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ATF agent’s trial opens in US Virgin Islands (AP)

October 26th, 2010

** ADDS INFO IN SPECIAL INSTRUCTIONS ** In this handout photo released by the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, federal agent William Clark, of Rochester, NY, is seen in an undated official mugshot. Clark is accused with murder after he shot to death a man during his intervention in a couple's drunken fight outside his apartment in the U.S. Virgin Islands on Sept. 7, 2008. His trial is set to begin Monday, Oct. 25, 2010 in St. Thomas. (AP Photo, ATF)AP - A U.S. law enforcement agent’s murder trial opened Monday with defense lawyers challenging the credibility of the key witness — the slain man’s girlfriend — and prosecutors accusing…

Russia’s Putin sings with expelled agents (AP)

July 25th, 2010

Russia's Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, right, rides Harley Davidson Lehman Trike as he arrives for the meeting with Russian and Ukrainian motorbikers at their camp near Sevastopol in Ukraine's Crimea Peninsula, Saturday, July 24, 2010. Russian flag is in the background. Putin has lept on a Harley Davidson and roared into a binternational/b biker convention in southern Ukraine. Around 5,000 bikers from Europe and beyond are gathered in Sevastopol for the annual festival on Ukraine's Crimea peninsula. (AP Photo/Sergei Karpukhin, Pool)AP - Vladimir Putin says he met with the Russian spies who were expelled from the United States, joining them in a patriotic song and promising them good jobs and…

Freed Russian agents getting new life in spy swap (AP)

July 9th, 2010

An officer of Russia's Federal Service for the Execution of Penal Sentences (FSIN) special forces walks near an armored vehicle before leaving Moscow's Lefortovo prison, where Igor Sutyagin, an arms researcher convicted of spying for the West,  was earlier reportedly transferred, Thursday, July 8, 2010. A lawyer for  Sutyagin says he reportedly has been flown to Vienna in what appeared to be the first step of a Russia-U.S. spy swap.(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)AP - Their U.S. ring dismantled, 10 Russian secret agents are on their way to a new life under Moscow’s wing in a swiftly brokered trade also freeing four men…

Russian agents infiltrated US society, charges say (AP)

June 29th, 2010

In this courtroom sketch, Anna Chapman, left, Vicky Pelaez, second from left, the defendant known as  'Richard Murphy', center, the defendant known as 'Cynthia Murphy', second from right, and the defendant known as 'Juan Lazaro' are seen in Manhattan federal court in New York, Monday, June 28, 2010. The Murphys, Lazaro, and Pelaez are among the 10 people the FBI arrested Monday for allegedly serving for years as secret agents of Russia's intelligence organ, the SVR, with the goal of penetrating U.S. government policymaking circles. (AP Photo/Elizabeth Williams)AP - They sometimes worked in pairs and pretended to be married so they could blend in as the couple next door as they worked as spies in a throwback…

FBI: Mexicans chased away US agents after shooting (AP)

June 10th, 2010

Relatives and friends of Anastasio Hernandez carry his casket towards a church before funeral services Wednesday, June 9, 2010 in San Diego. Hernandez died May 28 after being shocked by a stun gun during a fight with U.S. Border Patrol agents as they were escorting him to a border gate to return him to Mexico. (AP Photo/Gregory Bull)AP - Pointing their rifles, Mexican security forces chased away U.S. authorities investigating the shooting of a 15-year-old Mexican by a U.S. Border Patrol agent on the banks of the…

Immigration agents raid AZ van shuttle businesses (AP)

April 15th, 2010

Federal immigration agents stand outside Sergio's Shuttle Thursday, April 15, 2010 in Phoneix. The van shuttle services offers transportation from northern Mexico to cities in Arizona, New Mexico, California, Nevada, Oregon and Washington. Agents raided van shuttle operators in Arizona Thursday in a massive investigation into smuggling of illegal immigrants. (AP Photo/Matt York)AP - Federal agents on Thursday targeted more than 50 shuttle operators and smugglers accused of using the vans to transport thousands of illegal immigrants from spots near the Mexican…

Iranian agents free diplomat kidnapped in Pakistan (AP)

March 30th, 2010

AP - Iran’s intelligence agents mounted a “complicated” operation and freed an Iranian diplomat kidnapped in 2008 by gunmen in northwestern Pakistan, state television reported Tuesday.

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