Terror alert called off in Rome

Police track down individual outside Italy.

Anti-terrorism police have called off a terror alert in Rome after an individual they were looking for in the Italian capital was located outside Italy.

The terror alert was sparked after police intercepted a conversation in which the 27-year-old man allegedly said "Tomorrow in Rome I will go to paradise."

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