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26 Jul 2010 10:28

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World: Afghanistan and The White House: How do THEY feel about Wikileaks?

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26 Jul 2010 10:13

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Tech, World: The United Arab Emirates is all scared of the Blackberry

  • what The United Arab Emirates (a.k.a. the really rich Arab nation) says that the BlackBerry’s offshore storage model conflicts with the country’s 2007 data-storage law.
  • why Some of the platform’s numerous applications “allow people to misuse the service, causing serious social, judicial and national security repercussions.” source
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26 Jul 2010 10:05

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World: Love Parade tragedy: Angela Merkel promises “intensive” investigation

  • The organisers have said themselves that they will not hold any more Love Parades but such large events need to be made safe and the federal states of course have the required police forces to do this.
  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel • Regarding this weekend’s tragic Love Parade incident, which she says her government needs to get to the bottom of to figure out what happened. “It now needs to be very intensively investigated as to how this happened because the many young people who were delighted to be going to the event have had… terrible memories and we have to do everything to make sure that something like this does not happen again,” she said. source
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26 Jul 2010 09:03

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World: Did war crimes tribunal let Khmer Rouge prison-runner off easy?

  • 14k died in a notorious prison run by Kaing Guek Eav, alias Duch
  • 35 number of years he was sentenced for his years-old war crimes
  • 19 number of years Duch will actually face for his crimes source
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25 Jul 2010 22:04

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World: Hugo Chavez ready to turn off the U.S.’ oil hose over Colombia

If the Venezuelan leader thinks that the U.S. is helping escalate tensions between his country and Colombia, that’s it. No more oil. Citgo? More like Cit-gone. source
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25 Jul 2010 20:30

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World: Holy crap: Wikileaks just unleashed the Afghan War motherlode

  • 92,000 documents from Wikileaks source
  • three newspapers – The New York Times, The Guardian and Der Spiegel – were given first crack at the info
  • yes the papers each decided to run the news at the same time, but took great care not to reveal state secrets
  • no we have no idea who leaked the info online – our wildly inaccurate guess is Adrian Lamo
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25 Jul 2010 11:13

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World: Sign of Mexico’s drug violence: Another mass grave found

  • 51 bodies (at least) found in the grave outside Monterrey source
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25 Jul 2010 00:04

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Music, World: Love Parade tragedy: Huge crowds may have caused stampede

  • 700k number of people Love Parade 2010 was expecting
  • 1.4M number of people who actually showed up today
  • 18 number of people killed in the Love Parade stampede source
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24 Jul 2010 16:46

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Music, World: Love Parade tragedy: Here’s a scary video clip from the scene

  • Harrowing stuff. Imagine being stuck in a situation like this – a huge festival basically brought to its knees by a stampede which killed and injured many. There are likely many confused people inside. Best wishes to everyone involved. source
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24 Jul 2010 13:52

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Music, World: Love Parade tragedy: Twitter is reacting strongly to the news



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