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Pakistan is to end its moratorium on the death penalty in terror-related cases, the prime minister's office announced Dec. 17, a day after Taliban militants killed 141 people in an attack on a school.
     
The assault on the army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, the deadliest terror attack in Pakistan's history, has triggered widespread revulsion.
      

Bulgaria's National Security Agency (DANS) apprehended three foreign citizens, wanted in Spain for terrorist activities, reports the BNT public channel.

The two Moroccans and a Brazilian were arrested at the Kapitan Andreevo border crossing with Turkey as they were trying to cross into Turkey en route to Syria.

Balkans helping EU to eliminate terrorism

Regional police are working with global organisations to stem terrorist groups' recruiting practices.

Austrian police arrested 13 people, including a few from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and Serbia in raids targeting alleged terrorists connected to the so-called Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL).

On Sunday, yet another weird episode was added to Turkey's endless hall of shame: About three dozen people were detained, including many journalists. These included Ekrem Dumanlı, the editor-in-chief of Turkey's top selling newspaper, Zaman, and Hidayet Karaca, the general manager of Samanyolu, a news station and TV network.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan argues that the American continent was discovered by Muslim sailors some 300 years before Christopher Columbus – and that Muslims had even built a mosque atop a hill near the Cuban shore.

The secularist neighborhood is very much in disarray nowadays. Some sadistically enjoy what is happening to the people belonging to the Fethullah Gülen Islamist brotherhood, some are expressing sympathy for their suffering, while some are rather indifferent, saying two evil forces are fighting and they just don't bother which will eventually overcome the other.

U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon condemned a deadly Taliban attack on a Pakistan school on Tuesday as "an act of horror and rank cowardice to attack defenseless children while they learn."
   

A Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday has left at least 126 people dead, most of them children, officials say.

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A record 15,000 people marched Monday in eastern Germany against "asylum cheats" and the country's "Islamization" in the latest show of strength of a growing far-right populist movement.
      

The two hostages, who died in the Sydney cafe siege on Monday, have been named as the cafe manager Tori Johnson and Katrina Dawson, a barrister and mother of three.

Both victims were Sydney citizens. They and the gunman who had held them hostage for 16 hours were killed as police commandos stormed the cafe.