All Blog Posts from Investigative Round-Up

Washington Times:

Despite growing success targeting militants in Pakistan's northwest, the U.S. is refusing to share intelligence with Pakistan about al Qaeda and Afghan Taliban leaders thought to be hiding in the southwest province of Baluchistan, three senior Pakistani officials say. (read the article

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The New York Times:

Eight years after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks and despite repeated mandates from Congress, the United States still has no reliable system for verifying that foreign visitors have left the country. (read the article)

AP:

Using sweeping security codes passed after the Sept. 11 attacks, the United Arab Emirates' highest court convicted an American citizen Monday on terrorism-related charges amid claims that torture was used to extract his confession. (read the article)

AP:
Michael Jackson's personal doctor administered a powerful anesthetic to help him sleep, and authorities believe the drug killed the pop singer, a law enforcement official told The Associated Press on Monday. (read the article)

The Guardian: Arab doctors are to investigate the death of the former Palestinian president, Yasser Arafat, re-opening a four-year-old case which is still the subject of suspicion, conspiracy theories and political accusations. (Read the article)

AP: Facebook has removed more than 5,500 convicted sex offenders from its social networking Web site since May, Connecticut's attorney general said Thursday. (Read the article)

Xinuanet: senior Chinese diplomat urged Russia on Friday to conduct a serious probe into an accident at sea in which seven Chinese sailors went missing. Three of their compatriots were rescued alive. (Read the article)

Bloomberg: UBS AG, Switzerland’s largest bank, will pay $780 million to settle U.S. investigations related to whether clients at the Zurich-based bank avoided taxes, two people with knowledge of the matter said. (Read the article)

The Hill: CVS Caremark Corp. will pay $2.25 million to end government investigations into reports that its pharmacy workers didn't properly dispose of pill bottle labels and other items containing personal information about patients. (Read the article)

CBS/AP: A judge has discharged the jury in the case of a group of British Muslims accused of plotting to blow up trans-Atlantic passenger jets in mid-air, citing legal reasons. (Read the article)