International donors met on Wednesday to pledge some $5.2 billion to Haiti, launching a worldwide effort to rebuild the country after January’s shattering earthquake.
“What we envision today is wholesale national renewal,” United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said, opening a one-day conference of some 120 countries, international organizations and aid agencies.
Ban called for quick donations [...]
2010 Mar 31 | Posted in
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The Santa Cruz Police Department signed on with a crime-mapping Web site to allow the community to keep track of crime in real time on specific streets, by date or type of crime.
Westside resident Deborah Elston, who helped create the community group Santa Cruz Neighbors, called the service “an awesome tool” that will empower residents [...]
2010 Mar 31 | Posted in
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FIFA , Interpol and the South African Police are taking every measure to assure safety during the World Cup 2010
The World Cup will have the largest ever deployment of the organization’s officers at any global event, says the head of Interpol.
Interpol secretary-general Ronald Noble said Wednesday that 20 to 25 countries would be providing manpower [...]
2010 Mar 31 | Posted in
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… My opinion: Judging from what happened in Colombia, the tighter U.S.-Mexico security relations will be able to squash the drug cartels militarily, or drive them to other countries. But it won’t do much to reduce narcotics trafficking while U.S. drug consumption remain at the current levels, and it will certainly not do a thing [...]
Andres Oppenheimer’s latest book, “Saving the Americas: Latin America’s dangerous decline, and what the United States must do,” was described by New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson and former Brazilian President Fernando Henrique Cardoso as a “must-read.” Costa Rica President Oscar Arias called it “a landmark work” and “an engaging study that politicians, academics, journalists and [...]
2010 Mar 31 | Posted in
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The 30-year-old beauty is allegedly the key player in a drug-trafficking operation that uses models as smugglers and is on the most wanted list of Argentinean drug enforcement agencies.
Police found 55kg of cocaine in a model’s suitcase, flying first-class from Buenos Aires to Cancun. This 21-year-old was linked to Sanclemente.
But Sanclemente still remains unfound and [...]
An undercover agent was part of the federal investigation of a Michigan-based Christian militia group that allegedly planned to spark an uprising against the government by killing police officers, court documents show.
Evidence presented to the grand jury in federal court in Detroit included photographs of Thomas William Piatek, one of nine people indicted Monday in [...]
Brazilian President Lula da Silva announced an $886 billion infrastructure investment plan that would be carried out by his chosen successor, Cabinet Chief Dilma Rousseff, should she win the October presidential election.
The plan, the second stage of Lula’s Growth Acceleration Program, will help Latin America’s biggest economy expand an average 5.5 percent a year through [...]
2010 Mar 30 | Posted in
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The Wall Street Journal informed that Apple is working on two new iPhones, a fourth-generation model and another designed for a CDMA network like the one of Verizon. But the release date, if any, is uncertain..
Pegatron Technology, which is Apple’s manufacturing partner for the CDMA device, is scheduled to begin mass-producing the new iPhone in [...]
The strengthening U.S. economy, subdued inflation and rising stock prices are propelling thedollar rally into its fifth month as traders seek refuge from Europe’s fiscal crisis and Japanese deflation.
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. ended bets on a falling dollar last week after the trades lost 2.8 percent. Strategists are raising greenback forecasts at [...]
