Snip: Nine people have been arrested in a massive nationwide anti-terror operation involving more than 500 police officers. Police carried out a string of co-ordinated early morning raids at addresses across five different force areas.
Properties in Manchester, Merseyside, Middlesbrough, the West Midlands and the London area were being searched with warrants under the Terrorism Act.
Immigration raid in Brunai - take note American politicians - it CAN be done!
Snip: During the raids, 13 people were issued special passes and 4 were given summons letters. A total of 11 foreign nationals were apprehended and brought in, and upon further investigation three were confirmed to have been in violation of Immigration Law.
Canadian scientist worried about ingress/egress of wildlife with border wall
Snip: Paul Paquet, a wolf specialist with the University of Calgary, says grizzlies, wolves, deer, foxes and caribou -- in fact, just about every species of large mammal there is -- travel freely across the U.S.-Canada border, so any effort to restrict that could have dire environmental consequences.
"Friendly" Ecuador on collision path with US
Snip: Occidental actually sold 40% of its concession to Canada's EnCana, which in turn traded it with a Chinese oil consortium. Oxy’s production (as the company is referred to in Ecuador) is in the range of 111.000 barrels per day from Block 15 in the Amazonian basin where the company alleges to have invested over 6 billion US dollars.
"The world knows that Ecuador is a friendly country, but we are also determined to defend the interests of our motherland, the well being of the Ecuadorian people and the integrity of its territory" emphasized President Palacio during a national address Saturday.
131 illegals found in refrigerated truck carrying papayas in Mexico
Snip: But infrared technology at the immigration station allowed officials to see the truck's false bottom. Hidden among the fruit were 97 Guatemalans, 18 Hondurans and 17 from neighboring El Salvador, according to Julio Trujillo, a spokesman for the National Migration Institute in Chiapas.