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    Isis jihadists are planning "large scale" terror attacks and focussing primarily on European targets, Europol has said. The police agency launched a new Europe-wide counter-terror intiative on Monday, and warned that the threat from Isis was the worst the continent has faced in more than 10 years. Rob Wainwright, the director of Europol, said militants had developed a new combat strategy to attack major European cities, and the agency also cited the growing number of Isis foreign fighters as a “posing new challenges for EU members states”. But amid growing attempts to link such challenges to the intake of more than one million refugees into Europe last year, the police agency said in a report that there was no concrete evidence to suggest this was the case. Releasing the f...

    In 2011, activist Esraa Abdel-Fattah helped ignite revolution on the streets of Egypt and was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Five years after the fall of autocrat Hosni Mubarak, she is shunned or insulted by Egyptians on those same streets. "They say I am a traitor and foreign agent and that we are the people who destroyed the country. I hear it when I am passing people in the streets," said Abdel-Fattah. "Some people still ask "what was wrong with Mubarak?". Abdel-Fattah and a small circle of fellow activists were once seen by many in Egypt as the best hope for an end to corruption and repression and the dawning of an era of free speech and respect for citizens by the state. Nowadays, she cuts a lonely figure in her small apartment, hoping Egyptians will rise up again...