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BRUSSELS ATTACKS

WORLD / Politics
May 9, 2016
Ex-U.K. spy chiefs warn Brexit would pose threat to country, all of Europe
A British vote to leave the European Union next month could make the country more vulnerable to militant attacks and cause instability across the continent, two former senior British intelligence officials said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 31, 2016
Hollande scraps plan to strip terror convicts of French nationality
French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday scrapped contested constitutional reforms he proposed after the Paris attacks, in an embarrassing U-turn for his already beleaguered government.
JAPAN
Mar 30, 2016
Japanese hospitalized in Brussels blasts regains consciousness
A Japanese man in his 30s who was hospitalized following a terrorist attack at a subway station in Brussels last week and who was believed to be in a coma has regained consciousness. He is now in stable condition, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said Wednesday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 30, 2016
FBI probing laptops linked to Belgian bombers, aiding terror investigation on site
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is examining laptop computers linked to suspects in last week's deadly Brussels bombings as investigators work to unravel the militant network behind the attacks.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Mar 30, 2016
Minister admits FBI warned Dutch about wanted El Bakraoui brothers week before Brussels attacks
The FBI told Dutch police that two brothers were being sought by Belgian authorities a week before the pair blew themselves up in suicide attacks in Brussels, the Dutch interior minister said on Tuesday.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 28, 2016
Belgium seeks more information on 'man in the hat'; death toll at 35
Belgian police issued a new appeal on Monday for information about a man caught on CCTV at Brussels Airport with two others who are thought to have blown themselves up in the check-in area last Tuesday.
WORLD
Mar 27, 2016
Nails and nail polish remover: Brussels bombers prepared a 'satanic' cocktail
An empty apartment block on a quiet street turned out to be the perfect place for the three suspected Brussels attackers to prepare the home-made nail bombs used in Tuesday's airport and metro attacks, which killed at least 31 people.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 27, 2016
Charged Brussels suspect may be missing airport bomber
"The man in the hat" is how Belgium has come to know the country's most wanted suspect in the Brussels attacks, seen in a CCTV picture with two others who were about to blow themselves up at Brussels airport on Tuesday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 25, 2016
There's a better way to secure our airports
Rather than add another layer of baggage and body screens, the aviation industry should emulate the security measures employed by Israel's Ben Gurion airport.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 25, 2016
Tech could help secure public spaces, if Europeans wants more surveillance
Facial recognition software, scanners that detect weapons and cameras that spot nervous people are some of the technologies that could be used more widely to secure public places, but some would require greater acceptance of surveillance in Europe.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 25, 2016
Recent raids may have led Brussels bombers to ditch plan to hit nuke plant: paper
Suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Brussels were originally considering an attack on a nuclear site in Belgium, but arrests started last week may have forced them to switch to targets in the Belgian capital, the DH newspaper said.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 24, 2016
G-7 foreign ministers to focus on terrorism in April meeting
Japan plans to issue a chair's statement strongly condemning terrorism when it hosts the Group of Seven foreign ministers' meeting in Hiroshima next month, government sources said Thursday.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2016
Belgium, my country, has been living in denial
Belgium's failures as a state over the past 30 years have also helped produce the perpetrators of jihadist atrocities.
Japan Times
COMMENTARY / World
Mar 24, 2016
Keep terrorism in perspective
People should be reminded that they are in much greater danger of dying from a fall in the bath than of dying in a terrorist attack.
JAPAN
Mar 24, 2016
Two Japanese men injured in Brussels bombings named; one remains in coma
A government source has identified one of the two Japanese nationals injured in Tuesday's terror attacks in Brussels as Yu Takita, who was hospitalized with serious injuries sustained in the subway blast.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 24, 2016
Brussels airport bombers ordered large taxi, got small one, left bomb behind
A mixup by a Brussels taxi dispatcher may have prevented more carnage at the city's airport on Tuesday, Belgium's DH newspaper reported, saying the cab firm sent a smaller car to pick up the bombers than the one ordered.
Japan Times
JAPAN
Mar 23, 2016
Japan airport operators step up security, but analysts warn of vulnerabilities
After at least 34 people died in bomb attacks in Brussels, operators of major airports in Japan tighten security.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 23, 2016
U.S. airports, airlines on high alert after deadly Belgium bombings
Airports in major U.S. cities were on high alert on Tuesday, with police out in force after at least 30 people were killed in bombings on Brussels airport and a rush-hour subway train, though officials said there was no specific threat to the United States.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 22, 2016
Islamic State claims responsibility for explosions that rock Brussels airport, subway, killing at least 30
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital  Tuesday that killed at least 30 people, a news agency affiliated to the group said.
JAPAN / Politics
Mar 22, 2016
Abe denounces attacks in Belgium, hikes security as ministry warns Japanese travelers
Japan, scheduled to host the Group of Seven summit in May, will further tighten security in response to the suspected terrorist attacks on Belgium's airport and subway system, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said Tuesday.

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