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| Google hit by privacy convictions |
Three executives from internet search firm Google have been convicted of privacy violations over allowing a video of a handicapped boy being bullied to be posted online A judge in Milan sentenced the three to six-month suspended sentences but absolved them of defamation charges in a case that has been closely watched for its implications on internet freedom.
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| More Dubai murder suspects named |
Investigators in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) say they have identified 15 more suspects in the assassination of a Hamas official at a Dubai luxury hotel last month Wednesday's announcement by Dubai police brings the total number of people believed to be involved in the murder of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh to 26 The January 20 killing, allegedly carried out by people who got into UAE using fraudulent passports, has been blamed on the Israeli spy agency, Mossad, by the Dudai police chief.
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| Morocco's openness to Council of Europe is 'ambitious', FM says |
Rabat - Morocco is known in the Euro-Mediterranean region by its "ambitious openness" to the Council of Europe, Foreign Minister Taieb Fassi Fihri said on Monday Speaking at the opening of a seminar on "cooperation prospects between Morocco and the Council of Europe", Fassi Fihri said relations between the two parties were characterized by a reinforcement of dialogue and an effective adherence of Moroccan stakeholders into this partnership.
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| Nikkei surges on Wall St rally |
Japanese shares have closed sharply higher following Wall Street's best day so far this year following a rare glimmer of positive news from the banking industry,Tokyo's benchmark Nikkei stock average ended Wednesday's trade up 4,48 per cent, tracking gains in the US which saw the Dow Jones industrial average up 5.8 per cent on the back of banking giant Citigroup announcing it made a profit in the first two months of 2009,The broader S&P 500 index ended Tuesday's trade in the US up 43,07 points, or 6,4 per cent, to 719,60, while the Nasdaq composite rose 89,64, or 7,1 per cent, to 1,358,28 Markets in most parts of the Asia-Pacific region were also up following the gains in New York, tracking Wall Street's biggest one-day rally this year,In Tokyo the Citigroup announcement gave a lift to Japanese banking stocks with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group, the country's largest bank, gaining 4,1 per cent, while rival Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group added 4,8 per cent,In a letter to employees on Monday, Vikram Pandit, Citi's chief executive, said the performance this year has been the bank's best since the third quarter of 2007, the last time it booked a profit for a full quarter
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| Bond, Blair and self-delusion |
In James Bond, a technocratic hero who harks back to the age of chivalry, the novelist Ian Fleming created a British literary brand of astonishingly enduring global appeal, To widespread acclaim, Bond’s latest screen incarnation, Daniel Craig, has ruggedly revamped Bond as a 21st century British knight with a mission to rid the world of evil,Yet it is not chivalry but perfidy that has long been seen as the hallmark of the British, Especially has this been so in the Arab and Muslim worlds, Many Arabs are forever mindful of Britain’s double-dealing over Palestine, which, in the early part of the 20th century, was promised by the British imperial class to both Jews and Arabs, Many Iranians cannot forget how Britain colluded with the CIA to subvert the democratically elected government of Iranian leader Mohammad Mossadegh in 1953, an episode that confirmed long-held Iranian suspicions that the quality that most distinguished the British was cunning,As a practitioner of duplicity, Britain’s former Prime Minister Tony Blair could be said to have conformed to an old national type.
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