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Dragan Vasiljkovic, aka Captain Dragan, pleads not guilty
Dragan Vasiljkovic, better known as Captain Dragan, has denied that he was guilty of war crimes committed against Croatian soldiers and civilians.
After the indictment against him was read for 20 minutes in a court in the town of Split on Tuesday, Vasiljkovic said he understood the charges, and pleaded not guilty on all counts.
Belgian authorities find a list of targets in Abdeslam’s apartment
Investigators have found a list of targets for future terror attacks in France on a computer used by attacker Salah Abdeslam.
According to information, Belgian authorities discovered a list on the hard drive of the computer in the apartment where the fugitive was captured.
Female Afghan police cadets train in Turkey
A total of 89 female Afghan police cadets began a two-month-long training program in Turkey on May 2.
Speaking at the opening ceremony of the program, Turkish Deputy Interior Minister Sebahattin Öztürk said a total of 2,627 Afghan policemen and women have joined the training program in Turkey since the two countries signed a cooperation agreement in 2011.
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German nuclear research center was among Abdeslam’s targets
Salah Abdeslam, one of the terrorists arrested for the bloody attacks in Paris, had targeted German nuclear research center, German media reports claim.
Authorities found articles and photos of German nuclear research center Juelich, which has atomic waste stored there, as well as its director Wolfgang Marquardt, in Abdeslam’s apartment.
Russia Establishing National Guard to Fight Terrorism, Organised Crime
Russia is establishing a National Guard force which will be tasked with fighting terrorism and organized crime, the country's President Vladimir Putin has announced.
UN Court Frees Serbian Security Chiefs Before Trial
Former Serbian state security officers Jovica Stanisic and Franko Simatovic, who will be retried in The Hague for war crimes in Bosnia and Croatia, are to be temporarily released.
Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam is in Brussels and skyping with friends!
Salah Abdeslam, 26, is the eighth man involved in the deadly Paris attacks that left 130 dead. He is believed to be in Brussels where police are searching for his whereabouts. He has already spoken to three friends via Skype in an effort to get back to Syria.
Brussels climbs up terror scale, shuts metro, cancels concerts and is on heightened alert
Just a week after Europe was gripped with shock following the multiple Paris attacks, Belgium raised the alert status for Brussels, its capital, to its highest level. The metro was shut and the public were warned to avoid crowds because of a “serious and imminent” threat of expected attack.
German Police Arrests Three Paris Attack Suspects
German police arrested two women and a man in connection with Friday's attacks in Paris, which had claimed the lives of 129 people and left hundreds injured.
The arrests were carried out in the town of Alsdorf, northeast of the city of Aachen, Deutsche Welle reports.
Special units were deployed to conduct the operation, with the arrests occurring at a job centre.
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Egypt court again postpones verdict in Jazeera reporters' retrial
An Egyptian court on August 2 postponed for a second time its verdict in the retrial of three Al Jazeera journalists, rescheduling it for August 29 in a move the defendants called an insult.