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Barack Obama is shot to death in Iowa
Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- US President Barack Obama had been shot and killed in Iowa. The Twitter feed said "@BarackObama has just passed. The President is dead. A sad 4th of July, indeed. President Barack Obama is dead."...
Internet Changing Russian Political Humor and Russian Politics as Well, Commentator Says
Anecdotes about leaders and policies have long been an important part of Russian life, but the Internet is transforming its form and content because falling prices for connectivity are increasing the number of users and rising download speeds are making...
The Maidan on the Tahrir Square is bad news for Putin
Russian mainstream media provides extensive coverage of the unfolding revolution in the streets of Cairo, in contrast with China where the word Egypt is banned from the news and blocked in the Internet. Prime Minister, Vladimir Putin, is not known for...
Egypt unrest: Bloggers take campaign to Tahrir Square
Egypt's internet activists have played a key role in the pro-democracy protests from the outset, but they tell the BBC that the online campaigning is evolving to suit their real-life activism in Tahrir Square. Amr Gharbeia This revolution is the result...
WikiLeaks: pressure within Iran blocked nuclear deal
A leaked U.S. diplomatic cable reveals that Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad wanted a nuclear fuel swap agreement more than a year ago but was pressured internally from politicians who viewed it as a "virtual defeat." The cable made...
‘TV Party’ losing out to ‘Internet Party’ in Russia
By Paul Goble Russia currently has only “two real mass parties, the party of the television and the party of the Internet,” the editors of Gazeta.ru say, and declines in the influence of the former relative to the latter should be a matter...
WikiLeaks founder divides opinion, sparks debate
WikiLeaks' release of classified U.S. government cables has angered politicians, emboldened free speech supporters and unleashed hackers onto websites of companies and individuals they believe oppose the site's founder Julian Assange. He is currently...
WikiLeaks' Assange arrested in London
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Authorities in London have arrested WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on an arrest warrant issued by Sweden. Assange is wanted for questioning in Sweden about allegations of rape, sexual molestation and unlawful coercion. He denies the claims. The...
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Julian Assange is a man with an obsession to reveal the inner workings of government to the man in the street. He apparently regards the normally-confidential activities of governments as subject to abuse of power, which can only be checked by casting...
Pentagon, state department tighten information controls following Wikileaks disclosure
Officials at the Pentagon and the State Department have ordered a tightening of procedures to prevent future leaks of secret and sensitive information, like the one that resulted in a series of revelations by the activist website WikiLeaks. The Pentagon...
