Terrorism continues to rear its ugly head around the world. In Belgium, a Terror suspect was shot after he triggered an explosion. In France, two months after a police officer was Killed during a shooting incident, a man on a jihadist watchlist rammed into a police van in Paris. In Mali, suspected terrorists killed at least two people in a tourist resort, after briefly seizing hostages. And in the United Kingdom, a van drove into a crowd near a mosque in London, killing at least one person and injuring at least 10 others. There was, however, a bright spot in the Central African Republic, where the Roman Catholic Sant' Egidio peace group mediated a peace deal - in a bid to end an ethnic and religious conflict which has already killed thousands - between the government and 13 of 14 armed groups in the country. Continue reading →