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US: Katrina
The second guilty plea in the Danziger Bridge case today revealed additional details about the conduct of New Orleans police after Hurricane Katrina and suggested more prosecutions of higher-ranking officers are yet to come.
Former police detective Jeffrey Lehrmann pleaded guilty to failing to report a felony in connection to a [...]
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Teh Interwebs
It’s the bane of Web designers everywhere, and it makes most modern Websites look broken and horrible. So why are 20% of web surfers still using it?
Today was supposed to be a great day for the Web. As of March 1, 2010, Google will no longer support Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 6 browser-a decade-old dinosaur [...]
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BAE admits guilt over corrupt arms deals
David Leigh and Rob Evans / Guardian
Arms firm pays out £300m after long-running Guardian investigation
The arms giant BAE yesterday agreed to pay out almost £300m in penalties, as it finally admitted guilt over its worldwide conduct, in the face of long-running corruption investigations.
For 20 years, the firm refused to accept any wrongdoing, despite mounting evidence [...]
Drug Enforcement Administration vs. Arms Dealers, Super-Crooks
Danger Room, Noah Shachtman
The CIA and the military get all the credit — and all the blame. But the Drug Enforcement Administration may be America’s most active group on the front lines of transnational crime. With eighty-four offices in sixty-three countries, the DEA has agents all over the planet and a vast network of former drug [...]
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Zimbabwe
A secret airstrip is being built in a diamond field illegally seized by the Zimbabwean army 14 months ago which would enable clandestine weapons shipments.
Diplomats and analysts believe that the mile-long runway is intended for arms shipments, probably from China, for which troops loyal to President Robert Mugabe would pay on the spot with gemstones [...]
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Russia
Russian news agencies have reported that Moscow has signed an arms deal with Libya worth C1.3 billion ($1.8 billion).The reports by the state agencies ITAR-Tass and RIA Novosti say Prime Minister Vladimir Putin announced the contract Saturday at a meeting with the head of Izhmash, which makes assault rifles, machine-guns and other weapons.According to the [...]
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U.S. speeding up arms sales, defenses with Gulf allies
Joby Warrick, Washington Post Staff Writer
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES — The Obama administration is quietly working with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf allies to speed up arms sales and rapidly upgrade defenses for oil terminals and other key infrastructure in a bid to thwart future military attacks by Iran, according to former and current [...]
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Swine Flu
Drug companies manipulated the World Health Organisation into downgrading its definition of a pandemic so they could cash in on a swine flu outbreak, it is claimed.An inquiry heard yesterday that the WHO allegedly softened its criteria for declaring a H1N1 flu pandemic last spring – just weeks before announcing there was a worldwide [...]
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Haiti
A large aftershock rocked Haiti Wednesday morning, one week after a devastating earthquake killed as many as 200,000 people.The U.S. Geological Survey estimated the magnitude of Wednesday’s aftershock at 6.1. Last week’s quake registered 7 on the Richter scale.When the aftershock hit, pieces of the ceiling in the Canadian Embassy’s media room fell, sending journalists [...]
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AP Exclusive: Pentagon gun was from Tenn. police