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...protection of the public," he says. The Brown government has indicated that it will not rush new antiterror legislation in response to the latest plot. That suggests a new approach. Since the beginning of the decade, Britain passed four separate laws that extended the authorities' rights to investigate and monitor suspects and seize their assets. Blair did not have everything his own way; in 2005 he suffered his first-ever defeat in the House of Commons when members of his own party voted with the opposition to thwart an extension of the period police can hold suspects without charge from...
...protection of the public," he says. The Brown government has indicated that it will not rush new antiterror legislation in response to the latest plot. That suggests a new approach. Since the beginning of the decade, Britain passed four separate laws that extended the authorities' rights to investigate and monitor suspects and seize their assets. Blair did not have everything his own way; in 2005 he suffered his first-ever defeat in the House of Commons when members of his own party voted with the opposition to thwart an extension of the period police can hold suspects without charge from...
...motorway in northern England yesterday and one in Liverpool, bringing the total in custody to five, including the two being held in Glasgow. Security officials have not ruled out the possibility that seven terror suspects may be involved; British authorities recently admitted that the seven slipped "control orders" to monitor their activities. The security services also admit that they are stretched trying to monitor 1,600 individuals, 200 networks and 30 plots. A security source confirmed there was no prior intelligence of these attacks...
Earlier this week, North Korea announced to great fanfare that it would, in fact, do what it agreed to do back in February at the so called Six Party Talks in Beijing: allow inspectors from the International Atomic Energy Agency to monitor the shutdown of the controversial Yongbyon reactor. That has helped put the optimists in the Kim club in the ascendant. Indeed, Hill's trip to Pyongyang on Thursday, the first high-level mission by a U.S. official there in more than four years, seemed designed to take advantage of the positive opening. A statement from Hill read...
...delegation is about to wrap up a three-week mission to examine security procedures along the Lebanon-Syria border and will conclude that much needs to be done to tighten border security. That could spur U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon to recommend dispatching a U.N. observer mission to monitor the porous frontier. Such a decision will anger Damascus, which has repeatedly stated its opposition to an international presence along its border with Lebanon. It will further add pressure on the Palestinian bases, which are linked to Syria via numerous remote trails that criss-cross the mountainous border. The Lebanese...