Related News ItemsCrime, disorder are main Olympic risks: UK officialWed, 25 Apr 2012 07:11:59 -0700
LONDON (Reuters) - Crime and disorder similar to Britain's 2011 summer riots are the most likely serious threats to the London Olympics although Islamist militants and al Qaeda offshoot groups pose a growing challenge, a British official said on Wednesday. Charles Farr, Director-General of the Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism at the Home Office (interior ministry), told a security ...
Read More... Italy's President warns of return of 1970s-style violenceWed, 23 May 2012 08:50:39 -0700
ROME (Reuters) - Italy risks falling back into the kind of political violence that scarred the country during the 1970s, President Giorgio Napolitano said on Wednesday at a commemoration for anti-mafia judge Giovanni Falcone who was murdered 20 years ago. Speaking days after a deadly bomb attack on a school named after Falcone's wife, who died with him in a huge explosion set off by mafia ...
Read More... Terrorism concerns make export rules trickySat, 19 May 2012 21:03:34 -0700
A Minnesota shipment that ended up in Iraq IEDs raises questions about whether restrictions are adequate.
Read More... 'Link cyber terrorism to India's overall counter-terror capabilities'Wed, 16 May 2012 07:29:06 -0700
New Delhi, May 16 : Efforts at countering cyber-terrorism should be linked to India's overall capabilities to fight terror, a report released Wednesday by a defence ministry-funded think tank said, suggesting that the effort should be coordinated by the home ministry.
Read More... Italy’s President warns that Mafia may take advantage of economic uncertaintyWed, 23 May 2012 09:34:29 -0700
Italy risks falling back into the kind of political violence that scarred the country during the 1970s, President Giorgio Napolitano said.
Read More... Media plays important role in supporting policeSat, 19 May 2012 10:00:19 -0700
Phillaur, May 19 : Media should help the police in discharging its duties in a drastically changing socio-economic scenario and emerging issues of terrorism, organised crime and cyber crime, a senior Punjab police official today said.
Read More... Nigeria: Azazi Blames Economic Hardship for TerrorismFri, 11 May 2012 00:29:54 -0700
[Leadership] The national security adviser, General Andrew Owoye Azazi (rtd), yesterday stated that the failure to address economic hardship and lack of economic opportunity have opened a fertile ground for the recruitment, indoctrination, brainwashing and training of terrorists and other insurgents in the country.
Read More... Rwanda: Country Partners With Burundi to Fight CrimeTue, 08 May 2012 00:54:23 -0700
[New Times] Police forces of Rwanda and Burundi have agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation as a way of eliminating threats of emerging cross-border crimes.
Read More... Will life term now mean 30 years in jail?Tue, 15 May 2012 12:24:26 -0700
Increasingly reluctant to award death penalty even in the “rarest of rare cases” involving unspeakable brutality, the judiciary appears to be gradually enhancing the spell of life term to not less than 30 years in order to meet society’s cry for adequate punishment for heinous crimes.
Read More... International Civil Society Ramps Up Campaign Against US DronesThu, 17 May 2012 04:57:30 -0700
PESHAWAR - Growing numbers of activists are beginning to counter U.S. Drone attacks into Pakistani territory. The activists are confronting the U.S., but increasingly now the Pakistani government for allowing such attacks to continue. The Tehreek Insaf party led by former Pakistani cricket captain Imran Khan first stepped up the political heat against the Drones. Civil society groups, including ...
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