#security
5 posts tagged security.
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Washington brands Brazil's gangs as terrorists
The US designation of Brazil's PCC and Red Command as foreign terrorist organisations, timed with a Bolsonaro family meeting, is geopolitics dressed as law enforcement.
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Colombia votes on Petro's violent legacy
Colombia's first-round election pits a left-wing Petro protégé against a Bukele-style populist, testing whether peace dialogue or crackdown can tame surging guerrilla violence.
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Pakistan's train bombing and the cost of neglect
The Balochistan train blast that killed 20 exposes how Pakistan's security establishment has prioritised nuclear prestige over basic state capacity.
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Mali's prison raid and the slow strangulation of Bamako
Al-Qaeda-linked fighters storming 'Africa's Alcatraz' and blocking food convoys to Mali's capital is the moment the Sahel collapse stopped being a regional problem and became a strategic one.
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Nigeria's two faces: kidnapping and counterterrorism
The abduction of 50 Nigerian schoolchildren and the US-Nigeria joint killing of an IS commander on the same week expose the contradictions of West Africa's security crisis.