Previously Unknown Group Says It Shot Greek Extremists

By Alkman Granitsas

The Wall Steet Journal

Urban Guerrillas Say They Killed Two and Injured One in Retaliation for Rap Artist's Murder

A previously unknown urban guerrilla group has claimed responsibility for the shooting of three alleged members of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party earlier this month outside local party offices in a suburb north of Athens.

At least two killed in shooting outside Athens Golden Dawn office

ATHENS | Fri Nov 1, 2013 2:24pm EDT

(Reuters) - At least two people were killed in a drive-by shooting outside the offices of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party in Athens on Friday, police sources said.

The attack comes amid a crackdown by the government on the party after a self-proclaimed Golden Dawn sympathizer stabbed an anti-fascism rapper to death in September.

Golden Dawn, Greece's third most popular party according to opinion polls, said on its website that the victims were aged 20 and 23 years old. Police had not yet verified their identities and details on the shooting were not immediately available.

Hooded assailants start fire at Greek minister's office

ATHENS | Wed Oct 9, 2013 4:52pm EDT

(Reuters) - Six hooded assailants doused the office of Greece's merchant marine minister with gasoline on Wednesday and set it on fire, causing only minor damage to the entrance, police said.

Three men charged with undermining Boston bombing probe

3:26pm EDT

By Scott Malone, Tim McLaughlin and Mark Hosenball

BOSTON/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged three men with interfering with the investigation of the Boston Marathon bombing, accusing two students from Kazakhstan of hiding a laptop computer and backpack belonging to one of the suspected bombers.

The third man, a U.S. citizen named Robel Phillipos, was charged with making false statements to investigators.

With Boston Manhunt, Media Is Part of a Story It Is Covering

The New York Times

April 19, 2013

By BRIAN STELTER

Reporters, camera crews and ordinary citizens with cellphone cameras were squarely in the middle of the manhunt in Boston that gripped the nation on Friday, and the result was some of the most startling, and at times unnerving, news coverage in years.

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.