Archive for 'International'
Thousands British top-managers are suspected of dishonesty
25 February 2008About four thousand heads of British companies appear in the international lists of suspected of swindle, money-laundering and financing of terrorist groupings.
Such results were received in the research carried out by British non-governmental financial service World-Check.
World-Check’s list of top-managers includes, in particular, 154 suspected of financial frauds, 37 – of drugs trafficking and 13 […]
Terrorists are Internet–mapped
20 February 2008Museum of Modern Art in New York within the framework of an exhibition “Design and quick mind” will present site Global Incident Map, which in real time shows on Google Maps sites of the last bomb attacks, nuclear, ecological and other threats, writes Tech.co.uk.
The data on the event is get from the news sources. The […]
Sea pirates became more active
29 January 2008The amount of registered cases of sea piracy for the last year has increased by 10 % in comparison with the last year, is informed in the report of the International Maritime Bureau (IMB).
263 piracy attacks have been registered in 2007, while in 2006 - only 239.
According to IMB’s report, in 2007 pirates became better […]
Anti-criminal site of the EU became a source of viruses
25 January 2008The site created in the context of EU’s anti-criminal program, became a source of computer viruses. Internet - edition The Inquirer informs, that address www.ctose.org should have contained the resource with the information on criminal investigations. However now users see messages on various services, from reservation of hotel rooms to insurance, and at an attempt […]
British government concentrates attention on extremist websites
22 January 2008Home Secretary Jackie Smith has declared intention of the government to close all extremist Internets-sites, writes The Guardian. Search and closedown of the sites connected to terrorists are a part of the governmental strategy on extermination of radical groupings in Great Britain.
Minister is going to meet with representatives of the largest GB’s providers to […]
Latvians illegally turn Russians, Byelorussians and Ukrainians into Europeans
15 January 2008The police of Latvia disclosed the criminal group consisted of government officials who trade in the Latvian passports.
19 officials are detained on suspicion of counterfeiting and sale of EU passports.
The main buyers of illegal passports were Byelorussians, and also Russian and Ukrainians. According to representatives of the Latvian security police, these documents were not […]
Unprecedented number of journalists has been killed in 2007
11 January 200886 journalists died in 2007. This number was published on January, 2, 2008 by “Reporters without Borders”. In comparison with 2002 the number of the killed has grown by 246 percents. More than a half of victims - 48 people - are killed in the Middle East, 17 - in Asia, 12 - in Africa, […]
5 tons of cocaine are confiscated in Portugal
9 January 2008The police of Portugal has confiscated 5 tons of cocaine and has arrested six suspected people during the operation conducted together with law enforcement bodies of the neighbor Spain.
Police representative has informed, the illegal cargo was found on a vessel in the port of Lisbon.
The cargo has arrived from Venezuela and was intended for […]
Doctors without borders are abducted in Somalia
28 December 2007Unknown armed people have stolen two Spanish employees of the international independent organization Doctors without borders.
The incident has taken place in area Pantlend in the north of Somalia. According to the eyewitness, six armed people have blocked road to the automobile with two employees of the organization Doctors without borders.
Unknown persons have captured women and […]
The British authorities would like to forbid prostitution
26 December 2007The British government considers the proposal to forbid prostitution.
Fiona MacTaggart, who coordinates the work of the government in this direction, says that recently London has become a trans-shipment point for the criminal groupings engaged in human trafficking from the Eastern Europe.
In the nearest future the government is going to send abroad an expert […]
