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...programs. The result was a toothless "presidential statement" from the Security Council. But with the test of another nuke on May 25 - this one over 20 times more powerful than the squib the North exploded in its first test three years ago - along with several missile launches, Pyongyang has put the Chinese leadership in the one place they hate to be during an international crisis: directly on the spot. Indeed, says Alan Romberg, a former U.S. State Department official now with the Henry L. Stimson Center in Washington, "Pyongyang has spit in [China...
...Hizballah victory at the polls would put the Obama Administration in a quandary: should the U.S. continue to support a country that is run by what it designates as a terrorist organization? So far, U.S. officials have said only that they will review American aid to Lebanon - $1.1 billion since 2006 - in the event of a Hizballah victory. But any review of U.S. policy toward Lebanon also needs to ask: is it time to talk with Hizballah...
...next week into looking at the country's digital future. According to the report the Brits owe more of their GDP to creative industries than those in the U.S., Canada, France and Australia, making it more susceptible to the losses from file sharing. An interim report, released in January, put forward proposals for a Rights Agency to help deal with the difficulties of copyright in the digital age and set out a plan for illegal downloading similar to the French laws. ISPs, said the interim report, would be required to "notify alleged infringers of rights ... that their conduct is unlawful...
Moscow has tried to put out fires in the region before, but with little success. In August 2008, Magomed Yevloyev, an opposition journalist in Ingushetia, was shot dead while in police custody. Many blamed Ingushetia President Murat Zyazikov for allowing the murder to happen, so the Kremlin replaced him in October with Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, a highly decorated career soldier. While Yevkurov struggles to cope with corruption among local authorities and attacks on officials by Muslim radicals, he seemed to have calmed the violence in the area - until the killing of the deputy chief judge on Wednesday...
...questioning from her own lawyer, Knox said she never thought to call the American embassy or a lawyer, even after being called in for a fourth day of questions. Knox said she only realized she was a murder suspect when she was brought before a judge after she had put herself at the murder scene, coaxed into what she thought was an imaginary scenario by police...