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Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 06:35
In Latin America’s latest challenge to Washington’s “war on drugs,” Ecuador has quietly begun releasing thousands of convicted cocaine smugglers.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 06:35
The U.S. may station a dozen CV-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft at Yokota Air Base next year, according to Japanese news reports.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 06:33
A 30-year-old street vendor was shot in the head by a police officer in São Paulo last month, in a raid targeting sales of pirated DVDs. Carlos Braga was killed after he tried to yank a canister of pepper spray out of a cop's hands as the officer brought down another vendor.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 06:33
European unmanned aerial vehicles are joining the effort to maintain the fragile truce between Ukraine and Russia, according to an AFP report and other published sources. The first two UAVs arrived on Oct. 6, and two more are coming.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 06:32
Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov says that Russia will not be able to afford its current level of military spending in the long term, as an economic slowdown amid declining oil prices and Western sanctions forces Moscow to drastically alter the expected funding environment.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 06:31
The system by which Guatemala nominates candidates for its appellate and Supreme Courts is notoriously corrupt. As Steve Dudley has explained for InSight Crime, a process meant to guarantee that only the most qualified candidates become judges has been entirely overrun by special interests and backroom politicking.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 06:30
The third kind of group involved in the international drug trade are what the UN calls tumbadores, disruptive groups that prey on crime families and transportistas opportunistically, to take their drug shipments and sell them to others.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 06:29
The Belarus-Russia intergovernmental military-technical cooperation commission will consider the introduction of a unified cataloguing system for materiel items of the two states’ armed forces, spokesman for the Belarusian State Military Industrial Committee Vladimir Lavrenyuk told TASS on Wednesday.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 06:27
President Barack Obama used a visit to the Pentagon on Wednesday to renew his call for Congress to free the military from what he called “draconian” budget strictures that would return next fiscal year under sequestration.
Thursday, October 9, 2014 - 06:22
Russia's RSK-MiG is seeking to sign a contract with Peru for "more than 10" of the MiG-29-series fighter aircraft's most modern derivative, according to company officials.