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Reports of gunfire sparks panic on London's Oxford Street

Thousands of shoppers fled in panic as armed police swooped on London's Oxford Street and Oxford Circus Tube station after receiving reports that shots had been fired.   People were seen taking shelter in nea

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Hundreds killed in deadly Egypt mosque bombing

At least 235 people were killed and more than 100 others injured on Friday when militants detonated explosives and sprayed gunfire inside a crowded mosque in the Sinai Peninsula, the deadliest terrorist attack in the country’s recent his

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Los Angeles police say airport gunfire report 'false alarm'

Terminals at Los Angeles International Airport were evacuated briefly late on Sunday before police determined that reports of gunfire in one of the terminals were only "loud noises", the latest false alarm at a busy US airport.

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Gunfire in Paris as police hunt shooting suspect

Shots rang out in the Saint Denis area of northern Paris early on Wednesday as special police forces launched an operation to catch one of the suspects from Friday night's shooting in the French capital, a police source told Reuters.

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Explosion, gunfire along Egypt-Gaza border, no casualties

Egyptian troops fired warning shots over the frontier into Gaza on Tuesday after a bomb exploded on Gaza territory near an Egyptian army convoy, Egyptian security sources said. Hamas, the Islamist group that governs Gaza, said Pal

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Saudi police officers injured in gunfire

Three Saudi security officers were wounded, one critically, by gunfire outside a police station in a flashpoint village in the mostly Shi'ite Muslim area of Qatif, the government said on Tuesday. The incident, which an Interio

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Egypt mulls Brotherhood ban, gunfire exchange in mosque

Egypt's prime minister has proposed disbanding the Muslim Brotherhood of ousted President Mohamed Mursi, the government said on Saturday, raising the stakes in a bloody struggle between the state and Islamists for control of the country.

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23 electrocuted at Saudi wedding

  Celebratory gunfire at a wedding party in eastern Saudi Arabia on Tuesday night brought down an electric cable, killing 23 people, a local civil defence official said.   "At the wedding, the

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Gunfire at Yemen hospital

An al Qaeda suspect tried to shoot his way out of hospital in Yemen's capital and killed a guard, while security forces and separatists clashed in the south of the country with five wounded. The suspected al Qaeda militant snatched a gun f

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Gunfire rocks Kenya town, 25 killed

Gunfire rang out in Nakuru on Saturday and armed gangs manned roadblocks in the western Kenyan town where at least 25 people have been killed in ethnic clashes since Thursday, witnesses said. Paramilitary police patrolled the Rift Valley p

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