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Looting in Bolivia as police strike over low pay
Looting broke out near Bolivia’s presidential palace Friday as junior members of the police force angry over low wages joined a nationwide mutiny. A crowd of some 200 officers, wearing civilian clothes and covering their faces, attacked the National Intelligence Directorate, smashing windows and pulling out furniture, documents, computers and…
Ecuador calls its UK ambassador home to discuss Assange
QUITO — Ecuador recalled its ambassador to Britain to discuss what to do about WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who has sought refuge in their diplomatic mission in London. “We are calling our ambassador back for consultations because this is a very serious matter,” President Rafael Correa said on Friday. Assange…
Turkey accuses Syria of shooting down missing fighter jet
Turkey said Friday that Syria had shot down a Turkish fighter jet which was reported missing near their border over the eastern Mediterranean earlier in the day. After a joint search and rescue operation with Syria, “it has been understood that our plane has been struck down by Syria,” Prime…
Quebec students renew protests after two weeks of calm
MONTREAL — After two weeks of relative calm, tens of thousands of students were back on the streets of Quebec Friday to protest a hike in tuition fees in the eastern French-speaking Canadian province. A demonstration in Montreal drew up to 15,000 people, while another 5,000 protested in Quebec City,…
Germany meets Greece in financial crisis and soccer match for Euro 2012
Stranger than fiction: Germany-Greece eurocrisis invades the soccer pitch (via The Christian Science Monitor) Sport is war minus the shooting, George Orwell once said. The European Football Championships 2012, currently being held in Poland and Ukraine, have so far been a fairly peaceful affair. Only Poland against Russia was a…
Male Zimbabwe officials undergo circumcision for anti-HIV campaign
Male lawmakers in Zimbabwe on Friday underwent voluntary circumcision in a new public drive to curb the spread of HIV, which affects about one in 10 people in the southern African country. A handful of lawmakers stepped into a mobile clinic set up inside the parliament building to undergo the…
Incoming Greek finance minister allegedly faints hours before taking oath
Incoming Greek finance minister Vassilis Rapanos was admitted in hospital on Friday, the government said, with unconfirmed reports saying the 65-year-old senior banker had fainted. The chairman of leading Greek lender National Bank, Rapanos was taken to a private hospital in Athens, a government spokesman said, hours before he was…
Scientists perform world’s first in-utero tumor surgery on fetus
When Tammy Gonzalez saw what appeared to be a giant bubble blowing from her unborn baby’s mouth during an ultrasound scan, the joy of pregnancy turned to despair as doctors diagnosed a rare and potentially fatal tumour. Now, two years later, she has revealed for the first time how her…
Ray Bradbury’s work inspires Internet censorship code
Ray Bradbury’s fiction looks set to enter the structure of the internet, after a software developer has proposed a new HTTP status code inspired by Fahrenheit 451. Tim Bray, a fan of Bradbury’s writing, is recommending to the Internet Engineering Task Force, which governs such choices, that when access to…
Google accused of withholding evidence from Texas antitrust probe
Texas attorney general says that search giant is wrongly classifying email conversations between non-lawyers as being covered by lawyer-client privilege. The Texas attorney general is accusing Google of improperly withholding evidence to stymie an investigation into whether the company has been abusing its dominance of web search. The allegations surfaced…
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