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German authorities have arrested four teenagers on suspicion of plotting a deadly Islamist terrorist attack in the western German state of North Rhine Westphalia, prosecutors said on Friday. The state’s Central Office for the Prosecution of Terrorism sought an arrest warrant for the teens over the Easter holiday. They are suspected of plotting a terrorist attack “in accordance with the aims and ideology of [extremist terror group] Islamic State.” Three of the suspects are from North Rhine Westphalia, according to the state’s interior minister, Herbert Reul: a 15-year-old girl from Dusseldorf, …

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