27/11/2020 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - Temporary US Pentagon chief makes rare visit to Somalia
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon’s acting defense secretary has made a rare visit to Somalia, a conflict-plagued nation in the Horn of Africa where American forces have been assisting in the fight against al-Qaida affiliate al-Shabab.
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15/09/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Defense - - Russia's biggest war games include submarine hunt in Pacific
KLERK PENINSULA, Russia -- Russian naval forces have conducted a submarine search using an anti-submarine ship and a helicopter in the Sea of Okhotsk as part of Russia's largest-ever military exercises.
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23/05/2018 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Syrian Government Declares Capital Fully Under Its Control
Syria’s military on Monday captured an enclave in southern Damascus from Islamic State militants following a ruinous monthlong battle, bringing the entire capital and its far-flung suburbs under full government control for the first time since the civil war began in 2011.
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15/08/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - US Navy Reports Another Tense Encounter with Iran Drone
DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES —
An unarmed Iranian drone shadowed a U.S. aircraft carrier at night and came close enough to F-18 fighter jets to put the lives of American pilots at risk, the Navy said Tuesday, reporting the second such tense encounter within a week.
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19/06/2017 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Iran - Tehran: Iran, China hold joint naval drill in Persian Gulf
Iran's navy has conducted a joint exercise with a Chinese fleet near the strategic Strait of Hormuz in the Persian Gulf.
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27/04/2016 | Transparencia
US - New York: Sprawling Corruption Case With Humble Beginnings Roils NYC
NEW YORK—After a successful attack on corruption in New York’s state government, the hard-charging federal prosecutor in Manhattan appears to have set his sights on New York City.
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13/10/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Honduras - Honduran official: Authorities are helping country's biggest drug cartel
Honduran official says that a police operation to dismantle a drug trafficking cartel wasn't as successful as it should have been because authorities working with the traffickers alerted them ahead of time.
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25/08/2013 | High Tech
Der Spiegel - German magazine: NSA decrypted, spied on, United Nations’ internal video conferencing system
The German magazine Der Spiegel says the U.S. National Security Agency secretly monitored the U.N.’s internal video conferencing system by decrypting it last year.
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14/06/2013 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - Boston bombing suspects' mom in terror database
Zubeidat Tsarnaeva was added to a terrorism database with her son Tamerlan Tsarnaev about 18 months before the attack.
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31/08/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - 2 CIA agents wounded in shooting go to US
Mexican officials said Wednesday that two Americans wounded in a shooting attack by federal police on a U.S. Embassy vehicle are employees of the Central Intelligence Agency, and acknowledged they have returned to the United States.
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08/08/2012 | Frente Externo
Middle East - Syria: Syria's Assad returns to public eye with ally Iran
Syrian President Bashar Assad made his first appearance on state TV in nearly three weeks Tuesday in a show of solidarity with a senior Iranian envoy even as the U.S. secretary of state urged stepped up international planning for the regime's collapse.
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06/08/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Middle East - Syria: Syrian forces battle on twin fronts as rebels pose challenges in key cities
Syrian forces threatened Sunday to mount a “decisive battle” for Aleppo even as rebels clawed toward the city’s ancient center under intense bombardment and strafing from warplanes. In the capital Damascus, militiamen appeared to step up guerrilla-like forays in central districts that were once firmly in the regime’s hands.
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18/05/2012 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - Security hub for NATO summit at secret site
Representatives from 43 agencies have begun staffing a hub designed to ensure information flows smoothly should violence occur during the NATO summit in Chicago.
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26/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Jamaica - Bruce Golding, Jamaica's PM announces he will step down
Jamaica's prime minister has announced he will not pursue a second term as Jamaica's leader, possibly averting a rebellion from ruling party members that could have led to his ouster.
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22/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Colombia - Colombian police seize $250 million in assets linked to Mexican drug kingpin
Colombian police have seized 301 properties, including houses, vehicles and estates, that belonged to alleged front men for Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman, the head of Mexico’s powerful Sinaloa drug cartel, police said Wednesday.
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20/09/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Fellow party members demand investigation in slaying of Mexican congressman
Fellow party members of a slain Mexican congressman from southern Guerrero state published a letter in newspapers Monday demanding a local politician be investigated in the case.
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20/09/2011 | Transparencia
Colombia - Bogota mayor charged with corruption in awarding of construction contracts
Bogota’s suspended mayor has been charged with seeking payoffs in exchange for awarding major construction contracts in the Colombian capital.
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05/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Cuba - Cubans including Raul Castro pay tribute to late Defense Minister Julio Casas
Thousands of Cubans paid tribute to late Defense Minister Julio Casas on Monday, filing silently past a larger-than-life photo of the fallen revolutionary as flags around the country flew at half staff. State television showed footage of President Raul Castro and other Communist Party leaders laying flowers in a show of respect.
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05/09/2011 | Frente Externo
Cuba - Cubans including Raul Castro pay tribute to late Defense Minister Julio Casas
Thousands of Cubans paid tribute to late Defense Minister Julio Casas on Monday, filing silently past a larger-than-life photo of the fallen revolutionary as flags around the country flew at half staff. State television showed footage of President Raul Castro and other Communist Party leaders laying flowers in a show of respect.
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15/08/2011 | Medio Ambiente
Bolivia - Critics say environmentalist rhetoric of Bolivian President Evo Morales rings hollow
Bolivian President Evo Morales has become a fixture at global climate talks, arguing passionately for preserving the world’s forests and demanding strict cuts in rich countries’ greenhouse gas emissions.
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03/07/2011 | Frente Externo
Up against an ill Chavez, Venezuelan opposition faces danger of splintering
Opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez face a new political playing field filled with potential pitfalls now that their nemesis has announced he is being treated for cancer.
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03/07/2011 | Frente Externo
Up against an ill Chavez, Venezuelan opposition faces danger of splintering
Opponents of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez face a new political playing field filled with potential pitfalls now that their nemesis has announced he is being treated for cancer.
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15/06/2011 | Frente Externo
Brazil - Landless peasant activist killed in Brazil’s Amazon as conflict over logging continues
A landless peasant activist was killed by a gunshot to his head outside his home in Brazil — the fifth murder in a month likely tied to the conflict over land and logging in the Amazon.
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15/06/2011 | Frente Externo
Brazil - Landless peasant activist killed in Brazil’s Amazon as conflict over logging continues
A landless peasant activist was killed by a gunshot to his head outside his home in Brazil — the fifth murder in a month likely tied to the conflict over land and logging in the Amazon.
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26/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Europeans circulate UN resolution that would condemn Syria for crackdown on protesters
Key European nations circulated a draft United Nations resolution Wednesday that would condemn Syria for its crackdown on peaceful protesters, U.N. diplomats said.
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26/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Europeans circulate UN resolution that would condemn Syria for crackdown on protesters
Key European nations circulated a draft United Nations resolution Wednesday that would condemn Syria for its crackdown on peaceful protesters, U.N. diplomats said.
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25/05/2011 | Transparencia
Africa - More than $70 million missing in Somalia; politicians accept briefcases of cash
Somali politicians are returning from Arab nations with briefcases of cash, and a Somali government watchdog report obtained by The Associated Press found that more than $70 million of it is missing instead of being used to fight terrorism, piracy or hunger.
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25/05/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
US slaps sanctions on state-owned Venezuela oil firm for doing business with Iran
The Obama administration on Tuesday hit seven foreign companies, including Venezuela’s state-owned oil company and an Israeli shipping firm, with sanctions for doing business with Iran that helps fund its nuclear program.
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25/05/2011 | Transparencia
Africa - More than $70 million missing in Somalia; politicians accept briefcases of cash
Somali politicians are returning from Arab nations with briefcases of cash, and a Somali government watchdog report obtained by The Associated Press found that more than $70 million of it is missing instead of being used to fight terrorism, piracy or hunger.
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25/05/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
US slaps sanctions on state-owned Venezuela oil firm for doing business with Iran
The Obama administration on Tuesday hit seven foreign companies, including Venezuela’s state-owned oil company and an Israeli shipping firm, with sanctions for doing business with Iran that helps fund its nuclear program.
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21/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - CIA director tells workforce to stop talking about bin Laden raid — or face legal action
CIA director Leon Panetta is warning his employees that leakers will be investigated and possibly prosecuted after a flurry of reports in the media about the technology and methods used to track and ultimately kill Osama bin Laden.
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21/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - CIA director tells workforce to stop talking about bin Laden raid — or face legal action
CIA director Leon Panetta is warning his employees that leakers will be investigated and possibly prosecuted after a flurry of reports in the media about the technology and methods used to track and ultimately kill Osama bin Laden.
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11/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Libya - NATO warplanes strike Tripoli command center; rebels claim gains at Misrata
In a one-two punch against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, NATO warplanes struck a command center in the capital, Tripoli, on Tuesday after pounding regime targets around the besieged port of Misrata. Rebels were hopeful the accelerated attacks could help them extend some of their biggest advances of the war.
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11/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Africa - Niger: Niger’s ex-president is released from house arrest
Niger’s former president, Mamadou Tandja, has been freed, 14 months after being placed under house arrest, then jailed following a military coup that toppled his government.
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11/05/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Libya - NATO warplanes strike Tripoli command center; rebels claim gains at Misrata
In a one-two punch against Moammar Gadhafi’s forces, NATO warplanes struck a command center in the capital, Tripoli, on Tuesday after pounding regime targets around the besieged port of Misrata. Rebels were hopeful the accelerated attacks could help them extend some of their biggest advances of the war.
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11/05/2011 | Frente Externo
Africa - Niger: Niger’s ex-president is released from house arrest
Niger’s former president, Mamadou Tandja, has been freed, 14 months after being placed under house arrest, then jailed following a military coup that toppled his government.
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02/04/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Suspected drug lord held in Guatemala
Juan Ortiz Lopez, who is wanted in Florida on cocaine trafficking charges, is arrested at a house in Quetzaltenango.
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03/03/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - Mexican soldiers find 17 bodies in mass graves
Discovery in southern state known as drugs hub is third such find in less than a year.
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28/02/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
North Korea Threatens to Attack South Korea, U.S.
North Korea threatened Sunday to attack South Korea and the United States, as the allies prepared to start annual joint military drills—maneuvers Pyongyang says are a rehearsal for an invasion.
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02/02/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Gunman kills Mexico border city newspaper employee
A drug gunman shot to death a woman who distributed newspapers in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez because his gang thought she threatened their control over street vendors, federal police said Tuesday.
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02/02/2011 | Economia y Finanzas
US - Brent crude pushes higher, WTI settles below $91
The price of a key oil contract traded at a two-year high above $102 a barrel Tuesday as antigovernment protest continued in Egypt.
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18/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Zetas Drug Cartel Casts Shadow over Mexico's Border with Guatemala
The brutal Zetas drug cartel is spreading fear in southern Mexico and across the border with Guatemala.
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11/01/2011 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US concerned over China's rapid development of new weapons
Defence secretary says Beijing, whose arms development is outpacing US intelligence estimates, could 'put some of our capabilities at risk'.
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21/11/2010 | Frente Externo
Venezuela - Chavez: US wanted drug suspect to smear Venezuela
President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that U.S. officials hoped to use an alleged cocaine kingpin to smear his government with corruption accusations and thanked Colombia's leader for rejecting Washington's extradition request.
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13/09/2010 | Frente Externo
Saudi diplomat seeks asylum in U.S.
A Saudi diplomat in Los Angeles reportedly has asked for political asylum in the United States, claiming his life is in danger if he is returned to Saudi Arabia.
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12/09/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico - 25 slain in Ciudad Juarez
Attacks by drug gangs result in the city's worst death toll in two years. To the southeast along the border, 85 inmates escape.
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12/09/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexican police neutralize car bomb in border city
Mexican police carried out the controlled detonation of a car bomb Saturday in the troubled border city of Ciudad Juarez, across from Texas.
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24/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Al Qaeda inmates escape days after U.S. transferred jail
Four al Qaeda-linked detainees have escaped from a Baghdad area prison that was handed over by the U.S. to Iraqi authorities a week ago, Iraq's justice minister said Thursday — a daring escape that embarrasses a government struggling to prove it is capable of operating without U.S. oversight.
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16/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Pirate Attacks Dropping
Pirate attacks world-wide fell 18% in the first half of 2010 from a year earlier, as patrols by several navies in the Gulf of Aden curtailed raids, an international maritime watchdog said Thursday.
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06/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
World Cup replica made of cocaine seized in Colombia
A replica World Cup trophy made out of cocaine has been seized at Bogotà airport in Colombia.
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06/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - JFK Airport terminal reopens after false alarm
A bomb scare that turned out to be a false alarm forced the evacuation of a terminal at John F. Kennedy International Airport for two hours Sunday.
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04/07/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
New Satellite to Monitor Debris in Earth Orbit
A new U.S. Air Force satellite will provide the first full-time, space-based surveillance of hundreds of satellites and thousands of pieces of debris that could crash into American and allied assets circling the Earth.
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13/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Alleged Mossad Spy Is Arrested
Polish authorities have arrested an alleged Mossad spy from Israel wanted in connection with the slaying of a Hamas agent in Dubai, the German federal prosecutor's office said Saturday.
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07/06/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Indagan si narcos bolivianos planearon linchar a policías
La policía investiga si el ajusticiamiento de cuatro agentes a manos de indígenas quechuas en una remota región de los Andes bolivianos fue una venganza del narcotráfico y los contrabandistas, informó un jefe policial.
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23/05/2010 | Frente Externo
Thailand Tightens Detention of Protest Leaders
Thai police, criticized for lenient treatment of leaders of protests that paralyzed Bangkok for weeks and resulted in street battles and riots that killed dozens, said Saturday they had tightened security and confiscated the men's mobile phones.
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20/05/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Jamaican police receive warrant for arrest of accused drug kingpin wanted by United States
Jamaican police have received a warrant for the arrest of an alleged drug kingpin wanted by the United States.
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06/05/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
French Police Detain Terror Suspect
French authorities arrested a French-Moroccan man suspected of heading an al Qaeda support cell that planned to send militants to fight in Afghanistan, Iraq and other conflict zones, and was plotting terror attacks in Morocco, they said Thursday.
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03/05/2010 | Economia y Finanzas
Aid plan for Greece worth $145 billion
Finance ministers from the 16 countries that use the euro agreed Sunday to rescue Greece with euro110 billion in loans over three years to keep it from defaulting on its debts.
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02/04/2010 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
US - FBI Warns on Extremist Letters Sent to Governors
The Federal Bureau of Investigation is warning police across the country that an antigovernment group's call to remove governors from office could provoke violence.
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05/01/2010 | Frente Externo
Bolivian Indians See Rocky Exodus From Serfdom
Juan Vasquez didn't have much of a childhood. He never went to school, began to work as a ranch hand at age 12, married three years later and has nine children.
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31/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
International armada struggles to turn the tide against Somali pirates
Striking into the heavily patrolled Gulf of Aden, Somali pirates seized a British-flagged chemical tanker, the first merchant vessel to be hijacked there in nearly six months, officials said Tuesday.
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27/12/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Alleged Terrorist Known But Not Thought A Threat
The alleged Christmas Day terrorist had been in one of the U.S. government's many terror databases since November, which is when his father brought him to the attention of embassy officials in Nigeria.
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26/11/2009 | Medio Ambiente
China Announces Plans To Cut Carbon Emissions
China announced plans Thursday to cut its carbon emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic output — a commitment from the world's largest polluter that builds momentum ahead of a widely anticipated climate conference in Copenhagen next month.The announcement comes a day after President Obama promised the U.S. would lay out plans to substantially cut its greenhouse gas emissions at the summit.
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26/11/2009 | Medio Ambiente
China Announces Plans To Cut Carbon Emissions
China announced plans Thursday to cut its carbon emissions by up to 45 percent as measured against its economic output — a commitment from the world's largest polluter that builds momentum ahead of a widely anticipated climate conference in Copenhagen next month.The announcement comes a day after President Obama promised the U.S. would lay out plans to substantially cut its greenhouse gas emissions at the summit.
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24/03/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Mexico Targets Top Drug Lords
Mexico's government on Monday offered $2 million each for information leading to the arrest of 24 top drug lords in a public challenge to the cartels' violent grip on the country.
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24/03/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
India - Mumbai Gunman Kasab Says He Is a Pakistani National
The only gunman charged in last year's terror attacks in Mumbai told an Indian court Monday, the first day of court proceedings, that he would agree to a government-provided lawyer and also repeated that he was a Pakistani national.
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23/03/2009 | Inteligencia y Seguridad
Pakistan - Suicide Bomber Kills Police Officer in Islamabad
A suicide bomber blew himself up close to a police station in the Pakistani capital late Monday, killing himself and one officer.
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