New York, NY – Police departments across the country are stepping up efforts to recruit officers who can speak more than one language, in some cases offering raises or even sending cops abroad as part of immersion programs. Police chiefs hope the investment pays off by improving service to immigrant communities and easing fear of officers [...]

Austrian gov't identify two sites containing 70 bodies of those killed by SS.

Berlin, Germany – Those hoping to have a 50-year secrecy order overturned believe the government is embarrassed by details within that may prove German and Vatican officials colluded in his escape and freedom. The secrecy order is being challenged in a benchmark court case against the BND, Germany’s domestic intelligence service, which wants the 4,500 pages [...]

London – British Airways PLC cabin crew announced plans Friday to strike for seven days this month, potentially disrupting thousands of travelers ahead of the Easter holidays. The walkouts — scheduled for three days from March 20 and another four days from March 27 — are the latest move in a long running and increasingly acrimonious [...]

West Palm Beach, FL – Something stinks at Palm Beach International Airport. And apparently it’s the no-shoes rule through security gates. The county airports director said at an advisory board meeting Wednesday security personnel “are complaining of odor” in the area and requested a change. Flight delays often mean a shorter window than the airport’s regular 4:30 a.m. [...]

Federal authorities are investigating a New Jersey man suspected of being an al Qaeda member and going on a deadly rampage at a hospital in Yemen. The FBI is investigating Sharif Mobley, a 26-year-old from Buena, New Jersey, said Rich Wolf, a spokesman at the agency’s Baltimore, Maryland, office. He wouldn’t comment further. Mobley had worked at [...]

Vienna – Austrian government officials say they have identified at least two mass graves of Nazi victims on property used by the army. Interior Ministry spokesman Rudolf Gollia says talks will be sought with the owners of the site to discuss possible exhumation. He said Friday he did not know whether the army owns the property [...]

Buena, NJ – Sharif Mobley had strong Muslim views as early as high school. But his old friend Roman Castro knew he had radicalized when he saw him about four years ago. Castro, an Army veteran who did a tour in Iraq, said Mobley had only these words for him in a chance meeting: “Get the [...]

“Traditional and new forms of anti-Semitism continued to arise, and a spike in such activity followed the Gaza conflict in the winter of 2008-2009,” the US State Department said in an annual report. “Often despite official efforts to combat the problem, societal anti-Semitism persisted across Europe, South America, and beyond and manifested itself in classic forms,” [...]

Stepping aside from the scandals at the statehouse, New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo decided on Thursday not to lead the investigation into Gov. David Paterson’s woes. When Cuomo decided to step aside and let former Chief Judge Judith Kaye take over two investigations of Paterson he said it was the best way to handle cases [...]