One of the attackers captured on camera

One of the two men involved in the Woolwich terror attack was known to a banned Islamist organisation and went by the name of Mujahid,The Independent has learned.

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Pakistan’s nuclear weapons mastermind AQ Khan denies advising North Korea and Iran

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Museum boss suspended for ‘unsupported’ staff pay rises

Retired army officer was forced out for awarding Royal Armouries workers thousands of pounds

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The parachute columnists are back with a vengeance

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Birthdays: Tony Blair and Grame Souness – separated in the maternity ward?

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Car bomber kills 5 in Somali capital

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Steven Spielberg is to direct Bradley Cooper in a film adaptation of American Sniper

Steven Spielberg to direct adaptation of American Sniper starring Bradley Cooper

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A young girl stands amid the burned ruins of Baga, Nigeria

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Nigeria has been added to the Committee for the Protection of Journalists' annual list of most dangerous countries

Afghan interpreters who helped British forces in home country launch legal challenge against government decision not to allow them to settle in the UK

Afghan interpreters who have aided British forces in their country have issued a plea to the UK Government to grant them asylum to save them from the “danger” of Taliban vengeance attacks.

Nigeria joins journalist danger list on World Press Freedom day

Nigeria today joined the list of countries where journalists are routinely murdered and assaulted without any convictions for their attackers.

Deaths of three soldiers in Afghanistan is 'a hammer blow', says Royal Highland Fusiliers battalion spokesman

The deaths of three soldiers who were killed by a roadside bomb in Afghanistan are a “hammer blow”, a spokesman for their battalion has said.

James McCormick arrives for sentencing at the Old Bailey

Conman James McCormick jailed for 10 years over fake bomb detectors

Judge who told him that he had blood of the innocent on his hands

The library’s exhibit dedicated to the 9/11 attacks

The day I became president – but George W Bush still got his way on invading Iraq

The new presidential Library in Dallas  offers an interactive experience of life in the Oval Office. David Usborne takes the hotseat

English Defence League looks to capitalise on failed plot by Islamists' gang to slaughter supporters

Experts warn attack on EDL could spark war on the streets of Britain

Ali Kafi: Politician who led Algeria following the 1992 coup

Ali Kafi, who died on 16 April at the age of 84, led Algeria for two years after the 1992 military coup that aimed to stop Islamists from winning a national election. Kafi led the High Committee of State from 1992-94 during the opening years of Algeria's bloody civil war with Islamic extremists. His rule followed the assassination of Mohammed Boudiaf, who was briefly president after generals forced Chadli Benjedid to resign. The civil war lasted more than a decade and cost 200,000 lives.

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