9 月 2013 - 第2页共7页 - Armoured & Luxury

Greenpeace crew accused of piracy in Arctic by Russia

26 9 月, 2013 / By Armoured Cars / In security

The BBC’s Daniel Sandford: “This is the first time that Greenpeace have found themselves at the criminal end of the piracy law”

Russian prosecutors have accused 30 Greenpeace activists of piracy and say they will prosecute all of them for trying to board an Arctic oil platform.

Russia’s Investigative Committee, modelled on the FBI, will question the activists. Six Britons are among them.

Their ship, the Arctic Sunrise, is being towed to the port of Murmansk.

Committee spokesman Vladimir Markin said “all those who assaulted the platform, regardless of nationality, will be prosecuted”.

The campaigners were detained on Thursday along with their ship after two Greenpeace activists tried to climb onto a Gazprom offshore platform, in a protest against oil drilling in the Arctic.

US-Somalis condemn shopping centre bloodshed

26 9 月, 2013 / By Armoured Cars / In security

Officials at the Islamic centre deny anyone has been recruited for al-Shabab at their mosque

US-Somalis in Minnesota have condemned the Nairobi shopping centre attack, after Kenyan officials said one or two of the suspected al-Shabab militants involved were from the US state.

In the city of Minneapolis, mosque leaders said such violence had nothing to do with Islam.

Minnesota is thought to be home to about 70,000 people of Somali origin.

The FBI says at least 20 young men from the US state have gone to Somalia since 2007 to join al-Shabab.

Obama in gun law plea after Washington Navy Yard deaths

25 9 月, 2013 / By Armoured Cars / In security

President Obama: “No other advanced nation endures this kind of violence. None”

President Barack Obama has renewed calls for changes to US gun laws at a memorial service for the victims of last week’s shooting at the Washington Navy Yard.

Mr Obama said tears were “not enough”.

The president told mourners Americans must insist that “there is nothing normal about innocent men and women being gunned down where they work”.

Twelve people were killed last Monday by contractor Aaron Alexis, who was himself shot dead by police.

France’s Hollande to meet Iran’s Rouhani at UN

25 9 月, 2013 / By Armoured Cars / In security

The office of French President Francois Hollande says he will meet his Iranian counterpart on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York next week.

It comes as President Hassan Rouhani has indicated a more moderate and Western-friendly attitude than his predecessor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.

There has been speculation that Mr Rouhani might also meet US President Barack Obama in New York.

Correspondents say this would herald a major thaw in US-Iran relations.

French officials said the meeting between Mr Hollande and Mr Rouhani on Tuesday had been organised at the request of Iran.

Venezuelan National Guards Arrested for Drug Smuggling

25 9 月, 2013 / By Armoured Cars / In security

Three members of Venezuela’s National Guard have been arrested on suspicion of involvement in the smuggling of a massive haul of cocaine on an Air France flight from Caracas to Paris.

French border police found 1.3 tonnes of cocaine in 31 suitcases on a flight arriving from Caracas.

The seizure was one of the biggest ever to be made on French territory.

Venezuelan Interior Minister Miguel Rodriguez said he expected more arrests would be made over the coming days.

The drugs were stashed into the suitcases on the Air France flight which arrived at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on 11 September, but details of the seizures had been withheld for “operational reasons”, French officials said.