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Relatives search for missing, grief pours out on social media after Paris attacks

November 14, 2015 creative arsenal, callum-hamish, citing-fears, cousin, created-new, deadly-assault, during-parade, facebook, iran, saturday, tehran, twitter, white-collar

By Raissa Kasolowsky LONDON (Reuters) – Scores of appeals for missing people circulated on Twitter and green “I am safe” ticks appeared on Facebook profiles of many Parisians on Saturday, as an outpouring of shock and grief over Friday’s deadly assault dominated social media. Instagram, Twitter and Facebook were flooded with tributes, messages of condolences and solidarity for the victims and for France, with #PrayforParis and #PrayersforParis the top trending hashtags by far

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Ten more people detained in Ankara bombing probe: PM

October 15, 2015 creative ahmet-davutoglu, ankara, saturday, street-vendor, syria, turkey, twitter, victims

Ten more people have been detained in connection with messages they wrote on Twitter about the suicide bombings which killed 99 people in Ankara, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said on Thursday, bringing the number held to 12. Davutoglu told Reuters on Wednesday some of the suspects in Saturday's attack, the worst of its kind in Turkey, had spent months in Syria and could be linked to Islamic State or to Kurdish militants.

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Saudi Arabia warns citizens against sharing ‘faked’ documents after Wikileaks release

June 21, 2015 creative arabia, citizens-not, directly-deny, documents, friday, ministry, ministry-on-its, news-agency, saturday, saudi, saudi-arabia, twitter, urged-its, were-under

Saudi Arabia on Saturday urged its citizens not to distribute “documents that might be faked” in an apparent response to WikiLeaks’ publication on Friday of more than 60,000 documents it says are secret Saudi diplomatic communications. The statement, made by the Foreign Ministry on its Twitter account, did not directly deny the documents’ authenticity