“The “limited magnitude” of both debt plans put forward by congressional leaders would not put the nation’s AAA credit rating back on solid footing, Moody’s Investors Service announced Friday. “Reductions of the magnitude now being proposed, if adopted, would likely lead Moody’s to adopt a negative outlook on the AAA rating,” the credit rating agency [...]
“Released by the Home Office on the 28th July 2011 ‘Local to Global: Reducing the Risk from Organised Crime’ outlines the changes to be made in the lead up to the establishment of the National Crime Agency (NCA) in November 2013.” (Source: Home Office releases strategy document for organised crime – Bapco Journal.)
“The Obama administration canceled a $1.2 billion program to install nuclear material detectors at U.S. ports of entry, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.” (Source: Obama administration cancels DHS nuclear detection program.)
“Egyptian security officials say a militant Islamist group has blown up a terminal along the Egyptian natural gas pipeline to Israel in the northern Sinai Peninsula.” (Source: Egypt: Militants Attack Gas Pipeline to Israel – ABC News.)
“Police have arrested the head of a gang of hitmen working for the Ciudad Juarez drug cartel linked to the March 2010 murder of a US consulate worker and a car bombing in this border city, local media reported Saturday.” (Source: AFP: Mexico arrests Ciudad Juarez cartel hitman.)