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Interior minister - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (191 words) |
 | An interior minister is the member of a country's government typically responsible for policing, national security, and immigration matters. |
 | Similarly, autonomous entities and dependent territories may also have interior ministers; an example is Hong Kong (a special administrative region of the People's Republic of China), which has a Secretary for Security. |
 | The United States Secretary of the Interior is primary concerned with managing lands owned by the federal government, mainly the administration of natural resources such as parks and wildlife. |
| ISN Security Watch - The battle over post-9/11 German intelligence (1684 words) |
 | Germany's interior minister fights a losing battle to streamline the country's rival intelligence agencies, while legislators in Berlin walk a fine line between protecting the public from future terrorist attacks and restricting civil liberties. |
 | It was with all of that in mind that Interior Minister Schily embarked on reforming the structure of Germany's security agencies in the wake of the Madrid attacks. |
 | However, the latest decisions of the Interior Ministers' Conference in Kiel on 7 and 8 July also show that there seems to be a consensus among the interior ministers and Otto Schily regarding a central database on Islamist extremists. |