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...Join Ta-Nehisi Coates, Alice Waters, Jancis Robinson, your favorite FT writers, and more on May 20 in Washington, DC, and online....
...“You can’t tell if he’s Jewish or Isis!” He’s Jewish too, he tells us, and has a sex joke about sleeping with Jewish guys, something about using eight fingers like a menorah....
...One day, the far-right influencer Tommy Robinson, a co-founder of the nationalist English Defence League, paid me a surprise visit at the Quilliam office....
...Encrypted apps such as Telegram have become favoured ways of communication for Isis and affiliates....
...Planet Europe Turkey assault Turkey has launched a major military offensive into northeastern Syria, vowing to eliminate the “terror threat” posed by Kurdish militants and Isis jihadis....
...Facebook has banned a host of far-right UK groups and individuals, including MEP candidate Tommy Robinson, whose real name is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, for breaching the social media platform’s hate speech...
...Sherlock expected OUCA’s president Nick Robinson to become the political star, and Johnson to succeed in journalism. Instead, Robinson now presents BBC radio’s Today programme....
...What we know so far Isis claimed responsibility for the attack through its media agency Amaq, saying the attacker was a “fighter” known as “the Belgian”....
...A month before the attack, Salah changed his social media profile to an Isis flag. An anti-terror body alerted federal police, who did nothing saying that Salah’s case had been closed....
...The FT’s expert Jancis Robinson recommends survival strategies: buy older vintages, and hunt out South African and British bottles....
...A trove of information was retrieved, including communications with Isis operatives in Syria....
...More recently, some 400 islanders have flown to Syria to fight for Isis, the highest rate per head of population in the western hemisphere....
...When pressed on topics such as Syria, Ms Georgieva highlighted the need to pay more attention to non-state groups, such as Boko Haram and Isis....
...The destruction of historic sites has also come to the fore in Syria, when Isis fighters destroyed much of the historic site of Palmyra....
...US-led international coalition forces who were meant to be targeting Isis said the strike was an accident, but both Moscow and Mr Assad say they believed it was intentional....
...Libya rises World powers agreed to back the fledgling unity governmentin Libya by lifting a UN arms embargo and building up its firepower against rebel factions and Isis....
...Both attacks have been linked to an Isis-affiliated terrorist cell, some of whose key operatives lived or grew up in Brussels....
...Twitter, for instance, have so far taken down 125,000 accounts related to Isis in less than a year, according to Europol....
...Truck attack links Le Parisien notes the methods are reminiscent of Isis “instructions” issued in 2014, which urged followers to consider vehicle borne attacks....
...blamed for missed opportunities and mistakes in the run-up to the attacks, with security experts focusing on the number of Belgians who have travelled to the Middle East to fight with jihadi groups such as Isis...
...On a brief trip to Iraq, he left behind an unpaid bar bill, tried to drive a Jaguar out of a showroom and attempted to visit the frontline of the fight against Isis. (He was stopped.)...
...Fears focus in particular on the number of so-called “foreign fighters” — people who have taken up arms for groups such as Isis in Syria — that the country produces....
...He was among 10 Isis leaders killed in air strikes over the past month. “We will hunt [Isis] leaders working to inspire attacks against US and our allies,” Col Warren said on his Twitter feed....
...Other European countries have radical mosques, active terror cells and disaffected, unemployed young men who are easily recruited by jihadi groups such as Isis....
...“Even the 1 per cent love a good deal and, post-Brexit, it’s never been cheaper for North Americans to head to the UK,” says Norman Howe of Toronto-based Butterfield & Robinson....
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