2025-11-25
31 分钟This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.
I'm Alex Ritzen and at 18 hours GMT on Monday the 24th of November these are our main stories.
Nigeria's president announces plans to hire 30,000 new police officers after the latest abduction of hundreds of school children.
America's top diplomat leaves the Geneva peace talks on the Ukraine war expressing hope But President Zelensky is more measured.
A life sentence for the leader of a Korean online sex crime group
for blackmailing hundreds of victims,
many underage girls.
Also in this podcast.
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Nigeria's president has ordered the recruitment of a further 30,000 police officers after a series of mass abductions in recent days.
President Bola Tinubu's office also says officers currently assigned to protect VIPs will be redeployed to frontline duties.
The Roman Catholic Church in Nigeria says 265 people are still missing after a mass kidnapping from a school in Niger State on Friday.
Authorities in several Niger...
in states ordered schools to shut following the mass abduction in Nigeria and another smaller hostage-taking in Keby state on Monday when 25 pupils were kidnapped from a boarding school.
The abductors have not been identified but are believed to be criminal gangs seeking ransom payments.
The BBC heard from this man who witnessed the latest abductions.
They've been moved along on foot the way shepherds control their hearts.
The gunmen ride their motorbikes while controlling the girls and sarcastically tell them to run,
run.