UK to hold national minute's silence for Tunisia terror victims

Britain will hold a national minute’s silence on Friday for the victims of the attack in Tunisia, the majority of whom were British. Prime Minister David Cameron told the UK parliament that ISIL must be tackled at home and abroad. Britain is working with Tunisia on counter-terrorism measures but travel advice to British tourists remains unchanged for now. The attack, he said, had brought one of the largest anti-terrorist deployments in a decade. “Here in the UK the threat level remains severe, meaning a terrorist attack is highly likely. But until we’ve defeated this threat, we must resolve as a country to carry on living our lives alongside it.” The prime minister said that authorities must have the necessary tools to tackle ISIL: its methods he said were barbaric but its communications and propaganda machine were modern. Cameron added that people needed to be “more intolerant of intolerance” in attacking the extremists’ “perverted” ideology. Muslims who opposed ISIL neede