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'Visualise your own 13 y/o son, you aren't there to protect him'

Group of teenagers set upon two 13-year-olds near Liffey Valley Shopping Centre.

The Saudi oil facilities were attacked by ten drones

Oil prices soar after attack on Saudi facilities

Oil prices have seen a record surge after attacks on two Saudi facilities slashed output in the world's top producer by half, fuelling fresh geopolitical fears.

Business • 16 Sep 19

Facebook identified over 900 different videos showing portions of the gun attack on two Mosques in New Zealand.

Facebook to tighten rules on live streaming videos

Facebook said it is tightening its live streaming video rules after the service was used to broadcast gun attacks on two Mosques in New Zealand.

News • 30 Mar 19

Nice airport is France's biggest regional airport

Nice airport sale process delayed due to attack

The sale procedure for Nice airport, France's biggest regional airport, has been delayed for eight days following an attack on the French Riviera resort that killed 84 people, a spokeswoman for the Economy Ministry said.

Business • 19 Jul 16

Two women caught on camera, one with a gun and the other with a grenade

Two killed after Istanbul police station attack

Turkish police killed two women who threw grenades and opened fire at an Istanbul police station before taking cover inside a nearby building, Turkish media reports said.

News • 03 Mar 16

Police outside the house where the alleged murders took place

Man 'murders 14 family members' in India

A 35-year-old man killed 14 members of his family including six children with a butcher's knife before committing suicide in India.

World • 28 Feb 16

Ten German tourists were killed and another 17 people wounded in last Tuesday's attack

10 suspects charged over Istanbul bomb attack

A Turkish court has charged ten people over the suicide bombing in the heart of Istanbul's tourist district that killed ten Germans, media reported.

News • 18 Jan 16

Egyptian police and security personnel stand guard in front of the Bella Vista Hotel in Egypt's Red Sea resort of Hurghada

Egypt to increase security after tourist attack

Egypt's Tourism Minister Hisham Zaazou said that the government will announce additional security measures to safeguard tourists after an attack in the Red Sea resort of Hurgada left three injured yesterday.

News • 09 Jan 16

The judge was allegedly punched and kicked and brought to St James's Hospital

Man charged with judge attack remanded in custody

A man charged with attacking Judge Miriam Walsh during a family law court hearing in Dublin yesterday has been remanded in custody.

Ireland • 12 Dec 15

Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins speaking at a press conference at the Paris Court House

Prosecutor outlines details of Paris raid

The fate of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, remains unknown after a massive police assault on his alleged hideout, the city's prosecutor said.

News • 19 Nov 15

Turkish police guards march before an expected anti-G20 protest in Antalya, Turkey

Turkey foiled plot on same day as Paris attacks

Turkish authorities foiled a plot to stage a "major" attack in Istanbul on the same day as the deadly gun and suicide attacks in Paris, a senior official said today.

News • 15 Nov 15

Tributes are paid to the victims of the Bataclan theatre attacks

Many foreigners among Paris attack victims

People from around the world were caught up in Friday's terror attacks in France, which left 132 dead and many others injured.

News • 15 Nov 15

NATO has conceded that US forces may have been behind the attack.

US military conducted air strike near MSF hospital

The US military has said it conducted an air strike near a hospital run by Medecins Sans Frontieres in the Afghan city of Kunduz where 19 staff and patients, including three children, were killed in a blast.

News • 03 Oct 15

Yishai Shlissel, who was recently released from jail for a similar attack, was arrested following the incident

Six gay pride marchers stabbed in Jerusalem attack

An ultra-Orthodox Jew has stabbed six gay pride marchers in Jerusalem, in a repeat of a 2005 attack for which he served 10 years behind bars, police and medics said.

News • 30 Jul 15

Hundreds of people queued at the funeral home in Athlone

Crowds pay respects to couple killed in Tunisia

A crowd of over 2,000 people have paid their final respects to the Athlone couple who were killed in last Friday's terrorist attack in Tunisia.

News • 03 Jul 15

People gather to lay flowers on the beach where 39 people were killed in the terrorist attack

Suspects arrested over Tunisia beach attack

The Tunisian Interior Minister has said authorities have arrested a group of suspects associated with the man who killed 39 people in the coastal town of Sousse on Friday.

News • 29 Jun 15

Scotland Yard said there was a 'strong likelihood' the men were trying to kill the unborn child in the attack

Pregnant woman loses baby after street attack

A pregnant woman lost her baby following an attack on the street in London in which she was repeatedly kicked in the stomach.

News • 17 Jun 15

The lambs (not the ones pictured) died of a heart attack following the incident

Lambs die after right ears cut off in Armagh

Police in Northern Ireland are investigating after a number of lambs had their right ears cut off in Co Armagh.

News • 11 May 15

Locals stand outside 'La Terrasse' bar where a gunman opened fire

Islamist group claims it carried out Mali attack

The Mauritanian news website Al-Akhbar has said the armed Islamist group al-Mourabitoun has claimed responsibility for an attack in Mali's capital that killed five people.

News • 07 Mar 15

Suspected militants killed an army major and wounded six others at an army checkpoint in Rafah near the Gaza border

Death toll in Egypt attacks rises to 27

At least 25 people, mostly soldiers, have been killed in a bomb attack on military buildings in the capital of Egypt's North Sinai province.

News • 30 Jan 15

Boko Haram are trying to carve out an Islamic state in the northeast of Nigeria

Boko Haram attack repelled in major Nigerian city

Nigeria's military has repelled an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants on the Borno state capital Maiduguri in the northeast of the country, according to security sources.

News • 25 Jan 15

Police commandos ran into a hail of gunfire after trying to gain entry to an apartment in Verviers

Two killed in anti-terror raid in Belgium

Belgian police killed two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids today against a group that was about to launch "terrorist attacks on a grand scale", a federal prosecutor told a news conference this evening.

News • 16 Jan 15