Topic: SECURITY - on July 22, 2013 at 6:02:00 PM CEST
Leaker Snowden hopes to be able to leave airport by Wednesday
Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden hopes to be granted papers by Wednesday allowing him to end his month-long stay in the transit area of a Moscow airport and move to the city center, his Russian lawyer said on Monday.
Anatoly Kucherena, who helped the American file his bid for temporary asylum in Russia on July 16, said Snowden believed it would be unsafe to try to travel to Latin America soon because of U.S. efforts to return him to the United States to face espionage charges.
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Topic: WAR - on July 22, 2013 at 5:42:00 PM CEST
AL-QAEDA FREES UP TO 6,000 DETAINEES FROM ABU GHRAIB AND TAJI PRISONS IN IRAQ
Hundreds of Iraqi inmates escaped after insurgents armed with mortars and machines guns launched coordinated late-night assaults on two high-security prisons, sparking gun battles that left dozens of people dead, officials said Monday.
In a separate attack in northern Iraq, a suicide car bomber targeted an army convoy on Monday, killing 13 people, officials said.
The jailbreaks targeted prisons in Taji and Abu Ghraib, which are home to thousands of prisoners including convicted al-Qaida militants. Iraq has seen a surge of violence since April, and the assaults on the prison laid bare the degree to which security has eroded in the country in recent months.
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Topic: Space - on July 22, 2013 at 5:36:00 PM CEST
This Is Earth From 900 Billion Miles Away
NASA's Cassini snapped this photo of Earth and the moon from 898,410,414 miles away as the spacecraft orbited Saturn on July 19.
Earth is the bright object near the center of the photo with the moon just below it. This is the "raw" unprocessed image that came directly from the Cassini spacecraft and onto the web. The Cassini imaging team will process the image, combining various filters and using both narrow-angle and wide-angle views of Earth. Their version will be released later Monday.
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Topic: SECURITY - on July 22, 2013 at 1:59:00 PM CEST
Prism, XKeyscore und Co.: NSA-Überwachungsprogramme im Überblick
XKeyscore, Blarney, Prism: Hinter wolkigen Codenamen verbergen sich geheime Programme zur Ausspähung von Millionen unbescholtenen Bürgern. Immer klarer wird: Auch deutsche Geheimdienste sind in die Überwachung verstrickt. Die Enthüllungen im Kurzüberblick.
Während die deutsche Bundesregierung von der Massenüberwachung durch NSA und Helfer noch immer keine Kenntnis haben will, enthüllt der SPIEGEL nun: Es gibt eine streng geheime, enge Zusammenarbeit zwischen amerikanischen und deutschen Geheimdiensten - die sich mit dem Grundgesetz wohl nur schwer vereinbaren lässt. Die eifrigen Deutschen werden in internen NSA-Papieren dafür gelobt. Doch wer späht eigentlich mit welchem Programm welche Art von Daten aus? Hier ein kurzer Überblick:
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Topic: DOPE HEAD - on July 22, 2013 at 1:52:00 PM CEST
Man Steals Human Ashes, Thinks It's Cocaine
An East Nashville man was arrested after he allegedly stole a box full of human ashes that his family said he more than likely believed was a bag full of cocaine.
"William thought it was drugs, he thought he'd done found him a box of cocaine is what he thought," explained the man's grandmother, Wanda Allen.
According to a police affidavit, William "Billy" Cantrell took an XBox from his neighbor along with a small box last week. His grandmother said the 28-year-old brought both of the items back to her house on North 2nd Street but she believes he was not sober at the time of the incident.
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