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Posted: July 29th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
National security - The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary and Mexico's Secretaries of Interior and Public Safety recently signed two arrangements aimed at strengthening border and aviation security between the two countries. According to a press...
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Posted: July 29th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Narcotics and drug abuse - Two Mexican nationals captured in Nogales, Arizona, were recently convicted of marijuana trafficking in Mexico pursuant to the Controlled Substances Program (CSP), an agreement between the United States and Mexico "to prosecute, under Mexican law, drug...
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Posted: July 29th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Communications and electronic information - Sweden's Data Inspection Board (DIB), the country's key data protection agency, said in a statement issued on July 5, 2010, that it is the legal responsibility of businesses and government agencies to monitor all data that...
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Posted: July 29th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Environment - On July 23, 2010, the Amsterdam District Court imposed the maximum fine of 1 million (about US$1.28 million) on Trafigura Beheer BV, a multinational oil trading company, for illegally shipping 400 tons of hazardous toxic sludge,...
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Posted: July 29th, 2010, 12:00pm MSD
Freedom of information - On July 22, 2010, the Liberian House of Representatives passed the Freedom of Information Bill which, if enacted into law, will give members of the press corps and the general public unfettered access to public records....