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What better proves the absolute powerlessness and political insignificance of children than the fact that only 27% of them have birth certificates? The rest do not exist for the country. Why is the situation so dismal? Perhaps the registration of...
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Using phony documents and the identities of a dead man and a 5-year-old boy, a government investigator obtained U.S. passports in a test of post-9/11 security. Despite...
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A government investigator says he successfully used fake documents to obtain U.S. passports four separate times.
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A former State Department worker pleaded guilty Tuesday to illegally peeking at scores of confidential passport application files.
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A former State Department worker has pleaded guilty to illegally peeking at scores of confidential passport application files.
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A second former State Department worker has pleaded guilty to illegally peeking at scores of confidential passport application files.
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It’s a year of probation for a former State Department contractor who took illegal peeks at the passport information of nearly 200 celebrities, athletes, actors...
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A State Department contractor has pleaded guilty to illegally looking at the passport information of nearly 200 celebrities, athletes, actors and politicians over a...
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We may have thought the tales of a monarchy, chivalry in France died with the last royals Louis, and his queen Marie-Antoinette lost their heads. Hark, the knighthood...
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British police say they’ve arrested a delivery man over the theft of thousands of blank British passports and visa stickers.
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Britain’s Foreign Office says thousands of blank British passports have been stolen in a raid on a delivery van.
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Federal prosecutors are investigating whether State Department employees broke the law by snooping into celebrities’ passport records, Attorney General Michael...
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An internal State Department investigative report suggests that employees may have been snooping on the passport records of celebrities far more than previously...
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An internal State Department investigation suggests that employees may have been snooping on the passport records of celebrities far more than previously disclosed, and...
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While Europe and many countries are locking up refugees, South America is reorganising itself to make borders more a thing of the past.
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A top State Department official responsible for passports has resigned, but the department is refusing to link that to the row over unauthorized peeking into the files...
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State Department workers viewed passport applications containing personal information about high-profile Americans, including the late Playboy playmate Anna Nicole...
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State Department workers viewed passport applications containing personal information about high-profile Americans, including the late Playboy playmate Anna Nicole...
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The Associated Press has learned that a State Department review has found at least 20 instances of workers peeking at the passport files of high-profile Americans,...
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The Passport Information Electronic Retrieval System (PIERS) that State Department contract workers snooped into to view presidential candidates’ records without...
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Struggling with a deluge in passport applications, the State Department did what much of the government does to deal with a manpower crunch: It hired more private...
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Bush administration has made a move- that aim at helping families and school groups- according to which, children under fifteen would be, exempted from furnishing...
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