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IS Claims Suicide Bombing in Philippines
August 01, 2018
Official Islamic State (IS) media sites claimed that a foreign fighter from Morocco perpetrated a deadly suicide bombing attack in the area of the Philippines that suffered a major jihadi assault last year, indicating the transcontinental footprint of diverse Islamist groups with global mobilization capacity and active operations in Asia.
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IS Tajikistan Attack Kills Two Americans
August 01, 2018
Two US citizens were among the four dead in a group of seven foreign bicyclists attacked in Tajikistan by loyalists of the Islamic State (IS)-affiliated Islamic Renaissance Party of Pakistan.
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UN Migration Compact Seeks Pressure Against “Intolerant” Media
July 31, 2018
Michael Feeley reports that the draft Global Compact for Migration recently negotiated by UN member states calls for signatories to engage in “sensitizing and educating media professionals on migration-related issues and terminology” and to stop public funding of media outlets that convey “intolerance” and “xenophobia” toward migrants.
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EC Plans Fines for Companies over Online Terrorist Content
July 31, 2018
The Economic Times reports on European Commission (EC) plans to introduce legislation in the coming months that would fine social-media companies that fail to rapidly remove content promoting terrorism from their platforms.
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USAID Funds Went to Al-Qaeda Affiliate in Sudan
July 30, 2018
The US Agency for International Development (USAID) awarded almost $1 million to World Vision Inc., an international evangelical charity, much of which went to the group’s sub-grantee, the Khartoum-based Islamic Relief Agency (ISRA), despite ISRA’s earlier US Treasury designation as an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist organization.