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- Thailand: Police injured by explosive while arresting suspect in Kanchanaburi province
December 14, 2022
Four policemen were injured by a home-made explosive when a drug suspect tried unsuccessfully to avoid arrest on Wednesday. Pol Maj Gen Somchai Suetortrakul, the provincial police chief, said the ...
- Cambodia: Demining employing over 700 women
December 14, 2022
From January to November, more than 700 women have been working as deminers and destroying unexplored ordnance to ensure public safety, according to a report by the Cambodian Mine Action ...
- The 2023 World Police Summit Set to Bring Policing Innovation to Dubai
December 13, 2022
Technology and innovation high on the Summit’s agenda More than 230 speakers and 250 exhibiting companies already registered DUBAI, 12th December 2022: Held under the patronage of His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid ...
- Northern Ireland: Man charged with two counts of attempted murder in connection with Strabane PSNI attack
December 13, 2022
A man has been charged in connection with the attempted murder of two police officers in Strabane last month. Detectives from the Terrorism Investigation Unit investigating the alleged attack on Thursday, ...
- Georgia: Blast from homemade bomb ‘violently’ rocks neighborhood in Morrow
December 13, 2022
A man is accused of detonating a handmade bomb that rocked an Atlanta-area neighborhood, sending debris flying everywhere, police in Georgia say. Joseph Borlie Jr., 57, was charged with manufacturing an ...
- Jammu and Kashmir: Security forces defuse IED found in Sopore
December 13, 2022
Security forces detected an improvised explosive device (IED) in Jammu and Kashmir’s Sopore on Tuesday. After the IED was detected, an anti-bomb squad was called to defuse the IED and ...
- Afghanistan: ISIS Kabul Hotel Attack Kills and Injures 21 People
December 13, 2022
ISIS’s regional offshoot, ISKP claimed responsibility for the bomb and gun attack on a multi-story hotel in Kabul on Monday, which left at least 3 assailants killed and 21 others ...
- One-of-a-kind U.S. Army Airborne EOD Company marks anniversary with largest ever EOD parachute jump
December 12, 2022
FORT BRAGG, N.C. – Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) technicians from the U.S. Army’s only EOD company solely designed to support Army Ranger and Special Forces missions marked the 11th anniversary ...
- Ukraine: Three bomb disposal experts dead and two injured during mine clearance in Donetsk Oblast
December 12, 2022
Three bomb disposal experts from the Ukrainian State Emergency Services (SES) were killed on 12 December during a mine clearance operation in the city of Konstiantynivka, Donetsk Oblast. Doctors are ...
- Slovaka will provide “winter package” for Ukraine
December 12, 2022
Slovakia will provide Ukraine what it calls a “winter package”. The package itself is material aid worth €800,000. Aside from that, Slovakia will provide military material as well. The military aid ...
- Nigeria: Four Killed As Gunmen Attack INEC Headquarters In Imo
December 12, 2022
Four persons including one policeman have been killed in an attack that was repelled by the police in the headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) along Port Harcourt ...
- Libyan accused in Lockerbie bombing now in American custody
December 11, 2022
A Libyan intelligence official accused of making the bomb that brought down Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland, in 1988 in an international act of terrorism has been taken ...
- India: CoBRA jawan injured in IED blast in West Singhbhum
December 11, 2022
The ultras of banned outfit CPI (Maoists) made their presence felt by triggering an IED blast injuring one CRPF jawan. An IED exploded while he along with his fellow troopers ...
- Pakistan: IED explosion kills 1, wounds 8 in Balochistan province
December 10, 2022
At least one person was killed and eight others were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Pakistan’s southwest Balochistan province, police said on Saturday. According to police officials ...
- Somalia: Senior Intelligence commander killed in explosion in Gedo province
December 9, 2022
A bomb explosion in Southern Somalia killed a top intelligence official who was forefront at the war on Al-Shabaab militants. Bakaal Kuuke died in a roadside blast targeted his car on ...
- Cambodia: Tractor driver seriously injured by anti-tank mine in Oddar Meanchey province
December 9, 2022
A man in Oddar Meanchey province was seriously injured when the tractor he was driving hit an anti-tank mine. The incident occurred on Wednesday in Kon Chreung village of Samraong city’s ...
- Cambodia, Thailand agree to strengthen mine clearance cooperation at border
December 9, 2022
The Cambodian Mine Action and Victim Assistance Authority (CMAA) said that they will work closely with Thai authorities to accelerate mine clearance along the borders of the two countries for ...
- Polish counter-terrorism police help Santa Claus
December 8, 2022
Santa Claus got some help from Polish counter-terrorism police on Saint Nicholas day as the officers absailed down from the roof of a children’s hospital in the southern city of ...
- Biden administration weighs Ukrainian requests for access to US stockpile of controversial cluster munitions
December 8, 2022
Ukrainian officials and lawmakers have in recent months urged the Biden administration and members of Congress to provide the Ukrainian military with cluster munition warheads, weapons that are banned by ...
- UNMAS director calls for urgent acceleration of mine action efforts in Yemen
December 8, 2022
Hudaydah, 8 December 2022 – The Director of the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) Ms Ilene Cohn concluded a week-long visit to Yemen where she visited Hudaydah, one of ...
- West London barber convicted of funding terrorism
December 8, 2022
A west London barber has been found guilty of sending thousands of pounds to fund terrorist activity in Syria, following an investigation by the Met’s Counter Terrorism Command. Tarek Namouz, 43 ...
- India: NIA arrests Tarn Taran blast ‘mastermind’ on extradition from Austria
December 8, 2022
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) on Thursday arrested alleged terrorist Bikramjit Singh, who was wanted in connection with the Tarn Taran bomb blast in Punjab, after his extradition from Vienna ...
- Germany: Phosphorus exposure from WWII bomb at US base in Stuttgart lands five in hospital
December 8, 2022
Five construction workers were hospitalized Thursday after an unexploded World War II-era phosphorus bomb at Patch Barracks was accidently struck, releasing some of the poisonous gas, Army officials said. Patch Barracks ...
- 2nd International Expo POLSECURE, 25 – 27 April 2023, Kielce, Poland
December 8, 2022
POLSECURE exhibition and a series of conferences are crafted around public safety. The expo is an excellent opportunity to see the offer of companies specialising in the production of special ...
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