Mexico City.- By command of President Peña, and starting immediately, Mexico’s Federal Police and military personnel will read a series of legal rights to suspects — including rights to know the charges against them, obtain free legal counsel and remain silent — from printed cards they carry with them. The announcement Friday by Undersecretary Eduardo [...]
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Computer users are being advised by security experts to disable Oracle Corp.’s widely used Java software after a security flaw was discovered that they say hackers are exploiting to attack computers. “Java is a mess. It’s not secure,” said Jaime Blasco, Labs Manager with AlienVault Labs. “You have to disable it.” Java, which is on [...]
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The following is stated in the investigation made by the Norwegian Narcotics Governmental Committee which members, more than 100 consultative bodies, has made a public statement in late February. The picture that emerges is the following: 1) the drug situation in Norway is improving, 2) law enforcement efforts should be reinforced, 3) amicable measures for [...]
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Mexican authorities said Wednesday that a surviving son of late Libyan dictator Moammar Gadhafi and three other relatives planned to enter Mexico under false names and hide at a Pacific coast resort. The plan to smuggle in al-Saadi Gadhafi allegedly involved two Mexicans, a Canadian and a Danish suspect, all of whom have been arrested [...]
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Specially in Somalia´s waters, pirates are increasingly turning to kidnapping and hostage-taking to generate funding to purchase weapons and continue operations. As a comment to a recent statement of the United Nations, the Assistant Secretary Andrew Shapiro at the State Department Bureau of Political-Military Affairs said that there has been a decline of piracy attacks [...]
The Americas Post notes the latest news and information about the situation in Libya and the fact that Qaddafi´s Regime is coming to an end. Two countries were quite loquacious on Libya´s and Gaddafi´s destiny: the USA and Venezuela. In our region, only Hugo Chavez came immediately the the support of the fallen Arab colonel. Presumably the same [...]
Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi sent emissaries to Caracas over the weekend to ask president Hugo Chávez to help his regime sell crude oil through Venezuela in international markets, thus evading internationally imposed sanctions, western intelligence sources said. The small delegation — headed by Planning and Finance Minister Abdulhafid Zlitni — arrived Sunday on a private [...]
The decision of the Security Council to impose UN sanctions on Libya was published on Friday (15) in the Official Gazette of Brazil with a decree oif the brazilian government including a ban on arms trade, the freezing of Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, and persons connected with him, along with support for investigations into international [...]
Since Mubarak’s fall, the movement that pushed to expell him from power has seen some fragmentation, as the military who ousted Mubarak pushed ahead with a quick timetable for new parliament and presidential elections to be held in September and November. That has sent various political parties and factions scrambling to get organized to contest the vote. But [...]
Spain remains being the hub for cocaine smuggling into Europe. Also Spain tops european statistics of cocaine use, while around 1600 spaniards remain imprisoned abroad for drug-related crimes. Experts say the price of cocaine sold on European streets has not increased and has remained stable during 2010, indicating that the supply is meeting demand and that [...]
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