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Six Turkish members of a cargo ship's crew have been kidnapped by pirates off the coast of Nigeria, a spokesman for the Nigerian navy said on Monday. The crew members of the merchant tanker M/T Puli were abducted some 90 miles from the coast at ...

Ten Indonesian crew members on board a tugboat were kidnapped by Abu Sayyaf militants in the Philippines over the weekend, officials in Manila said late on Monday. Two Philippine military officials said the militant group had demanded an undisclosed ransom amount from the boat's owners. ...

Hungarian anti-terrorist police last week detained four people heading to the capital with explosives in their car, and found a bomb-making laboratory set up for a mass killing, the unit's chief said on Tuesday, declining to rule out a link to Islamist militants. Security has ...

A government poll shows that 79.2 percent of the public feels anxiety about possible terrorism in Japan, with the fear being fueled by incidents abroad, particularly those involving Japanese.

Russia has drafted a United Nations Security Council resolution intended to increase pressure on governments to cut off cash flowing to the Islamic State group, according to a Russian diplomat and three other U.N. diplomats. The draft, which already has been circulated to the four ...

The United States has informally made known to Japan its position against paying ransom to terrorists, a U.S. State Department spokeswoman said Thursday in reference to the two Japanese citizens taken hostage apparently by the Islamic State extremist group. The U.S. view is that "it ...