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Turkey threatens to revoke citizenship of 130 people, two MPs, Gulen

Daily Dispatch June 5, 2017

Turkey warned 130 people, including two members of parliament and U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen that they will have their citizenship revoked if they do not return to the country to stand trial by September, according to a document published Monday. The list was published in the

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Officials discover 7 bodies of African migrants in abandoned truck in Libya

Daily Dispatch June 5, 2017

Officials say they discovered seven bodies of African migrants  who died from suffocation after being locked for two days in a refrigerated truck that was abandoned by people smugglers on the Libyan coast. Adel Mostafa, an anti-illegal migration official in Tripoli, said that 28 others, including five women, were rescued on Sunday when the truck […]

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BREAKING: Police arrest 12 people over London attack

Daily Dispatch June 4, 2017

British counter-terrorism police said Sunday they had arrested 12 people in Barking, in east London, in connection with the van and knife attack at London Bridge that left seven people dead. “Searches of a number of addresses in Barking are continuing,” they said in a statement. A woman was also arrested but was released following […]

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London attacks: Trump demands travel ban restored, orders ‘extra, tough’ security in U.S.

Daily Dispatch June 4, 2017

President Donald Trump has called for vigilance and what he termed “extra level of safety” following the multiple terrorist attacks in London on Saturday night. Trump was briefed of the incident by the National Security Adviser, Herbert McMaster, according to the White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer. The terror incidents reportedly left unconfirmed number of […]

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Seven killed, 48 injured in London Bridge attack

Daily Dispatch June 4, 2017

Seven people have now been confirmed killed and at least 48 injured in a terror incident in London in which three male attackers were also shot dead by police. A white van hit pedestrians on London Bridge at about 22:00 BST on Saturday before three men got out and stabbed people in nearby Borough Market. […]

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UK police arrest woman over alleged Liberian war torture

Daily Dispatch June 1, 2017

The British police on Thursday said that they had arrested a 51-year-old woman in London on suspicion of torture during the civil war in Liberia over 25 years ago. The police said that the woman was arrested in the east of the capital and searches were being carried out at two addresses in east London […]