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...Assadi is pulled over by the police on a motorway in Germany. And in the back of his car, they find the battered red notebook filled with handwritten notes....
...She was head of MI6’s Helsinki station at the time of Gordievsky’s escape and one of only two women who rose to a senior rank in the 1970s and 1980s....
...Michael Levi, a fraud expert and professor of criminology at Cardiff University, warned that the lack of capacity means many fraudsters will escape prosecution....
...Art Acevedo, the Houston Police Commissioner that Suarez lured to Miami in March, saying it was “like getting the Tom Brady or the Michael Jordan of police chief”, was fired in October....
...Within months, he led a small team representing Eurotunnel in a case brought against the Department for Transport challenging procurement of ferry capacity in the event of Brexit....
...With their picks leading Whitehall departments, new officials recruited in their image and Conservative allies running public bodies, the British state will be smashed and rebuilt in the coming years....
...His 2015 paper, written with Karl Ask of Gothenburg university’s psychology department, looked at the performance of experienced detectives and novice police officers in Norway and England....
...(FT) Trump signs executive order urging change in police tactics President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order to reform police practices in the US, including encouraging state and local officials...
...One former Downing Street official observes that there is “an almost colonial mindset” among some ministers and officials, especially in those departments less used to the devolved structure....
...Michael Buehler is a senior lecturer in comparative politics at Soas, University of London....
...Mr Giuliani brought along a cast of loyalists from City Hall, including former city lawyer Michael Hess, police commissioner Bernard Kerik and aide Anthony Carbonetti, among others....
...A new internet monitoring centre will use DPI to give the Kremlin a closer look at all information going in and out of Russia....
...When department store chain Havan opened in Brasília in November, customers were greeted with a curious sight. Lying prone in the car park was a 35-metre-long replica of the Statue of Liberty....
...A recent arrival in the city, he is black with a short grey beard. The night I see him he has an American flag poking out of his backpack. He has travelled 2,000 miles from his native New Orleans....
...“Attorney-general Sessions had a very good career as a prosecutor, but he’s been a senator for a couple of decades,” said Ronal Serpas, former New Orleans Police Department superintendent and a member of...
...New Orleans hired black officers in the early 1800s but they were not allowed to police white areas....
...(NYT, FT) In the news Phelps smashes ancient record American swimmer Michael Phelps won his 22nd career gold medal in spectacular fashion on Thursday, demolishing his rivals in the 200m individual medley...
...The US justice department is scrutinising New York luxury property sales suspected of being linked to the 1MDB scandal and is also probing the $680m payment to Mr Najib....
...Sea Lovers, by Valerie Martin, Serpent’s Tail, RRP£8.99/Nan A Talese, RRP$25.95 Orange Prize-winning author Martin was raised in New Orleans, and many of the unusual 12 stories in this collection are set...
...As he spoke, cable news networks showed split-screen images of Ferguson engulfed in clouds of tear gas and riot gear-clad police....
...tech-economy title of choice, this book may be 2015’s equivalent....
...It is on track to become the second-costliest US storm after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina, which was estimated to have cost New Orleans and the gulf area more than $100bn in damages....
...Selections by Tom Robbins … FOOD Treme: Stories and Recipes from the Heart of New Orleans, by Lolis Eric Elie, Chronicle, RRP£18.99 / $29.95 This collection of recipes from US chefs, many working in...
...In August 2005, with hurricane Katrina just 20 hours away from crashing into New Orleans, then-mayor Ray Nagin ordered a mandatory evacuation of the city’s 1.3m people....
...Simon’s latest series for HBO is Treme, a profile of New Orleans as it attempts to recover from the appalling consequences of hurricane Katrina....
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