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• Internet Security News: Week in Review

  
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  Internet Security News: Week in Review Malware attacks surge, says Fortinet (from ComputerWorldUk at 14-11-2009) Fortinet, a network security provider and unified threat management (UTM) solutions specialist has observed the highest level of total malware detected in more than ...
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• New Google Books settlement restricts scale of project

  
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  New York/Hamburg, Nov 14 (DPA) Google has reached a new, more limited agreement with the US publishers over the Internet search giant’s project to make millions of digitalised books available online.The new Google Books settlement, following months of negotiations, restricts the venture to books with copyrights ...
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• Stash for Fri, Nov 13, 2009

  
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  Download Link: Secret Stash - Register to access Download audio file (NORML_Daily_AudioStash_2009-11-13.mp3) Special: “Marijuana’s Cultural Moment” panel at Drug Policy Alliance Int’l Drug Policy Reform Conference Moderated by “Radical” Russ Belville Deborah Small – Break the Chains Executive ...
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• US intends renewed leadership role in Asia: Obama

  
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  Tokyo, Nov 14 (DPA) US President Barack Obama Saturday declared Washington’s intent to renew its active role in the Asian region after being “disengaged” in recent years.“As an Asia Pacific nation, the US expects to beinvolved in the discussions that shape the future of this region, and to participate fully in ...
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• Playboy in talks to be sold

  
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  Los Angeles, Nov 14 (DPA) Adult entertainment pioneer Playboy Enterprises is in talks to be sold for more than $300 million as the advertising slump and a boom in online pornography erode its once lucrative publishing business, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday.The report said the publicly traded Playboy was in ...
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• Fort Hood shooting suspect paralysed: Report

  
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  Washington, Nov 13 (DPA) Major Nidal Malik Hasan, the US Army psychiatrist accused of killing 13 people at the Fort Hood military base in Texas a week ago, is paralysed from the waist downwards, his lawyer told broadcaster CNN Friday.“It appears he won’t be able to walk in the future,” said Hasan’s civilian ...
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• Jetliner blows roof-tiles off house in Germany

  
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  Luebeck (Germany), Nov 13 (DPA) Turbulence from the wake of a landing Ryanair jet blew roof-tiles off a house near Luebeck airport, an airport spokeswoman said Friday.The tiles were sucked off the roof by a swirling column of air and dashed into the garden beneath, frightening the 81-year-old female occupant of the ...
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• Stash for Thu, Nov 12, 2009

  
  NORML Daily Audio Stash — Authority: 488
  Download Link: Secret Stash - Register to access Download audio file (NORML_Daily_AudioStash_2009-11-12.mp3) Cannabis Conversations Ethan Nadelmann: Highlights of Opening Remarks at DPA Reform Conference in Albuquerque, NM. Daily Toker Tunes Groovin’ Thursday: What the Science – “Higher (feat. ...
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• British Airways, Iberia agree merger (Lead)

  
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  London, Nov 13 (DPA) British Airways and Spain’s largest airline Iberia agreed to a merger forming the world’s third-biggest airline, the companies announced.The merger, which was agreed after 16 months of negotiations, is to be completed by the end of 2010, keeping both brands in operation. British Airways (BA) ...
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• H1N1 pediatric deaths quadruple in US under new method

  
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  Washington, Nov 13 (DPA) Pediatric deaths from swine flu in the US are much more extensive than previously thought after health officials expanded their counting method, the nation’s disease control agency said Thursday.An estimated 540 children under age 18 have died since the H1N1 flu virus emerged in mid April, ...
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• Double injury blow plunges Liverpool further into gloom

  
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  London, Nov 13 (DPA) Liverpool’s season was thrust deeper into crisis Thursday as it was confirmed that Yossi Benayoun and Albert Riera have both suffered torn hamstrings.The two attacking midfielders both suffered injuries during Liverpool’s 2-2 draw with Birmingham City Monday, a game that extended the club’s ...
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• Premier League says no to Rangers and Celtic

  
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  London, Nov 13 (DPA) Premier League clubs voted Thursday to reject a proposal that would have seen Scottish giants Rangers and Celtic join the English top flight.The scheme had been proposed by the Bolton Wanderers chairman Phil Gartside, as part of a wider plan to increase the Premier League to two 18-team ...
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• Englishman arrested in Brazil for carrying 1,000 live spiders

  
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  Rio de Janeiro, Nov 13 (DPA) Brazil’s federal police arrested here an Englishman who intended to leave the country with 1,000 live spiders packed in two suitcases, the authorities said Thursday.Police said the arrest took place Wednesday at Rio de Janeiro’s international airport, with the help of agents for the ...
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• Over two tonnes of cocaine seized in Costa Rica

  
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  San Jose, Nov 12 (DPA) Costa Rican police seized over two tonnes of cocaine in San Francisco de Dos Rios, in the southern suburbs of the capital, San Jose.The drugs were found late Wednesday in a storage facility belonging to an international drug gang that was shipping the load to the US in containers, officials [...]
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• Intel to pay $1.25 bn to settle AMD dispute

  
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  San Francisco, Nov 12 (DPA) Computer chip giant Intel is to pay smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices $1.25 billion to settle claims that it violated anti-trust and patent laws, the companies said Thursday.The move comes just days after Intel was sued by New York state for anti-trust violations and follows a $1.5 ...
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• HP to buy 3Com in $2.7 bn deal

  
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  San Francisco, Nov 12 (DPA) Hewlett Packard has reached a deal to buy network equipment-maker 3Com in a deal worth $2.7 billion, the companies announced Wednesday.The deal will give HP an important foothold in the market for networking equipment and comes as other technology giants like Cisco and Oracle broaden their ...
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• Japan increases Afghan aid to $5 bn

  
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  New York, Nov 12 (DPA) Japan has informed the UN of its intention to increase assistance to Afghanistan to $5 billion over the next five years, the UN said.Japan decided to add $2 billion to the current $3 billion it had allocated for assistance to war-torn Afghanistan.UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon welcomed ...
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• Finnair to get new chief executive

  
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  Helsinki, Nov 11 (DPA) Finnish flag carrier Finnair is set to get a new chief executive in January, the group announced Wednesday.Mika Vehvilainen will join the group Jan 5, taking over from Jukka Hienonen at the end of the month.Vehvilainen, 48, is currently chief operating officer at Nokia Siemens Networks, the ...
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• Sacked Hong Kong pilots win multimillion-dollar legal battle

  
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  Hong Kong, Nov 11 (DPA) Hong Kong’s Cathay Pacific airline was ordered Wednesday to compensate a group of pilots sacked during a 2001 industrial dispute.The airline, one of Asia’s biggest, was ordered to pay 3.3 million Hong Kong dollars ($425,806) to each of the 18 pilots it had sacked.The ruling came after an ...
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• Denzel Washington heading back to Broadway

  
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  Los Angeles, Nov 11 (DPA) Denzel Washington is heading from Hollywood to Broadway for his first role in the New York Theatre since he played Brutus in the 2005 version of Julius Caesar.Double Oscar-winner Washington will hit the boards in the spring in a revival of August Wilson’s “Fences”. According to the New ...
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