HAWTHORNE, Calif., Aug. 31 — Research into detecting nuclear and other materials with potential for use in weapons of mass destruction received more pledges of government support after a Californian security electronics firm received contracts worth up to $12 million for developing new detection devices and techniques, says a report of [...]
Federal police in Mexico today said they had captured an alleged drug gang kingpin who faces drug-trafficking charges in the US and has been blamed for a vicious turf war in central Mexico.
The announcement came just hours after the government revealed that almost 10% of the federal police force had been fired this [...]
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The previously classified incident explains the Defense Department’s November 2008 ban on Flash drives and other removable media.
The most significant breach of U.S. military computers occurred in 2008 when an infected Flash drive was inserted into a U.S. military laptop in the Middle East.
The incident is discussed publicly for the first time [...]
President Hugo Chavez’s allies launched their campaigns Wednesday for crucial congressional elections that come just as recession, crime and inflation have pushed the socialist leader’s popularity to a seven-year low.
A survey by Venezuelan polling firm Consultores 21 found that just 36 percent of Venezuelans approve of Chavez’s performance, the lowest [...]
Chavez want to give political credibility to FARC.
Before the last summit of the UNASUR (Union of South American Nations) the President of Venezuela Hugo Chavez proposed to country members of Unasur the “need for peace in Colombia after decades of violence, and for this a political negotiation with the guerrillas is essential”. [...]
PANAMA CITY — Military commanders and troops from 18 countries including the United States mounted extensive naval exercises focused on defending the Panama Canal against terrorist activity that could threaten maritime traffic, says a security report of the news agency UPI.
In what defense industry analysts saw as a potential major opportunity to showcase the latest [...]
SAN DIEGO — The federal government is expanding a multi-agency policing program at the U.S.-Mexico border to improve security at the nation’s sea ports.
John Morton, the director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, made the announcement Tuesday at the annual meeting of the program, called the Border Enforcement Security Task Force.
Morton says the program has [...]
The Cartel Alliance between “Sinaloa” and ”La Familia” is strongly anchored in five states of the mexican Pacific Coast. The recent death of druglord Nacho Coronel consolidated the leadership of “Chapo” Guzman within the Sinaloa Cartel and its alliance with “La Familia”. The mexican authorities believe that these groups control now the inputs of materials for [...]
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At first, the news from Yemen on May 25 sounded like a modest victory in the campaign against terrorists: an airstrike had hit a group suspected of being operatives for Al Qaeda in the remote desert of Marib Province, birthplace of the legendary queen of Sheba.
But the strike, it turned out, had also killed the [...]
Full-body scanners will land at New York-area airports as soon as next month.
The high-powered machines – which produce virtually naked images of airline passengers going through security – are the latest pricey tools brought in to detect explosives or non-metal weapon under layers of clothing.
The advanced-imaging technology scanners transmit low-level X-ray beams to produce an [...]
