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Cover Story
Yemeni Foreign Minister Abu Bakr al-Qurb, has made comments to Al-Arabiya television warning: Unfortunately, there are a couple of events relating to security, and if...
18-Jan-2012
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Tuareg rebels and AQIM fighters attack two more Malian towns
Security sources in Mali have confirmed to Reuters news agency that Tuareg fighters of the National Movement for the Liberation of Azawad (Movement National ...
27-Jan-2012
*Regional body gives Madagascar February deadline to enact amnesty legislation
The deadline was announced on 26 January following a special meeting of the Southern African Development Community's (SADC) Ministerial Committee of the Organ (MCO) ...
27-Jan-2012
*Security alerts - 30 January-5 February 2012
30 January, India State elections in Uttarakhand and Punjab Alert Risk: Neutral Country Risk Rating: Moderate Watch for: A close race between the Indian...
27-Jan-2012
*Hundreds of militants surrender weapons in northeast India
The surrender of hundreds of militants from nine insurgent outfits in northeast India took place on 24 January in a ceremony held at the ...
27-Jan-2012
*Guatemala signs up to International Criminal Court
The ratification of the Rome Statute by the unicameral Congress of Guatemala means that the country will accept the jurisdiction of the International Criminal ...
27-Jan-2012
Iranian president claims willingness for nuclear talks
Speaking to Iranian state media, Ahmadinejad said: "They [the West] have this excuse that Iran is dodging negotiations, while it is not the case. ...
27-Jan-2012
*Thai army dismisses reports of clash with Cambodia
The Thai News Agency MCOT reported Col Sansern as saying on 25 January that a Thai soldier had been shot and wounded in a ...
27-Jan-2012
*UN Security Council prepares to debate Syria crisis
The body will discuss ways of ending the violence in the country and will specifically look at a draft resolution to be submitted on ...
27-Jan-2012
*Philippine government confirms desire for greater US military involvement
In a statement issued today, Rosario said it was in the Philippines' interest "to maximise our treaty alliance with the United States in ways ...
27-Jan-2012
NATO-Russia summit over missile shield in jeopardy
The NATO-Russia summit was due to take place alongside the NATO summit in Chicago on 20-21 May. Fogh-Rasmussen said progress in talks between Russia ...
27-Jan-2012
International security events - 30 January-5 February 2012
Date : 30 January Location : Gaza and the West Bank Event : Head of Hamas government in Gaza, Ismail Haniya,...
27-Jan-2012
*Nigerian president dismisses police chief over security response to Boko Haram
Nigeria's national police commissioner, Hafiz Ringim, was replaced by his second-in-command, Mohammed Abubakar, on 25 January after having served in the post for less ...
26-Jan-2012
Grenade blast causes injuries in southern Rwanda
The explosion took place in the town of Muhanga in Rwanda's Southern province, at a roadside near a busy bus park in early evening,...
26-Jan-2012
Tensions ease in Pakistan as PM retracts comments
On 24 January, Gilani held a meeting with General Ashfaq Pervez Kayani, chief of the army staff, and his deputy, Lieutenant General Ahmad Shuja ...
26-Jan-2012
*Military mutiny deepens Papua New Guinea political stand-off
The short-lived mutiny involved a small group of around 20 soldiers, led by retired Colonel Yaura Sasa. The men took over the commander's office ...
26-Jan-2012
*Clashes erupt during police operation to move Brazilian settlers
According to press reports, several people were injured in violent clashes between settlers and the police during the eviction on 22 and 23 January. ...
26-Jan-2012
*Vázquez Mota emerges as favourite for Mexican presidential candidacy
The primary will take place on 5 February ahead of the 1 July presidential and legislative elections, and Vázquez Mota now enjoys a seemingly ...
26-Jan-2012
US announces global strategy for supply-chain security
The strategy was revealed by Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. It set two overriding goals: ...
26-Jan-2012
Ukraine increases military budget
The additional funds will be used to modernise military capabilities, said the Ukrainian Ministry of Defence. The budget earmarks USD120 million for the procurement ...
26-Jan-2012
*Russia confirms missile deployment to Kaliningrad
According to reports by the Russian Interfax news agency, which cited an official in the country's Baltic Fleet, the Iskander short-range ballistic missiles will ...
26-Jan-2012
Israeli-Palestinian peace talks collapse
Five rounds of negotiations have been held in Amman under Jordanian auspices up to the 26 January deadline that was imposed by the Quartet ...
26-Jan-2012
US special forces rescue abducted US and Danish aid workers in Somalia
US national Jessica Buchanan, 32, and her 60-year-old Danish colleague, Poul Hagen Thisted, had been held hostage since their abduction alongside their unnamed local ...
26-Jan-2012
*Tajik police arrest counter-narcotics officials on drug-smuggling charges
According to reports by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (REF/RL) news agency, those arrested included the head of the Ministry of the Interior's counter-narcotics department, ...
26-Jan-2012
*Violent protests erupt in South Darfur
The unrest continued on 25 January, resulting in the death of at least one person and at least 28 people injured, Reuters reported. Sudanese ...
26-Jan-2012
*López pulls out of Venezuelan presidential primary race
Leopoldo López has withdrawn his candidacy for the opposition presidential primary on 12 February to endorse Henrique Capriles Radonski, with whom he helped to found...
25-Jan-2012
*Guatemala creates ministry of social development and new police task forces
The initiatives respond to campaign promises made by Pérez Molina, who was inaugurated as president on 14 January 2012, to crack down on poverty ...
25-Jan-2012
*UK government abolishes control orders on terrorist suspects
Control orders were initially unveiled in 2005 by the then Labour government, and were designed to be put in place when there was insufficient ...
25-Jan-2012
*Niger's foreign minister claims Boko Haram receives explosives training from Al-Qaeda group
Speaking on the sidelines of a regional security summit in the Mauritanian capital, Nouakchott, on 24 January, Nigerien Foreign Minister Mohamed Bazoum claimed his ...
25-Jan-2012
Ethiopian rebel group admits holding abducted German tourists
The Afar Revolutionary Democratic Union Front (ARDUF) said, in a statement issued on 21 January, that it was behind the incident in which five ...
25-Jan-2012
*Syria agrees to extend Arab League monitoring mission
According to a statement on Syrian state media, "Foreign Minister Walid Muallem sent a letter... to the secretary-general of the Arab League... informing him ...
25-Jan-2012
Algeria approves new political parties
Reuters cited anonymous critics of the government who said that many of the new parties were close to the authorities, and several had an ...
25-Jan-2012
*MPs call UK government's handling of job cuts 'grotesque'
In a withering report, the committee said theft and fraud in the MoD continued to rise, reaching GBP1.9 million (USD2.05 million) in 2011, but ...
25-Jan-2012
*Russian-mediated talks over Armenian breakaway region make no progress
The talks were mediated by Russian President Dmitry Medvedev as part of a 17-year-long peace process under the auspices of the Minsk Group, set ...
25-Jan-2012
Uzbek refugee detained by US on terrorism charges
The statement went on to say that 35-year-old Jamshid Muhtorov, a refugee from Uzbekistan who is also known as Abumumin Turkistony or Abu Mumin, ...
24-Jan-2012
*India warns against talks with the Taliban
On 23 January, speaking at George Washington University in Washington DC, Nirupama Rao said that, while India agreed that ultimately there would have to ...
24-Jan-2012
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