Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 11:59:45 PM CET
Pentagon plant weltweites elektronisches Überwachungssystem
Datenschützer schlagen Alarm. "Scientia est potentia" - "Wissen ist Macht" lautet das Motto des Pentagon-Büros, das Admiral John Poindexter leitet. Und in seinem Fall bedeutet dies konkret: Datenbanken ermöglichen die Kontrolle über die Bürger.
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 8:33:52 PM CET
Blasts Rock Russian Soccer Stadium
Two explosions rocked a stadium Sunday about an hour after a soccer match in the southern Russian city of Vladikavkaz, but there were no immediate reports of casualties. The explosions occurred two to three seconds apart at the city's central Spartak stadium, said an official in the local Interior Ministry, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Vladikavkaz, the capital of the republic of North Ossetia, is near Chechnya.
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 8:29:44 PM CET
Former Italian PM convicted of murder
A court in Italy has sentenced the former prime minister Giulio Andreotti to 24 years in prison over the 1979 murder of a journalist - overturning a previous ruling. Andreotti, seven times Italy's prime minister, had been cleared by a lower court three years ago.
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 8:24:03 PM CET
Al-Qaida video puts hotels on alert
English-speaking terrorists trained to execute guests
A new cache of chilling al-Qaida training videos has been discovered in Afghanistan in which terrorists speaking English simulate the seizure of what appears to be a building full of Westerners, suggesting a hotel might be Osama bin Laden's next target.
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 8:17:22 PM CET
Self-destruct DVD
I suppose fans of the superspy James Bond are no strangers to explosive gadgets, but a self-destructing DVD!? MGM sent out over over 5,000 promo discs this week as a preview for the upcoming Bond flick Die Another Day, but there's a catch. If you want to check out the 25-odd minutes of cool material included on the DVD, you may want to stand back after you put it in your player. As the tag on the mailer warns, "Once removed from its packaging, the DVD will self-destruct in 36 hours!"
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 8:06:40 PM CET
Ants invade iBook
Has anyone had this problem? I hope not . . . After the first rain of the year, the ants outside were restless (and homeless). My wife had left her ibook on the mantle charging overnight. The next morning we noticed a large number of ants milling around it.
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 7:57:17 PM CET
Japan Government May Drop Windows
The Japanese government will consider replacing Microsoft Corp's Windows, used in much of its computer networks, with another operating system to bolster security.
The safety of computer networks is under scrutiny as Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi's administration presses on towards a long-held goal of "e-government", which would allow citizens to deal with government agencies via the Internet.
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 7:54:53 PM CET
Major slick threatens Spanish coast
Fears are growing that a stricken oil tanker off Spain's north western coast could break up spilling thousands of gallons of oil into the sea and causing an environmental catastrophe. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) warns that if all 77,000 tonnes of the Prestige's cargo were to leak, the spill would be twice the size of the catastrophic Exxon Valdez spill off Alaska.
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 5:35:25 PM CET
Australien möchte Protestseiten verbieten
Anti-WTO-Seiten sollen nach dem Willen des Justizministers nicht mehr erreichbar sein.
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 5:16:04 PM CET
Zwei Jahre für frechen Betrug mit Laptops zu "Superpreis"
Zwei oberösterreichische Geschäftsleute um 74.500 Euro geprellt
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 1:02:57 PM CET
New Domestic Spy Agency Mulled?
President Bush's top national security advisers have begun discussing the creation of a domestic intelligence agency that would take over responsibility for counterterrorism spying and analysis from the FBI, according to U.S. government officials and intelligence experts cited by Saturday's Washington Post.
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Topic: - on November 17, 2002 at 12:45:48 PM CET
India marvels at 'miracle chapati'
Hundreds of Christian pilgrims and other curious onlookers have been making their way to a church in Bangalore in India to see a chapati which has the image of Christ burnt into it. The chapati - a loaf of unleavened bread - is one of dozens that Shella Anthony bakes in her oven in Bangalore every day. But this one she thought was different.
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