More focus on women issues stressed

"The need to intensify the coverage on women issues in the state has been strongly felt during the observance of National Press Day here under the theme ‘Women & Media’ jointly organised by the Kohima...

Brussels flies into row over pesticides

Removing harmful Pesticides from food production will undoubtedly lead to price rises, but what's more important is food safety, it seems we are already exposed to dangerous chemicals in our food which up to now...

US Implicates Pakistani Agents in Kabul Bomb Attack

US officials accuse the Pakistani government of aiding terrorists. Officials here also said that they have solid evidence implicating the Pakistani government's intelligence agency, which has been accused of aiding terrorism before on numerous occasions by the Indian...

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announces Bradley Buswell as the...

Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff announces Bradley Buswell as the department’s first Deputy Under Secretary for the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate” In a press release earlier...

Torch lessons for 2012 Olympic security

The security team for London's 2012 Olympics say they have learned a lot from watching the recent protests around the world against the Olympic torch, and will be making necessary adjustments to their policing...

Many dead in Iraq shrine blast

"A female suicide bomber has attacked Shia worshippers in the city of Karbala, killing 49 of them on the street leading to one of Iraq's most revered mosques.   An Iraqi police officer and a witness said that Monday's bombing was carried out by a...

NASA spacecraft to make historic flyby over Mercury

"Scientists are eagerly awaiting new images and observations Monday when a NASA spacecraft flies over Mercury in the first visit in almost 33 years to the mysterious small planet. They expect to harvest some...

RI gets yen 28.18 billion loan from Japan to tackle natural disasters

Jakarta (ANTARA News) - The Japanese government has agreed to extend a Yen 23.18 billion loan to Indonesia to fund a program to tackle natural disasters causing both economic and social losses. A memorandum of understanding on the loan was signed here on Tuesday by Japanese...

Hundreds evacuate as Indonesian volcano erupts

"Jakarta - Hundreds of villagers living on the slopes of Mount Karangetang on an island in central Indonesia were evacuated after the volcano erupted, sending lava and hot ash down its slopes, officials said...

Russia probes 'executions' video

"A group calling itself the National Socialists of Rus says it carried out the attack. Violence against people from the Caucasus and from central Asian and other foreign countries has been increasing in Russia in...

DHS Building a Vomit-Wand

I first saw this concept in Minority Report. I wonder, though, what would happen if the intended victim were wearing, say, polarized sunglasses..." The US Department of Homeland Security is working on a torch-like "light-sabre" weapon, designed to leave aliens (illegal...

East European Migration Revealed

"More than 16,000 migrants from eastern Europe have registered to work in Wales in recent years according to new Welsh Assembly Government statistics. Two-thirds of these workers are Polish with migrants also coming from seven other ex-Eastern Bloc countries which joined the...

Team America/Europe: World Police

"Europe and the US have begun to lay the foundations for a data sharing link between their police and immigration forces. It's a long way off, but indications after talks in Berlin today between European and US negotiators are that both sides are in agreement that's where...

Matrix Cam Spies Flying Bullets

I used to be secure in the knowledge that, if I was driving fast enough, traffic cameras would be unable to capture my license plate. This is a troubling development indeed!"An Air Force contractor has developed the first high-speed camera that can follow speeding bullets...

Mass Abduction Highlights Iraqi Security Crisis

"Uniformed men traveling in dozens of vehicles snatch more than 100 people from a government ministry . Even by Baghdad standards, it was an incredibly brazen snatch. In broad daylight Tuesday morning, armed men wearing police-commando uniforms kidnapped more than 100 people...

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