EVER since July, when the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague sought the indictment of the Sudanese president, Omar al-Bashir, on charges of genocide and war crimes, foreign diplomats, regional leaders and many Sudanese, including much of the political opposition, have been scrambling for a way out of a seemingly impossible dilemma.
Last Saturday, a Brisbane mother, with her four children in tow, was arrested at Sydney airport and later charged under the Crimes (Foreign Incursions and Recruitment) Act 1978 ("the Act") with supporting incursions into Syria.
There is no indication in Vinson's order of any connection between the surveillance and any crime, foreign espionage or terrorist plot.
The police will focus on what they describe as the twin causes of rising crime: foreign criminal gangs and Japanese youths.
Indeed, the closest political relatives of the Lib Dem rank and file are not liberal-minded Conservatives but Labour's soft-left: social democrats with a liberal take on crime, foreign policy and the like.
Nowadays, the forces destabilizing the small towns in these books are the same ones bedeviling big cities — organized crime, foreign drug cartels, illegal immigration and a host of new ills perceived as threats to national security.
All seek in varying degrees to recover a past, halcyon and so pure in form, where sunlit fields are settled by peoples united by ethnicity or religion – living peacefully in isolation, pilots of their fate, free of crime, foreign influence and war.
Men are more likely to carry bills on agriculture, business and the economy, crime, foreign policy and the military.
The core issues for the party revolve around immigration, crime, foreign aid, the elderly and social security in regards to health and care for the elderly.
-- All foreign affairs activities--U.S. representation abroad, foreign assistance programs, countering international crime, foreign military training programs, the services the State Department provides, and more--are paid for by the foreign affairs budget, which represents little more than 1% of the total federal budget.
If nearly all crime is foreign, some crimes trigger primal, childlike fears, the monster under the bed.
