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April 21, 2015: Separatists carry out siege in Macedonia

On April 21, 2015 40 Macedonian NLA terrorists took over a police station near the border with Kosovo, beat the officers and stole their weapons.

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March 2, 1991: Car bombing kills deputy minister in Sri Lanka

On March 1, 1991 at least 30 people, including Sri Lanka’s Deputy Defence Minister were killed by a car bomb in Colombo.

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February 28, 2016: Suicide bombing in Baghdad cellphone market

On February 28, 2016 ISIS claimed a double suicide attack at a Baghdad cellphone market in which 70 were killed and 100 injured.

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February 25, 2000: Terrorists detonate planted bombs aboard Filipino ferry

On February 25, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front bombed three buses on a ferry in the Philippines, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 100.

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February 22, 1972: Terrorists hijack flight and demand ransom in Yemen

On February 22, 1972 the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine hijacked a Lufthansa flight and demanded a $5 million ransom.

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February 16, 2001: Bombing targets peacekeeping convoy in Kosovo

On February 16, 2001 Albanian terrorists were suspected to have been behind a bus bombing in which 12 Kosovo Serbs were killed in Podujevo.

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February 15, 1992: Assassination of Peruvian women’s rights leader

On February 15, 1992 the Sendero Luminoso assassinated Maria Elena Moyano, an Afro-Peruvian local activist and women’s rights campaigner

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February 1, 1978: Dutch children eat mercury-poisoned oranges

On February 1, 1978 five Dutch children fell ill after eating Israeli oranges poisoned with mercury by PLO sympathisers

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January 27, 2000: Terrorists bomb post office in Sri Lanka

On January 27, 2007 a powerful bomb ripped through a post office in northern Sri Lanka, killing at least 10 people, including three soldiers

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January 19, 2011: Jihadi attack on army outpost in southern Thailand

On January 19, 2011 40 jihadis armed with military weapons assaulted an army outpost in southern Thailand killing four soldiers and wounding six.