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India, France discuss defence coop in backdrop of Rafale probs
India | Jan 14, 2015, 09:53 AM ISTNew Delhi: Against the backdrop of difficulties in negotiations on Rafale fighter deal, top officials of India and France met in Paris during which the issue along with other subjects related to the defence cooperation
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Video of Paris gunman raises questions of affiliations
World | Jan 12, 2015, 08:14 AM ISTParis: Two days after his death, a video emerged Sunday of one of the Paris gunmen pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group, while his two fellow militants have claimed to be from al-Qaida—a fiercely
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US to hold summit on countering 'violent extremism'
World | Jan 12, 2015, 06:53 AM ISTParis: A security summit will be held in the US capital Washington next month, which will discuss ways to deal with violent extremism across the globe, US Attorney General, Eric Holder said here Sunday.The security
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5 held over Paris attacks freed from custody
World | Jan 11, 2015, 02:48 PM ISTParis: Five people detained in connection with the three days of bloodshed in France have been released from custody, the Paris prosecutor's spokeswoman said Sunday.The gunmen who carried out the attacks on the satirical newspaper
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France to deploy 500 additional military personnel in greater Paris
World | Jan 10, 2015, 06:42 PM ISTParis: Around 500 extra military personnel will be deployed in the greater Paris region, the French defence ministry said today.“The military personnel will be deployed in two waves in Ile de France,” the defence ministry
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Seven killed as Paris double hostage crisis ends
World | Jan 10, 2015, 12:03 AM ISTParis: At least seven people were killed Friday, including three gunmen, after security forces brought to an end two tense hostage dramas in separate locations in the French capital.While Cherif and Said Kouachi, the two
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Police officials: 4 dead in Paris grocery hostage crisis
World | Jan 09, 2015, 11:21 PM ISTParis: Two police officials say at least four people, including the attacker, have died at a kosher grocery in Paris where a gunman took several hostages.Security forces stormed the grocery minutes after their counterparts assaulted
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Explosions at building where 2 terror gunman are holed up
World | Jan 09, 2015, 10:55 PM ISTParis: Terrorists linked to each other seized hostages at two locations around Paris on Friday, facing off against thousands of French security forces as the city shut down a famed Jewish neighborhood and scrambled to
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France faces 2 hostage-taking attacks; 1 on kosher market
World | Jan 09, 2015, 08:05 PM ISTDAMMARTIN-EN-GOELE, France: French security forces struggled with two rapidly developing hostage-taking situations Friday, one northeast of Paris where two terror suspects were holed up with a hostage in a printing plant and the other an
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France: Shooting, hostage-taking in eastern Paris
World | Jan 09, 2015, 06:38 PM ISTPARIS: France's anti-terrorism prosecutor says a shooting and hostage-taking attack is underway at a kosher market on the eastern edge of Paris. A police official said there are multiple hostages and wounded at the scene.The
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Paris: We are prepared to die as martyrs, Charlie Hebdo attackers tell French Police
World | Jan 09, 2015, 06:14 PM ISTDammartin-En-Goele (France): Two brothers suspected in a newspaper terror attack were cornered inside a printing house northeast of Paris on Friday, taking a hostage and telling police they “want to die as martyrs,” a lawmaker
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Paris:1 person killed and several injured in fresh gunfire, operation on to nab Charlie Hebdo attackers
World | Jan 09, 2015, 03:18 PM ISTParis: One person has died with several others injured in gunfire between cops and Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects during a car chase. The incident took place today when French police were hunting for two brothers
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Charlie Hebdo attack: Cop killed on pavement identified as Ahmed Merabet
World | Jan 09, 2015, 09:18 AM ISTParis: The last of the 12 victims slain in the terror attack on the French newspaper Charlie Hebdo was a police officer _ the son of immigrants from mainly Muslim North Africa _ who was
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Britain takes 'precautionary' steps after Paris terror attack
World | Jan 09, 2015, 08:42 AM ISTLondon: Britain has taken "precautionary" steps to boost security along its border with France, following the terror attack on the office of a magazine in Paris, British Home Secretary, Theresa May, said Thursday.On Wednesday, gunmen
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Charlie Hebdo Shooting: World defends the freedom of expression, rallies held with people holding pens in hand
World | Jan 09, 2015, 07:43 AM ISTFrom Berlin to Bangkok, tens of thousands took a stand against living in fear, as rallies defended the freedom of expression and honored the victims of a Paris newspaper attack.Viewing the Paris killings as a
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Paris 'Charlie Hebdo' Attack: 10 findings about suspected terrorists
World | Jan 08, 2015, 09:55 PM ISTParis: Shaken to core after the deadly attack on satirical weekly ‘Charlie Hebdo', the French security forces have initiated a massive operation to get-on-hold of the two brothers who are suspected of killing 12 people
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Tensions high across Paris as French hunt for 2 killers in attack on newspaper
World | Jan 08, 2015, 09:10 PM ISTParis: With tensions high across Paris, French authorities hunted on Thursday for two heavily armed brothers they feared would strike again after the methodical killing of 12 people at a satirical newspaper that caricatured the
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Paris carnage a conflict between liberty and tyranny, says Salman Rushdie
World | Jan 08, 2015, 08:00 PM ISTLondon: Noted author Salman Rushdie, who spent years in hiding for fear of Islamic death squads because of his remarks against Propher Mohammed in his book "The Satanic Verses", has said, the Paris carnage appears
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More than 150,000 people gather for vigils across France, Eiffel Tower to go dark tonight
World | Jan 08, 2015, 08:03 PM ISTParis: More than 150,000 people turned up to hold vigils in silence in Paris and other cities of France on Wednesday night, even as mourners across France observed a minute of silence today to honour
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Charlie Hebdo attacks a result of clash of values?
World | Jan 08, 2015, 05:52 PM ISTParis: Two sides in conflict over whether there should be limits to the liberty of self-expression clashed violently in a usually tranquil side street on the Right Bank of Paris.When it was over, a dozen