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“A lot of really important stuff happened this year that forces us to begin to think about that there are so many people who depend on private companies to enjoy the fruits of technology,” said Cindy Cohn, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s legal director. “If the private company stands up for us we have rights, and [...]

A group founded by American actor George Clooney said Tuesday it has teamed up with Google, a U.N. agency and anti-genocide organizations to launch satellite surveillance of the border between north and south Sudan to try to prevent a new civil war after the south votes in a secession referendum next month. Clooney’s Not On [...]

From 10 a.m. to noon Jan. 5, 2011, visit the U.S. Institute of Peace, 2nd floor, 1200 17th Street NW, Washington, DC 20036, when Iraqi representatives and USIP experts assess the success of efforts to establish a genuine national partnership and discuss priorities for Iraq’s new government in 2011. The Iraqi parliament officially endorsed Prime Minister [...]

BEIJING (AP) — A Uighur journalist who worked for an official Chinese radio service was sentenced to life imprisonment for transmitting information about the 2009 ethnic riots in western China — one of dozens jailed since the violence, an overseas Uighur advocacy group said. Memetjan Abdulla, a 33-year-old journalist with the Uighur language service of [...]

DOHA – Top officials in several Arab countries have close links with the CIA, and many officials keep visiting US embassies in their respective countries voluntarily to establish links with this key US intelligence agency, says Julian Assange, founder of the whistle-blowing website, WikiLeaks. “These officials are spies for the US in their countries,” Assange [...]

UN ambassador says election crisis has led to a ‘massive violation of human rights’ and calls for international intervention Ivory Coast is on the “brink of genocide” and the world must take urgent action, the country’s new ambassador to the UN has warned. Youssoufou Bamba expressed alarm that houses in certain areas were being marked [...]

Internal United Nations maps show a marked deterioration of the security situation in Afghanistan during this year’s fighting season, countering the Obama administration’s optimistic assessments of military progress since the surge of additional American forces began a year ago. Read the whole story: U.N. Maps Out Afghan Security | WSJ.com

The nighttime incident, which killed two guards, violated an agreement to clear such operations in advance, the government says. NATO says it was responding to a ‘credible threat.’ The government of President Hamid Karzai on Sunday denounced a NATO-led night raid on a compound in Kabul that killed two men, accusing Western forces of violating [...]

He has been touring the country with his Life is Beautiful concerts, drawing crowds of tens of thousands – even in Taliban strongholds. A women-only show in the north was a sell-out. Apart from one bomb blast at a concert in Herat, the tour has been an enormous success, Darya told the BBC World Service. [...]