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A file photo of police in Multan. Photo: AFP The banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) abducted 17 civilian workers at gunpoint in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Lakki Marwat district on Thursday, with security forces recovering eight of them, sources told Geo News. Sources said militants ambushed a vehicle transporting unarmed civilians, took them hostage, set it on fire, […]
The North remains a hotbed of terrorism in Nigeria. JACOB SEGUN OLATUNJI writes about efforts to deal with the lack of trust and cooperation between civilians and security agencies that fuels the crisis. The Northern region of Nigeria has been plagued by insecurity and terrorism for over a decade, with the Boko Haram insurgency being a […]
M. Jean-Noël Barrot, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs, represented France at the humanitarian conference for Gaza, which Egypt held in Cairo on 2 December. A year after the international humanitarian conference for Gaza’s civilian population held in Paris on 7 November 2023, Jean-Noël Barrot reaffirmed France’s determination to lend its support to the civilian […]
Anchorage Assembly members discuss budget amendments during a Nov. 19, 2024 meeting. (Wesley Early/Alaska Public Media) The Anchorage Assembly approved the city’s roughly $640 million operating budget Tuesday night, with several amendments. Two amendments that dominated the conversation involved contracting with an outside group to look into studying a form of civilian oversight of the […]
An Anchorage police vehicle at a crime scene in November 2023. (Valerie Lake / Alaska Public Media). Anchorage Assembly members will vote on the city’s roughly $640 million budget Tuesday night. Among the proposed amendments to the budget is a contract with a national law enforcement watchdog group, with the goal of creating a form […]