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<br /><keyword id="19914983" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="los-angeles" source="keywords">Los Angeles</keyword>, Police and the <keyword id="20149598" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="federal-bureau-of-investigation" source="keywords">Federal Bureau of Investigation</keyword> (FBI) are investigating the theft of as much as $30 million from a money storage facility in Los Angeles, according to local media.<br /><br />Law enforcement sources told local KABC television station that the burglary happened at a <keyword id="21200926" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="gardaworld" source="keywords">GardaWorld</keyword> facility in Sylmar, a suburban neighbourhood in the <keyword id="21193974" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="san-fernando-valley" source="keywords">San Fernando Valley</keyword>, on Easter Sunday.<br /><br />The thieves broke into the facility undetected -- without setting off alarms -- by going through the roof and somehow getting into the money storage area, which may have been a vault, said the report, citing officials briefed on the investigation.<br /><br />The company that owns the building did not discover the massive theft until Monday morning, the report added.<br /><br />Law enforcement sources were quoted as saying by the major local newspaper, <keyword id="20139127" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="los-angeles-times" source="keywords">Los Angeles Times</keyword>, that the break-in was among the largest burglaries in city history when it comes to cash, and the total surpassed any armoured-car heist in the city as well.<br /><br />The burglary occurred Sunday night at the facility where cash from businesses across the region is handled and stored, said the report, adding that the break-in was described as elaborate and suggested an experienced crew of burglars who knew how to gain entry to a secure facility unnoticed.<br /><br />The prior largest cash heist in Los Angeles was on September 12, 1997, with the robbery of $18.9 million from the former site of an armoured facility in the city, according to the report of the newspaper.<br />

Money Heist: Thieves steal $30 million from Los Angeles vault

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Guards for the <keyword id="11897975" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="uk" source="Orion">UK</keyword> embassy in <keyword id="11892912" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kabul" source="Orion">Kabul</keyword> were told they couldn't get British protection because they were outsourced through a contractor, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/19/guards-at-kabul-embassy-told-they-are-ineligible-for-uk-protection">The Guardian reports.</a></li><li>Many of them are in hiding now out of fear that the Taliban will harm them.</li><li>Meanwhile, more than 100 guards for the US embassy hired by the same contractor have been evacuated, an employee told The Guardian.</li></ul><p>More than 100 guards for the UK embassy in Kabul, <keyword id="11892774" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="afghanistan" source="Orion">Afghanistan</keyword>, were told they were ineligible for British protection because they were outsourced through a contractor, reported <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/19/guards-at-kabul-embassy-told-they-are-ineligible-for-uk-protection">The Guardian's Amelia Gentleman in an exclusive story.</a></p><p>Some of them were told over the phone that their jobs had been cut after they finished a long shift helping British diplomats escape from Afghanistan through Kabul's airport, they told The Guardian. <br /><br />They were part of a 125-strong team hired by global security firm <a href="https://www.garda.com/security-services">GardaWorld,</a> and most of them were given informal notices that they no longer had jobs at the embassy, reported Gentleman.</p><p>At the same time, more than 100 security personnel working at the US embassy in Kabul under GardaWorld were evacuated from the country, a senior Afghan human resources employee for the firm told The Guardian.</p><p>Oliver Westmacott, president of GardaWorld's Middle East operations, told The Guardian that the firm would honor salaries and severances for its employees. GardaWorld did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.</p><p>Without protection, many of the guards employed by the UK embassy are now forced to hide from the Taliban, which took Kabul on Sunday. There has been widespread skepticism toward the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/taliban-trying-to-pose-as-moderates-after-years-terror-tactics-2021-8">hardline Islamist group's assurances</a> that it would not seek revenge against those who helped or worked for their enemies<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/taliban-trying-to-pose-as-moderates-after-years-terror-tactics-2021-8"></a>.</p><p>Four guards interviewed by The Guardian tried applying for help under the UK's <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/afghan-relocations-and-assistance-policy/afghan-relocations-and-assistance-policy-information-and-guidance">relocation and assistance policy for Afghans,</a> but were rejected along with most of their GardaWorld colleagues working at the embassy. They said they hoped the denial of their applications would be reconsidered.</p><p>"We worked in frontline positions, doing the most dangerous work to keep British officials safe. We risked our lives for them, and now we find ourselves in this bad situation - not just us, but our families are at risk," one guard told The Guardian. The UK Foreign Office and Ministry of Defence did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.</p><p>The Guardian added that several of the UK embassy guards spent at least three days waiting at Kabul's Hamid Karzai International Airport in the hopes of evacuating from the country. Afghans have been swarming Kabul's airport, <a href="https://www.insider.com/taliban-afghanistan-take-over-live-updates">desperate to get on a flight and escape an expected crackdown from the Taliban.</a></p><p>Most of those waiting at the airport have been men - <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/why-most-people-seen-fleeing-kabul-airport-were-men-2021-8">owing to the higher likelihood that men worked with foreign organizations</a> in roles such as security guards, drivers, and translators, said experts.</p><p>Footage earlier this week showed crowds massing on the tarmac as gunshots rang in the background. Other photos and videos emerged of Afghans <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kabul-airport-crowd-scales-jet-bridge-try-escape-afghanistan-video-2021-8">clambering onto jet bridges,</a> clinging onto <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/afghanistan-kabul-airport-people-latch-onto-moving-usaf-plane-video-2021-8">flights during takeoff</a>, and even what <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/kabul-airport-people-fall-from-planes-leaving-afghanistan-videos-photos-2021-8">appeared to be people falling off planes in the sky.</a></p><p><em>Read The Guardian's <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/19/guards-at-kabul-embassy-told-they-are-ineligible-for-uk-protection">full story here.</a></em></p>

Guards for the UK embassy in Kabul were told they are ineligible for British protection because they were outsourced from a contractor: report

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Only one in 125 guards at the British embassy in Kabul were evacuated despite promises to help, the Guardian reported.</li><li>The UK conducted a rescue operation to evacuate people from Kabul after the Taliban captured <keyword id="11892774" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="afghanistan" source="Orion">Afghanistan</keyword>.</li><li>The guard who was evacuated says his colleagues who were left behind are now at risk of reprisals.</li></ul><p>Just one of 125 guards who protected the British embassy in Kabul were evacuated from the country after it fell to the Taliban, meaning there are now fears that they could be the target of violent reprisals, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/03/one-out-of-125-embassy-guards-promised-help-to-leave-afghanistan-made-it-to-uk">the Guardian reported</a>.</p><p>Staff who guarded the British embassy at Kabul were employed on outsourced contracts by a firm called GardaWorld, which has now fired them, the Guardian reported. The Ministry of Defence initially refused to include them in its evacuation efforts because they were employed on outsourced contracts, but the Foreign Office later <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/20/afghanistan-uk-embassy-guards-employer-disputes-minister-claim-of-kabul-evacuation">U-turned on the decision</a>.</p><p>During the August evacuation effort, the department <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/20/afghanistan-uk-embassy-guards-employer-disputes-minister-claim-of-kabul-evacuation">issued a statement</a> saying: "We will help all those Afghan security guards contracted through GardaWorld to protect the embassy. They will be granted the right to enter the UK and we are now working through the challenging logistics of getting them out of Kabul."</p><p>But despite the UK government's promise of help, only one guard called Faiz successfully fled to the UK, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/sep/03/one-out-of-125-embassy-guards-promised-help-to-leave-afghanistan-made-it-to-uk">the Guardian reported</a>. Along with his wife and child, he is now quarantining at a hotel near Heathrow airport. He managed to secure a place on one of the last military evacuation flights out of the country last week.</p><p>During evidence to fellow lawmakers, Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab said this week that the guards had been on a bus to <keyword id="11893624" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="kabul-airport" source="Orion">Kabul airport</keyword> that had been denied entry, meaning the staff could not be placed on a flight.</p><p>Faiz told the Guardian that he is now unable to sleep due to concern for his former colleagues in Kabul, some of whom he said had already received threats from members of the Taliban.</p><p>"I'm worried about each and every one of them and their families. Some have been receiving threatening messages and warnings," he told the paper via email. "I can't sleep. I feel mentally disturbed."</p><p>Despite promises by the Taliban that they will not target people who worked with foreign countries, there are growing concerns that many of those individuals will be the target of violent reprisals by the organization.</p>

Only 1 of 125 guards at the British embassy in Kabul were evacuated despite promises by the UK government to help, report says

<p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span>AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh, File</span></p></div><p></p></div></div>Even with maritime piracy at a <a href="http://www.iccwbo.org/News/Articles/2016/Sea-piracy-drops-to-21-year-low,-IMB-reports/" target="_blank">21-year low</a>, experts are warning of a potential resurgence in East Africa among other risks.</p><p>"Suddenly, the opportunity is improving," anti-piracy expert John Steed said about Somali piracy. "No one has tried it yet, but the potential is there for it to come back."</p><p>The last wave of Somalia piracy peaked in 2011 with 176 attacks. It declined to almost nothing by 2015, thanks to an increased foreign naval presence and industry precautions like posting armed guards, moving faster, and following certain routes when passing through the area. At the end of last year, the industry issued new recommendations that <a href="http://www.dryadmaritime.com/bmp4-hra-revision-pragmatic-decision-or-dangerous-gamble/" target="_blank">reduced the size of the danger zone</a>.</p><p>Heading into 2016, however, IHS Inc. said <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-01-25/piracy-threat-rises-for-ships-off-somalia-this-year-ihs-says" target="_blank">Somali piracy was a major risk</a> thanks to instability and unrest in the region.</p><p>"The two conditions that led regional politicians to [support pirates], namely a lack of alternative economic opportunities and a threat to their control of their territory, are currently being recreated in the Galmudug region of central Somalia," the risk consultancy warned.</p><p>Oceans Beyond Piracy (OBP) also warned of a piracy "reset" in its <a href="http://oceansbeyondpiracy.org/reports/sop2015/east-africa" target="_blank">mid-year report</a>. Steed, the non-profit's regional manager for the Horn of Africa, walked us through some risk factors.</p><p>-"Naval forces are getting [drawn away]. There's a great deal of work for them to do, particularly with the migration problems and the issues higher up the Horn [of Africa] …. The days of the European naval force may be coming to an end."</p><p>-"Ships' captains are under pressure from the companies to go slower and in some cases closer to the coast."<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://oceansbeyondpiracy.org/reports/sop2015/east-africa">Oceans Beyond Piracy</a></span></p><p class="caption">Shipping patterns 2000-2015: ships moved away from the Somali coast during the piracy crisis but have returned.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>-"No one has helped build the Somalis a decent coast guard or maritime police …. In the main part of Somalia and all down the east coast, there is no real Somali seagoing capability."</p><p>-"[Somalis] see these big international trawlers, as they see it, stealing their fish, and that breeds animosity amongst and support for the pirates who go out and sometimes capture fishing boats."</p><p>Also mentioned in the OBP report:</p><p>-As 2015 progressed, private security teams were used less and less frequently by ships in the area, and when they were used, shipping companies increasingly opted for smaller and cheaper teams.</p><p>Although the European Union recorded <a href="http://eunavfor.eu/key-facts-and-figures/" target="_blank">no Somali pirate attacks</a> in 2015, OBP says it has confirmed <a href="http://oceansbeyondpiracy.org/reports/sop2015/east-africa" target="_blank">5 small hijackings</a> and other pirate-related incidents.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://oceansbeyondpiracy.org/reports/sop2015/east-africa">EUNAVFOR/Oceans Beyond Piracy</a></span></p><p class="caption">The Siraj and Jaber dhows were hijacked close to the Somali shore in 2015.</p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Globally, another reason to worry about piracy is the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/kidnapping-more-profitable-for-pirates-than-oil-2016-5" target="_blank">increasing use of kidnapping</a>.</p><p>Southeast Asian pirates "have altered their tactics to take advantage of the high ransoms that they can receive from kidnapping crew," risk consultancy GardaWorld wrote in a recent report. That region has seen 12 maritime kidnap incidents in 2016 compared to zero in 2015.</p><p>West Africa has seen a similar trend. "Kidnap for ransom has increased significantly in the waters off Nigeria, with hijacks for product theft now comparatively rare," GardaWorld wrote.</p><p>Pottengal Mukundan, director of the International Maritime Bureau, called this a "<a href="http://punchng.com/pirate-attacks-rise-nigeria-despite-global-decline/" target="_blank">disturbing</a>" shift.</p><p>East Africa, too, is seeing the same trend. The number of seafarers taken hostage in the area climbed from 17 in 2014 to 108 in 2015, according to OBP.</p><p><div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image"><p class="source"><span><a href="http://oceansbeyondpiracy.org/reports/sop2015/summary">Oceans Beyond Piracy</a></span></p></div><p></p></div></div></p><p>Currently, there are at least 36 seafarers being held hostage in Somalia. 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