The Brazilian Federal Police department announced that it has begun investigating an oil spill in an offshore field operated by multinational producer Chevron Corporation off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. Federal Police department environmental affairs division chief Fabio Scliar told government news service Agencia Brasil that his division began looking into the causes of [...]
The factory of German arms manufacturer Heckler & Koch was raided on Thursday by some 300 German agents, on suspicion of bribery related to the sale of weapons to Mexico in 2005. Authorities in Stuttgart confirmed that the search, which included the homes of some employees, was for evidence of bribes paid to Mexican officials [...]
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Chilean airline LAN has avoided a lawsuit from local competitor PAL and reached an agreement that will allow LAN to proceed in their planned marriage with Brazilian airline TAM. The merger would create one of the largest airline groups in the world. LAN, one of the leading carriers of Latin America, announced Tuesday that [...]
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Relations between members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) appear to be suffering as a result of the Arab Spring and unilateral decisions to increase production taken by members of the Gulf Cooperation Council. This week Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez told visiting Russian vice minister Igor Sechin and energy minister Sergei Shmatko that [...]
How should we communicate the results of our analysis to decision-makers? How to visualize key information for decision makers? The talk of Joe Parry argued that visualisations and infographics play a very important role, not only for analytical processes of data analysts, but also for explaining the analytical results to decision-makers at the highest of [...]
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The U.S. Government agency that manages airport security shifts its strategic emphasis from stopping weapons to finding people. It’s a potential $4 billion market for private industry, based on what the Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, currently spends on aviation security. “Businesses that are good at data analysis, behavior-pattern recognition, big data handling, data-visualization — [...]
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Among the consequences of global warming, the Arctic Ocean has become a more strategic region for the United States and Canada. Russian economic and military interests in the Arctic are common knowledge. They are neighbors up there, and the Arctic has strategic and security value for both Americans and Russians. One of the U.S. protagonists in the protection of [...]
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On Wednesday, Colombian president Juan Manuel Santos and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed hope that a trade boom will result following a Free Trade Agreement between both countries that became effective on August 15th . Santos also stressed that his government is working to reduce security risks for oil companies, in view of recent attacks blamed on [...]
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MEXICO CITY- Dyncorp, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, ITT and ARINC get the most part of the U.S. budget used in the fight against drug trafficking by concentrating 57% of 3.1 billion dollars, that the U.S. government has spent to fight drugs in Latin America. In the case of Mexico, the U.S. has spent 170.6 million dollars [...]
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As in many other cities in the U.S. like in Detroit or Saginaw, the city authorities of Hartford (Connecticut) are planning to install audio sensors in high-crime neighborhoods to detect gunshots and determine location. The City´s Mayor Pedro Segarra announced yesterday the implementation of the ShotSpotter program. The city will spend $150,000 on the sensors, [...]
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