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...they ever make it, they're unlikely to receive a warm welcome there either. On Thursday, in a sweep aimed at combating illegal immigration, Italian police took nearly 400 people into custody and immediately deported more than 50, according to the Interior Ministry. The coordinated effort, carried out in cities throughout the country, was the high-profile follow-through for the recently installed government of Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. The new Interior Minister, Roberto Maroni, is the No. 2 official of the Northern League, a party which takes a hard line against immigration. He pledged further police action against illegal...
...prescriptions, according to the House Commerce Committee. But as industry spending has soared, so has public scrutiny. Last week, at a day-long House subcommittee hearing, lawmakers pushed for tougher regulations, taking aim at seemingly deceptive ads by drug companies such as Pfizer and Merck. And on Thursday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), which mandates and monitors the content of drug ads, convened to discuss the issue...
Monday's catastrophic earthquake has produced a massive official response. But even the 100,000 soldiers and paramilitary troops who were in the region by Thursday or the legions of volunteers whose cars jam the roads to the disaster zone are not enough to cope with the scale of the destruction. The official death toll for Monday's 7.9 magnitude quake reached 19,509 Thursday, and the State Council said that it could reach 50,000, according to the state-run Xinhua News Service. Now several dams in the area are reported to have severe cracks, raising the threat that...
...Millan appears to have been targeted in retaliation for the federal police jailing such top cartel figures as Sinaloa honcho Arturo Beltran. The accused gunman, Alejandro Ramirez, was waiting inside the police chief's Mexico City apartment early last Thursday morning when Millan, 41, returned home. Ramirez allegedly shot Millan nine times as Millan turned on the lights. Millan's bodyguard was also shot, but managed to subdue Ramirez, who was arrested along with Montes and five other alleged conspirators. Mexican authorities say Montes, the federal police officer, was collared with incriminating documents, including the license plate numbers of senior...
...response to an e-mail Brown sent to HUPD asking why Harvard employees had not been informed of the incident, HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano replied Thursday that the public safety threat was determined to be “minimal” and that alerting undergraduates was deemed “sufficient...