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      Colin Randall

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      Colin Randall began his career on newspapers in northern England before joining the Press Association and then the Daily Telegraph, where he worked as reporter, chief reporter, executive news editor and Paris bureau chief. He was The National’s executive editor for its 2008 launch and has written regularly for this newspaper and others since returning to Europe in 2009. He has Anglo-French nationality and specialises in French politics.
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      Women exercise in Dubai Sports City in Dubai. Getting fit is one the most popular of all New Year's resolutions (Photo by: Sarah Dea/The National)
      Wouldn't it be best if we didn't make resolutions?

      Colin Randall on the words we use to lie to ourselves

      OpinionDecember 26, 2015
      Year in review 2015: Lessons to be learnt from France’s tragic year
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      Year in review 2015: Lessons to be learnt from France’s tragic year
      WorldDecember 26, 2015
      Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleder of the Paris attacks that killed 130 people on November 13, 2015. AFP handout
      From Belgium to Austria to Switzerland, hunt for suspects with links to Paris attack continues

      Investigations and arrests continue in Europe as authorities hunt down suspected accomplices in the Paris attack that killed 130 people on November 13.

      WorldDecember 17, 2015
      A police officer and soldiers on security duty inside Galerie de la Reine following the terror alert level being elevated to 4/4, in Brussels, Belgium, on November 22, 2015. Stephanie Lecocq/EPA
      Belgium’s Molenbeek trapped in vicious circle of extremism and repression

      In the area of Brussels where several of the Paris attackers grew up, the often heavy-handed official response to radicalisation is helping to fuel division further, writes Colin Randall.

      WorldDecember 17, 2015
      The long read: inside the Calais migrant cling to hope
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      The long read: inside the Calais migrant cling to hope
      December 03, 2015
      A French flag hangs from a window of a restaurant decorated for Christmas holiday season in Strasbourg, France. Vincent Kessler / Reuters
      Cartoons play a role in explaining terror to children

      Colin Randall writes how cartoons in children's newspapers are helping French schoolchildren understand the terror events in Paris

      OpinionNovember 28, 2015
      An undated photograph purporting to be of Abdelhamid Abaaoud that was published in ISIL's online magazine Dabiq and posted on a social media website. Social media website via Reuters
      Paris attacks mastermind confirmed dead

      Police sources said Moroccan intelligence had helped put French investigators on the trail of the Belgian-Moroccan militant.

      WorldNovember 20, 2015
      A second body is removed from the apartment raided by French police special forces in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on November 18, 2015. Eric Feferberg/AFP Photo
      Two terror suspects killed in 7-hour police operation in Paris

      Eight people were also arrested during the police raid, launched before dawn at a flat in a quiet working-class district of Saint-Denis, three kilometres from the Stade de France, one of the locations attacked on Friday.

      WorldNovember 19, 2015
      A stadium in Hannover where an international football match between Germany and Holland was to be played was evacuated at short notice yesterday, and the match cancelled. Julian Stratenschulte / EPA
      German stadium evacuated in terror attack scare

      Investigators in France and Germany carried out more raids and arrests on Tuesday in the hunt for those involved in the Paris attacks.

      WorldNovember 18, 2015
      Belgian special forces climb an apartment block in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek during a raid on November 16, 2015, in search suspects linked to the deadly attacks in Paris. Yves Herman / Reuters
      Belgian mastermind behind deadly Paris attacks

      Abdelhamid Abaaoud's ISIL links emerged after Charlie Hebdo attacks in January.

      WorldNovember 17, 2015
      French soldiers guard the Sacre-Coeur cathedral in Paris on November 15, 2015. David Ramos / Getty Images
      Manhunt for Paris attacker who got away

      Fugitive Abdeslam Salah is one of three brothers from Belgium who carried out shootings and bombings that killed 132.

      WorldNovember 16, 2015
      Rescue service personnel tend to the injured next to covered bodies outside a Paris restaurant attacked by gunmen on November 13, 2015. Philippe Wojazer / Reuters
      Deadly Paris attacks may be just the beginning

      Security of officials say ISIL is likely to be planning more mass casualty attacks like the ones that killed 129 and wounded more than 350 on Friday.

      WorldNovember 15, 2015
      A candle burns in front of a Marianne with a tear during a vigil in Aotea Square, Auckland, New Zealand, on Novemebr 14, 2015, to remember the victims of the Paris attacks. Hannah Peters/Getty Images
      Paris terror attacks are the shocking product of a constant threat

      Extremists have little difficulty in finding grievances, historic or current, to justify carnage against innocent and usually easy targets, writes Colin Randall.

      WorldNovember 14, 2015
      ISIL affiliates claimed to have caused the St Petersburg-bound plane to crash in Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, calling it retaliation for Russian airstrikes in Syria. AP Photo
      Those who take credit for acts of terror

      Extremist groups often jump at the chance to own up to terrorist incidents in the propaganda game against their enemies, but few of those claims can be substantiated by evidence, rendering such strategies futile in the long run.

      WorldNovember 10, 2015
      British prime minister David Cameron, left, with Egyptian president Abdel Fattah El Sisi in Downing Street on Thursday. Adrian Dennis / AFP
      Egypt plane crash clouds Sisi’s London talks

      Before and after his meeting with the Egyptian president, the British prime minister said it was “more likely than not” that a bomb caused Sunday’s disaster in the Sinai.

      WorldNovember 06, 2015
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