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 A Frenchman detained last month with a cache of weapons had planned attacks during Euro 2016, according to Ukrainian police. The US State Department has issued a related Europe Travel Alert.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron sought to win back the initiative Tuesday after polls showed the 'Remain' side in the U.K.''s EU referendum, which Cameron backs, slipping behind.
In a rare prime ministerial press conference, Cameron said that the 'Brexit' campaign was telling six lies about the EU.
But is that fair? Here''s a fact-check.
Cameron''s claim: The prime minister said that it is untrue to say, as the 'Leave' campaign has done, that the U.K. will be liable for future Eurozone bailouts. We won''t have to pay for such EU endeavors, he said.
Is it true? A 2011 European Council decision on Bailouts for Eurozone countries specified that the U.K. and other non-Euro states would not be liable. A Vote Leave briefing quotes Chancellor George Osborne saying that the EU had acted 'in flagrant breach of the agreement we''d all signed up to' in 2015 in seeking to make Britain pay for Greece''s bailout. He did say this, but he went on to confirm that the attempt had been blocked. Cameron is probably right.
Cameron''s claim: Cameron said that the U.K.''s 'rebate,' an instant discount on its EU contribution fees, is secure, and that Vote Leave''s claim that the EU could scrap it is untrue. 'The British prime minister has a veto on changes to our rebate. Only a British prime minister could decide to give it up,' he said.
Is it true? Yes. Research from the House of Commons Library concluded that 'unanimity of the member states is required to change' the rebate, while independent fact-checking organization Full Fact said: 'The rebate can''t be changed in future without the UK''s agreement.'
Cameron''s claim: Cameron hit back at Brexiters'' claims that the U.K. had given up its ability to veto EU treaties. 'There''s absolutely nothing in the renegotiation that gives up our veto as a full member of the European Union,' he said.
Is it true? Vote Leave points out that Cameron''s renegotiated EU membership deal does not allow him to veto new legislation aimed at driving integration within the Eurozone. That''s true, but that doesn''t mean he''s given up any veto he previously had on issues directly affecting the U.K.
Cameron''s claim: It''s 'wrong' to say the U.K. can''t stop the EU''s budget going up.
Is it true? The detail of Vote Leave''s response to this focuses on the parlous state of the EU''s finances, backed up with European Parliament research, and argues that the EU is likely to want to increase spending during the current, pre-agreed period to 2020. It''s true that Cameron hasn''t exactly highlighted this risk, but Vote Leave does not argue that he has no veto over any such increase, only that British politicians have ' constantly failed' to use the veto and that our 'political capital' with the EU is currently low.
Cameron''s claim: 'They said we were powerless to stop Britain being forced into an EU army. Again, not true.'
Is it true? There are all sorts of shared defense responsibilities different EU member states might choose to embark upon. But, the fact-checking group Full Fact said an actual EU army and common defense policy 'couldn''t be brought into existence without the agreement of the U.K.'
Cameron''s claim: The U.K. would not save money by leaving the EU.
Is it true? If I could answer that, I''d be doing something more lucrative right now than writing fact-check pieces for you to click on. The Vote Leave campaign said the U.K.''s net contribution to the EU in 2015 was £10.6 billion (
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 The deaths of David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna are sobering reminders of the risks that journalists take to bring news from war-torn regions to the outside world.
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A Japanese boy who was abandoned in a forest by his parents and survived for six days on his own leaves hospital.
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Bees swarm around the 'float like a butterfly' slogan at the Muhammad Ali Center in Louisville, Kentucky, as mourners pay tribute to the boxing legend.
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Just weeks after releasing the details of 3,000 Brooklynites, a hacker collective aligned to the Islamic State militant group (ISIS) has disseminated another hit list among its supporters on the privacy app Telegram.
The 800 names did not originate from a prime U.S. metropolitan hub though, but the rural southeastern state of Arkansas. The target? The Arkansas Library Association.
ISIS released the identities of 800 library workers from backwater towns in Arkansas last month, as well as their addresses, email addresses and telephone numbers. A small prize for a radical Islamist group that has plotted large-scale attacks in capital cities to further its aim of striking fear into the heart of Western 'crusaders,' the association is as obscure as it is an obvious choice for ISIS to target.
The group's cyber-wing has initiated a trend of hacking low-level sites and databases, releasing civilian details in longer lists with increasing frequency. It had previously released the details of military, governmental or diplomatic personnel. It is a key tenet of the group's amateurish cyber strategy of damaging Western interests and affecting civilians in areas of the Western world that the group is unable to reach.
ISIS publishes the lists and calls upon its supporters, more lone wolves than organized cells, to target those named in the list's home country. In the instance of the New York hit list, the NYPD or the FBI visited members to notify them and offer security advice.
But this latest hit list has left security services and members of this particular database breach unmoved. The group's limited success on the battlefield in its self-proclaimed caliphate in Iraq and Syria is being reflected in cyberspace. The Arkansas State Police is not working on the case and is leaving the follow-up to the Arkansas Library Association.
Bill Sadler, spokesperson for the Arkansas State Police, tells Newsweek : 'All I can tell you is that the Arkansas State Police is aware of the breach of the server. The Arkansas police does not have an open investigation and, as far as any notifications, that would be within the purview of the agency who lost the data.'
Instead of visits or direct contact to those on the list, the FBI chose to inform the Arkansas Library Association who would then contact those named. State and federal authorities essentially left the association to its own devices to inform the 800 people of the database hack, according to an email sent to members and obtained by Newsweek. No security advice was offered to the members of the association by the FBI nor the association itself.
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Author J K Rowling has urged people watching Harry Potter and the Cursed Child to keep what happens in the play secret.
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 The NPR photojournalist and his Afghan colleague killed in Afghanistan on Sunday died on the first day of an embed with local troops, highlighting the risks for reporters in a country where increasing amounts of territory are off-limits.
Photographer David Gilkey and Zabihullah Tamanna, an Afghan journalist working as a translator, were killed in a Taliban ambush shortly after joining Afghan troops in Helmand province, one of the most volatile areas in the country.
The NPR team, including Pentagon correspondent Tom Bowman and producer Monika Evstatieva, had just spent several days with coalition troops, including U.S. special forces, before they went over to an Afghan unit, said Colonel Michael Lawhorn, a spokesman for the NATO-led military coalition.
The team spent Sunday morning in the provincial capital of Lashkar Gah interviewing local officials, according to Shakil Ahmad Tasal, a public affairs officer for the 205th Corps who accompanied the NPR team during the drive.
NPR photojournalist David Gilkey is pictured at Kandahar Airfield, Afghanistan, in a May 29 handout photo.
Michael M. Phillips/Wall Street Journal/Reuters
The team carried a letter from the Afghan Ministry of Defence, directing the soldiers to escort them to the town of Marjah, roughly 30 km (18 miles) away, he said.
While Lashkar Gah has remained in government control, some surrounding areas of Helmand have been under serious pressure from Islamist militants from the Taliban insurgency.
Earlier this year in Marjah, U.S. forces conducted several air strikes to help beleaguered Afghan troops, and a U.S. Special Forces soldier was killed and two others were wounded during a Taliban attack.
On Sunday afternoon, a convoy of six lightly armoured Humvees, which also carried an Afghan general, was nearing Marjah when Taliban gunmen opened fire, pelting the vehicles with small arms and rocket fire.
'We were taking very heavy fire,' Tasal told Reuters.
The Humvee carrying Tamanna and Gilkey was hit by a shell and caught fire, killing the journalists and the soldier driving the vehicle, according to witnesses and NPR.
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A gunfight raged for at least 30 minutes before coalition and Afgh
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