Haiti Earthquake: UN agrees to send 3500 more Peacekeepers

While airlift to Port-au-Prince has picked up and supplies are arriving at an unprecedented rate, distribution continues to be a major problem in Haiti. People, desperate for food and water, will do desperate...

A "third tier" to UK policing

News 15 12 2009: A "third tier" to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />UK policing. Under the Home Office Community Safety Accreditation Scheme local authorities or private companies are given limited powers such as handing out on-the-spot fines for offences for disorder,...

How terrorism has won

As a spices we evolved to take risks - the evidence is there for all to see unless you are of the ilk who still believe the earth is 6000 years and man walked with dino's.But as we see in some parts of the world,...

New paedophile rules threaten Scout Jamborees in the UK.

News 11 10 2009: New rules threaten Scout Jamborees in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />UK. Organising criminal record and other checks on thousands of foreign Scout leaders entering the UK was "just not possible", a spokesman said. Volunteers who fail to register...

Deal brokered to end Northern Ireland deadlock

A deadlock that has grinded government in Northern Ireland to a halt for 152 days appears to have come to an end. the BBC is reporting that the DUP and Sinn Fein have reached a compromise that will allow the government to begin functioning normally again."The DUP and Sinn...

Who's policing local elections? No one, it seems

" Who's policing local elections? No one, it seems Daphne Bramham, Vancouver SunPublished: Saturday, November 15, 2008 Imagine if municipalities decided that police would no longer enforce speed limits and instead, it would be up to other drivers to finger the...

Maddie "Tapas 7" Get £375,000 Payout to Benefit the McCann's Fund

KATE & Gerry McCann's Fund will receive a boost tomorrow as the Express Group of newspapers are forced to apologise in the High Court in a libel action brought by "Tapas 7".  The "Tapas 7" are the seven...

Science law set tone for Jindal- Creationism in Louisiana Education ?

Another controversial bill Gov Bobby Jindal signed in while everyone was watching the Louisiana PayRaise-Gate. Many are not happy. " Is it a promoter of academic freedom, or a 'Trojan horse'?Friday, June 27, 2008, By Bill Barrow BATON ROUGE -- Gov. Bobby Jindal attracted...

Cheney admits expanded military spying role inside US

" US Vice-President Dick Cheney has admitted that the US military and CIA have been spying on the financial dealings of Americans -- intelligence gathering normally authorized only by civilian policing agencies. ...

British troops kill up to 100 Taleban fighters

"British troops claim to have wiped out up to 100 Taleban fighters and destroyed an enemy "regional headquarters" in Afghanistan in the Army's biggest single raid since it started policing the volatile Helmand province. The Taleban compound, in the area of Kostay south of the...

Violent Crime Is Up - Cue the theorizing.

"DURING THE 1990s and the early part of this decade, crime fell and stayed down -- and politicians of all stripes claimed credit. Conservatives attributed the drop to tough sentencing policies that swelled the national prison population. The Clinton administration cited its...

UN Closer to Policing Darfur - Washington Post

" UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 30 -- Sudan may consent to a U.N. peacekeeping force in its Darfur region sooner than expected once the Security Council adopts a resolution authorizing it, U.S. Ambassador John R. Bolton said Wednesday. Despite Khartoum's opposition, the United States...

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