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[Link] ‘Death weapons’ : Inside a teenage terrorist network

Read: 4/8/2022 www.politico.eu

When Lukas F. walks onto the site of an abandoned army barracks in the summer of 2021 as part of his training to be a terrorist, he is 16 years old, a slender boy with dark hair. The site is about 45 minutes from the center of Potsdam, a city just southwest of Berlin, Germany.

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[Link] First Popularized in the US, Russia Adopts 'Crisis Actor' Conspiracy Theory

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

The official Twitter account for the UK’s Russian embassy is accusing a pregnant Ukrainian woman, seen in photos of a maternity hospital blast in Mariupol on Wednesday, of being an actor placed in the scene by propagandists in support of Ukraine.

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[Link] Yangon’s silenced streets: how a hotbed of anti-coup resistance was extinguished

Read: 6/2/2022 www.theguardian.com

As Thitsar* walked through her neighbourhood one December morning, she was struck by its emptiness. The bamboo shacks that line the streets of Hlaing Tharyar, an industrial township on the outskirts of Myanmar’s largest city, Yangon, lay in tatters, overgrown with weeds.

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[Link] Who is ISIS-K, the Islamic State offshoot in Afghanistan that has the Taliban worried?

Read: 27/8/2021 www.abc.net.au

Deadly explosions have rocked the edge Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport overnight killing and injuring locals wanting to flee Afghanistan after the Taliban's takeover, as well as US military personnel trying to help the evacuation effort.

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[Link] Bomb Explodes at California Church Known for Hateful Views

Read: 26/1/2021 www.nytimes.com

Officials said no one was injured in the attack. The church had been the target of protests over its messages against women, Jews, L.G.B.T.Q. people and the Black Lives Matter movement. The F.B.I.

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