The San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit Police -BART- will purchase 130 more Tasers, enough to assign the electric-guns to every BART police officer on the transit agency’s police force. The $140,775 purchase was approved unanimously Thursday by the BART board, and BART Police Chief Kenton Rainey said that the use of Tasers will boost [...]
NEW DELHI: The Home Minister of India P. Chidambaram said on Friday that Pakistan, which he termed the “global epicentre of terrorism”. “The vast infrastructure of terrorism in Pakistan has for long flourished as an instrument of state policy,” Chidambaram said in his opening remarks at the first internal security dialogue between India and the [...]
U.S. President Barack Obama hit Venezuela and its state-oil company PDVSA with sanctions for sending Iran two tankers of oil in defiance of U.S. sanctions against Iran. There is a risk of escalation of the conflict between U.S. and Chavez. If Chavez decides to keep sending the occasional oil tanker to Iran, or PDVSA carries [...]
The Secretary General of the Organization of American States (OAS), José Miguel Insulza, met with Judge Baltasar Garzón today in Washington, DC, on the jurist’s recently begun work as consultant for the Mission to Support the Peace Process in Colombia (MAPP/OAS). Insulza said that ” the support from a renowned jurist such as Baltasar Garzón [...]
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Spanish police stopped the illegal sale of nine military transport helicopters – Bell 212- to Iran and chopper spare parts to Venezuela. The police operation, which took place simultaneously in Madrid and Barcelona, led to the arrests of five Spanish businessmen and three Iranian nationals, reports say. The five Spanish businessmen are suspected of trying [...]
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WASHINGTON DC — In what it is considered as a political defeat of the federal government, the United States Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an Arizona law about tough penalties on U.S. businesses that hire illegal immigrants. A majority of five Supreme Court Judges authorized Arizona´s efforts to stop the employment of illegal workers. Three [...]
Bosnian Serb wartime criminal general Ratko Mladic ,69, was arrested in Serbia Thursday in the village of Lazarevo, near the northeastern town of Zrenjanin around 100 km (60 miles) from the capital Belgrade, in the early hours. Mladic, is accused of orchestrating the massacre of 8,000 men and boys in the town of Srebrenica and [...]
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The Department of Homeland Security DHS plans to increase its cybersecurity team by more than 50%, as legislators and the White House work to expand DHS`s authority in securing both government and private-sector websites. By October next year, the Department of Homeland Security cyber workforce will grow from 260 to more than 400 workers, said [...]
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Uruguay seeks to create a genetic database with the DNA of all prison population. The proceeds will not be invasive, just mouth/buccal samples, or from neck, armpit or other body part. In that sense the Constitution and Law Committee of the Senate of Uruguay advances in the treatment of the draft bill to create DNA [...]
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President Barack Obama will announce the formation of a new joint U.S.-British national security council when he visits London this week. The White House said the National Security Strategy Board would allow the two countries to work more closely together and share intelligence on long-term security challenges, particularly in the Middle East and Afghanistan. Obama’s [...]
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