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A plot to attack a Taylor Swift concert in Vienna shows the threat posed by radicalisation via social media, a UN spokesperson said.

Local police received a tip about a Hummer truck with people armed with firearms driving toward the vote-counting venue late on Thursday.

North Korea accused the U.S. CIA and South Korea's intelligence service of a plot to attack its "supreme leadership" with a bio-chemical weapon and said such a "pipe-dream" could never succeed.

Six men and a woman, all in their twenties, were arrested in dawn raids across Melbourne, Australia's second-largest city, Victoria state police said in a statement.

Indonesian authorities have tightened security in Bali, a police official said late on Monday, after reports at the weekend of a suspected militant plot to attack the holiday island.

Security in the country, is still under control with the arrest of six Indonesians for allegedly planning an attack on Singapore.

Indonesian police on Friday arrested six suspected militants over a plot to launch a rocket attack on an up-market Singapore waterfront district, officials said.

France has informed Brazil that fears voiced last week of an IS-linked plot to attack the French Olympic delegation, is baseless.

Two others -- Abderrahmane A. and Rabah M. -- are also being held in Belgium over the same plot.

A US man was arrested for allegedly plotting an attack on Congress inspired by Islamic State (IS) militants.