Posts Tagged ‘secret-service’

A roadside bomb targeting a police officer exploded in the main northwestern city of Peshawar on Thursday, injuring three people in the latest of a wave of attacks to strike the area since the army launched a major anti-Taliban offensive last month.

The Secret Service is looking into its own security procedures after determining that a Virginia couple managed to slip into Tuesday night’s state dinner even though they were not on the guest list.

AP – Allen Iverson is set to retire from the NBA, according to an online report.

AP – The Secret Service says it’s looking into its own security procedures after determining that two people crashed Tuesday night’s state dinner at the White House.

Google has apologized for a racist caricature of Michelle Obama that became the top result for users searching for images of the US First Lady.

The Pakistani daily ‘Nation’ has endangered the life of Wall Street Journal’s Matthew Rosenberg by calling him a CIA spy linked to the Israeli secret service Mossad. The report was published last week.

The Queens baton relay is set to be held on Thursday in London where Queen Elizabeth II will pass on the Commonwealth Games torch to President Pratibha Patil.

The Indian ethnic-origin writer, considered to be one of the finest living English novelists, has been ‘killed off’ by the American secret service in a court document.

A child was behind the Facebook posting that asked whether US president Barack Obama should be assassinated, the Secret Service announced on Thursday and called it a “prank” that would not lead to prosecution.

The UK’s first supreme court came into being on Thursday with the swearing in of 11 judges, replacing the House of Lords as the highest appeal tribunal, a move aimed at establishing judicial independence in the country.