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Israel ‘uprising’ activists enraged by housing bill
JERUSALEM — Activists from Israel’s social protest movement reacted furiously on Wednesday after parliament passed a housing bill that they say will favour the rich and endanger the environment. Police said that hundreds of demonstrators blocked intersections in cities across the country, ranging from the southern desert city of Beersheva…
German official accuses Facebook of breaking privacy laws
BERLIN — A leading German privacy official on Wednesday accused Facebook of using face recognition software in a manner that violates German and European law. Johannes Caspar, a data protection expert with the city of Hamburg, called on the US-based social networking company to delete from its site the individual…
Huckabee cartoon attempts woeful retelling of 9/11 attacks
In a new “history” cartoon aimed at children, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee, now a Fox News personality, spins an animated, less-than-nuanced retelling of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington, D.C., with a distinctly pro-Bush, pro-torture spin. In his “Learn Our History,” the former Republican presidential…
Swede arrested for building nuclear reactor in his kitchen
A Swedish man was arrested last month after authorities discovered that his effort to build a nuclear reactor in his kitchen had ended with a small meltdown. Richard Handl told The Associated Press Wednesday that he had obtained radium, americium and uranium, but the attempt split atoms had only been…
U.S. indirectly supplies guns that fuel Somalian conflict
By Robert Johnson In its fight against al Qaeda in Somalia, the U.S. is sending hundreds of millions dollars in weapons to Ugandan soldiers, who are selling the arms to the men they’re fighting. A new report by the United Nations and picked up by Somalia Report lays out how the $500…
State actor seen behind ‘enormous’ wave of cyber attacks
BOSTON (Reuters) – Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organizations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world. Security company McAfee, which uncovered the intrusions, said it believed there was one “state actor” behind…
Australian woman free after hours-long bomb scare
SYDNEY (Reuters) – A young Australian woman was freed from a suspected bomb collared around her neck early on Thursday after 10 hours of drama that lasted past midnight and captivated the nation with police saying they were still investigating the incident. The 18-year-old had been trapped for hours in…
Russian couple ‘kept grandfather on a chain’
A woman and her husband have been detained in southern Russia after they kept the woman’s father, 70, on a chain in their yard for four days, investigators said Wednesday. The couple “tied him to a tree with a metal chain in their yard and kept him there from July…
HIV ‘epidemic emerging in Middle East’
The AIDS virus is spreading like an epidemic in some Middle East and North African countries because of homosexual encounters between men, a study warned on Wednesday. “This systematic review and data synthesis indicate that HIV epidemics appear to be emerging among MSM (men who have sex with men) in…
Possible bomb strapped to Australian woman’s neck: report
SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australian police were scrambling Wednesday to remove what local media said was a suspected bomb possibly collared to a young woman’s neck by an intruder into her home in a wealthy neighborhood in Sydney. “It’s a very serious incident where the life of a young lady is…
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