Boy Scout foils Maldives President assassination bid
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A 15-year-old Boy Scout intervened to stop a man from stabbing Maldives President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom with a kitchen knife on Tuesday, a move the leader's spokesman said saved him from assassination.
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AL-YARMOUK CAMP, Syria  - The militant Palestinian  group Hamas said on Monday an Arab country might have helped  Israel assassinate one of its leaders in Damascus, an act it  called "treason."
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Sudanese authorities said Friday they  foiled another plot by an opposition Islamist party to kidnap  and kill senior government officials and blow up sites in the  capital, a news agency close to the government reported.
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Sudanese authorities said Friday they foiled another plot by an opposition Islamist party to kidnap and kill senior government officials and blow up sites in the capital
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The teenager is being hailed as 'national hero' for thwarting an assassination attempt in the nation of tiny Indian Ocean islands.
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KARACHI, Pakistan  - An Islamic militant detained  for an assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf a  year ago escaped military custody while in a bathroom to wash  before early morning prayers, Pakistani security sources said  Tuesday.
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A plot by Colombian left-wing rebels to kidnap President Uribe's sons has been foiled, Colombian police say.
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An assassination attempt was made Sunday on the man who may replace Yasser Arafat as Palestinian chief.
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Bangladesh&#39;s main opposition party says party leader and former prime minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed narrowly escaped an assassination attempt yesterday, during an attack on a political rally.
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BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber killed 15 people yesterday in an assassination attempt on the head of Iraq's strongest Shi'ite party before parliamentary elections next month, while the biggest Sunni Muslim political group dealt a blow to ballot plans by withdrawing from the campaign because of the lack of security.
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NIGERIA LAGOS -- The Nigerian government yesterday disclosed a foiled coup plot, charging four military officers and a civilian with conspiring to topple the government by shooting down a helicopter carrying President Olusegun Obasanjo. Major Hamza al-Mustapha, former chief of personal security to the late military dictator General Sani Abacha, and four others, were each charged with two counts of ...
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Authorities have uncovered an al-Qaida-linked plot to assassinate the president of the Philippines, officials said Thursday.
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The Sudanese authorities announce yesterday it had foiled a coupe attempt against the government, hours before its implementation, and attributed it to Islamists members in the People&#39;s Congress party which is led by Hassan al-Turabi.
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FORWARD OPERATING BASE THUNDER, Afghanistan -- The story of a 6-year-old Afghan boy who says he thwarted an effort by Taliban militants to trick him into being a suicide bomber provoked tears and anger at a meeting of tribal leaders.
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KANDAHAR - Afghan troops foiled an attempt to blow up a fuel truck in the city of Kandahar in what the governor said could have been a &quot;catastrophic&quot; attack to disrupt a landmark election.
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The President of the Maldives, Maumoon Abdul Gayoom, escapes unhurt after an attempted knife attack.
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Sudanese authorities said Friday they foiled another plot by an opposition Islamist party to kidnap and kill senior government officials and blow up sites in the capital, a news agency close to the government reported.