they think he acted alone. The attack began outside a Canadian Football League game at Commonwealth Stadium on Saturday night. Police said a white Chevrolet Malibu rammed a traffic control barricade and sent an officer flying into the air 15ft.

Knecht said the driver then got out and assaulted the officer with a knife before fleeing on foot. The officer was taken to a hospital and treated for non-life threatening injuries while a manhunt was launched. "It's not critical," Knecht said of the injuries.

A few hours later, a U-Haul van was stopped at an impaired driving check stop north of downtown on Wayne Gretzky Drive. Knecht said the name of the driver was close to the name of the registered owner of the car that hit the officer. He said the U-Haul sped off toward downtown with police in pursuit.

Police say the U-Haul intentionally swerved at pedestrians at crosswalks throughout the chase. Four people were injured - the extent of their injuries was not immediately known. The van eventually flipped near a downtown hotel and a suspect was arrested.

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"It is believed at this time that these two incidents are related," Knecht said. "It was determined that these incidents are being investigated as acts of terrorism."

Knecht said Edmonton police wre working with the Royal Canadian Mounted police's national security enforcement team and other Canadian security agencies. Knecht told the public to remain vigilant and observant of their surroundings.

Knecht said police did not call off the chase of the U-Haul due to the seriousness of the crime. Witness Pat Hannigan told reporters he saw police pull the man from the windshield of the toppled U-Haul. He estimated 30 police cars were chasing the U-Haul.

Austin Elgie, manager of the Pint bar just west of the downtown core, also saw the van zoom by with police giving chase. The van "peeled" into an alley where people were smoking, he said.

"It was crazy," he said. "It just came around the corner, ripping. I thought at first he was pulling over for the cops coming by, but he was clearly the one they were chasing."

Elgie said the van hit a man who was a bar customer.

"I have a registered nurse on my bar team and I grabbed her and had her look after the guy until the ambulance came," he said. "He was breathing and we got him in the ambulance and he was still breathing."

Rachel Notley, the Alberta premier, said on Twitter her thoughts were with the injured officer and she was hoping for a speedy recovery.

It was military appreciation night at the football game between the Edmonton Eskimos and the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. Canada's chief of defence staff, Gen Jonathan Vance, conducted the pregame coin flip at Commonwealth Stadium and two CF-18 fighter jets did a fly-past before kickoff. More than 800 Boy Scouts were expected at the game and many were planning to camp out on the field afterward.

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Canadian police have arrested a Somalian man suspected of stabbing an officer and deliberately ramming pedestrians during a high-speed chase in a rented truck, injuring four in what Prime Minister Justin Trudeau denounced as a "terrorist attack". Authorities in Edmonton confirmed the 30-year-old had applied for asylum and was known to the security services following a complaint in 2015.

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Paris, 13 November 2015: Gunmen and suicide bombers hit the Bataclan concert hall, a major stadium, restaurants and bars, almost simultaneously - 130 people dead and hundreds wounded.

A soft night where we could hear the lively discussions and the laughs of people seated on the bar's chairs, toasted the good events of the day, where people eagerly awaited the concert of the Eagles of Death Metal, where people went out with their friends, and the worrying thing happened. Innocent people has been killed, and their freedom has been broken. It was a nondescript tragedy for all French people and on the whole world.

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" Terrorism is the use or threatened use of force designed to bring about political change. "
- Brian Jenkins, a terrorism expert

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The death toll in the bombing that hit the centre of Mogadishu on Saturday continues to rise, with more than 300 people now believed to have been killed and hundreds more seriously injured.

The scale of the loss makes the attack, which involved a truck packed with several hundred kilograms of military-grade and homemade explosives, one of the most lethal terrorist acts anywhere in the world for many years.

On Monday morning, Somalia's information minister announced that 276 people had died in the attack with at least 300 people injured. Within hours, however, Abdikadir Abdirahman, the director of Amin ambulances, said his service had confirmed that 300 people died in the blast.

"The death toll will still be higher because some people are still missing," Abdirahman told Reuters.

More victims continue to be dug from the rubble spread over an area hundreds of metres wide in the centre of the city.

Rescue workers said a definitive death toll may never be established because the intense heat generated by the blast meant the remains of many people would not be found.

Others may have been buried quickly by relatives.

The devastating bombing, which provoked international condemnation, will focus attention on the decade-long battle against al-Shabaab, an Islamist group, in Somalia.

Michael Keating, the UN special envoy to Somalia, called the attack "revolting".

The US mission to Somalia said: "Such cowardly attacks reinvigorate the commitment of the United States to assist our Somali and African Union partners to combat the scourge of terrorism."

Al-Shabab earlier this year vowed to increase its attacks after both the Trump administration and Somalia's recently elected president announced new military efforts against the group.

Officials said more than 110 victims of the bombing had already been buried. "One hundred and sixty of the bodies could not be recognised and so they were buried by the government [on Sunday]," Aden Nur, a doctor at the city's Madina hospital, said. "The others were buried by their relatives. Over a hundred injured were also brought here."

Casualties included senior civil servants, five paramedic volunteers and a journalist, but most were ordinary people on one of the busiest thoroughfares of Mogadishu, which has been hit by multiple bombings in recent years.

The bomb, which is thought to have targeted Somalia's foreign ministry, was concealed in a truck and exploded near a hotel, demolishing the building and several others.

Sources close to the Somali government said the truck had been stopped at a checkpoint and was about to be searched when the driver suddenly accelerated. It crashed through a barrier, then exploded. This ignited a fuel tanker parked nearby, creating a massive fireball.

Witnesses described bewildered families wandering among the rubble and wrecked vehicles, looking for missing relatives. Bodies were carried from the scene on makeshift stretchers made of blankets, as people tried to dig through the debris with their hands.

"There's nothing I can say. We have lost everything," said Zainab Sharif, a mother of four who lost her husband in the attack. She sat outside a hospital where he was pronounced dead after doctors tried for hours to save him from an arterial injury.

Muna Haj, 36, said: "Today, I lost my son who was dear to me. The oppressors have taken his life away from him. I hate them. May Allah give patience to all families who lost their loved ones in that tragic blast ... And I pray that one day Allah will bring his justice to the perpetrators of that evil act."

The president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, declared three days of national mourning and joined thousands of people who responded to a plea by hospitals to donate blood for the wounded. "I am appealing to all Somali people to come forward and donate," he said.

Mohamed, who took power in February, had vowed to rid the country of al-Shabaab. He has faced huge challenges, with the insurgency proving resilient to the ramped-up offensive aided by the US, and a famine.

Dr Mohamed Yusuf, the director of Mogadishu's Medina hospital, said his staff had been "overwhelmed by both dead and wounded. This is really horrendous, unlike any other time in the past."

A Turkish air ambulance landed at Mogadishu airport on Monday morning to airlift 50 seriously injured people.

Al-Shabaab, which has been affiliated to al-Qaida since 2011, has not yet claimed responsibility for the attack.

However the organisation has a history of launching bomb attacks against civilian targets in Mogadishu, and is known to avoid claiming responsibility for operations which it believes may significantly damage its public image among ordinary Somalis.

The bombing was reported on media outlets linked to al-Shabaab.

The information minister, Abdirahman Omar Osman, said: "It's a sad day. This is how merciless and brutal they are, and we have to unite against them."

One western expert working with the Somali government said the bomb was aimed at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and it was likely al-Shabaab had not anticipated the destruction it would cause.

"That it exploded next to a fuel tanker was just very, very bad luck," the expert said.

Investigators will seek to establish the source of the military-grade explosives. One source suggested they had been stolen from Amisom, the much-criticised African Union peacekeeping mission, which has about 20,000 troops in the country.

Though largely confined to the countryside since withdrawing from Mogadishu six years ago, al-Shabaab has repeatedly taken over small towns, as well as inflicting significant losses on Amisom and Somali troops.

The US military has increased drone strikes and other efforts this year against al-Shabaab, and a US special forces operative was killed in a skirmish with the group earlier this year, the first American combat casualty in Africa since the Black Hawk episode in Mogadishu in 1993.
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The violence began when a van swerved into throngs of pedestrians on London Bridge.

The suspects are then believed to have jumped out the van and proceeded on foot to nearby Borough Market, a popular nightlife spot, where witnesses said they produced knives and slashed indiscriminately at customers in restaurants and bars.

At least 48 people were taken to hospitals, the London Ambulance Service tweeted.

Key questions remain, including whether the attackers had support or were part of a larger network, and whether the attacks were coordinated.

Here's what we know.

First incident: London Bridge

The van entered the bridge at 9:58 p.m. local time (4:58 pm ET), Metropolitan Police said Sunday.

Witness Mark Roberts said he saw a van speeding across the bridge and then suddenly swerve, bounce off the pavement and hit several pedestrians. He said he heard what sounded like gunfire five to 10 minutes later.

At 10.08 p.m., police officers responded to reports of a vehicle colliding with pedestrians on London Bridge.

Another witness, Brad Myers, said heard a "boom" behind him, which he thinks was the sound of a car hitting the guardrails or other vehicles. He said he saw someone jump into the water to avoid being hit.

The first ambulance team arrived within six minutes, according to the London Ambulance Service.

Second incident: Borough Market

As emergency services rushed to respond, reports came in of multiple stabbings at Borough Market, which was teeming with people on a Saturday night.

Witness Elsbeth Smedley told CNN that a man ran into Elliot's, a cafe, and stabbed two people before running out.

Jack Applebee, a local restaurant owner, said people were running down the street and he heard a female shout, "They're stabbing everyone." About five minutes later, as he and diners took shelter in the restaurant, he heard 10 to 15 gunshots. Police escorted them out 30 minutes later.

Police called both events "terrorist incidents" at 12:25 a.m. Sunday, London time.

Guy's Hospital, near London Bridge, was placed on lockdown "to keep patients, relatives and staff safe," it said in a statement.

The victims

At 4 a.m., police said six people were killed. That number has been increased to seven and could go higher.

Authorities have not released details about where or how the seven victims died.

Some of those hospitalized are in critical condition, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said.

Thirty-six victims are still in hospitals and 21 of them are in critical condition, the National Health Service said Sunday.

One of the dead was a Canadian, said Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Sunday.

French President Emmanuel Macron said French citizens were among the victims.

At least one officer received injuries that are not life-threatening, police said.

The assailants

The three assailants were shot dead within eight minutes of police receiving the first emergency call.

They were wearing what looked like explosive vests but later appeared to be fake.

Authorities announced 12 arrests on Sunday.

The official response

British Prime Minister Theresa May blamed "Islamist extremism," saying "there is too much tolerance of extremism."

May said Thursday's general election will go ahead as scheduled. But the main parties suspended campaigning Sunday.

The threat level remains at "severe," one step below the highest level, "critical."

Khan, London's mayor, praised the quick police response and asked Londoners to remain calm and vigilant. He said that "Over the next few days, Londoners and visitors will be seeing an increased police presence."

Large areas around London Bridge and Borough Market remain cordoned off.

The UK will observe a minute's silence on Tuesday and flags will remain at half-staff on Whitehall government buildings, May's office announced in a statement.

CNN's Hilary McGann and Duarte Mendonca contributed to this report.

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State terrorism:

the systematic use of terror by a government in order to control its population (ex: Nazi system in Germany)

Religious terrorism:

motivated by religious ideologies and grievances (ex: Catholic-Protestant violence in Ireland or Muslim-Hindu tensions in Pakistan and in India)

Cyberterrorism:

using information technology, such as computer systems or telecommunications, as a tool to orchestrate a traditional attack

Pathological terrorism:

individuals who utilize such strategies for the sheer joy of terrorizing others (ex: school shootings or serial killing scenarios)

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* Terrorism kills 20 times more in Africa than in Europe.
* Africa is a target of choice for terrorists. Since the beginning of the year, 343 attacks have claimed at least 2,600 victims, 22 times more than in Europe.
*On the European continent, 117 people died during the same period in the 35 incidents described as terrorist, including those related to the conflict in Ukraine.
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At least 26 people have been killed and many more injured after a man walked into a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, on Sunday and opened fire on worshippers.

The number of dead at the First Baptist church in the small town 30 miles south-east of San Antonio made the killing the worst mass shooting in modern Texas history and one of the worst gun rampages in recent years. The lone shooter was found dead after he was chased by locals and police across county lines.

"There are so many families who have lost family members, and it occurred in a church, in a place of worship," the Texas governor, Greg Abbott, in a Sunday evening press conference. "That's where these people were mown down. We mourn their loss."

Twenty-three worshippers died inside the church, two outside and one after being taken to hospital. Many more injured were still being treated. The ages of the dead ranged from five to 72.

Law enforcement officials at the press conference did not name the gunman, though his name was reported as Devin Patrick Kelley elsewhere. The Air Force said Kelley, 26, served from 2010 to 2014 when he left following a court martial. He received a bad conduct discharge for assaulting his wife and child. Kelley lived in the town of New Braunfels, about 35 miles from Sutherland Springs. On Sunday night, police were at the property.

Freeman Martin of the Texas department of public safety gave a brief timeline of events. At about 11.20am, he said, the suspect, described as a white male in his early 20s, was seen at a gas station over the road from the church.

He was dressed all in black in tactical-style clothes including a ballistic vest. He crossed the road and as he approached the church he began shooting, carrying on the firing as he entered the place of worship itself.

After the carnage, as he was leaving the church, he was engaged by a local resident carrying a rifle. The shooter dropped his own weapon, a Ruger assault rifle, and fled.

He was pursued by police and just as he reached Guadalupe County his vehicle veered off the road. He was found in the car dead, it is not known whether by his own hand or having been shot by a local resident.

The scale of the shooting, and its location in a Baptist church in the south, presented Donald Trump with a renewed gun dilemma just as he embarked on a five-country tour in Asia.

Asked at a press conference in Tokyo what policies he would support to tackle mass shootings, the president focused on the mental health of the perpetrator and claimed that gun ownership was not a factor.

"We have a lot of mental health problems in our country, as do other countries, but this isn't a guns situation," Trump said. "Fortunately somebody else had a gun that was shooting in the opposite direction, otherwise it wouldn't have been as bad as it was, it would have been much worse.

"This is a mental health problem at the highest level. It's a very sad event ... these are great people at a very, very sad event, but that's the way I view it."

The shooting led to dramatic scenes in the tiny community of Sutherland Springs. A local television station, KSAT, reported that two Airlife helicopters were on hand to take victims to hospitals. At least 10 were taken to Connally Memorial Medical Center in Floresville. Eight others were sent to the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.

Witnesses reported hearing a rapid barrage of about 20 gunshots. "It was very close," Carrie Matula, who had been working in a store across the street, told CNN. "It was semi-automatic, rapid fire. This is just devastating in a small town like this."

Pastor Frank Buford of the neighbouring River Oaks church, a few blocks away, said relatives of victims had started to congregate at a makeshift community centre. "We're holding up as well as we can - we are a strong community, we are strong in our faith," he told local reporters.

Buford described Sutherland Springs, which has only about a few hundred residents, as a close-knit community. "We have a post office, two churches and a dollar store," he said. His church received word that a shooting was under way at their sister place of worship. "We started praying for everyone involved," he said.

The pastor of First Baptist, Frank Pomeroy, and his wife Sherri were out of town when the shooting happened. In a text to Associated Press, Sherri Pomeroy said their 14-year-old daughter had died inside the church. She added that she had also lost "many friends" in the massacre.

The shooting comes a month after a gunman opened fire on an open-air concert in Las Vegas, leaving 58 dead and 546 injured. After that, Trump showed himself to be reluctant to get involved in the debate around gun control, limiting himself to sending his prayers to the victims and their families.

That was in stark contrast to the rapid and virulent response he had to the truck attack in New York last week, where eight people were mowed down by a driver inspired by the terrorist group Isis. After that attack, Trump called for a crackdown on immigration rules.

As the FBI and local law enforcers begin to piece together what happened, it is possible they will be assisted by the church's own video footage. First Baptist was in the habit of recording all its Sunday services and posting them on YouTube.

The recordings capture a homely, small church with many small children in attendance, copious flowers and plenty of singing to the accompaniment of electric and acoustic guitars. On one recent Sunday a Harley-Davidson motorbike was parked in front of the altar.

On Sunday evening, reporters and locals gathered on the edge of a police cordon about 50 metres from the church, whose sign was still advertising a "fall festival" from 31 October.

Struggling for words, David Johnson, whose daughter used to live opposite the church, said he was stunned such violence would be wreaked upon a small, quiet community - but that the scale of the violence would be horrific in any context.

"This is a shock anywhere that it would happen," he said.

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A man with a knife attacked and killed two women at the Saint-Charles Station but the killer was after killed by a police-man who shot him. It is a "little" act of terrorism because "only" two women died. The Interior Minister Gerard Collomb explained that the man (killer)  had initially killed one woman and looked to be running away before returning to attack a second woman and then rush towards soldiers from the Sentinelle force who arrived on the scene quickly and shot him dead.

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Isis has claimed responsibility for the Manchester Arena attack, hailing the bomber as a "soldier of the caliphate".

The terrorist group released statements in several languages through its central media body praising the atrocity, claiming more than 100 "crusaders" were killed or wounded at the "shameless" concert.

"With Allah's grace and support, a soldier of the Khilafah [caliphate] managed to place explosive devices in the midst of the gatherings of the crusaders in the British city of Manchester," said the English version.
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It suggested the atrocity was not a suicide attack, despite police statements saying the perpetrator died at the scene, and did not name him as a "martyr".

Isis said the attack aimed to terrorise "infidels...in response to their transgressions against the lands of the Muslims".

The release of a lengthy official claim so quickly after the bombing suggested the attacker had been in direct contact with Isis militants.

The group's supporters had been circulating an unverified video claiming to show a masked English-speaking militant claiming responsibility for the Manchester attack.

But analysts pointed out that a flag positioned behind the man was not the symbol most commonly associated with Isis, which he did not refer to by its usual name. It was unclear when it was filmed.

The blast killed 22 people and injured dozens more at an Ariana Grande concert on Monday night.

Ian Hopkins, the Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police, said investigators believe the attack was carried out by a lone suicide bomber "carrying" a homemade device.

"The priority is to establish whether he was acting alone or as part of a network," he added.

"The attacker, I can confirm, died at the arena. We believe the attacker was carrying an improvised explosive device which he detonated causing this atrocity."

It followed calls by Isis and other terror groups to attack "disbelievers" in the West.

Isis has been periodically releasing detailed guidance on how to carry out terror attacks in countries targeting its militants in Syria and Iraq, including bomb-making instructions.

The most recent edition of its Rumiyah propaganda magazine listed concert halls among "ideal target locations" for attacks.

Analysts have warned that the group may increasingly turn to "soft targets" with large crowds, as seen in Westminster, Stockholm, Nice and Berlin, rather than protected areas with a high security presence.

Explosive devices using homemade triacetone triperoxide (TATP) have become a signature of the group's largest European attacks in Paris and Brussels, and has been discovered in several foiled plots.

The Manchester attack took place on the fourth anniversary of the killing of Fusilier Lee Rigby in Woolwich, which was inspired by al-Qaeda propaganda on avenging civilian casualties in the Middle East.

Theresa May said security services had identified the attacke r but it was too early in the investigation to release his name.

"The police and emergency services have as always acted with great courage and on behalf of the country I want to express our gratitude to them - they acted in accordance with the plans they have in place and the exercises they conduct to test those plans and they performed with the utmost professionalism," the Prime Minister added.

At least one person, a 23-year-old man from Manchester, has so far been arrested in connection with the bombing.

In a rare statement, the director general of domestic intelligence agency MI5 said staff were "revolted by the disgusting terrorist attack.

"We remain relentlessly focussed, in numerous current operations, on doing all we can to combat the scourge of terrorism and keep the country safe," Andrew Parker added.

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A 27-year-old man was in custody on Monday after allegedly detonating a pipe bomb in a New York City subway station during the morning commute.

The suspect, Akayed Ullah, was one of four people injured in the explosion, which occurred at about 7.20am in a passageway near 42nd Street and 8th Avenue, in midtown Manhattan near Times Square, New York City police said.

None of the injuries were life-threatening. Daniel Nigro, the fire department commissioner, said Ullah sustained burns to his hands and torso while the three other people suffered "ringing ears and headaches".

At a press conference, New York police commissioner James O'Neill said the suspect had "an improvised low-tech explosive device attached to his body" with Velcro and zip ties. Law enforcement officials familiar with the investigation told the Associated Press the short pipe was packed with explosive powder and was ignited with a Christmas light, matches and a nine-volt battery. But the blast was not powerful enough to turn the pipe into deadly shrapnel.

The New York Times, citing several law enforcement officials, reported that Ullah said he had been radicalized online and had acted in retaliation for US airstrikes in Syria and elsewhere against the Islamic State, or Isis.

Mayor Bill de Blasio said: "This was an attempted terrorist attack." He also said there were "no known additional incidents or activities" but said there would be an increased police presence in the city. The attack is being investigated by the Joint Terrorism Task Force.

Andrew Cuomo, the governor of New York, said an attack on the subway was "very frightening and disturbing" and "in many ways, one of our worst nightmares".

"This is New York," Cuomo said. "The reality is that we are a target by many who would like to make a statement against democracy, against freedom. We have the Statue of Liberty in our harbor. Anyone can go on the internet and download garbage and vileness, how to put together an amateur level explosive device, and that is the reality we live with.

"The counter-reality is that this is New York and we all pitch together, and we are a savvy people and we keep our eyes open ... and we have the best law enforcement in the globe."

On Monday night, Ullah's family said in statement that it was heartbroken and deeply saddened by the suffering the attack had caused. The statement was released on behalf of the family by Albert Fox Cahn, legal director for the Council on American-Islamic Relations in New York.

Los Angeles International Airport

Hesham Muhammad Hadayet, an Egyptian national with a green card giving him permanent status in the United States, killed two people and wounded four at Los Angeles International Airport. Hadayet also died.

Little Rock, Arkansas

Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, an American-born convert to Islam, opened fire on an army recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas. Muhammad killed one soldier and wounded another. Muhammad, who previously lived in Yemen, claimed to be a member of al-Qaida. Muhammad eventually pled guilty to avoid the death penalty.

Fort Hood, Texas

Army major Nidal Hasan opened fire in the Soldier Readiness Processing Center at Fort Hood, Texas. The American-born Hasan killed 13 soldiers and wounded 32. Hasan was paralyzed in the attack. At his trial, he declared himself to be at war with America and investigators found that although he acted alone, he had accessed jihadist websites. Hasan was sentenced to death and is currently incarcerated in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

Boston Marathon bombing

The Boston Marathon attack was carried out by two brothers, Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev. The bomb killed three people and injured 264. The two later killed an MIT police officer. In addition, in a firefight between the brothers and the police, 16 officers were injured and another later died. Tamerlan died after he was shot by police and his brother ran over him in a car in an attempt to escape. Dzhokhar was apprehended and sentenced to death. The two Kyrgyz-American immigrants had been self-radicalized but learned to make their bomb from the al-Qaida online magazine Inspire.

Navy reserve center

Muhammad Youssef Abdulazeez attacked a marine recruiting office and US Navy reserve center. He killed four marines and one seaman before police killed him. Abdulazeez was an American citizen born in Kuwait. Former FBI director James Comey said Abdulazeez was "motivated by foreign terrorist organization propaganda."

San Bernandino

Syed Rizwan Farook and Tasheen Malik opened fire at the San Bernandino County Department of Public Health. Fourteen people died and 24 were injured. Farook was born in the United States and Malik was a Pakistani immigrant. The two were killed by police. The FBI described them as "homegrown violent extremists".

Pulse nightclub

American-born Omar Mateen killed 49 people and wounded 58 at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, Florida. In calls made during his rampage, Mateen pledged allegiance to Isis. He was killed by police.

New York truck attack

A man drove a truck into people on the Hudson River bike path, killing eight and injuring 11. Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old immigrant from Uzbekistan, has pleaded not guilty to murder.

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The statement also said the family was outraged by some of law enforcement's tactics, including pulling a teenage relative from class and questioning him without a parent, guardian or attorney present.

As he had after the last terrorist attack in New York, Donald Trump used the incident to call for tougher immigration measures.

"As I have been saying since I first announced my candidacy for president, America must fix its lax immigration system, which allows far too many dangerous, inadequately vetted people to access our country," Trump said, issuing a formal statement rather than using his favored medium of Twitter.

"Today's terror suspect entered our country through extended-family chain migration, which is incompatible with national security. My executive action to restrict the entry of certain nationals from eight countries, which the supreme court recently allowed to take effect, is just one step forward in securing our immigration system. Congress must end chain migration."

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The suspect, of Bangladeshi origin, was being treated at Bellevue hospital. Police said there was video of the attempted attack. Asked if the suspect was connected to the Islamic State terror group, O'Neill said the suspect "did make statements" but did not elaborate.

Police were investigating Brooklyn properties connected to Ullah or his relatives shortly after the attempted attack. In the quiet residential neighborhood of Kensington, witnesses said they had seen a Swat team enter a six-story building.

The subway station where the blast happened is below Port Authority bus terminal, the busiest in the world, serving at least 65 million passengers each year. On Monday morning, nearby Times Square and its surroundings were overwhelmed by police. The area would usually be packed with commuters and tourists.

The explosion occurred less than two months after a man drove a truck into a bicycle lane on Manhattan's west side, killing eight people. The suspect pleaded not guilty to 22 counts including providing material support to the Islamic State group.

In September 2016, 30 people were injured when a bomb exploded behind a dumpster on West 23rd Street, in the Chelsea neighbourhood. The suspect was found guilty this October, on eight charges.

On Monday, travellers reacted with bemusement, relief and some humor. Danny Nguyen, 24, heard the explosion while he waited for a bus home to Philadelphia. He said police ran into the station. "I saw a mom trying to take her daughter up the elevator the wrong way, just panicking," he said.

Tina Grimes, 38, was supposed to be on a bus to Boston. She said she was going to make the best of her extra time in New York. "It's too cold to walk around," she said. "Maybe I'll go shopping or something."

Barbara Petro had been due to return to Columbia, Maryland. She said the incident would not put her off visiting New York again, but was disappointed because "my granddaughter is singing in a Christmas performance as an angel tonight, and I don't think I'll make it".

The attack interrupted nearly every subway line and some trains were evacuated, putting even more strain on a subway system that has been heavily criticized for long delays and frequent train breakdowns.

Many New Yorkers were unfazed. Shaun Henderson was on the F train after the explosion and said he was just happy the trains were working, even if he was going to be late for work.

"It's the subway, you know," Henderson said. "New Yorkers are used to this. The F train doesn't need a pipe bomb to be fucked up."

Hours after the explosion, the subway system had almost completely resumed normal service. Though witnesses described panic immediately after the explosion, shortly after the attack the scene was calm.
Additional reporting by Adam Gabbatt, Oliver Laughland, Alan Yuhas and the Associated Press

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A 27-year-old man was in custody on Monday after allegedly detonating a pipe bomb in a New York City subway station during the morning commute. The suspect, Akayed Ullah, was one of four people injured in the explosion, which occurred at about 7.20am in a passageway near 42nd Street and 8th Avenue, in midtown Manhattan near Times Square, New York City police said.

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Spain terror attacks: 13 killed and 100 injured - as it happened

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Five terror suspects shot dead in Cambrils, while earlier explosion at house in Alcanar is also linked to Las Ramblas attack

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20 APRIL 2017 Matteo

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Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen called for France to instantly reinstate border checks and expel foreigners who are on the watch lists of intelligence services on Friday, in the wake of the Paris terror attack.

It came as questions were raised as anger rose about how the suspected Champs-Elysées gunman, Karim Cheurfi, came to be released after being questioned in February over threats to kill police officers.

The Front National leader was not the only one to issue stern pledges on the final day of campaigning ahead of Sunday's closely-fought first round vote, in which she and centrist Emmanuel Macron are polling as frontrunners.

François Fillon, the conservative candidate who also has a tough discourse on security, said the fight against "Islamist totalitarianism" should be the priority of France's next president.

The gunman who shot dead a policeman on the Champs Elysees in Paris in an apparent Isil-inspired terror attack before being killed was named as French national Karim Cheurfi.

Authorities earlier revealed Cheurfi - who was jailed for 20 years for trying to kill officers in 2001 - had been under preliminary investigation for terrorism and was detained two months ago but "let go".

His victim has been identified as Xavier Jugele by Flag!, a French association of LGBT police officers.

The group's president, Mickael Bucheron, told The Associated Press the slain officer would have celebrated his 38th birthday at the beginning of May.

Jugele was among the officers who responded to the gun and bomb attack on Paris' Bataclan concert hall in November 2015, part of a wave of assaults in the French capital that killed 130 people, he told People.com when the venue reopened a year later with a concert by Sting.

People quoted him as saying how happy he was to be at the "symbolic" reopening, "here to defend our civic values."

"This concert's to celebrate life. To say 'No' to terrorists," it quoted Jugele as saying.

The attack raised questions over how yet another Islamist extremist known to police was able to bring terror to the heart of the French capital.

It is believed he parked his Audi and opened fire after police stopped at a red light. It is reported apump action shotgun, knives and ID were found in the car.

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) claimed responsibility and identified the attacker as one of its soldiers, naming him as Abu Yousif, a Belgian.

Cheurfi was known by intelligence services for radicalisation and had targeted police 16 years ago in a car chase, when he opened fire on officers, according to reports.

This morning the presidential candidates Marine Le Pen, Francois Fillon and Philippe Poutou all seized on Thursday night's killing.

Le Pen, widely seen as taking the hardest line on security, called for France to "immediately" take back control of its own borders from the European Union and deport all foreigners on a terror watchlist.

"This war against us is ceaseless and merciless," she said in a sternly worded address, blasting the "monstrous totalitarian ideology" behind Thursday night's attack.

Macron, a 39-year-old moderate whom other candidates have portrayed as too inexperienced to protect France against the terror threat, warned against any attempts to use the attack for political gain.

"I think we must one and all have a spirit of responsibility at this extreme time and not give in to panic and not allow it to be exploited, which some might try to do," he told French radio.

The shooting came just three days before the first round of the country's presidential election.

Security will be heightened across the country in the run-up to Sunday's election.

It was highly unusual for Isil to both take responsibility and name the perpetrator so soon after an attack. The man's gun, thought to have been a Kalashnikov, was described as a "war weapon".

The UK Foreign Office said: "The British embassy is in contact with local authorities and urgently seeking further information following reports of a shooting incident on the Champs-Elysees in Paris.

" You should remain vigilant and follow the advice of the local security authorities and/or your tour operator.

"If you're in the area and it is safe to do so, contact your friends and family to tell them you are safe."

Three family members detained

Hollande: motive 'likely to be terrorism'

Forensic teams were filmed combing a car believed to be that of the gunman.

One eye witness said: "It went incredibly fast. It really lasted 30 seconds. There were around 10 people around, and I think that we were very lucky as if there hadn't been police here, it would have been the crowd who took the bullets.

"In the event, it was as confrontation with police, otherwise it would have been a gunman against helpless people.

"The Champs wasn't really full, which was lucky. I just saw that the policemen were instantly on it, and that the gunman was hit straight away."

Another witness said: "He came out of his Audi, he got out a Kalashnikov, I heard six shots fired, we thought it was bangers, then we realised what was happening.. Then I saw the gunman fall."

"He could have targeted us on the pavement and killed several in a volley of bullets, but he went for the police first and they instantly returned fire and he fell down dead."

Footage from the scene

Champs Elysees remains sealed off, metro not stopping

Three family members detained

Hollande: motive 'likely to be terrorism'

Forensic teams were filmed combing a car believed to be that of the gunman.

One eye witness said: "It went incredibly fast. It really lasted 30 seconds. There were around 10 people around, and I think that we were very lucky as if there hadn't been police here, it would have been the crowd who took the bullets.

"In the event, it was as confrontation with police, otherwise it would have been a gunman against helpless people.

"The Champs wasn't really full, which was lucky. I just saw that the policemen were instantly on it, and that the gunman was hit straight away."

Another witness said: "He came out of his Audi, he got out a Kalashnikov, I heard six shots fired, we thought it was bangers, then we realised what was happening.. Then I saw the gunman fall."

"He could have targeted us on the pavement and killed several in a volley of bullets, but he went for the police first and they instantly returned fire and he fell down dead."

Footage from the scene

Champs Elysees remains sealed off, metro not stopping

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Paris shooting: Marine Le Pen calls for all French terror suspects to be expelled after Champs Elysees attack

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Far-right presidential candidate Marine Le Pen called for France to instantly reinstate border checks and expel foreigners who are on the watch lists of intelligence services on Friday, in the wake of the Paris terror attack.

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Bir al-Abed has long been one of the most pro-military towns in Sinai, going back as far as the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, local leaders say. After militants and criminals stormed police stations and seized weapons during the uprising, residents took the weapons and returned them to the authorities in 2014 after they regained control of the area. Hundreds of young men from the area apply for police and military service every year, although they are routinely rejected, local officials say, because the state distrusts Bedouins.

"They love the military and the state," Mr. Saad said. "The terrorists wanted to punish them for this."

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, but the Islamic State had singled out the town for destruction, and the attackers carried Islamic State flags.

The government has not allowed foreign media into Bir al-Abed so The New York Times interviewed more than 30 residents, security officials and local political and clerical leaders by phone for this article. Several spoke on the condition of anonymity, fearing reprisals by the militants.

New details of the attack also emerged.

As the militants began to rake the congregation with machine-gun fire, two boys, ages 10 and 15, cowered in a bathroom stall, listening, petrified, to the screaming and gunfire.

After a while, two militants entered the restroom to make sure they had not missed anyone. "How many people did you kill?" one asked, as they kicked open each stall, the boys' mother said.

"A hundred," the other replied.

Just before they reached the stall where the boys were hiding, a third militant walked in and told the others to position themselves elsewhere, the mother said. The boys survived.

The attack came after more than a year of escalating tensions between Islamic State militants and the Sufi residents of Al Rawda, a district in Bir al-Abed. The campaign began in November last year with the beheading of a blind, elderly Sufi cleric from the nearby town of El Arish, who was accused of practicing witchcraft.

Three weeks later, in an interview published in an Islamic State magazine, one of the group's commanders in Sinai derided Sufi practices as "sorcery and soothsaying," and identified Al Rawda and two other predominantly Sufi districts as places the group intended to "eradicate."

Attacks on three Sufi shrines in the district soon followed.

"Every time they build one, the militants destroy it," said Fakri Ismail, whose brother was killed in the attack. "The threats started after that."

The militants began sending text messages to tribal elders and distributing fliers telling people to abandon Sufism and "return to Islam."

They called some residents by phone and threatened to kill them if they did not abandon Sufi rituals like the building of shrines and the worship of saints, which they consider polytheistic.

They twice attacked the home of a beloved cleric, Sheikh Hussein el-Greir.

And they regularly sent men to the mosque to demand that the imam preach jihad. He refused.

Most people were too afraid of the militants to report them, but some of Al Rawda's elders complained to the police.

These complaints were not ignored, but the authorities prioritized other security operations in the area, local officials said. No one thought the militants would attack a mosque, they said.

The military had been improving ties with Bedouin leaders across Sinai this year. In October, the Tarabin tribe, one of the biggest in Sinai, announced that it would help the military hunt down Islamic State operatives.

Shortly after the announcement, several local residents who were believed to be cooperating with the government in Al Rawda and elsewhere were killed. In November, 14 men from central Sinai were kidnapped and interrogated by the Islamic State over accusations that they had been informers for Egyptian security.

At the same time, the Islamic State was in upheaval. As its once vast caliphate in Iraq and Syria crumbled, it was forced to rely more on other franchises, like the one in Sinai, to spread its tactics of sectarian hate and division. The Sinai group, which arose after the Egyptian military overthrew the country's Islamist president, Mohamed Morsi, in 2013, was considered one of its most effective affiliates, responsible for shooting down a Russian jetliner in 2015, killing 224 people.

But it had since split into two factions, and this division, according to security officials and residents, may go furthest in explaining the wholesale carnage of the mosque attack.

After the group tried and failed to take over a town in eastern Sinai in 2015, the military carried out a devastating air campaign, leaving the group in disarray and sending a weak, splinter group west to El Arish. The El Arish group began taking recruits from outside the region - from mainland Egypt as well as neighboring countries like Syria, Sudan and Libya - who had no tribal ties to the Bedouins of Al Rawda.

"The attack on the mosque was almost certainly carried out by the El Arish group," said Ahmed Sakr, a former senior Sinai official and an expert on the militancy there. The main Islamic State Sinai group "would not approve" of the mass killing, he said, "but the Arish people are happy to kill anyone and everyone."

Even in a land tormented by violence, the scale of the attack on the Rawda mosque last Friday was stunning.

More than two dozen gunmen traveling in five vehicles stormed the mosque when it was at its most crowded, during Friday Prayer, exploding a bomb and then spraying the worshipers with gunfire.

Militants positioned themselves outside the mosque and its windows to mow down people who tried to flee. Parked cars were set on fire to hinder escape.

The imam who had refused to preach jihad survived by hiding under the bodies of two friends and playing dead, he said. At one point, he said, a militant stood on top of him to make sure he was really dead.

After they killed as many people as they could at the mosque, including 27 children, some militants went house to house, killing any man they found.

Residents and experts say there may have been another reason for the high death toll.

Despite the fact that there are three government security installations within 12 miles of the mosque, ambulances arrived at the scene well before the police and the military forces did, residents and victims said. They attributed the delay to a widespread presumption, even among some security officials, that Egyptian security forces fear armed conflict.

The spokesmen for the police and the military could not be immediately reached for comment.

"Regardless of how you look at it, the government could have done more," Mr. Sakr said.

After the gunfire stopped, the boys emerged from the bathroom to find their mother wailing as she flipped over their dead neighbors and friends to search for her husband. She found his body lying over their 5-year-old son. The father, 52, had taken a bullet to the head but apparently saved the child.

"We were standing in a sea of corpses," said the mother, 38. "If it were not for my husband's body, I would have lost my son. The terrorists can have Al Rawda, Friday Prayer and everything else. We are staying home."

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Motives in Egypt's Deadliest Terrorist Attack: Religion and Revenge

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Bir al-Abed has long been one of the most pro-military towns in Sinai, going back as far as the uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, local leaders say. After militants and criminals stormed police stations and seized weapons during the uprising, residents took the weapons and returned them to the authorities in 2014 after they regained control of the area.