{"id":325286,"date":"2025-12-02T03:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325286\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:15:07","slug":"breaking-news-live-updates-eu-agrees-on-canada-joining-european-defence-programme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/325286\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking News Live Updates: EU agrees on Canada joining European defence programme"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"liveblogtextlist\">Nigeria\u2019s defence minister, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned with immediate effect on health grounds, the presidency announced on Monday, as the country struggles with a deepening security crisis marked by mass kidnappings. His departure follows President Bola Tinubu\u2019s declaration of a \u201cnationwide security emergency\u201d after hundreds, mainly schoolchildren, were abducted in a series of raids last month.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis has drawn international attention, with Washington\u2019s recent criticism further spotlighting insecurity. Armed gangs seized more than 300 staff and teachers from St Mary\u2019s school in Niger state, many still in captivity. Nigeria continues to battle both ransom-driven criminal groups and a long-running jihadist insurgency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nigeria\u2019s defence minister, Mohammed Badaru Abubakar, has resigned with immediate effect on health grounds, the presidency announced on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":325287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,3,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-325286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/325287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}