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KENNER, LA. -- Long before an eruption of gas turned the Deepwater Horizon oil rig into a fireball, an alarm system designed to alert the crew and prevent combustible gases from reaching potential sources of ignition had been deliberately disabled, the former chief electronics technician on the r... Disability - Deepwater Horizon - Transocean - Business - Sports
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An electronics technician aboard the ill-fated oil rig Deepwater Horizon told an investigative panel that sound and light alarms were shut off on the day the rig exploded.
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The main contractor supplying the UK's multi-million pound electronic border security system has been sacked by the Home Office.
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Thirty-six-year-old Luo Fusheng left his hometown in China's Jiangxi province a decade ago to look for work to help support his family. Unskilled and with limited education, Luo eventually ended up in the factory city of Shenzhen, more than 700 kilometres to the south, where he now works as a security guard.
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A possibly get-even career choice, who knows, Jennifer Aniston flees an ex-spouse who repeatedly makes a fool of himself for the full length feature duration, in Bounty Hunter.
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Milo (Gerard Butler) and Nicole (Jennifer Aniston) were only married a few years before divorcing because he was such a pompous jerk. Nothing much has changed since, except that he's no longer a cop in the NYPD, having been fired for the same sort
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Three foreign nationals and two Afghans were killed on Friday when Taliban suicide bombers stormed the compound of a US aid organization in northern Afghanistan. One German and one British guard were among those killed.
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A German security guard has been killed after suspected Taliban rebels stormed the compound of a US aid organisation in Afghanistan.
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Established in 2000, the Voluntary Principles (VPs) is a multi-stakeholder initiative that provides guidance to companies on improving the respect for human rights with regard to the use of public and private security forces in the oil, gas, and min
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New York City officials have asked a federal court for permission to abandon an old-fashioned alarm system that predates the days when people dialed 911 from their cell phones to summon help.
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An American who travelled to Pakistan to hunt down Osama bin Laden has returned home to Colorado and admitted: "All I want to do is get some rest."
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Driven by his faith, would-be bounty hunter Gary Faulkner claims to have come close to capturing the al-Qaeda leader
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A New Jersey hotel clerk who was attacked by a mentally disturbed man will receive a $2.5 million settlement from an alarm company that installed and maintained the hotel's security system
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Young American soldiers are fighting on the front lines in the Afghan war, traveling deep into the heart of Taliban country. It is a dangerous war, that is becoming increasingly deadly. Pakistan - Peshawar - Security guard - Warfare and Conflict - War on Terrorism
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Pakistani militants launched a front assault on the American consulate in the frontier city of Peshawar today, firing rockets, exploding massive bombs and trying but failing to breach the compound's heavily fortified security. At least two local security guards were killed in the attacks, but no Americans suffered more than light wounds, according to two U.S. officials in Pakistan. Pakistan - Peshawar - Security guard - Warfare and Conflict - War on Terrorism
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A Kenyan security guard fuelled by a belief in spirits and greed has confessed to 19 murders and an intention to kill 100 people, a report says.
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In an effort to build an extortion case against Joran van der Sloot, the FBI gave the suspect in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway the money that he used to fund the trip to Peru where he allegedly attacked and killed Stephany Flores, says a private investigator.
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A private investigator who helped build an extortion case against Joran Van der Sloot says the young Dutchman should have been arrested before he went to Peru.
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A female patient at Torrance State Hospital in Derry Township faces charges for allegedly attacking a security guard there Sunday, state police said.
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Billy Willard says he's on the verge of a discovery that could change the way humans think about the natural world, not to mention their need for a creatureproof home-security system.
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A black middle class is emerging, but poverty and crime blight millions of lives
TEBOGO, aged 25, is a security guard in Johannesburg, earning just 11.38 rand an hour. Improperly classified as “self-employed”, he gets no paid holiday, sick leave or other benefits. By dint of working a 12-hour day, 25 days a month, he manages to earn 3,400 rand a month. Out of this he has to pay 250 rand rent to a friend who allows him to live in a one-room shack in his yard, next to seven others. Their 15 occupants share a single pit-latrine and outside water tap. Tebogo pays his employer 390 rand a month for transport and 98 rand for the uniform he is obliged to wear. Another 350 rand a month goes on maintenance for his six-year-old daughter. He also gives about 800 rand a month to his parents, who have no other source of income. In a good month that leaves Tebogo with about 1,500 rand for himself and his studies. He would like to become a radio journalist one day.
Lindiwe is a 58-year-old cleaner for a block of offices. For an eight-hour day, five days a week, she earns a basic 1,500 rand a month, which tips bring up to 2,100 rand That has to keep her, her unemployed husband and two grandchildren whom she looks after. Having inherited her parents’ home, she pays no rent, but spends around 55 rand a month on electricity, 30 rand on water and 300 rand a month on her one-hour bus journey to work. During apartheid, she used to work as a domestic servant for a white family, living in a one-room shack at the bottom of the garden and working 13 hours a day, seven days a week. On her one weekend off a month she would try to visit her two children who were being brought up by her mother in Soweto, a sprawling black township south of Johannesburg. ...
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Indonesia is a democracy. But many Papuans do not want to be part of it
THE hotel provides free mosquito repellent and closes its pool bar before dusk to prevent guests from contracting malaria. The former Sheraton still offers the best accommodation in Indonesia’s little-visited province of Papua, catering mainly to employees of its owner, Freeport-McMoRan, an American mining giant. Freeport protects its staff from more than malaria. Since July 2009 a spate of mysterious shootings along the road linking the hotel in Timika to the huge Grasberg mine up in the mountains has killed one employee, a security guard and a policeman and wounded scores of others. Workers are now shuttled from Timika to the mine by helicopter.
Before the pool bar closes, a jolly crowd of Freeport employees have their beers stored in a cool box. They take it to one of the—mostly dry—seafood restaurants in town. As in the rest of Papua, all formal businesses are run by Indonesian migrants who are predominantly Muslim. The mainly Christian Papuans sit on the pavements outside selling betel nuts and fruit. ...
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A thief stole five paintings valued at more than $100 million, including major works by Picasso and Matisse, in an overnight heist Thursday at a Paris modern art museum with a broken alarm system, officials said.
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Paris -- A broken alarm system made it as easy as 1-2-3: A masked intruder clipped a padlock, smashed a window and stole a Picasso, a Matisse and three other masterpieces from a Paris museum Thursday -- a $123 million haul that is one of the world's biggest art heists.
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A county judge Friday denied the request of a private investigator who sought the release of 911 records related to the death of an 18-year-old man in a crash last summer in North Union.
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Derrick Snowdy, the Toronto-based private investigator involved in the Guergis-Jaffer political affair, says he had no incriminating evidence regarding former cabinet minister Helena Guergis.
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2010-05-13 07:04:42 GMT
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Derrick Snowdy, the Toronto-based private investigator involved in the Guergis-Jaffer political affair, on Wednesday called himself "an unwilling participant in this little drama."
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2010-05-12 22:06:14 GMT
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The CBC's Kady O'Malley live blogs as private investigator Derrick Snowdy testifies about the Jaffer-Guergis affair at a parliamentary committee hearing in Ottawa.
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2010-05-12 21:07:18 GMT
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An Iowa woman is upset after she says a mall security guard hassled her for breast-feeding her child in the mall play area.
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A knife-wielding man slashed 28 children, two teachers and a security guard Thursday in the second such school attack in China in two days.
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Five students were in critical condition after the 47-year-old jobless man burst into a classroom at the school in Jiangsu province. Two teachers and a security guard were also injured. A series of recent school attacks in China have been blamed on people with personal grudges or suffering from mental illness, leading to calls for improved security.
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Allegations that a private security firm has been bribing Taliban and other insurgents to ensure safe passage for NATO convoys in Afghanistan are being denied by a key player in the business.
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2010-04-27 23:45:06 GMT
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Yemeni officials said Ambassador Timothy Torlot's armored car was passing through an area of San'a popular with militants on his way to work when an explosion went off. The blast bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida, and witnesses said the attacker wore a school uniform.
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A suicide bomber has attacked private security guards while they were at a bazaar in Afghanistan, killing four Afghans and wounding 12, the government say.
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Private investigator Derrick Snowdy says a document listing Panamanian companies that he was told were reserved for Rahim Jaffer prompted him to alert Tory officials about the former MP's alleged business ties.
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2010-04-20 19:42:44 GMT
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Associated Press has obtained documents showing that James von Brunn, who died before he could stand trial in the shooting death of a Holocaust museum security guard, first came to the FBI's attention 47 years ago when he was accused of making a death threat over a business dispute....
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Two men attacked a security guard and stabbed another at a clinic near Mthatha when they couldn't get condoms, it has been reported.
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The private investigator whose claims led to Helena Guergis's resignation from cabinet says he never expected the "political snowball" that ensued and was prompted to act over concerns about "optics."
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2010-04-18 11:47:44 GMT
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The 65-year-old CEO of furniture giant Jennifer Convertibles had a few drinks before mowing down a security guard crossing a Queens highway Wednesday night, authorities said.
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The private investigator at the centre of allegations against MP Helena Guergis owed creditors more than $13 million as of August 2009, according to documents obtained by CBC News.
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2010-04-16 04:43:58 GMT
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The private investigator at the centre of allegations against MP Helena Guergis owed creditors more than $13 million as of August 2009, according to documents obtained by CBC News.
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2010-04-16 01:42:39 GMT
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PITTSBURGH - A man with a gun entered a Pittsburgh public school for performing arts students but was disarmed after attacking a security guard.
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The Good is Do-Won (Bounty Hunter, a Korean Dirty Harry), The Bad is Chang-yi (Head Honcho, raving psycho) and The Weird is Tae-Goo (petty thief, murders if necessary). These three Korean exiles duke it out in a Chinese desert and if this all sound
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A Bronx teenager who was stabbed and beaten with a baseball bat during a wild melee outside his high school is suing the New York City school system, saying a school security guard blocked his only escape route.
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Spending more on education and private security are cost-effective ways of cutting crime
GUILDFORD is a prosperous town in London’s commuter belt and an unlikely setting for a seminar on crime. But one of the best sessions at the recent annual conference of the Royal Economic Society (RES), held at the University of Surrey, teased out two of the big themes on the economics of crime—deterrence (what it is that prevents crime?) and incentives (what it is that makes for law-abiding citizens?).
To start, Philip Cook of Duke University unveiled a new paper, written with John MacDonald of the University of Pennsylvania, on private contributions to public order. Their paper is based in part on a study of Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Los Angeles. BIDs are not-for-profit bodies that provide services, such as private security guards and sanitation, on behalf of local firms. The marvel of such public goods is that one firm’s use of them does not make them less useful to others. The flaw is that businesses can benefit even if they do not bear the costs. A change to Californian law in the 1990s addressed this problem by forcing all businesses to join a collective scheme if enough local firms had signed up to it. It helps, too, that the city authority collects the levies that finance the BIDs. ...
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Taliban launch frontal attack on consulate with suicide car bomb and RPGs. Pakistan - Taliban - Peshawar - United States - Security guard
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The Georgia security guard who kicks off this week's mug shot roundup was popped this week for driving with an invalid license (so much for showing professional courtesy to a fellow law enforcement officer).
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The Justice Department on Thursday filed a civil suit against defense contractor Kellogg Brown & Root Inc., alleging that the firm provided false statements in charging the government for the unauthorized use of private security guards in Iraq.
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BOSTON - An off-duty security guard who fatally shot a psychiatric patient as the patient stabbed a doctor will not face criminal charges.
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Shortly after takeoff from San Francisco International Airport Saturday a United Airlines jumbo jet came so close to colliding with a small Cessna plane that it set off the United plane's collision avoidance alarm system. Cessna - United Airlines - San Francisco International Airport - Aviation - United States
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Shortly after takeoff from San Francisco International Airport Saturday a United Airlines jumbo jet came so close to colliding with a small Cessna plane that it set off the United plane's collision avoidance alarm system. Cessna - United Airlines - San Francisco International Airport - Aviation - United States
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Connecticut authorities say they arrested a school security guard on allegations he paid a 15-year-old girl for her underwear and had inappropriate physical contact with her.
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More than $100,000 is missing after a bag of cash fell from an armored car into an intersection, leading several motorists to stop and grab handfuls of bills, police said Thursday.
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Madame Tussauds unveiled their new Robert Pattinson waxwork to screaming fans as he makes it into their VIP room
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For the first time, payouts made under the U.S. Social Security system will exceed the federal government's revenues, according to a Thursday report in the New York Times.
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In the first killing of its kind, private security contractors shot dead a Somali pirate in a clash that left two skiffs riddled with bullet holes, officials said Wednesday.
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Private security guards shot and killed a Somali pirate during an attack on a merchant ship off the coast of East Africa in what is believed to be the first such killing.
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Federal prosecutors are considering weapons charges against former executives at Blackwater Worldwide over allegations the private security company, now known as Xe, illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at its North Carolina headquarters, sources said.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal prosecutors are considering filing weapons charges against former top officials of the Blackwater Worldwide private security company over allegations they illegally stockpiled automatic rifles at the company's North Carolina headquarters, The Associated Press has learned....
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A security guard, who was allegedly intoxicated, has drowned while he and other guards were taking a dip in a river near Lanseria airport.
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Hollywood actor Sean Penn has set up his own relief organisation to help victims of the Haiti earthquake.
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Milo (Gerard Butler) and Nicole (Jennifer Aniston) were only married a few years before they went their separate ways, basically because he was such a pompous jerk.
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Robert Pattinson got his usual welcome in London's Leicester Square at the premiere of his new film Remember Me.
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A possibly get-even career choice, who knows, Jennifer Aniston flees an ex-spouse who repeatedly makes a fool of himself for the full length feature duration, in Bounty Hunter.
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John Terry has been questioned by police after he knocked down a member of Chelsea's security staff in his car.
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Robbie Williams' reunion with Take That has been put on hold while band member Mark Owen gets treated for alcohol problems in rehab.
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TOP Gear host Jeremy Clarkson has poked fun at a "weedy-looking" security guard protecting the Sydney Harbour Bridge.
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A North Little Rock man turned himself in to police after he told a security guard he had fatally shot a man Friday evening, Pulaski County Coroner Garland Camper said.
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The government's use of private security contractors in Iraq and Afghanistan has been blasted as costly to the image of the U.S., and to the country's bottom line, because a company like Blackwater can charge as much as $1222 a day for a hired gun. Iraq - Afghanistan - Blackwater Worldwide - United States - Private military company
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Lest you believe that the saga of Janie Ward has vanished back into the cavern of officially unresolved deaths, a private investigator driven by the injustice he sees is keeping the torch lit.
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Somali pirates hit a Spanish fishing boat off the coast of Kenya with a rocket-propelled grenade Thursday as private security on board returned fire at the would-be hijackers.
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NAIROBI, Kenya - Private security guards aboard a Spanish fishing trawler fought a gunbattle with Somali pirates on the...
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FRESNO, Calif. - The California man who authorities say killed one law enforcement officer and wounded two others in a gun fight at his mobile home was a paranoid private security guard who kept a gun collection and told his wife he would rather die than go to prison.
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The French government has passed a bill that gives judges the power to evict violent spouses from the home and fit them with electronic security bracelets.
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2010-02-26 17:02:44 GMT
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Authorities say thieves drilled through the wall of a San Juan Capistrano jewelry store, dismantled the security system and made ...
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SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, Calif. - Authorities say thieves drilled through the wall of a San Juan Capistrano jewelry store, dismantled the security system and made off with a safe filled with up to $1 million in jewels.
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Olympic diver Blake Aldridge, who partnered Tom Daley in Beijing, has been arrested on suspicion of shoplifting and attacking a supermarket security guard.
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LAS VEGAS (AP) -- A coroner's jury has determined authorities were justified in killing a shotgun-wielding assailant who opened fire and mortally wounded a security guard inside a federal courthouse in Las Vegas....
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LAS VEGAS - An inquest jury in Nevada viewed graphic video Friday showing a shotgun-wielding assailant opening fire inside a federal courthouse and mortally wounding a security guard in what prosecutors called an angry rampage against the government.
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LAS VEGAS - A coroner's jury in Las Vegas has viewed graphic video of a shotgun-wielding assailant opening fire and mortally wounding a security guard inside a federal courthouse.