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Aug- 2019 -23 AugustAsia Pacific
Sri Lanka ends state of emergency declared after Easter attacks
Sri Lanka has ended a four-month state of emergency declared after Easter suicide bombings by Islamist extremists that killed 258 people
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14 AugustAfrica
Female suicide bomber kills Chad soldier and five others in Kaiga-Kindjiria
A female suicide bomber killed six people after blowing herself up in Chad in an attack attributed to a faction of Boko Haram
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13 AugustAfrica
Mali children face increased violence threat from terrorist attacks, UNICEF says
UNICEF warned children in Mali faced rising violence with more than 150 killed in the first half of the year in jihadist and ethnic attacks
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12 AugustEurope
Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam charged over Brussels bombings
Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect in the November 2015 Paris attacks, was charged in connection with the Brussels bombings months later
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7 AugustAfrica
Nigeria: Female Boko Haram suicide bombers kill 3 in Mafa
Two female suicide bombers killed three civilians and wounded eight in a suspected Boko Haram attack in Borno, northeast Nigeria
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3 AugustAmericas
US police investigate ‘potential hate crime’ after 20 killed in El Paso mass shooting
US police are investigating a "potential hate crime" after a gunman armed with an assault rifle killed 20 people at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas
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1 AugustMiddle East
Dozens of Yemen police killed in twin attacks in Aden
Separate attacks by Yemen's Houthi rebels and an ISIS suicide bomber killed at least 49 people in Aden, many of them newly trained police cadets
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Jul- 2019 -24 JulyAsia Pacific
No prior ISIS link to Sri Lanka Easter attackers, investigator says
The Easter attacks in Sri Lanka were carried out by local islamists inspired by but not linked to Islamic State, a top investigator claimed
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11 JulyMiddle East
Syria: Bomb explodes outside church in Qamishli Christian neighborhood
A car bomb detonated near a church in the Kurdish-majority city of Qamishli in northeast Syria, wounding almost a dozen people
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3 JulyAfrica
Suspected Tunis suicide bombing plotter killed, ministry says
The suspected mastermind of twin suicide bombings in Tunis was killed when he blew himself up during a police manhunt outside the capital
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