AROUND THE WORLD
Voters across Venezuela turned out in large numbers on Sunday, standing in lines that snaked around city blocks to cast ballots in a landmark presidential election that could give the fiery socialist Hugo Chávez a new term or replace him with a youthful, more moderate challenger, Henrique Capriles Radonski. Chávez won.
David Ignatius visits Syria.
Rebel fighters and security forces in Syria clashed near the border with Lebanon and fought over a military barracks in Aleppo, while Turkish artillery fired into Syria for a fifth consecutive day in retaliation for cross-border shelling.
The morning after the Israeli Air Force shot down an unidentified drone in the Negev Desert, the Lebanese government said that four Israeli warplanes spent an hour on Sunday illegally circling in its airspace.
The Nigerian Army says "about 30 Boko Haram terrorists" were killed in gun battle in the northeastern Yobe state.
Despite periodic violence and continued unresolved issues, Sudan’s president on Sunday authorized the reopening of all border crossings with South Sudan.
TURNOVER
Scott Kaine joined QinetiQ’s North American branch, as president of its wholly owned subsidiary, Cyveillance, which specializes in cyber-intelligence technology.
The CIA’s venture capital wing, In-Q-Tel, continues its aggressive drive to deploy cloud tools for the intelligence community through a partnership with Cloudant. The cloud-hosted database provider is the third cloud-oriented company to be openly selected in the past three months by In-Q-Tel.
CONTRACT WATCH
The vaunted Asia Pivot continues.
Robert Caruso is a veteran of the United States Navy, and has worked for the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, Business Transformation Agency and the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
