Ex-DHS watchdog: Random searches, more cameras needed to protect mass transit

By John Solomon

The Homeland Security Department’s former chief watchdog says the government needs to do more to protect mass transit in the United States f

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"… ong been concerned that, despite the occasional foreign incidents (London, Madrid, Mumbai, now Moscow again), we’ve not focused nearly as much money and a …"

Part I: A Mediterranean feeding frenzy

By Kate Willson and Jean-Pierre Canet

Cobblestone walkways line the quiet canals of Sète, a French community of 40,000 nestled along the Mediterranean about 85 miles west of Mars

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"… International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), a Madrid-based regulatory body, and with its 47 member states and the EU. But ICCAT …"

"… arina Walker Guevara and Scilla Alecci in Washington, Marcos Garcia Rey in Madrid, Leo Sisti in Milan, and Brigitte Alfter in Brussels contributed to this r …"

About this project: Looting the Seas

Looting the Seas is a two-year project by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists looking at the forces that are rapidly d

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"… te forwards a copy of that paper record to the ICCAT secretariat office in Madrid. The database is password-protected and available only to a few officials …"

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Part III: Bluefin, Inc.

By Marina Walker Guevara and Martin Foster

Mount Fuji rises across the bay from the 16th century port of Shimizu — a sight fit for a post card. The town has seen better days — its bus

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"… panese officials insist the fishery should continue to be regulated by the Madrid-based International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICC …"

The hot line from Virginia to Al Qaeda

LONDON, June 12, 2002 — The flaw in the U.S. communications system is a Pentagon network called the Global Broadcasting Service (GBS), a new

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"… rope. They can be received anywhere in a “footprint” that extends from Madrid to Minsk, and from Bucharest to Birmingham, England. From anywhere in this …"

The EU's billion-Euro bet

By Brigitte Alfter

How Europe ended up paying industry for carbon capture and storage

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"… s.Davies, in fact, went around Europe lobbying for the idea — to Berlin, Madrid, Warsaw — and says he found the strongest support from the Dutch and the …"

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A casualty in the war on terror

By Nathaniel Heller

Europe's relations with U.S. undermined by apparent complicity on CIA prisons

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"… ain was one of the first to recall its troops, after the train bombings in Madrid in early 2004 helped bring to power a left-leaning, more anti-American gov …"

Big oil spends $400,000 on government junkets

By Daniel Lathrop

Legislators taken to NASCAR races, "Wildcatters Ball"

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"… n oil industry-funded travel to locations that included Scottsdale, Ariz., Madrid, Spain, and Hong Kong.Murkowski achieved first place despite leaving the S …"

From 'God's handwriting' to corporate profits

By Nathaniel Heller

Genome companies and their lawyers and lobbyists have locked up federal policy on human gene patenting with little public discussion

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"… ber that year, the patent office itself paid for Coble's whirlwind tour of Madrid and Barcelona, Spain, and Venice, Italy, with $4,500 of taxpayer money to …"

Nearly €6 billion in subsidies fuel Spain’s ravenous fleet

Out-of-control subsidies have helped Spain build up a fleet that breaks the law at home and abroad

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"… in has received for fishing — primarily from EU taxpayers, but also from Madrid and regional governments. The country has cornered a third of all the EU …"

"… ch operate with EU subsidies. In the halls of the ministry of fisheries in Madrid, the word is that Garat will be appointed Spain’s next fishing secretary …"

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