Organized crime

Pakistan is to end its moratorium on the death penalty in terror-related cases, the prime minister's office announced Dec. 17, a day after Taliban militants killed 141 people in an attack on a school.
     
The assault on the army-run school in the northwestern city of Peshawar, the deadliest terror attack in Pakistan's history, has triggered widespread revulsion.
      

A Taliban assault on an army-run school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar on Tuesday has left at least 126 people dead, most of them children, officials say.

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At least 130 people, most of them children, were killed on Tuesday after Taliban gunmen broke into a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire, witnesses said, in the bloodiest massacre the country has seen for years.
   

Macedonia, Croatia tackle corruption

Officials' involvement in organised crime raises the issue of cross-border security.

Macedonian and Croatian police continue to co-operate to bring to justice current and former high-level officials suspected of corruption including cross-border fraud, experts said.

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Seven suspects have been arrested on suspicion of running a ring that issued fake disability certificates, allowing their clients to cash an estimated 700,000 euros in illegal benefits, police said Monday.

Jihadist attacks around the world in November killed a total of 5,042 people, showing Islamist extremism is "stronger than ever" despite Al-Qaeda's declining role, a new study published on Dec. 11 said.
      

An American photojournalist and a South African teacher held by al-Qaida militants in Yemen were killed during a rescue attempt

An American photojournalist and a South African teacher held by al-Qaida militants in Yemen were killed Dec. 6 during a U.S.-led rescue attempt, a raid President Barack Obama said he ordered over an "imminent danger" to the reporter.

BELGRADE - Police officials of Serbia, Austria and Switzerland underlined on Wednesday the need to strengthen mutual cooperation in the fight against crime in the region of Southeast Europe and throughout the continent.

The magistrates of the High Court of Cassation and Justice have decided on Wednesday morning to hold Viorel Hrebenciuc in preventive detention for thirty days, following his charging in the restitutions case.

The decision is not binding.

Balkan police co-operation reduces organised car theft