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Kenya ex-graft chief heading home

added on 2008-08-20 04:30:08 (BBC News | World | UK Edition)

Kenya's ex anti-corruption chief, John Githongo, is due back in his homeland after three years of self-imposed exile. ...more.

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Dancer's pain over Georgia crisis

added on 2008-08-10 19:30:19 (BBC News | UK | UK Edition)

A Georgian ballerina performing at the Edinburgh International Festival condemns Russia's actions in her homeland. ...more.

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Anti-Terror Funds Questioned

added on 2008-07-27 09:30:20 (Washington Post - Politics)

The Department of Homeland Security announced $1.8 billion in anti-terrorism grants yesterday, stirring a growing debate among state and local officials nationwide over whether such funds are coming at the expense of other law enforcement priorities that some say are more urgent, such as fighting... ...more.

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Radiation Monitors To Cost More Than DHS Estimated in '06

added on 2008-07-06 09:30:31 (Washington Post - Politics)

The cost to put a new kind of radiation monitor in place at borders and ports across the country would be far more than the Department of Homeland Security initially told Congress, according to budget documents and interviews with officials. ...more.

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DHS Lags in Preparations for Transition of Power, Study Says

added on 2008-07-06 09:30:34 (Washington Post - Politics)

The Department of Homeland Security is moving too slowly to prepare for the risks that will accompany the first presidential transition for U.S. counterterrorism agencies formed after the 2001 terrorist attacks, according to a study scheduled for release today. ...more.

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Torch relay

added on 2008-06-17 02:30:09 (BBC News | World | UK Edition)

The Olympic flame is in China's Uighur Muslim homeland ...more.

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DHS to Reopen Inquiry Into Suspect's Expulsion to Syria

added on 2008-06-09 09:30:33 (Washington Post - Politics)

The Department of Homeland Security inspector general's office has reopened its investigation of the government's treatment of Maher Arar, a Syrian-born Canadian who, after being falsely named as a terrorist, was seized in September 2002 and sent to Syria, where he was tortured. ...more.

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