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UN official: Terrorists using pandemic to stoke extremism

by Edith M. Lederer
| January 12, 2021 6:10 PM

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. counter-terrorism chief warned Tuesday that terrorists are exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic and appealing to new “racially, ethnically and politically motivated violent extremist groups.”

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