Police officer shot to death at MIT campus near Boston

By Scott Malone

WATERTOWN, Massachusetts | Fri Apr 19, 2013 2:28am EDT

(Reuters) - A police officer for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was shot to death on Thursday night at the school's Cambridge campus, touching off a manhunt in a community on edge just days after the Boston Marathon bombing.

Boston bomb suspect identified on video, no arrest made

By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Scott Malone

BOSTON | Wed Apr 17, 2013 3:35pm EDT

(Reuters) - Investigators believe they have identified a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing from security video, a law enforcement source said on Wednesday, but no arrest had yet been made.

Police may make an appeal to the public for more information at a news conference scheduled for later on Wednesday, a government source said.

Earlier, CNN reported a suspect was in custody, citing Boston and law enforcement sources, but later retracted its report.

Makeshift bomb injures two at Greek shopping mall

By George Georgiopoulos

ATHENS | Sun Jan 20, 2013 9:48am EST

(Reuters) - A makeshift bomb lightly injured two security staff at a large shopping center near Athens on Sunday, in escalating political violence in the crisis-hit country.

Explosive device at shopping mall near Athens injures two

ATHENS | Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:29am EST

(Reuters) - An explosive device went off on Sunday at a shopping centre near Athens causing damage and lightly injuring two security employees, police said.

Gun attack on PM's party HQ escalates Greek violence

By Dina Kyriakidou and George Georgiopoulos

ATHENS | Mon Jan 14, 2013 5:21am EST

(Reuters) - Unidentified attackers opened fire on the headquarters of Greece's governing New Democracy party with a Kalashnikov assault rifle early on Monday, in what the government said was a worrying escalation in political violence.

Journalists in Greece Are Becoming Targets

By LIZ ALDERMAN

Published: January 12, 2013

The New York Times

¶ The Greek police on Saturday were looking for the people responsible for detonating makeshift bombs at the homes of five journalists in Athens, the latest in a series of actions taken against reporters in Greece who have raised questions about a deteriorating climate for media freedom.

The Toulouse killings

Murders in the Midi-Pyrénées

A ghastly killing spree interrupts the presidential campaign

Mar 24th 2012 | PARIS | from the print edition

The Economist

AFTER a 32-hour siege, in which a heavily armed police squad surrounded his house in Toulouse, Mohammed Merah, who is suspected of killing four adults and three children in a series of terror attacks in south-west France, died when police stormed the building on March 22nd. The news capped days of drama that rocked the country and—temporarily—put its presidential election campaign on hold.