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* The Salvation Army responds to the explosions in Central London *
The Salvation Army is part of the official major incident response in London.
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Airlines on high alert as terror threat thwarted *
Thwarted: Alleged terrorists planned to use liquid explosives concealed as sports drink bottles and common electronic devices to bring down as many as 10 planes in a nearly simultaneous strike.
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American hostage beheaded *
A video posted Monday on a website showed the gruesome beheading of a man identified as American construction contractor Eugene Armstrong, a killing purportedly carried out personally by key terror suspect Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.
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Amid the wreckage, Britain seeks answers *
As London calmly picked itself up from Thursday's terrorist attacks and began to count the corpses yesterday, its citizens and leaders embarked on the far more difficult task of finding an explanation amid the chaos and wreckage.
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BCIT building destroyed in blast *
An explosion rocked the B.C. Institute of Technology campus in this Vancouver suburb on Tuesday, caving in the roof of one building and sending glass from nearby windows flying.
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Blasts hit London again, 2 weeks after train bombs *
Four small coordinated explosions hit London's bus and underground train network on Thursday, injuring one person, exactly two weeks after bombers killed more than 50 people in the British capital.
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Bomb found on Spanish high-speed rail line *
Police found a bomb Friday on a high-speed rail line between Madrid and Seville, Interior Minister Angel Acebes said.
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Brits arrest third man *
London's police commissioner expressed regret Sunday for the slaying of a Brazilian electrician by officers who mistook him for a suspect in the recent terror bombings, but he defended a police shoot-to-kill policy as "the only way" to stop would-be suicide bombers.
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Canadian soldiers pay tribute to fallen comrade *
Canadian soldiers pay tribute to fallen comrade; British soldier killed in attacks during memorial.
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China shopping mall fire kills at least 53; fire at temple kills 39 *
A fire at a crowded shopping mall killed at least 53 people Sunday in China's northeast, while 39 died in a blaze in a temple in the southeast, state media said.
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Death toll in Russia tops 340 *
More than 340 people, including 155 children, were killed in the violence that ended a hostage standoff with militants at a southern Russian school, a prosecutor said Saturday.
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Dozens die in terror attack *
Thousands of troops poured into a southern Russian city Tuesday, chasing Chechen rebels who set fire to police and government buildings in co-ordinated attacks that killed at least 57 people, officials said.
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Emergency calls betray chaos of 9/11 *
A doomed fire official inside a command post at the World Trade Center reported a chaotic scene where communication between the responding units became increasingly difficult, according to recordings of emergency phone calls from Sept. 11, 2001, released Wednesday.
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Explosion rocks Moscow train station *
39 dead, 150 injured in suspected suicide bombing.
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Greenspan says terror tops all risks *
Senate committee weighs extending tenure of Fed chairman another four years
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Haiti rebellion spreads *
Rebellion spread to central Haiti on Monday as rebels and former soldiers attacked a police station in Hinche and President Jean-Bertrand Aristide pleaded for help to stop the bloodshed.
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How long will this one last? *
Meet Mahmoud Zahar, the third leader the militant Palestinian group Hamas has had in a month. He won't admit his new status because he'd like to stay alive, even though, he tells MATTHEW KALMAN, assassination by the Israelis 'is a new oil for our movement'
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Islam on the ropes *
This week's massive firefight in Iraq symbolizes the depth of Islamic defiance -- but not in China, reports GEOFFREY YORK. Remote Xinjiang's one-rebellious Muslims now live in fear.
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Kidnapped American slain by al-Qaeda group *
Organization released photos of beheaded contractor on website (not shown here, of course); Saudi forces kill leader of the terrorist group.
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London death toll climbs *
The number of people killed in a devastating string of co-ordinated terrorist attacks in London will be more than 50 as emergency workers continue efforts to retrieve bodies from the city's underground, police said Friday.
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Mumbai back to Normal after Serial Bomb Blasts *
Mumbai was struck by terrorist attacks on 11th July 2006, with a series of seven high-intensity bomb-blasts in local trains on the western railway line -- the main life-line of the city of Mumbai.
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New bomb blasts rock London again; suspect killed *
Police in London arrested a man Friday in connection with a series of attempted bombings on the city's transit system a day earlier.
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New York releases 9-11 tapes *
The City of New York has released hours of radio transmissions and thousands of pages of oral histories from firefighters, paramedics and police who responded to the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
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Osama bin Laden praises 'martyrs' *
Osama bin Laden urged sympathizers to join the "caravan of martyrs" as he praised one of the September 11 suicide hijackers in a new video that emerged Tuesday.
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Rebels plot Aristide's overthrow *
Welcome to Gonaïves, says the soda-pop ad on a billboard past the rebel-controlled barricade at the entrance to town. Life Tastes Good.
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Remember. . . *
New York, NY, September 11, 2001
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Sept. 11 families lament rush to rebuild *
— Families and friends of victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks will mark a sombre anniversary today in a surreal setting — the giant hole at ground zero that is a graveyard and hallowed memorial site, as well as a transportation hub and a massive construction zone.
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Transport minister urges calm after terror plot revealed *
Canadians should have no fear about flying, said Transport Minister Lawrence Cannon at a news conference Thursday afternoon.
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True Brit: The Queen's Defiant speech *
The Queen yesterday warned the London terror bombers: "You will not change our way of life."
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Turkish teen rescued from rubble *
A 16-year-old buried in a collapsed apartment building in central Turkey was pulled alive from the wreckage Sunday — six days after the disaster.
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U.S. congressman blasts Canada on terrorism policy, supports ban on immigrants *
A U.S. congressman who says Canada's in denial about terrorism is applauding as "sound advice" the idea of shutting out immigrants and refugees until the country fixes its security risks.
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Violent Islamic groups encouraged *
Ineffective U.S. policies in Central Asia are encouraging violent Islamic groups, some seeking to form their own state, says analyst NICOLE JACKSON.
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Western airlines threatened *
A statement bearing al-Qaeda's name warned Monday that western airliners will be the terror group's target...
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Why Bush has more to fear than fear itself *
The latest terrorism alert -- which, like the others, has thankfully produced nothing but fear itself -- was based primarily on at least three-year-old communications in Pakistan.
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Widening Their Hunt, British Police Make Seven More Arrests *
British police today widened their hunt for people involved in attempted terrorist bombings in London on July 21, seizing six men and a woman at an apartment house in a seaside resort town in East Sussex.
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Wings of defence *
The highest levels of the U.S. government, it is now clear, were beset by chaos, confusion and miscommunication on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Indeed, had the civil aviation bureaucracy and the military been in closer contact on that day, hijacked aircraft might have been shot down before they hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
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Woman latest saved from building rubble *
A critically injured 24-year-old woman was pulled out alive Monday after a week buried in the rubble of a collapsed apartment building — a dramatic rescue that came after teams heard her scraping her finger nails against shattered concrete and pleading, “Water, water.”
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Wrong man killed in bomber hunt *
London -- already tense with fear of terrorists, yesterday -- had to cope with the news its police had killed an innocent man in the hunt for bombers.
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9-11 commemoration and tributes *
Americans mark the fifth anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks today with somber ceremonies across the country and at the sites of the devastation in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.
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9/11 transcripts released *
After a plane struck the first of the World Trade Center towers on Sept. 11, 2001, callers from the top floors of the neighbouring tower were told by Port Authority police to remain where they were.
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9/11: America remembers terror *
The name of every person to die at the World Trade Center two years ago was read aloud at the site Thursday morning, a ceremony that took several hours. It was one of a flurry of commemorations of the thousands who were killed in the worst terrorist attacks on U.S. soil.
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Britain downgrades security alert *
The British government downgraded its terror threat level from critical to severe Monday, saying intelligence suggested an attack was no longer imminent after security forces foiled an alleged plot to bring down transatlantic airliners heading to the United States.
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Canada mourns with U.S., PM tells Bush *
Chrétien phones President on anniversary of 9/11 attacks in New York, Washington
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Day blames Internet, not Afghan involvement, for terror threats *
Meanwhile, Jon Stewart pokes fun at the concept of terrorism in Canada, saying: "It's like being mad at toast."
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Designing a memorial of light *
Eight finalists have been chosen from 5,201 submissions in a design competition for a commemorative element at Ground Zero. SIMON HOUPT surveys the contenders.
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Ground Zero of the human heart *
The agony of their loss is more muted now, but three widows of 9/11 victims find the pain still ambushes them
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Officials comb through Paris hotel fire debris *
Firefighters and police have been searching the ruins of a Paris hotel after a devastating fire killed at least 21 people, 10 of them children.
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Paris hotel blaze toll tops 20 *
A fire that swept through a central Paris hotel early Friday killed 20 people -- including 10 children -- and injured more than 50 others, including two Canadians.
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Surfers beware: surveillance ahead *
Bell Sympatico says Federal government expected to revive Internet monitoring bill -- e-mail privacy at issue.
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U.S. House votes to protect fetus *
The House voted Thursday to subject assailants who injure or kill a pregnant woman and her fetus to two separate crimes. The bill would for the first time under federal law give victim's rights to a fetus.
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