MOSCOW — Having proved himself with his response to political protests that erupted here in December, Moscow’s police chief, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, was named minister of the interior in the new Russian cabinet announced Monday. Read full article > >

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CAIRO — Throngs of young Egyptians incensed over a deadly melee at a soccer match clashed with security forces outside the Interior Ministry in Cairo on Thursday night as the episode threatened to plunge the country into a new cycle of recriminations  and violence. Read full article > >

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Updated 3:42 p.m. ET Continuing his push to identify more historic sites important to the nation’s Hispanics, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar plans to tout a new report Wednesday identifying several sites tied to Latino heritage in Colorado and New Mexico that could one day become national parks or historic landmarks. Read full article > >

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BAGHDAD — A suicide bomber blew up his car Monday outside the main gate of Iraq’s Ministry of Interior, which operates the country’s domestic security forces, killing at least five people and injuring at least 39, according to government officials. One of those killed was a police officer and 14 of the injured were police officers. Read full article > >

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BERLIN — Germany’s top security officials say they are formally launching an investigation to determine whether a far right party should be banned over its antidemocratic convictions. Germany’s Interior Minister Hans-Peter Friedrich said Friday he reached agreement with his counterparts from the country’s 16 states to gather material for a trial seeking to ban the NPD party. They say the National Democratic Party is “inhuman, hostile to democracy and anti-Semitic.” Read full article > >

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One thing about raising cattle — cows do what they are supposed to do when they are supposed to do it. Unfortunately, John W. Wendt, who works with his herd every day, can’t say the same thing about the Office of Personnel Management . Until almost a year ago, Wendt also labored for Uncle Sam. The retired federal employee now works on his cattle and grain farm in Ledger, Mont., a sparsely populated place about 50 miles south of the Canadian border. He put in 16 years with the government before retiring as a heavy equipment operator from Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation last December. Read full article > >

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Mona Eltahawy held by Interior Ministry.

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Francisco Blake Mora, the interior minister, and seven others died in a crash that could signal a severe blow to Mexico’s battle against a drug-and-crime scourge.

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Mexican Interior Secretary Francisco Blake Mora – a key figure in the war against drug cartels – has died in a helicopter crash as he travelled to a meeting.

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Mexico’s Secretary of the Interior, Francisco Blake Mora, has died in a helicopter crash near Mexico City.

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Elouise Cobell, a Blackfeet tribal member who led a class-action lawsuit on behalf of 500,000 Indians against the Interior Department that yielded one of history’s largest government settlements — a payout worth $3.4 billion — died late Sunday at a hospital in Great Falls, Mont. She was 65 and had been diagnosed with cancer. Read full article > >

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The Army and the Department of the Interior violated federal procurement law when they awarded a contract to an Alaska native corporation and allowed it to pass on most of the work to other companies, federal auditors have found. United Solutions and Services was hired by the Army in September 2008 under a $250 million contract awarded without competition. It was asked to perform a variety of tasks, including launching a global campaign to prevent sexual assaults in the military. Though the corporation was tiny and operated out of an executive’s home in Delaware, it qualified for the no-bid deal because it was 51 percent owned by a native corporation called Cape Fox. The contract was managed for the Army by an acquisition office at the Interior Department. Read full article > >

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Somali Interior Minister Abdi Shakur Sheikh Hassan is killed in a suicide attack carried out by his niece, amid ongoing political unrest in the capital in Mogadishu.

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An Iraqi man accused in the October siege at a Baghdad church grabbed a policeman’s gun while being moved from a detention cell Sunday and opened fire, killing four officers, the Interior Ministry said.

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As gas prices nationally approach $4 a gallon, the House passed Thursday a measure that would require the Interior Department to conduct four offshore oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico and off the coast of Virginia. The bill, H.R. 1230, passed on a 266-to-149 vote , with 33 Democrats joining all but two Republicans present in voting yes. Republicans have cast the measure as a step toward easing the country’s rising gas prices by speeding up oil and gas exploration in the gulf. The administration, Republicans have argued, has not acted quickly enough to approve lease sales after last year’s Deepwater Horizon disaster , which killed 11 people and leaked an estimated 200 million gallons of oil into the Gulf. Read full article > >

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