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NCIS Investigation Finds Sailors Data Breached
The US Navy is investigating a data breach after personal information of more than 130,000 sailors was accessed.
The breach came after the laptop of an employee at Hewlett Packard Enterprise working on a naval contract was "compromised", the Navy said. It added that "unknown individuals" accessed the sensitive information on current and former sailors.
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Paris Attack Planned By Men Arrested In France
Five men arrested last weekend in raids in France were planning a terror attack next Thursday in Paris, according to the city's chief prosecutor.
Francois Molins said the suspects were receiving orders via encrypted mobile apps from a commander of the so-called Islamic State based in Iraq or Syria. The raids, in Strasbourg and Marseille, also turned up automatic weapons.
French anti-terror police have now kept the men in custody without charge a day beyond the maximum period. They are able to do so following a recent change to anti-terror laws.
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Turkish Troops Killed In Syria Airstrike
Three Turkish soldiers have been killed and 10 others wounded in northern Syria in a Syrian government air strike, the Turkish military says.
The attack occurred at about 03:30 (00:30 GMT) on Thursday, during an operation by Turkish-backed Syrian rebels against Islamic State militants.
It would be the first time Turkish soldiers have been killed by Syrian government forces in the offensive. There was no immediate comment from the Syrian military. It has previously denounced Turkey's support for the rebels with hundreds of troops, warplanes, tanks and artillery as a "flagrant violation of Syrian…
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Cybersecurity Skills To Begin At Bletchley Park In 2018
Bletchley Park, the site of secret code-deciphering projects during World War Two, could become the centre for a new generation of codemakers and codebreakers.
There are plans for a training college to teach cybersecurity skills to 16-19 year olds at the Buckinghamshire site.
Former Home Secretary Lord Reid said it had become vital to build up the "talent pool" for cyber-defence. The college in a wartime building at Bletchley is intended to open in 2018.
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'Sharia Police' In Germany Did Not Break Laws
A German court has ruled that seven Muslim men who formed a Sharia street patrol did not break laws against political uniforms.
The group sparked outrage in the western city of Wuppertal in 2014, when they approached people in orange vests bearing the words "Sharia Police". They demanded that locals stop gambling, listening to music, and drinking alcohol.
The group's alleged organiser, Sven Lau, is a well-known Islamist preacher. He is facing separate charges of supporting a terrorist group fighting in Syria.
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Russia Accuses Ukraine Of Abducting Two Servicemen
Russia has accused Ukraine of abducting two of its servicemen from the Crimean peninsula, which it annexed in 2014.
The Russian defence ministry said the men were "illegally detained" on Sunday. Ukraine says the pair are deserters, who defected to Russia from the Ukrainian military after Crimea was annexed by Russian forces in 2014.
Russia called their arrest "another act of gross provocation" and called for their "immediate return". The men have been named as Ensign Maxim Evgenyevich Odintsov and Junior Sergeant Alexander Vyacheslavovich Baranov.
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Two Qatari Women Robbed Of Valuables Worth £4.5m Near Paris
Masked men have robbed two Qatari women and their driver on a motorway north of Paris, taking valuables worth €5m (£4.5m; $5.6m), police sources say.
The sisters had just left Le Bourget airport in their Bentley on Monday evening when they were forced off the road and sprayed with tear gas."Everything in the vehicle: jewels, clothes, luggage" was taken, a police source told AFP news agency.
A Saudi prince was robbed while passing through the same area two years ago.
Le Bourget bills itself as "Europe's premier business airport".
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Riot At HMP Doncaster
Inmates smashed up 36 cells in a riot at a Doncaster prison, officials said.
The action by prisoners at HMP Moorland caused fire and water damage in one of the wings. One prisoner was injured but did not require hospital treatment. No staff were hurt.
The Prison Officers Association (POA) said 60 inmates had been moved to other prisons. Staff brought the "isolated incident" under control overnight, the Prison Service said. It is unclear how many prisoners took part in the rioting.
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Murder Suspect Gives Clue Through His Own Tattoo
Police in Spain who arrested a murder suspect may have been handed a large clue through one of his tattoos.
The unnamed man was sought by German police after the murder of his girlfriend in Bavaria. Authorities did not know when she died, but one of the man's tattoos gives her name, Lisa, and date of death - 27 October 2016.
The man was held in Lloret de Mar, in Catalonia, with their 18-month-old son, who was in good health.
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Suicide Bomber Kills At Least 27 In Kabul Mosque Attack
A suicide bomber has killed at least 27 people in a suicide attack inside a Shia Muslim mosque in the Afghan capital, Kabul, police say.
Another 35 were wounded in the blast at the Baqir ul Olum mosque. The attacker was on foot and blew himself up among crowds inside the building, officials said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.
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